Donskoye (Kaliningrad, Osjorsk)

settlement Donskoje / Elkinehlen (Elken) Донское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Osjorsk Earlier names Elkinehlen (until 1938), Elken (1938–1946) population 27 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 227 810 019 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 27 '  N , 21 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '0 "  N , 21 ° 45' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Donskoje ( Russian Донское , German Elkinehlen , 1938-1946 Elken ) is a place in Osjorsk Rajon ( Darkehmen district , Angerapp 1938-1946 ) in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ). It belongs to the Novostrojewskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Novostrojewo ( Trempen )).

Geographical location

Donskoye is located 25 kilometers northwest of the district capital Osjorsk ( Darkehmen , 1938–1946 Angerapp ) on a road, the Krasnojarskoje ( Sodehnen ) on the Russian trunk road R 517 (section of the former German Reichsstraße 137 ) with Sadowoje ( Szallgirren / Schallgirren , 1938–1946 Kreuzhausen ) on the trunk road A 197 ( Reichsstrasse 139 ).

Before 1945 Elkinehlen alias Elken was a train station on the Insterburger Kleinbahnen railway from Insterburg (since 1946 Chernyachovsk) to Trempen (Novostrojewo).

history

In the former Elkinehlen there were 113 inhabitants in 1818, the number of which rose to 135 by 1863. In 1874 the municipality was one of five municipalities that formed the newly established Tarputschen district (Ksp. Trempen, 1938–1946 Sauckenhof , since 1946: Luschki).

In 1907 123 people lived in Elkin Ehlen, 1925, there were already 195. On September 30, 1928, the closed Gutsbezirk Elkin Ehlen and the rural community Szameitschen (Ksp. Trempen) to the new rural community Elkin Ehlen together, and on 24 November 1928 part was the Rural community of Lenkimmen (1938–1946 Uhlenhorst , since 1946: Lipki) incorporated into the rural community of Elkinehlen. In 1933 there were 235 inhabitants, and in 1939 there were still 187. On June 3, 1938 (officially confirmed on July 16, 1938) Elkinehlen was given the new name "Elken" and belonged to the Darkehmen district until 1945 (1938 Angerapp district , 1939–1945 Angerapp district ) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the Second World War , all of northern East Prussia, including Elken, was placed under Soviet administration. In 1946 the place was given the Russian name "Donskoje" and until 2009 it was part of the Nekrasovsky soviet (Dorfsovjet Nekrassowo ( (Greater) Karpowen , 1938–1946 Karpauen )). Thereafter, due to a structural and administrative reform in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad since 1991/92, Donskoye became a "settlement" (possjolok) within the Novostrojewskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Novostrojewo ( Trempen )) in the Osjorsk district .

church

The majority Protestant population of Elkinehlen and Elkern was parish in the parish of Trempen (since 1946: Nowostrojewo) until 1945 . It belonged to the church district Darkehmen (1938-1946 Angerapp ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Karl Murach .

During the time of the Soviet Union , church life came to a standstill due to a state ban. It was only in the 1990s, new Protestant communities whose Donskoje in the city closest emerged in since 1991/92 Russian Kaliningrad Oblast Chernyakhovsk ( Insterburg is). It is assigned to the newly established Kaliningrad provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

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. ↑ http://www.schlusnus.com/darkehmen_elkinehlen.htm (link not available)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kreuzhausen district
4. ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, along with Law No. 259 of June 30, 2008, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
5. ↑ http://www.schlusnus.com/darkehmen_kirchspiel%20trempen.html (link not available)
6. ↑ Ev.-luth. Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )