Grachevka (Kaliningrad)
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Kraam Грачёвка
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Gratschowka ( Russian Грачёвка , German Kraam , Lithuanian Kramava ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It is located in Zelenogradsk Raion and belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Zelenogradsk District .
geography
Grachovka is located 33 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and five kilometers south of the Baltic Sea resort Swetlogorsk (Rauschen) on a side road that connects Salskoje (Sankt Lorenz) on the Russian trunk road A 192 (formerly German Reichsstraße 143 ) with Kljukwennoje (Klycken) . The nearest train station is Svetlogorsk on the Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk (Koenigsberg – Rauschen) line , the former Samland Railway .
history
The village called Kraam until 1946 was founded in 1463. In 1874 it came to the newly established District St. Lawrence (now Russian: Salskoje), which until 1939 the district Fischhausen to, 1939-1945 district Samland in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
On December 11, 1893, the rural community of Kraam merged with the neighboring towns of Plautwehnen (Russian: Rakitnoje) and Pokalkstein (Bogatoje) to form the new rural community of Kraam. The total population in 1910 was 287.
On September 30, 1928 the rural community Kraam expanded to include the manor districts of Klycken (Russian: Kljukwennoje) and Plinken (Lessenkowo), which were incorporated. The number of inhabitants rose to 481 by 1933 and was already 550 in 1939.
As a consequence of the war, Kraam came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 and in 1947 was given the Russian name "Grachovka". At the same time, the place was included in the village soviet Shatrowski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . Since before 1967 Grachovka itself was the seat of this village soviet or district. From 2005 to 2015 Grachovka belonged to the rural municipality of Krasnotorovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.
church
Before 1945, the population of Kraam was almost exclusively of the Protestant denomination. It was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Sankt Lorenz (today Russian: Salskoje), which belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Grachovka is located in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad ( Königsberg ), which was newly built in the 1990s, and is the main church of the Kaliningrad 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)
- ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Kraam
- ^ Rolf Jehke, St. Lorenz District
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Samland district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. “О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области” (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR of November 17, 1947: On the renaming of the places of Kaliningrad Oblast)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )