Ladygino

settlement Ladygino / Korschenruh Ладыгино Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Urban district Ladushkin population 29 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 203 505 001 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 36 ′  N , 20 ° 12 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 36 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 12 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Ladygino ( Russian Ладыгино , German Korschenruh , lit. Ladyginas ) is a small town in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area ) in the former East Prussia and belongs to the Laduschkin (Ludwigsort) district .

history

Ladygino is located on the banks of the Frischer Haff , four kilometers northeast of Laduschkin and three kilometers southwest of Uschakowo ( Brandenburg (Frisches Haff) ) not far from the Russian trunk road A 194 (former German Reichsstrasse 1 , now also Europastrasse 28 ). The nearest train station is Laduschkin on the Malbork ( Marienburg ) - Braniewo ( Braunsberg ) - Mamonowo ( Heiligenbeil ) - Kaliningrad ( Königsberg (Prussia) ) railway , the former Prussian Eastern Railway .

In the 19th century, the place formerly known as Korschenruh was part of the Ludwigsort (Laduschkin) estate . Its owner Douglas set up a sheep farm here . A Hofmann Korsch living there is said to have given the place its name.

In 1896 the cattle dealer Julius Steputat from Brandenburg (Fisches Haff) (Uschakowo) bought the Korschenruh estate. In 1912 he sold the 110 hectare property, which then changed several times until it was acquired by Erich Windzus in 1938 .

On May 25, 1930, the East Prussian Aviation Association inaugurated an airfield in Korschenruh and held glider pilot courses here . On the 3rd / 4th In August 1933, the Königsberg student Kurt Schmidt flew a world record with a self-made Grunau Baby I with 36 hours and 36 minutes in the air . On 29./30. In June 1935, flight manager Siegfried Ruhnke achieved a record time of 14 hours and 57 minutes on a long-term sailing flight with a passenger.

Until 1945 Korschenruh belonged to the district of Heiligenbeil (Mamonowo) in the administrative district of Königsberg (Kaliningrad) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . Since 1945 the place has been under Soviet and Russian administration and was named Ladygino in 1950. It is now part of the Ladushkin urban district in Kaliningrad Oblast .

Korschenruh was parish until 1945 with a predominantly Protestant population in the parish of Brandenburg (Frisches Haff) (today Russian: Uschakowo) in the church district of Heiligenbeil (Mamonowo) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Fritz Schiweck .

In terms of school, too, Korschenruh was oriented towards Brandenburg until 1945.

Lenzenburg

At Korschenruh was the Lenzenburg , a Prussian fortification that the Teutonic Order expanded into a castle. After a murder attempt, Vogt Mirabilis had the Lenzenburg burned with a few Prussians who had been invited.

literature

• Wulf D. Wagner: The goods of the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia. Rautenberg, Leer 2005, ISBN 3-7921-0640-X .

Web links

• Ladygino - Korschenruh

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. ↑ was renamed by 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 the area Kaliningrad "from July 5, 1950)
3. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1