Krasnosnamensk (Kaliningrad)

city Krasnosnamensk Lasdehnen (Haselberg) Краснознаменск flag coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Krasnosnamensk First mention 1521 Earlier names Haselpusch (1521) , Lesdehnen (1557) , Laßdehnen (1740) , Lasdehnen (until 1938) , Haselberg (1938–1946) City since 1946 surface 8  km² population 3522 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 440 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 30  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40164 Post Code 238730 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 218 501 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 57 ′  N , 22 ° 30 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 57 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 30 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Lasdehnen in northeastern East Prussia , southeast of Tilsit and northeast of Insterburg , on a map from 1908.

City view from the direction of the shed

Krasnosnamensk ( Russian Краснознаменск , meaning roughly "Red Banner City ", German until 1938 Lasdehnen , 1938–1945 Haselberg , Lithuanian Lazdynai ) is a town with 3522 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) in the former East Prussia , in today's Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . The city is the administrative center of the local government unit Stadtkreis Krasnoznamensk in Krasnoznamensky District .

Geographical location

The village is located in the northeast of the historic East Prussia region near the border with Lithuania , about 42 kilometers southeast of Tilsit ( Sowetsk ), 54 kilometers northeast of Insterburg ( Tschernjachowsk ) and 126 kilometers east-northeast of Königsberg ( Kaliningrad ). The scale flows through the place .

The city of Krasnosnamensk (Lasdehnen / Haselberg)

history

The place was first mentioned in 1521 with the German name "Haselpusch". The name Lasdehnen , used since the beginning of the 18th century, is derived from the Lithuanian word lazd (ynas) , which means " hazelnut ". A church already existed in the village in 1578, but it burned down in 1661. The successor building had to be demolished in 1869 because it was in disrepair. The church that still exists today was built in the neo-Gothic style between 1874 and 1877 .

Lasdehnen developed into the most important market town on the lower scale. In 1663 a water mill was put into operation. In 1785 Lasdehnen was a village with a church, a royal office, a water grinding mill, a Ross oil mill and 48 fireplaces (households). In 1861 there were 214 buildings in the parish of the village, which covered an area of ​​over 2,057 acres . By the 20th century, the watermill developed into one of the largest mills in the Pillkallen district .

In 1945 Lasdehnen belonged to the district of Schloßberg (Ostpr.) In the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the province of East Prussia of the German Empire .

After the end of the Second World War , Haselberg was placed under their administration by the Soviet occupying forces in the summer of 1945 . In contrast to the then district town of Pillkallen, the place was hardly destroyed in 1944/45 and has since taken over its functions. Since the collapse of the Soviet Union , the place has belonged to the Russian Federation .

Lasdehnen / Haselberg district (1874–1945)

Between 1874 and 1945 Lasdehnen or Haselberg was the official seat and eponymous for an administrative district in the Pillkallen district (Schloßberg district) and in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia :

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name	Remarks
Laser stretching	Haselberg (East Pr.)	Krasnosnamensk
Neuhof laser stretching	Old tree	Smolenskoye	1929 reclassified to the Jucknaten district
Sallehnen	Sallen
Schilleningken	Ebertann	Khlebnikovo

Municipality of Krasnosnamenskoye 2008–2015

Location of the municipality of Krasnosnamenskoje in the middle of the Krasnosnamensk Rajons

The township of Krasnosnamenskoje (ru. Краснознаменское городское поселение, Krasnosnamenskoje gorodskoje posselenije) was founded on June 30, 2008. In addition to the official seat of Krasnosnamensk, it included two settlements. In 2010 it had 3,893 inhabitants. At the end of 2015 the municipality was dissolved and its places incorporated into the newly formed Krasnosnamensk city district.

The municipal community included:

Surname	German name	Change name from 1938 to 1945
Krasnosnamensk	Laser stretching	Haselberg
Khlebnikovo	Schilleningken	Ebertann
Samarskoye	Bergershof

Population development

until 1945

year	number	Remarks
1816	0813
1861	0978	in December,
1885	1,294
1912	1,578
1933	2,065
1939	2,070

since 1945

year	Residents
1959	2,843
1970	2,911
1979	3,392
1989	3,894
2002	3,751
2010	3,522

Note: census data

church

Evangelical

Former Protestant and now Orthodox church

→ Main article : Church laser stretching

Former parish church

The once Protestant parish church stands on a hill that slopes steeply to a shed some distance from the city center. In 1578 there was already a church here. It burned down in 1661. A successor building had to be closed in 1869 due to dilapidation. A neo-Gothic brick building with an apse and high tower was built between 1875 and 1877 . The interior also showed a neo-Gothic style. The ceiling is vaulted over the central part of the nave.

After the Second World War, the church was repurposed and used as a warehouse . In this way it could at least be saved from decay. Today the once Protestant church is an Orthodox church.

Parish

The Protestant parish of Lasdehnen was founded in 1578. In 1925 it counted a total of 8,061 parishioners who lived in an extensive parish with more than 50 villages. Before 1945, two clergymen worked at the parish church for the past 70 years. The parish belonged to the church district Pillkallen (Schloßberg) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . As a result of the flight and displacement of the local population and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Krasnosnamensk came to a standstill. Today the closest and newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation is in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Catholic

There was no Catholic church in Krasnosnamensk before 1945 either. Until 1945 the place belonged to the parish in Bilderweitschen (1938 to 1946: Bilderweit, today Russian: Lugowoje) in the Diocese of Warmia .

Orthodox

In the 1990s, a parish of the Russian Orthodox Church was formed in Krasnosnamensk . She took over the former Evangelical Church and restored it in her own style. In October 1992 the church was consecrated, which today bears the name of the apostles Peter and Paul . The parish belongs to the diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Attractions

In addition to the neo-Gothic church, some other buildings from the pre-war period have been preserved.

Economy and Infrastructure

In Krasnosnamensk there are small forestry and food industries (cheese factories).

The regional road R 508 runs through the city from Kaliningrad via Znamensk (Wehlau) and Gussew (Gumbinnen) to Neman (Ragnit), from which the R 511 branches off through the eastern part of the Rajon and on to Nesterow (Stallupönen / Ebenrode).

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the place

• Alfred von Lyncker (born October 3, 1854 in Neuhof-Lasdehnen), German general
• Gertrud Mortensen (born July 24, 1892 in Rucken), German historian
• Dietrich Beyrau (born January 2, 1942 in Haselberg), German historian, university professor

Connected to the place

• Erich Sack (1887–1943) was a resistance fighter against National Socialism. From 1926 until his death in the Dachau concentration camp, he was pastor at the Lasdehnen church.

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation. Königsberg 1777, p. 132.
• August Eduard Preuss : Prussian country and folklore or description of Prussia. A manual for primary school teachers in the province of Prussia, as well as for all friends of the fatherland. Bornträger Brothers, Königsberg 1835, p. 519.
• Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources. Volume 2. Gumbinnen 1863, p. 491.

Web links

Commons : Krasnosnamensk  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Haselberg District (East Pr.) (Rolf Jahke, 2014)
• GenWiki: Las Stretching
• Krasnosnamensk on mojgorod.ru (Russian)
• Krasnosnamensk at prussia39.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ^ Johann Friedrich Goldbeck : Complete topography of the Kingdom of Prussia . Part I, Königsberg / Leipzig 1785, Complete Topography of the Littthau Cammer Department, p. 82.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Kühnast: News about property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources . Volume 2, Gumbinnen 1863, p. 491.
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Lasdehnen / Haselberg district
5. ↑ By the Закон Калининградской области от 30 июня 2008 г. № 256 «Об организации местного самоуправления на территории муниципального образования" Краснознаменский городской округ "» (Law of the Kaliningrad Oblast of 30 June 2008, Nr. 256: On the organization of local self-government in the field of municipal formation "city circle Krasnoznamensk")
6. ↑ Alexander August Mützell and Leopold Krug : New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state . Volume 3: Kr – O , Halle 1822, p. 70, item 685
7. ^ ^{A b c} Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. pillkallen.html # ew33pillhaselbe. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
8. ^ Las stretching
9. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 109, fig. 479
10. ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 485
11. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )