Köthen (East Prussia)

Lost place Koethen, Wehlau district Солдатово Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gwardeisk First mention 1387 Earlier names Keythene (before 1392), Kotin (before 1404), Kethim (before 1446), Kethein (before 1468), Ketthen (before 1534), Kethen (before 1678), Köten (after 1785), Koethen (after 1820), Köthen ( until 1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 '  N , 21 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 40 '48 "  N , 21 ° 8' 54"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Köthen ( Russian Солдатово Soldatowo ) is an extinct East Prussian village in what is now Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation . The local office is now in Gwardeisk district , formerly in the Wehlau district .

Geographical location

The now desolate locality of Köthens is nine kilometers northwest of the former district town of Snamensk (Wehlau) , east of the Deime (Russian: Deima) on a side road that leads from the present Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) via Soldatowo (Friedrichsthal) near Grigorjewka (Sprindlack) in the Polessk Raion ( Labiau District ) leads and ends at Krasny Bor (Krakow) on the Russian trunk road R 514 . The next train station was today's Gwardeisk (Tapiau) .

history

The village, called Köthen until 1946 , was first mentioned in 1387. Between 1874 and 1945 the rural community, which essentially consisted of a very large farm, belonged to the Grünhayn district (Russian: Krasnaja Gorka, no longer existent) in the Wehlau district in the administrative district Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 75 registered residents in Köthen. On September 30, 1928, the community expanded to include the neighboring Freudenberg estate (today in Russian: Ratnoje), which was incorporated. The number of inhabitants rose to 126 by 1933 and was already 130 in 1939.

In 1945 Köthen came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia and was given the Russian name “Soldatowo” in 1946 - probably in connection with the neighboring village of the same name, which before 1946 was called Friedrichsthal . The Köthen settlement was initially inhabited for a short time, but was then abandoned and is now considered extinct.

church

Until 1945 the population of Köthen was predominantly of Protestant denomination. The village was parish in the parish of the Grünhayn Church (East Prussia) , which belonged to the Wehlau parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Web links

• Picture gallery Köthen (before 1945)
• Picture gallery Köthen (after 1945)
• Koethen . In: Filip Sulimierski, Władysław Walewski (eds.): Słownik geograficzny Królestwa Polskiego i innych krajów słowiańskich . tape 4 : Kęs – Kutno . Walewskiego, Warsaw 1883, p. 245 (Polish, edu.pl ).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange: Geographical register of places East Prussia: Koethen. 2005 ( [1] ).
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Grünhayn district
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Wehlau district
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wehlau district (Russian Snamensk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).