Jelniki (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk)
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Jelniki
Weidlacken Ельники
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Jelniki ( Russian Ельники , German Weidlacken , Lithuanian Veidlaukiai also: Žakai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .
Geographical location
Jelniki located about 23 kilometers northwest of the Rajonstadt Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) on the municipal road 27K-125 of Dalneje (United Schirrau) at the Federal Road A216 (former German national route 138 , now also European route E77 ) via Schaworonkowo (vertebrae) and Kamenskoe (Saalau) to Meschduretschje (Norkitten) on the federal road A229 (old Reichsstraße 1 , today also Europastraße 28 ). A railway connection no longer exists today, since the Kauschen – Wirbeln railway of the Insterburger Kleinbahnen is no longer operated.
history
The village, which was called Weidlacken until 1946 , was founded in the middle of the 17th century. On June 13, 1874 Place Office village and its name to a newly constructed was District , which until 1945 the county Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.
In 1945 Weidlacken came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Jelniki and was assigned to the village soviet Kamenski selski soviet in Chernyakhovsk district . From 2008 to 2015 Jelniki belonged to the rural municipality of Kamenskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Chernyakhovsk.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 252 |
| 1933 | 253 |
| 1939 | 233 |
| 2002 | 51 |
| 2010 | 31 |
Weidlacken District (1874–1945)
The Weidlacken district, newly established in 1874, originally included the manor districts (GB) and rural communities (LG):
| German name | Russian name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Alt Löbkojen (GB), 1938–1946: Altlepkau |
In 1928 it was reclassified to the rural community of Lapischken (1938–1946: Fuchshügel) in the Groß Schirrau district |
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| Gross Budlacken (LG) | Kurortnoje | |
| Gross Ponnau (LG) | Krasnooktjabrskoye | In 1882 it was reclassified to the Plibischken district |
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Kekorischken (LG), 1938–1946: Auerbach |
Okunjowo | In 1882 it was reclassified to the Plibischken district |
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Kerulaten² , 1938–1946: Kerlaten |
Saltykowo | In 1892 incorporated into the rural community of Klein Budlacken |
| Klein Budlacken (GB) | Saltykowo | |
| Klein Ponnau (LG) | In 1882 it was reclassified to the Plibischken district | |
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Muplacken (LG), 1938–1946: Moptau |
Saltykowo | |
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Obszerninken (LG), 1936–1938: Obscherninken, 1938–1946: Dachsrode |
Partisanskoe | |
| Plompen (LG) | Rajewskoye | |
| Weidlacken | Jelniki |
( ² = community-free locality )
On January 1, 1945, six communities belonged to the Weidlacken district: Dachsrode, Groß Budlacken, Klein Budlacken, Moptau, Plompen and Weidlacken.
church
The majority of the population of Weidlacken belonged to the Evangelical Church before 1945 and was parish of the Gross Schirrau Church (today Russian: Dalneje). It belonged to the church district Wehlau (Snamensk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Jelniki is in the catchment area of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Talpaki (Taplacken) , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Web links
- Jelniki at bankgorodov.ru
- Jelniki at prussia39.ru
- Weidlacken picture gallery (until 1945)
- Picture gallery Weidlacken / Jelniki (after 1945)
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)
- ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Weidlacken
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Weidlacken district
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ census data
- ↑ 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.
