Jelniki (Kaliningrad, Gurjewsk)

settlement Jelniki edges Ельники Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk Earlier names Canthen (after 1540), Kanthen (after 1785), Canten (before 1910), edges (until 1946) population 29 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40151 Post Code 238314 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 209 828 005 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 51 '  N , 20 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 '30 "  N , 20 ° 32' 32"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Jelniki ( Russian Ельники , German  edges ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .

Geographical location

Jelniki is 14 kilometers north of Kaliningrad on the municipal road 27K-044 from Berjosowka (Schugsten) on the regional road 27A-001 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) to from the oblast capital via Orlowka (Nesselbeck) to Chrabrowo (Powunden) . There is a junction of the Primorskoje Kolzo motorway ring in the immediate vicinity . Until 1945 was edge - Fritzen (Russian: Jelniki-Sosnowka) railway station on the narrow-gauge railway track large-Ellerkrug (Russian: Rjabinowka -Raduschnoje now: Khrabrovo) that still as a freight route to Kaliningrad airport is in use.

history

The Gutsdorf, known as edges until 1946 , was incorporated into the newly established district of Schugsten (Russian: Berjosowka) in 1874. Until 1939 it belonged to the district of Fischhausen , from 1939 to 1945 to the district of Samland in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 109 inhabitants.

On January 1, 1929, edges lost its independence when it merged with the neighboring towns of Norgehnen (Russian: Schatrowo) and Schugsten (Berjosowka) to form the new rural community of Norgehnen.

In 1945, edges came to the Soviet Union with all of northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Jelniki and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Matrossowski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . Later the place belonged to the Chrabrowski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2013 Jelniki belonged to the rural municipality Khrabovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Guryevsk.

church

Until 1945, the majority were Protestant population in the parish Laptau (: Muromskoje Russian) eingepfarrt that the Church District II Konigsberg country within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches belonged. Today Jelniki is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELCER).

Web links

• Jelniki at 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: edges
3. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Fritzen / Schugsten
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
5. ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )