Istok (Kaliningrad)

settlement Istok Neu Weynothen (Preußenhof) Исток Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Earlier names Neu Weinothen (after 1871), Neu Weynothen (until 1938), Preußenhof (until 1946) population 17 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 10  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40163 Post Code 238611 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 236 816 007 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 6 '  N , 21 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 6 '10 "  N , 21 ° 44' 41"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Istok ( Russian Исток , German  Neu Weynothen , 1938 to 1945 Preußenhof , Lithuanian Vainotai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district .

Geographical location

Istok is located eight kilometers northeast of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) on a side road that leads from Oktjabrskoje (Alt Weynothen , 1938 to 1946 Weinoten) to Leninskoje (Pokraken , 1938 to 1946 Weidenau (Ostpr.)) . The nearest train station is Shcheglowka ( (Great) Britain ) on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk (Königsberg – Tilsit) railway line .

history

Before 1945, the small village previously known as Neu Weynothen consisted of several large and small farms. In 1874 it was in the newly built office district Pokraken (Russian Today: Leninskoye) integrated, the - 1939 in "District Weidenau (. Ostpr)" renamed - the district Tilsit , from 1922 to 1945 for the district Tilsit-Ragnit in Administrative district Gumbinnen of belonged to the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3, 1938, Neu Weynothen was renamed "Preußenhof" with official confirmation from July 16, 1938.

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . It was given the Russian name “Istok” in 1947 and was incorporated into the Rschewski selski Sowet in the Slavsk Raion at the same time . Later the place came to the Timirjasewski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2015 Istok belonged to the rural municipality of Timirjasewskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	102
1933	91
1939	91
2002	17th
2010	17th

church

Almost without exception, the population of Neu Weynothens resp. Prussian court before 1945 Protestant denomination. The place belonged to the parish of the church Pokraken (1938 to 1946: Weidenau, today Russian: Leninskoje) in the church district Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Istok is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) , which was newly formed in the 1990s , which is also the parish of the church region of the same name in the provostry Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church European Russia .

Web links

• Istok at bankgorodov.ru
• Istok 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 Ostpreussen (2005): Preußenhof
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Pokraken / Weidenau district
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ census data
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )