Budweitschen (parish of Szittkehmen)

Lost place Budweitschen, parish Szittkehmen (Altenwacht) no Russian name known Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Nesterow Founded before 1557 Earlier names Budweitschen (before 1785), Budweitschen, Ksp. Szittkehmen (until 1936), Budweitschen, Ksp. Schittkehmen (1936–1938), Altenwacht (1938–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 22 '  N , 22 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 22 '25 "  N , 22 ° 41' 27"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Budweitschen (Szittkehmen parish) (1938 to 1946: Altenwacht, Lithuanian Budvaičiai ) was a small village in what is now Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast . The orphaned local office is today in the area of ​​the Prigorodnoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Prigorodnoje (Petrikatschen) , 1938 to 1946 Schützenort) in the Nesterow district ( Stallupönen / Ebenrode district ).

Geographical location

Budweitschen was on the south-eastern edge of Rominter Heide (Russian: Krasny Les) on a side street connecting the town of Stallupönen (1938 to 1946: Ebenrode, Russian: Nesterow) via Pillupönen (1938 to 1946: Schloßbach, Russian: Newskoje) with Szittkehmen (1936 to 1938: Schittkehmen, 1938 to 1946: fortified churches, Russian: Saslonowo, Polish: Żytkiejmy) connects. Until 1945 Szittkehmen was the next train station. It was on the Gumbinnen – Tollmingen – Szittkehmen line , which was built in the 1920s as the “Kaiserbahn” to Goldap (Polish: Gołdap). The former district town of Goldap was 26 kilometers away.

Today Budweitschen would be in the border area: The current state border between Russia / Kaliningrad Oblast and Poland / Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship runs just 1 km south of the local office. A border crossing point does not exist here, but probably near Gołdap.

history

Budweitschen was founded before 1557. It was a so-called “Salzburg village”, which mainly offered a new home to Salzburg exiles . After 1785 the place name was marked "parish Szittkehmen" to confusion with the also in the district Goldap situated Budweitschen, parish Dubeningken (1938-1945: parish Dubeningen) should be avoided.

Between 1874 and 1945 was Budweitschen, there was the small of several farms in the District Szittkehmen incorporated, was named the 1936-1938 "District Schittkehmen" and then "District fortified churches". He belonged to the district of Goldap in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 53 residents registered in Budweitschen. In 1933 and 1939 their number remained the same as 55.

Between 1936 and 1938 the spelling of the place name changed from Szittkehmen to "Schittkehmen". On June 3 (officially confirmed on 16 July) of 1938, the village was in the "Old Guard" renamed .

As a result of the war, the village came to the Soviet Union in 1945 . It was initially settled, but then abandoned. A Russian place name is not known.

church

The ecclesiastical affiliation of the Budweitsch population resp. Altenwachts was based on the majority denomination. The vast majority of the population belonged before 1945 to the Protestant Church, so that the village in the parish of the Church Szittkehmen in the church district Goldap within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches was the parish. The few Catholics visited the parish church in Goldap, which was assigned to the diocese of Warmia .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Altenwacht
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Szittkehmen / Wehrkirchen district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 479