Kindschen (parish of Szillen)

Lost place Child Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon No, sorry man Earlier names Kintschen (after 1785) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 58 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 58 '12 "  N , 21 ° 57' 40"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kindschen is the name of a lost place in East Prussia in the area of ​​today's Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . The no longer recognizable place is today in the area of ​​the Rajon Neman .

The village of Kindschen (differentiating from Gut Kindschen , located just two kilometers to the north , 1928 to 1946: Groß Kindschen, Russian: Iskra, part of the parish Ragnit ) was ten kilometers southwest of the district town of Neman (Ragnit) on a side road (27K-073), which connects Neman with Schilino (Szillen , 1936 to 1946 Schillen) . The next train station was Argeningken (1938 to 1946: Argenhof, Russian: Artjomowka) on the Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk (Insterburg – Tilsit) railway line .

The village, called Kintschen after 1785, consisted of several large farms before 1945. The place belonged to the district of Ragnit until 1922 , then until 1945 to the district of Tilsit-Ragnit in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 193 inhabitants in the village. Their number was 188 in 1933 and 186 in 1939.

In terms of church, the mostly Protestant population was oriented towards the Szillen Church (the place was called from 1936 to 1946: Schillen, today in Russian: Schilino ). The parish belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kindschen
2. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, Ragnit district
3. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City of Tilsit and district of Tilsit – Ragnit / Pogegen. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).