Dvinskoye (Kaliningrad)

settlement Dvinskoje Warkallen (Roloffseck) Двинское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gusew Founded before 1557 Earlier names Medien (before 1564), Warkulenn (before 1590), Warkellen (after 1590), Warckallen (before 1736), Warkallen (until 1938), Roloffseck (1938–1946) population 39 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40143 Post Code 238032 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 212 804 002 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 40 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 '54 "  N , 22 ° 14' 17"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Dvinskoje ( Russian Двинское , German  Warkallen , 1938 to 1945 Roloffseck , Lithuanian Varkalai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Gusev in Gusevsky District .

Geographical location

Dvinskoje is nine kilometers north of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on a country road that connects Krasnogorskoje (Brakupönen / Roßfeld) with Jasnoye Pole (Packallnischken / Bergendorf (Ostpr.)) On regional road 27A-033 (ex A198 ). The next train station is Gussew on the Kaliningrad – Chernyshevskoye railway line of the former Prussian Eastern Railway to continue to Moscow .

history

The former Medien was founded before 1557 and existed through the centuries as a small village. In 1874 the newly established Niebudszen district was established , which - renamed the Niebudschen district in 1936, renamed the Herzogskirch district in 1938 - to 1945 and belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16 - Warkallen was renamed "Roloffseck" for ideological reasons.

As a result of the war, the village came to the Soviet Union in 1945 along with all of northern East Prussia . Here it was given the Russian name "Dvinskoje" in 1950 and was assigned to the village soviet Krasnogorski selski Sowet in Gusew Rajon at the same time . From 2008 to 2013 Dvinskoye belonged to the rural municipality of Kubanovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gusew.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	174
1933	151
1939	134
2002	32
2010	39

church

The majority was the population of Warkallen resp. Roloffsecks before 1945 Protestant denomination. The village was in the parish of the church Niebudszen (the place was called from 1936: Niebudschen, from 1938: Herzogskirch, today in Russian: Krasnogorskoje), which belonged to the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Dvinskoje lies in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran parish of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) . It is the parish center for the eastern region of the Kaliningrad Oblast and belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Dvinskoye at bankgorodov.ru
• Dvinskoye 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. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Roloffseck
3. ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
4. ↑ census data
5. ↑ 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.