Krasnaya Gorka (Kaliningrad, Gwardeisk)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Kaliningrad
Rajon	Gwardeisk
Founded	1361
Earlier names	Grünheide (before 1404), ; Grunenhain (before 1785), ; Grünhain (after 1785), ; Gruenhayn (after 1820), ; Grünhayn (until 1946)
Time zone	UTC + 2
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 40 ′ N , 21 ° 10 ′ E Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 6 ″ N , 21 ° 10 ′ 9 ″ E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Krasnaja Gorka ( Russian Красная Горка , German Grünhayn ) was a place in Gwardeisk Rajon in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad in historic East Prussia .

Geographical location

The village of Krasnaja Gorkas is located seven kilometers northeast of today's Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) and ten kilometers northwest of the former district town of Znamensk (Wehlau) on a side road that comes from Sorino (Poppendorf) on the Russian trunk road R 514 in a north-westerly direction to Ratnoje ( Freudenberg) leads. There is also a land connection to the R 514 near the former Sobolewo site (Groß Michelau) . Krasnaja Gorkas railway station was both Gwardeisk and Znamensk on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway .

history

The village, called Grünhayn until 1946 , received the hand-fest in 1361 . In 1874 was Grünhayn eponymous site of a newly formed administrative district that existed until 1945 and the county Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910, 408 inhabitants were registered in Grünhayn, the number of which remained almost constant at 410 in 1933 and 414 in 1939.

In 1945 Grünhayn was assigned to the Soviet Union as a result of the Second World War with northern East Prussia and in 1947 received the Russian name Krasnaja Gorka. At the same time, the place was incorporated into the Sorinski selski Sowet . The village only existed for a short time and was then abandoned. A Soviet feature film that was shot in Krasnaya Gorka in the 1960s contributed to this. During the filming, the village, which was on a Soviet military training area, was completely destroyed and razed to the ground. Today almost nothing reminds the existence of the place.

Grünhayn district

The district of Grünhayn, which was newly formed in 1874, initially included eleven rural communities (LG) or manor districts (GB):

German name	Russian name	Remarks
Freudenberg (GB)	Ratnoye	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Köthen
Friedrichsthal (GB)	Soldatowo	Converted to a rural community in 1922
Grünhayn (LG)	Krasnaya Gorka
Johannenhof (GB)
Koethen (LG)	Soldatowo
Leipen (LG)	Nikolskoye
Miguschen (GB)	Dunayevka	1928 incorporated into the rural community of Rockeimswalde
Ripe (LG)		In 1908 it was converted into an estate district, and in 1928 again into a rural community
Rockeimswalde (GB)
Giving (LG)	Krasnoyarskoye
Schwolgehnen (LG)		1928 incorporated into the rural community of Reipen
from 1935:
Gross Birkenfelde (LG)	Grigoryevka	previously: District Forest Leipen
Sprindlack (LG)	Grogorievka	previously: District Forest Leipen

On January 1, 1945, only eight communities formed the district of Grünhayn: Friedrichsthal, Groß Birkenfelde, Grünhayn, Köthen, Leipen, Reipen, Rockeimswalde and Sprindlack.

church

See the main article → Grünhayn Church (East Prussia)

Church building

The church in Grünhayn was a plastered stone building and was probably the successor to a church that already existed in 1361. A tower was only built in the 17th century. Much of the furnishings also came from this time . There is no trace of the church building today.

Parish

The founding of a parish in Grünhayn goes back to the pre-Reformation period to 1361. The Reformation soon found its way here. Until 1945, the wide-area and 30 villages comprehensive belonged to the parish to parish district Wehlau in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . In 1925 the parish had 2,860 parishioners.

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grünhayn
^ Rolf Jehke, Grünhayn district
^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wehlau district (Russian Snamensk). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
↑ 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)
↑ Grünhayn 1998 , in: Wehlauer Heimatbrief , 60th episode, winter 1998/99, page 67
↑ Rolf Jehke, Grünhayn District (as above)
^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 83
^ Image of the Grünhayn church before 1945

[1] D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Grünhayn

[2] Rolf Jehke, Grünhayn district

[3] Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district

[4] Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wehlau district (Russian Snamensk). Accessed September 2018(Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).

[5] 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)

[6] Grünhayn 1998 , in: Wehlauer Heimatbrief , 60th episode, winter 1998/99, page 67

[7] Rolf Jehke, Grünhayn District (as above)

[8] Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 83

[9] Image of the Grünhayn church before 1945