Kurgany (Kaliningrad)
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Kurgany ( Russian Курганы , German Wachsnicken ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .
Geographical location
Kurgany is located about eleven kilometers east of the Rajons capital Gurjewsk (Neuhausen) on a side road that branches off from the regional road 27A-024 (ex A190 ) at Morgunowo (Langendorf) . The nearest train station is Bajewka (Kuikeim) - called Kuggen until 1945 - on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk (Koenigsberg – Tilsit) railway .
history
The village in eastern Samland , known as Wachsnicken until 1946, was incorporated into the Wanghusen district (now Russian: Gribojedowo) between 1874 and 1945 and belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1945, Wachsnicken came to the Soviet Union as a place within northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Kurgany and was assigned to the village soviet Jaroslawski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . Later the place came into the Dobrinski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2013 Kurgany belonged to the rural municipality Dobrinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Guryevsk.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 153 |
| 1933 | 134 |
| 1939 | 151 |
| 2002 | 3 |
| 2010 | 4th |
church
In church terms, the mostly Protestant population of Wachsnicken was parish in the parish of Kaymen (1938–1946 Kaimen , today in Russian: Saretschje). It was in the parish of Labiau (Russian: Polessk) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Kurgany is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Marschalskoje (Gallgarben) , which was newly established in the 1990s . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Wachsnicken
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Wanghusen District
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ census data
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )