Kunzewo (Kaliningrad)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Kaliningrad
Rajon	Bagrationovsk
Founded	1419
Earlier names	Weßlienen
population	21 residents ; (as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone	UTC + 2
License Plate	39, 91
OKATO	27 203 825 005
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 32 ' N , 20 ° 5' E Coordinates: 54 ° 31 '31 " N , 20 ° 5' 26" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kunzewo ( Russian Кунцево , German Weßlienen ) is a village in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Pogranitschnoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Pogranitschny (Hermsdorf) ) in the Bagrationovsk district ( Prussian Eylau district ).

Geographical location

Kunzewo is seven kilometers southwest of Laduschkin in the immediate vicinity of the Fresh Lagoon (Kaliningradski Saliw) on a side road from Pjatidoroschnoje to Primorskoye between the A 194 trunk road (now also European route 28 ) and the Malbork - Kaliningrad railway of the former Prussian Eastern Railway . The train station is Primorskoye Novoye, six kilometers away .

Place name

The German place name is derived from the farm owner Jorge Wesselyn , who lived here in 1461. The place name Kunzewo occurs several times in Russia.

history

Weßlienen manor around 1860, Alexander Duncker collection

Weßlienen was first mentioned in a document in 1419. There were initially three farms here. In 1551, the Oberburggraf, Starost zu Dirschau , governor of Tapiau and Elector Brandenburg Chamberlain Christoph von Kreytzen (1512–1578) acquired a large part of Weßlienen through an exchange of goods. His grandson, Obermarschall and Landhofmeister Andreas von Kreytzen (1579–1641) added the missing part to the property. Lieutenant Georg Christoph von Kreytzen was the owner until 1720.

Then it was acquired by the Budget Minister and Chief Marshal Marquard Ludwig von Printzen , who in 1723 transferred it to Christoph Aegidius von Negelein , Lord Mayor of Königsberg .

From 1768 to 1832 Weßlienen was then owned by the family of the secret budget and war minister as well as high marshal Friedrich Gottfried von der Groeben (1726–1799) and his heirs.

Weßlienen then came to the district administrator of the district of Heiligenbeil , Rudolf von Auerswald (1798–1866) and was sold by him to Karl August Samuel von Schmeling (1839–1882).

In 1907 Gustav Leopold von Bülow (1874–1924) finally acquired the estate, and Weßlienen stayed in this family until 1945.

In 1910, Weßlienen had a total of 148 inhabitants. The place was in the district of Heiligenbeil in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Since June 11, 1874, the Weßlienen manor was part of the Balga district until it was incorporated into the Wolittnick manor on June 18, 1909 and into the Wolittnick rural community on September 30, 1928. This in turn was reclassified on July 12, 1929 from the Balga district to the Stuthenen district (no longer exists today), which until 1945 consisted of the three municipalities of Bolbitten (no longer exist), Partheinen and Wolittnick. The last head of office was Wilhelm Dalheimer in Bolbitten.

Weßlienen has been on Russian territory since 1945 and is called Kunzewo . The place belongs to the Bagrationovsk Raion in the Kaliningrad Oblast . The former manor house - only rebuilt in 1912 - burned down in 1947 and was never rebuilt. Only a few outbuildings of the estate have survived.

church

Like Kunzewo, Weßlienen did not have a church of its own today. Before 1945 Kirchort was the neighboring village of Bladiau , in which another 46 localities were parish. It was in the Protestant church district of Heiligenbeil in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Heinrich Geiger .

personality

Karl von Broesigke (1790–1852), major general

literature

Emil Johannes Guttzeit : History of the village or the manor Weßlienen , in: Old Prussian gender studies, Ser. NF, Pt. 14: 135-145 (1983)
Wulf D. Wagner: The goods of the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia , 2006

Web links

Weßlienen at ostpreussen.net
Material on Gut Weßlienen in the Duncker Collection of the Central and State Library Berlin (PDF; 254 k; 259 kB)

Footnotes

↑ 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)
↑ First Wyssokoje , renamed by the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области" (Resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of July 5, 1950 About the renaming of settlements Kaliningrad Oblast )

[einwohner_aktuell-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] First Wyssokoje , renamed by the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области" (Resolution of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of July 5, 1950 About the renaming of settlements Kaliningrad Oblast )