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