Yantarowka

settlement Jantarowka Wangnicken, Kr. Fischhausen Янтаровка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Founded 1322 Earlier names Wangenick (after 1540), Wangenicken (around 1550), Wangniken (after 1563), Wangeniken (before 1785), Wangnicken (until 1946) population 98 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40150 Post Code 238545 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 215 810 034 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 55 ′  N , 20 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 54 ′ 41 ″  N , 20 ° 0 ′ 20 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Jantarowka ( Russian Янтаровка , German  Wangnicken, Fischhausen / Samland district ) is a place in the Kaliningrad Oblast . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .

Geographical location

Jantarowka is 39 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and about six kilometers northeast of Jantarny (Palmnicken) on the regional road 27A-014 (formerly A192). In town, side roads branch off in a westerly direction to Prislowo (Nöttnicken) or in an easterly direction to Storoschewoje (Katzkeim) . There is no train connection.

history

The village, called Wangnicken until 1946 , was founded in 1322 and in 1945 consisted of a few large farms. In 1874 the village was in the newly built office district Holy Kreutz incorporated that the district Fischhausen 1939-1945 for, County Samland in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 149 inhabitants registered in Wangnicken. On September 30, 1928, the rural community Wangnicken expanded to include the manor district Bersnicken (today Russian: Jagodnoje) and the manor village Heiligenkreutz, which were incorporated. On December 1, 1928 the vicarage of Heiligenkreutz was added, and on the same day the rural community of Wangnicken was renamed Heiligenkreutz.

In 1945 Wangnicken came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia . The place was given the Russian name "Jantarowka" in 1947 and was assigned to the village soviet Jantarski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion at the same time . Later the place came into the Powarowski selski Sowet . From 2005 to 2015 Jantarowka belonged to the rural municipality of Krasnotorovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.

church

Wangnicken, with its mostly Protestant population, was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Heiligenkreutz (today Russian: Krasnotorowka), which belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Jantarowka is located in the catchment area of ​​the newly built Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Jantarowka on bankgorodov.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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Wangnicken
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Heiligenkreutz district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
5. ↑ 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)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )