Kamenka (Kaliningrad, Bagrationovsk)

settlement Kamenka crutches Каменка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Bagrationovsk Earlier names until 1947: crutches population 9 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238430 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 203 828 005 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 27 '  N , 20 ° 27'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 26 '48 "  N , 20 ° 26' 55"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kamenka ( Russian Каменка , German Krücken (until 1928: Groß Krücken / Klein Krücken )) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Bagrationowsk in Bagrationovsky District . Only the former Klein Krücken office is still inhabited, while the Groß Krücken office has been abandoned.

Geographical location

Kamenka is 14 kilometers northwest of Bagrationowsk (Preussisch Eylau) on a side road that connects Slavskoje (Kreuzburg) with Pogranitschnoje (Hussehnen) and Bogatowo (Rositten) in the Russian-Polish border area.

Rositten (Bogatowo) was from 1939 to 1945 a train station on the railway line from Zinten (Kornewo) to Preußisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk), which today is only operated in the last section for military traffic. In addition, at that time there was a connection via Kreuzburg (Slawskoje) to the Tharau – Kreuzburg ( Wladimirowo - Slawskoje ) small railway , which no longer exists.

history

The community formerly known as "Krücken" only existed since 1928. Before that, there were the two manor districts Groß Krücken and Klein Krücken with their districts Kirchenhufen-Krücken and Wolfskrug , which were incorporated into the newly established district of Moritten (Russian: Oktjabrskoje) on May 7, 1874 were. This existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Preußisch Eylau in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Groß Krücken had 106 and Klein Krücken 33 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the two manor villages Groß and Klein Krücken merged to form the new rural community called “Krücken” .

As a result of the Second World War , crutches came to the Soviet Union . The place was given the Russian name Kamenka in 1947 and was incorporated at the same time into the village soviet Pushkinski selski Sowet in Bagrationovsk Raion . Later the place came into the Tschapajewski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2016 Kamenka belonged to the rural community Dolgorukowskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Bagrationovsk.

church

Before 1945 the population of Krücken was almost without exception Protestant denomination. The localities Groß and Klein Krücken with the districts Kirchenhufe-Kürcken and Wolfskrug were integrated into the parish Kreuzburg (today Russian: Slawskoje), which belonged to the church district Preussisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Arnold Stritzel .

Kamenka is currently located in the catchment area of ​​the newly formed village parish in Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) in the 1990s . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

Personalities of the place

• Adolf Stobbe (born November 20, 1906 in Krücken, † 1956), German politician, member of the Lower Saxony state parliament

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 - picture archive East Prussia: crutches
3. ↑ Location information-picture archive East Prussia: Groß Krücken
4. ^ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Klein Krücken
5. ↑ Location information-Bildarchiv East Prussia: Kirchenhufen-Krücken
6. ^ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Wolfskrug
7. ^ Rolf Jehke, Moritten district
8. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Prussian Eylau district
9. ↑ 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)
10. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )