Geroiskoje

settlement Geroiskoje Goythenen Geroysky Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Founded 1398 Earlier names Goteyn (after 1398), Gauthen (around 1500), Gatein (after 1539), Gotein (around 1541), Gotheinen (after 1542), Gauthenen (after 1785), Goythenen (until 1946) population 2 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40150 Post Code 238552 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 215 813 007 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 53 '  N , 20 ° 18'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 52 '48 "  N , 20 ° 17' 44"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Geroiskoje ( Russian Геройское , German  Goythenen ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .

Geographical location

Geroiskoje is 22 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and two kilometers south of Romanowo (Pobethen) on a side road, the Romanowo (on the Russian trunk road A 192 ) with Rodniki (Radnicken) and Nisowka (Nadrau) (on the main road Kaliningrad - Cholmogorowka (Fuchsberg) - Zelenogradsk) connects. The nearest train station is Romanowo on the Kaliningrad – Swetlogorsk (Koenigsberg – Rauschen) line , the former Samland Railway .

history

The small Samlanddorf called Goythenen until 1946 was founded in 1398. From 1874 to 1945, it belonged to the District Pobethen in district Königsberg (Prussia) - 1939-1945 County Samland - in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the war, Goythenen came to the Soviet Union within the whole of northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name “Geroiskoje” (from Russian geroi for “hero”) and at the same time was assigned to the village soviet Romanowski selski sovet in Primorsk Raion . From 2005 to 2015 Geroiskoje belonged to the rural municipality of Kovrovskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	107
1933	111
1939	108
2002	3
2010	2

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Goythenen before 1945 was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Pobethen (today Russian: Romanowo). It belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Geroiskoje is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) , a subsidiary of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Goythenen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Pobethen district
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ census data
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Geroiskoje bankgorodov.ru