Kazhtanovo (Kaliningrad, Polessk)

settlement Kaschtanowo Schmilgienen (Kornfelde) Каштаново Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk Earlier names Schmilginnen (after 1785), Smilgienen (before 1785), Schmilgienen (until 1938), Kornfelde (1938–1946) population 83 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40158 Post Code 238642 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 230 804 010 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 51 '  N , 21 ° 34'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 '59 "  N , 21 ° 34' 28"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kaschtanowo ( Russian Каштаново , German  Schmilgienen , 1938 to 1945 Kornfelde ( Eastern Pr.) , Lithuanian Smilgynė ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District . The former town of Obscherninken / Dachsfelde also belongs to Kaschtanowo.

geography

Kaschtanowo is 34 kilometers east of the city of Polessk (Labiau) at the intersection of the regional road 27A-145 (ex A190 ) with the municipal road 27K-112 from Lipowka (Szacken / Schackenau) to Gromowo (Lauknen / Hohenbruch) . Until 1945 Uszballen / Mühlenau (Russian: Krasnaja Poljana, no longer existent) was the next stop on the Königsberg – Tilsit railway line (today Russian: Kaliningrad – Sowetsk), whose tasks are now performed by the Zalessye-Novoje station .

history

The village, called Schmilgienen until 1938, only consisted of a few small farms and farmsteads before 1945. Between 1874 and 1938 it was part of the Obscherninken district (renamed “Dachsfelde” from 1938 to 1946, no longer exists today), then until 1945 it was incorporated into the Korehlen district (now Russian: Sowetskoje) and belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg district of the Prussian East Prussia Province . In 1910 Schmilgienen had 77 inhabitants. In 1933 their number rose to 165 and in 1939 was 150. A year earlier, namely on April 1, 1938, the neighboring towns of Kermuschienen (1938 to 1945: Forstreutershof, no longer existent) and Paschwirgsten (1938 to 1945: Bünden, existed also no longer) to Schmilgienen, which was called "Kornfelde" since June 3, 1938, incorporated.

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 he was given the Russian name Kaschtanowo and at the same time was assigned to the village Soviet Zalessovsky selski Sowet in Bolshakovo Rajon . Since 1965 the place belongs to the Polessk Raion . From 2008 to 2016 Kashtanovo belonged to the rural municipality Zalessovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Polessk.

church

The majority was the population of Schmilgienens resp. Kornfeld before 1945 evangelical denomination and belonged to the parish of the church Mehlauken (1938 to 1946: Liebenfelde, Russian: Salessje) in the parish of Labiau within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today, Kaschtanowo is located in the catchment area of ​​the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran parish in Bolshakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , 1938 to 1946 Kreuzingen) , a branch parish in the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Kazhtanovo at bankgorodov.ru
• Kaschtanovo at prussia39.ru

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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kornfelde (Ostpr.)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Obscherninken / Korehlen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Labiau
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Labiau district (Russian Polessk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 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)
7. ↑ 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.