Konstantinovka (Kaliningrad, Osjorsk)

settlement Konstantinowka Kieselkehmen (Kieselkeim) Константиновка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Osjorsk Earlier names Kieselkehmen (until 1938), Kieselkehm (1938–1945) population 84 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238137 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 227 816 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 30 '  N , 22 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 '10 "  N , 22 ° 3' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Konstantinowka ( Russian Константиновка , German Kieselkehmen , 1938–1956 Kieselkeim ) is a small town in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in Osjorsk Rajon . The place belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Osjorsk district .

Geographical location

Konstantinovka is located one kilometer east of the Russian long-distance road R 508 at the county border from Ozyorsky District for Gusevsky District ( Gumbinnen ). An impassable back road leads from Putjatino ( Kissehlen , 1938–1946 Angermühle ) on the western bank of the Angerappufer via Konstantinowka to the R 508 trunk road.

history

The former manor village Kieselkehmen became on March 18, 1874 Amtsdorf for the eight rural communities or manor districts comprising district Kieselkehmen. Until 1945 it belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . Able Officially the village was Nemmersdorf (Mayakovskoye) connected.

In 1910 Kieselkehmen counted 168 inhabitants, before on September 30, 1928 the manorial district Kieselkehmen with the manorial district Kissehlen (1938-1946 Angermühle , since 1946: Putjatino) and the rural community of Datzkehmen (1938-1946 Lorenzfelde , since 1946: Maloje Rjasanskoje) to new rural community Datzkehmen merged. On June 3, 1938 - with official confirmation from July 16, 1938 - Kieselkehmen had to change its name for political and ideological reasons and was now called "Kieselkeim".

As a result of the Second World War , the village came under Soviet administration. It was given the Russian name Konstantinowka in 1947 and was initially incorporated into the Mayakovsky village soviet in Gussew Rajon . Later the place came into the village Soviet Sadovsky in Osjorsk Raion . From 2008 to 2014 the place belonged to the rural municipality of Krasnoyarskoye and has since been part of the Osjorsk district.

District Kieselkehmen / Kieselkeim

Between 1874 and 1945 Kieselkehmen was the eponymous place and official seat of the newly formed district of Kieselkehmen, in which eight localities were incorporated:

Name (until 1938)	Name (1938-1946)	Today's name	Remarks
Rural communities :
Abschermeningken	Fuchstal	Rechkalovo
Datzkehmen	Lorenzfelde	Maloye Ryazanskoye
Klein Datzen	Klein Datzen	Samostye	1935 incorporated into the rural community of Spirockeln
Klein Pruschillen since 1936: Klein Pruschillen	Kleinpreußenbruch	Stolbowoje
Krauleidszen since 1936: Krauleidschen	Schöppenfelde	Kolkhoznoye
Spirockeln	Hohenfried
Manor districts :
Kieselkehmen	Pebble seed	Konstantinovka	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Datzkehmen
Krauleidszen since 1936: Krauleidschen	Schöppenfelde	Kolkhoznoye	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Krauleidszen

In 1939 the administrative district was renamed "Amtsiertel Kieselkeim", which existed as such until 1945 and on January 1, 1945 still comprised the five communities of Fuchstal, Hohenfried, Kleinpreußenbruch, Lorenzfelde and Schöppenfelde.

church

Until 1945, the predominantly Protestant population of Kieselkehmen / Kieselkeims was parish in the parish of the Nemmersdorf church (Mayakowskoje). It was in the church district of Gumbinnen (Gussew) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Hans Puschke .

In the Soviet era , all church activities were prohibited. It was not until the 1990s that Protestant parishes were formed again in the Kaliningrad Oblast, the Konstantinovka of which is the closest to that of the Salzburg Church in Gussew ( Gumbinnen ). It is part of the newly established Kaliningrad provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

school

A new school building was erected in Kieselkehmen in 1901. The last German teacher before 1945 was Eugen Tischler .

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. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kieselkeim district
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory
4. ↑ Kreisgemeinschaft Gumbinnen: Lorenz field (Datzkehmen) u. a.
5. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 17, 1947 “On the Renaming of Settlements in Kaliningrad Oblast”)
6. ↑ See footnote 1 above
7. ↑ Ev.-luth. Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )