Kotelnikowo (Kaliningrad)
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Wargen Котельниково
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Kotelnikowo ( Russian Котельниково , German Wargen ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .
Geographical location
Kotelnikowo is located eleven kilometers northwest of Kaliningrad and can be reached via an overland road that branches off the secondary road from Kaliningrad to Lyublino in a northerly direction and leads to Druzhnoye . Druzhnoye is also the nearest train station on the Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk railway , the former Samland Railway . The center of the village Wargen, which perished after 1945, was located southwest of today's Kotelnikowo on a headland by the church pond (today Shkolnyy Prud , school pond).
Today there is a Russian military airfield immediately to the east .
history
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Around 1270 the fortress Haus Wargen was built on a promontory as the official seat for a religious official. The parish church with a fortified tower was built on the outer bailey in the early 14th century. It was considered the most stately village church in the entire Samland . Some researchers suspected the original castle chapel to be in the choir, which was obviously built first. It had an eight-part star vault and valuable keystones with animal motifs. The castle itself was abandoned in the 17th century.
In the area of the Schlossberg, the order carried out fundamental improvement measures by diverting the water from small ponds into a stream and damming it up to the Wargen mill pond and the even larger Wargen church pond. This was one of the 11 ponds with which Königsberg was continuously supplied with water through the “Landgraben”. The pond is closed by the dam at Preyl, over which the postal route once led to Pillau . Carp has been bred here at the latest since the 17th century. The scenic location of Wargens am See attracted holidaymakers. In 1894 Heinrich Graf Lehndorff-Preyl († 1905) had the stately Preyl manor built in a historicist style ( neo-renaissance ).
Wargen with its imposing village church and lake has become a popular destination for the Königsbergers. The section between the manor districts of Warglitten-Preyl (no longer existent today) and Mednicken (today Russian: Druschnoje) is considered a particularly scenic part of Samland. The town of Seerappen , located south of the railway to Pillau , was the end of numerous suburban trains to and from Königsberg that were used during rush hour.
After 1945
When Königsberg was enclosed by the Red Army in January 1945, Wargen and Preyl were completely destroyed. After the occupation by the Soviet Union, the location was renamed Kotelnikowo, but the place was not rebuilt. Today there are only a few traces of the former village. The outline of the church foundation and the cemetery can still be seen.
The place Kotelnikowo was classified in the village soviet Pereslavski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . From 2005 to 2015 it belonged to the rural municipality of Pereslavskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.
Wargen Order Castle
Around 1270 the fortress Haus Wargen was built on a promontory as the official residence of an order official of the Teutonic Order . The parish church of the village of Wargen with a fortified tower was built on the outer bailey in the early 14th century. It was considered the most stately village church in the entire Samland . Some researchers suspected the original castle chapel in the first choir. It had an eight-part star vault and valuable keystones with animal motifs. The castle itself was abandoned in the 17th century. Another (probably older) castle complex was on the Schlossberg between Wargen and Preyl.
Attempted reconstruction of the Wargen Ordensburg with the church (left) in the area of the outer bailey
Wargen and Preyl plan with the Schlossberg
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church
The village church of Wargen was the most stately of its kind in Samland . The most valuable works of art were the late Gothic triumphal cross group, which was last placed in the choir arch, and a figure of St. Michael . It was also noteworthy that the choir was built higher than the nave. The church was destroyed in fighting in 1945 with the entire place. Only rubble and foundations remained.
Wargen Church was named as one of the many places where the Amber Room is said to have been relocated at the end of the Second World War . For this reason, an excavation was carried out at the site of the destroyed church in 1989, but it was unsuccessful.
Parish
Until 1945, the village of Wargen with its almost exclusively Protestant population was in the east of the Fischhausen parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Kotelnikowo is located in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
For extensive parish belonged to 1945 the following rural communities: Wargs, Upper and Lower Alkehnen, Amalienhof, slagging off , Bärwalde , Backelfeld , Barrücken, Barsenicken, Brasnicken , Bugsienen, Corniten, Dammhof, Dammkrug, Dommelkeim , Emilienhof, Fuchsberg , Gallhöfen, Greibau, Katzenblick, Korkehnen, Landkeim, Laserkeim, Lehndorff, Mednicken , Klein und Groß Mischen, Mühlfeld, Parschwitz, Preyl, Prowehren , Quanditten, Rablacken, Regitten, Rogehnen, Rosignaiten , Saggehnen, Schorschehnen, Seerappen , Strittkeim , Tannenkrug, Tannenwalde (until 1930) , Taukitten, Trenk, Waldhausen , Warglitten, Willgaiten and Zielkeim .
Web links
- Wargen at ostpreussen.net
- D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005)
- Kotelnikowo on bankgorodov.ru
literature
- Anatoli Bachtin, Gerhard Doliesen: Forgotten culture. Churches in North East Prussia. A documentation . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 1998, ISBN 3-88042-849-2 .
- Paul Gusovius (ed.): The district of Samland. A home book of the former districts of Königsberg and Fischhausen (= East German contributions from the Göttingen working group. 38; The Göttingen working group. 343 ). Holzner, Würzburg 1966.
- Christian Papendiek: The north of East Prussia. Land between failure and hope . Husum Druck- und Verlagsgesellschaft, Husum 2009, ISBN 978-3-89876-232-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )