Botschagi

settlement Botschagi Schloßberg, Kr. Insterburg Бочаги Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk Founded 1381 Earlier names Plaukschtis (around 1400), Schlosberg (after 1785), Schlossberg (after 1871), Schloßberb (until 1946) population 20 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238178 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 802 004 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 37 '  N , 21 ° 31'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 36 '33 "  N , 21 ° 31' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Botschagi ( Russian Бочаги , German  Schloßberg, Kreis Insterburg ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

Geographical location

Botschagi is 19 kilometers west of the city of Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) in a loop of the Auxinne (1938-1945 Goldfließ , today Russian: Golubaja) and can be reached via the municipal road 27K-311 from Meschduretschje (Norkitten) via Priwalowo (Mangarben) . The next train station is Meschduretschje on the Kaliningrad – Chernyshevskoye railway , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway , for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.

history

The later Gutsdorf Schloßberg was founded in 1381. In 1874 the Gutsbezirk Schlossberg in the newly built was District Norkitten (: Meschduretschje today Russian) incorporated, which until 1945 the district Insterburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. 76 inhabitants were registered in Schloßberg in 1910.

On September 30, 1928, the Schloßberg lost its independence when it merged with the rural communities of Mangarben (now Russian: Priwalowo) and Norkitten (Meschduretschje) and the manor districts of Norkitten and Woynothen (1938–1946 Kleinnorkitten , Russian: Schljusnoje) to form the new rural community of Norkitten .

As a result of the war, Schloßberg came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name "Botschagi" and was assigned to the village soviet Bereschkwoski selski Sowet in the Chernyakhovsk district . From 2008 to 2015, Botschagi belonged to the rural municipality of Svobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije and since then has been part of the Chernyakhovsk district.

church

The almost exclusively Protestant population of Schloßberg was parish before 1945 in the parish of the church Norkitten (Meschduretschje), which belonged to the parish of Insterburg in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today, Botschagi is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Meschduretschje (Norkitten) , a branch of the church region of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Botschagi at bankgorodov.ru
• Botschagi at prussia39.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Itogi Vserossijskoj perepisi naselenija 2010 goda. Kaliningradskaya oblastʹ. (Results of the 2010 all-Russian census. Kaliningrad Oblast.) Volume 1 , Table 4 (Download from the website of the Kaliningrad Oblast Territorial Organ of the Federal Service for State Statistics of the Russian Federation)
2. ^ D. Lange, geographical register of places in East Prussia (2005): Schloßberg
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Norkitten district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Insterburg district
5. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
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.