Borissovo (Kaliningrad)

settlement Borissowo / Kraussen Борисово Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Urban district Kaliningrad Founded 1425 Earlier names Crawsyn (1425) Craußen (after 1785) Craussen (after 1871) Kraußen (after 1905) Kraussen (1933–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 ′  N , 20 ° 38 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 31 ″  N , 20 ° 37 ′ 45 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Borissowo ( Russian Борисово , German  Kraussen ) is a place in the Moscow Rajon , a district of the Russian city ​​of Kaliningrad (Königsberg (Prussia)) in the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area ).

Geographical location

Borissowo is located eight kilometers southeast of the city center of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg (Prussia)) in a corner of the country protruding into the Gurjewsk Rajon ( Neuhausen district ) and can be reached from the Russian trunk road A 196 (former German Reichsstrasse 131 ). The nearest train station is Lugowoje (Gutenfeld) on the railway line from Kaliningrad via Gussew (Gumbinnen) to Lithuania , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway .

history

The village formerly known as Kraussen (1425 Crawsyn , after 1785 Craußen , after 1871 Craussen , after 1905 Kraußen , 1933 to 1946 Kraussen ) was founded in 1425. From 1874 to 1945 the Kraußen was incorporated into the district Steinbeck (today Russian: Rybnoje), which belonged to the district of Königsberg (Prussia) (1939 to 1945 district of Samland ) in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Kraußen had 233 inhabitants.

On March 30, 1920, the rural community of Kraußen expanded to include the northwestern manor district of Kraussenhof, which was incorporated here. On March 25, 1993, Kraußen was renamed Kraussen . In the same year the place had 277 inhabitants, only six years later 1,523 people lived here on the outskirts of Königsberg (Prussia) .

In 1945 northern East Prussia and thus Kraussen came to the Soviet Union . The village was given the Russian name " Borissowo " and has been a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) in the Moscow Rajon ( Moscow district ) of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) since 1993 .

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Kraussen before 1945 was parish in the parish Steinbeck - Neuendorf (Russian: Rybnoje-Rschewskoje). It belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land I within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Viktor Felix Reiss .

Today Borissowo is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) . It is the main church of the newly formed Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

Son of Kraussens

• Erhard Riemann (1907–1984), German folklorist and university professor

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Kraussen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Steinbeck District
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Königsberg
4. ↑ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Kraussenhof
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Samland district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.