Lesnoye (Kaliningrad, Neman)

settlement Lesnoje Groß Lenkeningken (Groß Lenkenau) Лесное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon No, sorry man Earlier names Lenkenincken (after 1785), Lenkeningken (before 1815), Groß Lenkeningken (until 1938), Großlenkenau (1938–1946) population 289 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 17  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40157 Post Code 238703 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 221 802 005 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 1 ′  N , 22 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 0 ′ 52 ″  N , 22 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Lesnoje ( Russian Лесное , German  Groß Lenkeningken , 1938 to 1945 Großlenkenau , Lithuanian Didieji Lankininkai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Neman in Nemansky District .

Geographical location

Lesnoje is located in the far east of the municipality of Neman on the left bank of the Szeszuppe (Scheschuppe / East River) . The village can be reached via the municipal road 27K-111, which branches off the regional road 27A-025 (ex R508 ) in a north-easterly direction and to Lagernoje (Lenken) - already located in Krasnosnamensk Rajon - and on to Nemanskoje (Trappönen / Trappen) on the banks of the Memel (Russian: Neman) leads. There is no train connection.

history

The origin of the village, once called Groß Lenkeningken , has not been passed down precisely. Due to the oldest houses preserved before 1945, it was founded in the 16th or 17th centuries. Until the 19th century the place developed very slowly. First the construction of solid roads to Lenken (today Russian: Lagernoje), to Ober Eißeln (1938 to 1946 Obereißeln , Russian: Garino, now: Gorino) and Ragnit (Neman) or Juckstein (Kraineje) and Krasnosnamensk (Lasdehnen , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg) ensured a rapid rise. A solid road bridge over the Szeszuppe (Scheschuppe, east river from 1938 to 1946 ) made it possible to transport wood from the extensive forests of the Trappönen Forest via Groß Lenkeningken. The largest employers in the commercial area of ​​the village were a sawmill and a sand-lime brick plant . Due to its central location, the place became a parish in 1897 and got its own church in 1904.

Between 1874 and 1945, Groß Lenkeningken was incorporated into the Raudszen district (from 1936: "Raudschen district", from 1939: "Rautengrund district"). Until 1922 he belonged to the district of Ragnit , then to the district of Tilsit-Ragnit in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The village was officially called "Großlenkenau" from June 3, 1938.

In the middle of the rapid upward development of the village came the Second World War with its devastating consequences. The place had to be evacuated on October 15, 1944 by the residents who had to go to the Braunsberg reception area (the place is now called in Polish: Braniewo). On 19./20. January 1945 Großlenkenau fell into the hands of the Red Army .

As a result of the war, the village came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . It was given the Russian name "Lesnoye" in 1947 and at the same time was classified in the Bolschesselki selski Sowet village soviet in Sovetsk Raion . From 2008 to 2016 Lesnoye belonged to the urban municipality of Nemanskoje gorodskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Neman.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	546
1933	661
1939	659
2002	390
2010	289

church

See the main article → Church Groß Lenkeningken

Church building

A church was not built in Groß Lenkeningken until 1903/1904. On October 23, 1904, the exposed brick building , built in the Gothic style, was inaugurated. The stately building was painted by Max Seliger from Berlin . The organ was made in the workshop of Bruno Goebel from Königsberg (Prussia) .

The church Groß Lenkeningken was one of the 14 East Prussian anniversary churches . Its roof was badly damaged in the war, after which the building fell into disrepair. In 1960 its walls were blown up and the stones were used as building material by the inhabitants. Only the baptismal font - found again in 1993 under the rubble of the church - could be restored and placed on the church square.

Parish

An independent parish with a parish of more than 20 places was established in Groß Lenkeningken on October 1, 1897 and at the same time its own clergyman was appointed. Before that, the village belonged to the Ragnit Church , while the parish villages were spread over more than four parishes. In 1925 the parish of Groß Lenkeningken had 3,840 parishioners. Until 1945 it belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the church district of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union brought church life in Großlenkenau resp. Lesnoje to a standstill. Today the place is in the extensive catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) . It belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Lesnoye at bankgorodov.ru
• Lesnoje 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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Großlenkenau
3. ↑ ^{a b} Lesnoje - Groß Lenkeningken / Großlenkenau at ostpreussen.net
4. ↑ ^{a b} Groß Lenkeningken at GenWiki
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Raudszen / Raudschen / Rautengrund
6. ↑ 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 of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
7. ↑ census data
8. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Avngelische Kirche Ostpreussens , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 111, figs. 493 and 494
9. ↑ Кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена - The Church of Groß Lenkeningken at prussia39.ru (with historical photo and photos from 2013)
10. ↑ Крестильная чаша кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена - baptismal font of the church Groß Lenkeningken at prussia39.ru (with photos)
11. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 487
12. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 46
13. ↑ 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.