Duminichi (Kaliningrad)
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Duminichi
Giggarn (Girren) Думиничи
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Duminitschi ( Russian Думиничи , German Giggarn , 1938 to 1945 Girren , Lithuanian Gygarai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Neman in Nemansky District .
Geographical location
Duminitschi is located 18 kilometers southwest of the district town of Neman (Ragnit) and can be reached via a cul-de-sac from Kanasch (Jurgaitschen , Königskirch from 1938 to 1946 ) . There is no train connection.
history
Before 1945, the village once called Giggarn consisted of two large farms. Between 1874 and 1945, the small village in was District Jurgaitschen (the place is called Russian: Kanash) incorporated, named in 1939 "District King Church" and to circle Ragnit , from 1922 to the district Tilsit-Ragnit in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged . On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - in 1938, Giggarn was renamed "Girren" for political and ideological reasons to avoid place names sounding foreign.
In 1945 the village came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia and in 1950 received the Russian name Duminitschi . At the same location in the village soviet was Kanaschski Selski Sowet in Rajon Sowetsk classified. Since 1954 Duminitschi belonged to the Nowokolchosnenski selski Sowet and since 1997 (again) to the village district Kanaschski selski okrug. From 2008 to 2016 Duminichi belonged to the rural municipality of Shilinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Neman.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 57 |
| 1933 | 58 |
| 1939 | 46 |
| 2002 | 50 |
| 2010 | 27 |
church
With its almost without exception Protestant residents, Giggarn resp. Girren was a village in the parish of the Jurgaitschen church until 1945 . Most recently it belonged to the Tilsit diocese in the Tilsit-Ragnit church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Duminitschi is located in the catchment area of two newly formed Evangelical Lutheran communities: in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and in Bolschakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , Kreuzingen from 1938 to 1946 ) . Both are part of the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Girren
- ↑ Rolf Jehke, Jurgaitschen / Königskirch district
- ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области" (Decree 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
- ↑ census data
- ↑ 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.
