Kaschtanowka (Karalkehmen)

Desolation Karalkehmen / Karlen / Kaschtanowka Каштановка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon No, sorry man Earlier names Karahlkehmen (after 1745), Karakehmen (after 1777), Karallkehmen (after 1815) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 52 '  N , 22 ° 14'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 52 '6 "  N , 22 ° 14' 13"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaschtanowka ( Russian Каштановка ; German  Karalkehmen , 1938 to 1945 Karlen ; Lithuanian Karalkiemis ) is a deserted place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . In the renaming decree of 1950, Kaschtanowka was identified with the German place Karalkehmen / Karlen in today's Neman district . According to maps from the early 1970s, Kaschtanowka was (meanwhile) in the former German neighboring town of Lindenthal, and Uszgirren / Waldenau was also included, both in the area of ​​today's Krasnosnamensk Rajon .

Geographical location

The local office of Kaschtanowka, based on the former German town of Lindenthal, is about three kilometers away on a side road that branches off one kilometer northwest of Uslowoje (Rautenberg) from the municipal road 27K-187 to the southwest. The place Karalkehmen / Karlen was a good one kilometer further northwest.

history

Before 1945 Karalkehmen only consisted of a few small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was in the District Rautenberg incorporated and thus belonged to the circle Ragnit , after 1922 the district Tilsit-Ragnit in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Karalkehmen had 32 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the Lindenthal manor district was incorporated into the rural municipality of Karalkehmen and the municipality of Karalkehmen was renamed "Lindenthal" at the same time. The district Karalkehmen was given the name "Karlen" on June 3, 1938.

In 1945 the district came with the other north-east Prussian places to the Soviet Union . In 1950 he was given the Russian name of his own as Kashtanovka and at the same time was classified in the village soviet Malomoshaiski selski Sowet in Sovetsk Raion . According to maps from the early 1970s, however, at this point in time, Kaschtanowka was at the local point of the Lindenthal estate in Krasnosnamensk Rajon , while the local point Karalkehmen / Karlen was abandoned. In the administrative register of the Kaliningrad Oblast from 1975 the place is no longer listed.

church

In Karalkehmen resp. Karlen was almost without exception the Protestant denomination. The village belonged to the church Rautenberg (today Russian: Uslowoje) in the diocese of Ragnit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Karlen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Rautenberg district
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, Ragnit district
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ Административно-территориальное деление Калининградской области 1975 (The administrative-territorial division of the Kaliningrad 1975 published by Soviet the Kaliningrad) on http://www.soldat.ru/ (rar file). There is a risk of confusion with the town of the same name, Kaschtanowka, about six kilometers further north .