Korolenkovo

settlement Korolenkowo Oschkin (Oschern) Короленково Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Pravdinsk Earlier names Oschkin (until 1938), Oschern (1938–1945), Oschkin (1945–1950) population 12 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238414 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 233 810 006 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 25 ′  N , 21 ° 37 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 0 ″  N , 21 ° 37 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Korolenkowo ( Russian Короленково , German Oschkin , 1938-1945 Oschern ) is a place in the far east of Pravdinsk Rajon within the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad and belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Pravdinsk district . The place is (today) not at the former place Oschkin / Oschern, but about one kilometer further south in a district that was described as belonging to Abelischken / Ilmenhorst before 1945 , while the former place Oschkin / Oschern is deserted.

geography

Korolenkowo is located 27 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Gerdauen (Russian: Schelesnodoroschny) and 48 kilometers east of the current Rajon capital Pravdinsk (Friedland (Ostpr.)) . The Russian highways A 197 and R 508 run through the village, which use a common route for six kilometers (former German Reichsstraße 139 ).

There is no rail connection. Until 1945, Wolfshöhe (since 1947: Opuschki), two kilometers away, was a train station on the railway line from Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk) to Nordenburg (Krylowo), which was operated by the Insterburger Kleinbahnen .

history

Until 1945, the former Oschkin or Oschern with the villages of Blendowen (1938–1945 Blendau , Russian: Barejewka), Gendrinn (1938–1945 Gendern , Russian: Wschody), Lonschken (Dnjeprowskoje) and Trotczin (1938–1945 Trotzenau , Russian: Ostrowki) as a district of the Abelischken community (1938–1945 Ilmenhorst , since 1947: Belkino) and was historically closely linked to the mother community. Abelischken was also the administrative center and the eponymous site of an office district, which in Gerdauen district in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia was.

On June 3, 1938 - with official confirmation of 16 July 1938 - Oschkin was in "Oschern" renamed .

In 1945 the place came with the northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union and was renamed in 1950 after the writer Wladimir Galaktionowitsch Korolenko in Korolenkowo. At the same time, the place was incorporated into the village soviet Podlipowski selski Sowet , the later Krylowski selski Sowet (okrug) . From 2004 to 2015 Korolenkowo belonged to the rural municipality of Mosyrskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Pravdinsk.

church

The mostly Protestant inhabitants of Oschkin or Oschern were parish in the parish of Nordenburg (Russian: Krylowo) until 1945 . It was in the parish of Gerdauen (Schelesnodoroschny) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergy were pastors Alfred Kaminsky and Paul Terpitz .

Today Korolenkowo is in the area of ​​the church region Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) within the provost of Kaliningrad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

Footnotes

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, Abelischken / Ilmenhorst district
3. ↑ 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)
4. ↑ The parish of Nordenburg ( Memento of the original from March 2, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ Ev.-luth. 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.