Gorodkowo (Kaliningrad)
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Gorodkowo
Skören Городково
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Gorodkowo ( Russian Городково , German Skören , Lithuanian Skėriai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district .
Geographical location
Gorodkowo is located on the north bank of the Matrossowka eleven kilometers northwest of the district town of Slavsk . The municipal road 27K-316, which branches off the regional road 27A-034 (ex R513 ) in Mostowoje , leads into the village . There is no train connection.
history
The small town called Skören at the time was incorporated into the newly established district of Karzewischken with the official seat in Groß Karzewischken (1938 to 1946: Sprosserweide, Russian: Schtschukino, no longer existent today). This belonged to the Niederung district (from 1939 "Elchniederung district") in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945 - even after it was renamed "Sprosserweide District" in 1939 .
As a result of the war, Skören came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . The place received the Russian name "Gorodkowo" in 1947 and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Jasnowski selski Sowet in Slavsk Raion . From 2008 to 2015 Gorodkowo belonged to the rural municipality Yasnowskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 330 |
| 1925 | 336 |
| 1933 | 296 |
| 1939 | 266 |
| 2002 | 335 |
| 2010 | 378 |
church
Church building
There is nothing left of the church in Skören, built between 1932 and 1933. At most, the foundations can still be guessed at north of the overland road to the location of the no longer existing village of Baltruscheiten (1938 to 1946: Balten). It was an octagonal building with turrets and was made of wood. The church survived the Second World War unscathed, but was then used until 1978 for a different purpose as a warehouse for drying grain. In 1979 the church was torn down and a milking shed was built in its place.
Parish
A separate parish of Protestant denomination was founded in Skören in 1909, branching off from the parish of the Kaukehmen Church (1938 to 1946: Kuckerneese, Russian: Jasnoje). Our own pastors had already been deployed here beforehand. The parish of the church Skören with its seven towns and villages existed until 1945 and belonged to the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population brought church life in Skören resp. Gorodkowo to a standstill after 1945. Today the place is in the catchment area of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Web links
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)
- ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Skören
- ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Karzewischken / Sprosserweide
- ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области" (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
- ↑ census data
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 94, Fig. 388
- ↑ Gorodkowo - Skören at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 483
- ^ Parish of Skören at the district community of Elchniederung
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )