Krasnaya Gorka (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk)

settlement Krasnaja Gorka Nettienen Красная Горка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk First mention 1273 Earlier names Lethowis (1273), Lettienen (after 1374), Nittyn (before 1514), Nettienen (until 1946) population 65 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238170 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 813 027 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 46'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 '0 "  N , 21 ° 46' 12"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Krasnaja Gorka ( Russian Красная Горка , German  Nettienen , Lithuanian Netynai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

Geographical location

Krasnaja Gorka is located on the north bank of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja), three kilometers northwest of the city of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) . The municipal road 27K-175 from Majowka (Georgenburg) leads through the village on the regional road 27A-009 (ex A197 ) to Dowatorowka (Zwion) . The nearest train station is Chernyakhovsk. Until 1945 there was a rail connection via Georgenburg (Majowka) to the small railway line Insterburg-Groß Skaisgirren (1938-1946: Kreuzingen) (Tschernjachowsk– Bolshakowo ), which was operated by the Insterburger Kleinbahnen .

history

The small East Prussian manor village Nettienen was first mentioned as Lethowis in 1273. In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established district of Georgenburg (today in Russian: Majowka) in the district of Insterburg and the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 210 inhabitants in Nettienen. On September 30, 1928, the Nettienen manor lost its independence and became a part of the Leipeningken rural community , which was then renamed "Georgental".

In 1945 Nettienen came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia . In 1947 the place received the Russian name Krasnaja Gorka and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Gremjatschski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk district . Since 1954 Krasnaya Gorka belonged to the Mayovsky selski soviet . In 1997 the place came to the village district Kamenski selski okrug . From 2008 to 2015 Krasnaya Gorka belonged to the rural municipality of Kamenskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Chernyakhovsk.

church

Nettienen or Krasnaya Gorka was and is not a church village. Until 1945, the majority Protestant population of Nettienen was parish in the parish of the Church of Georgenburg (today Russian: Majowka). It was in the church district of Insterburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Krasnaja Gorka is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) , which was newly established in the 1990s and is also the parish seat of the Chernyakhovsk church region and belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Bismarck Tower

Bismarck Tower a few days before its collapse (2018)

The Bismarck Tower ( Russian Башня Бисмарка - Baschnja Bismarka ), which can still be seen today as a ruin in Krasnaya Gorka, dates from 1913 and was built from boulders and bricks. In a square basic shape of six meters by six meters, the tower rises to a height of 15 meters. Its location is a 33 meter high hill. The upper part of the tower collapsed in July 2018.

Sons of the place

• William von Simpson (* 1881, † 1945 in Scharbeutz ), writer (The Barrings) . However, the neighboring Georgenburg is also given as the place of birth .

Web links

• Krasnaya Gorka at bankgorodov.ru
• Krasnaya Gorka at prussia39.ru

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. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Nettienen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Georgenburg district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Insterburg district
5. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran 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. 
6. ↑ Baschnja Bismarka at prussia39.ru
7. ↑ Tower of Unity / Bismarck Tower in Nettienen