Krasnorechye

Lost place Krasnoretschje / Kunzen Красноречье Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Earlier names Kuntzen (after 1785), Kunzen (until 1950) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 8 '  N , 20 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 8 '15 "  N , 20 ° 49' 40"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Krasnoretschje ( Russian Красноречье , German  Kunzen , Lithuanian Kuncai ) was a place on the Curonian Spit in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in Zelenogradsk Rajon .

Geographical location

Krasnoretschje was three kilometers southwest of Rybatschi (Rossitten) on the Curonian Spit (Russian: Kurschskaja Kossa) on the bank of the Curonian Lagoon (Kurschski Saliw).

Place name

The place name comes from the Nehrung Curian word "cunce", which means "to duck" and refers to the location nestled in the landscape.

history

The place called Kunzen until 1946 was a church village that emerged after the Reformation . In 1874 it was incorporated into the newly established district of Rossitten (today Russian: Rybatschi) in the district of Fischhausen in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The village, which in the 18th / 19th Century more and more suffered from the silting up by the drifting of the dune sand, merged with the neighboring village of Rossitten on September 25, 1894 to form the new rural community of Rossitten and lost its independence.

As a result of the Second World War , Kunzen came to the Soviet Union within northern East Prussia and was given the Russian name "Krasnoretschje" in 1950. At the same time the place was subordinated to the settlement Soviet of Rybachi . The place was abandoned before 1976.

church

Church building

In 1550, Kunzen received its own house of worship, which was built from bricks. The building did not withstand the increasing silting up of the place and had to be abandoned at the beginning of the 19th century.

Parish

A few years after the establishment of a church in Kunzen, in the visitation report of the Samland evangelical bishop Joachim Mörlin from 1569 on the Curonian Spit, next to the church in Sarkau (today Russian: Lesnoi) and Karwaiten (today Lithuanian: Karvaičiai) also Kunzen, whose pastor Crispinus Liebermann is next Kunzen also supplied Inse, Loye and Ackeln as well as some villages on the mainland also Sarkau , Rossitten , Karwaiten and Nidden (Lithuanian: Nida) on the Curonian Spit. Until 1551 Kunzen was looked after by the pastors in Rossitten, who then moved their official residence to Kunzen. Karwaiten belonged to Kunzen from 1569 to 1709, then to Memel (now Lithuanian: Klaipėda), but silted up at the end of the 18th century. Nidden became independent in 1847 and was assigned to the Memel church district , while the church in Kunzen was abandoned due to sand drift in 1808 and the parish seat was relocated to Rossitten, which was formerly the Schaaken Inspection (now Russian: Schemtschuschnoje), but then until 1945 the Königsberg church district. Land II belonged to the Church of the Old Prussian Union within the church province of East Prussia .

Pastor 1555–1808

Between 1555 and 1808 there were 25 Protestant clergymen in Kunzen:

Johann Woyser, 1555–1565 Crispinus Liebermann, from 1569 Ambrosius Otto, 1579–1602 Andreas Walther, 1602-1604 Paul Biber, 1604-1605 Friedrich Engelcke, 1605 David Heidenreich, from 1605 Georg Fese, until 1621 Martin Schultz, 1621-1630 Johann Kersten, 1632–1655 Erhard Waldeck, 1655–1663 Johann Ludovici, 1663-1664 Michael Burckhard, 1694-1707

Christian Bruno, 1694-1700 Gallus Mävius, 1708 Laurentius Werner, 1708-1710 Jacob Naps, 1711-1727 Christian Kösling, 1727–1752 Johann Casemir Gazali, 1752–1756 Johann Friedrich Sperber, 1756–1765 Heinrich Wilhelm Hein, 1765–1769 Johann Paul Pötsch, 1769–1776 Jacob Hausendorf, 1776–1779 Franz Albert Schulz, 1779–1803 Wilhelm Ferdinand Thorun, 1803-1808

Individual evidence

1. ^ Kunzen at genealogy.net
2. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Kunzen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Rossitten District
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ Nijolė Strakauskaitė, The clergy of the Curonian Spit regarding their lituanist cultural activities in the 16th-20th centuries . Century , 2008 (PDF; 5.2 MB)
6. ^ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 78