Dunayevka (Kaliningrad, Gusew)

Lost place Dunajewka / Kiaulkehmen (Jungort) Дунаевка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gusew First mention 1583 Earlier names Kiaulkiem (before 1590), Kiaulischken (before 1713), Kiaulkehmen (until 1935), Jungort (1935–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 33 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 32 '53 "  N , 22 ° 2' 56"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Dunajewka ( Russian Дунаевка , German  Kiaulkehmen , 1935 to 1946 Jungort , Lithuanian Kiaulkiemis ) was a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) in the area of ​​today's Gussewski gorodkoi okrug (Gussew district).

Geographical location

Dunayevka was ten kilometers southwest of the city of Gusew (Gumbinnen) . The now orphaned local office can be reached via a land route from the side road (27K-063) coming from Gussew via Kostino (Stobricken , 1938 to 1946 Krammsdorf) and leading to Majakowskoje (Nemmersdorf ) in a westerly direction. There was no rail link at any time.

Place name

The village of Kiaulkehmen was renamed "Jungort" on January 22, 1935 in memory of the writer Frieda Jung who was born here and kept this name until 1946.

history

The small and formerly Swiss colony village of Kiaulkehmen , first mentioned in 1583, consisted of small farms and farmsteads that were widely scattered before 1945. Between 1874 and 1945 it was incorporated into the district of Nemmersdorf , which was part of the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Kiaulkehmen had 60 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, Kiaulkehmen, Ganderkehmen (today Russian: Proletarskoje) and Gut Heinrichsdorf (Russian: Chimkino, no longer existent) merged to form the new rural community Kiaulkehmen. The population was 185 in 1933 and in 1939 - after the neighboring town of Gerschwillauken (Russian: Kazakowo) had also been incorporated on August 1, 1935 - 182.

In 1945, as a result of the war, the village and all of northern East Prussia were transferred to the Soviet Union . In 1946 it was given the Russian name "Dunajewka" and came to the Mayakowski selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Majakowskoje (Nemmersdorf) ), which belonged to the Gussew Rajon ( Gumbinnen district ). But the place was only inhabited for a short time and then it was abandoned.

church

Before 1945, almost without exception, the Protestant population of Kiaulkehmen resp. Jung place in which was the parish of the Church Nemmersdorf in the church district Gumbinnen in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish.

Personalities

• Frieda Jung (born June 4, 1865 in Kiaulkehmen; † 1929), German writer and East Prussian homeland poet

Web links

• Surroundings of Nemmersdorf: Kiaulkehmen / Jungort
• Dr. Grenz, Jungort (Kiaulkehmen)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Jungort
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Nemmersdorf district
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Gumbinnen district
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gumbinnen district (Russian Gussew). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).