Kurgan (Kaliningrad)

settlement Kurgan Kuxtern Курган Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gwardeisk First mention 1362 Earlier names Kucstren (after 1362), Kuxsternick (after 1542), Kuxter (after 1565), Kuxtern (until 1946) population 11 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 13  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40159 Post Code 238221 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 206 804 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 '  N , 20 ° 52'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 41 '5 "  N , 20 ° 52' 24"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Kurgan ( Russian Курган , German  Kuxtern ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Gvardeysk in Gvardeysky District .

Geographical location

Kurgan is 16 kilometers northwest of the Rajon town of Gwardeisk (Tapiau) on the old route of the federal road A229 (former German Reichsstrasse 1 , now municipal road 27K-031). There is no train connection.

history

The Gutsdorf, called Kuxtern until 1946 , was first mentioned in 1362. In 1874, the village in the then newly formed was District Kremitten (: Losowoje today Russian) integrated, which existed until 1945 and the county Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On December 1, 1910, Kuxtern had 49 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, Kuxtern lost its independence and was incorporated into the rural community of Biothen (today in Russian: Malinowka). Between March 22, 1929 and July 23, 1929, Kuxtern then belonged to Heiligenwalde (today in Russian: Uschakowo), but was returned to Biothen on July 24, 1929.

In 1945 Kuxtern came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia following the war . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name "Kurgan" and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Golovenski selski Sowet (Willkühnen) in Gwardeisk district . 1954 came the place in the Borski selski Sowet . From 2005 to 2014 Kurgan belonged to the rural municipality of Slavinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gwardeisk.

church

The majority Protestant population of Kuxtern was parish up until 1945 in the parish of the Kremitten Church (today Russian: Losowoje). It belonged to the church district Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Kurgan is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Gwardeisk (Tapiau) , a subsidiary congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Kurgan bankgorodov.ru
• Kurgan 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): Kuxtern
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kremitten District
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
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. ↑ 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.