Samland County

Samland County
Prussian Province	East Prussia
Administrative district	Koenigsberg
County seat	Koenigsberg i. Pr.
Land area	1,923 km² (1939)
Water surface	727.5 km²
Residents	120,246 (1939)
Population density	63 inhabitants / km² (1939)

The district of Samland was a district in the administrative district of Königsberg from 1939 to 1945 . It was the fourth largest in East Prussia . The district office was in the city of Königsberg (Prussia). In 1939 the district, which was named after the Samland peninsula , had 120,246 inhabitants on an area of 1,923 km². On the Baltic coast there were many communities with more than 2000 inhabitants, including the Baltic seaside resorts of Cranz , Neukuhren , Palmnicken and Rauschen as well as Großheidekrug and Neuhausen .

history

On April 1, 1939, the Fischhausen district and the Königsberg i. Pr. Resolved. Parts of both districts were incorporated into the city of Königsberg:

parts of the communities Goldschmiede, Trankwitz and Wargen as well as the community Tannenwalde from the district of Fischhausen

from the district of Königsberg (Pr) parts of the communities Adlig Neuendorf , Altenberg , Godrienen , Almonds, Palmburg , Wundlacken and Ziegelau as well as the communities Beydritten, Charlottenburg, Haffstrom , Lauth , Metgethen , Moditten, Prappeln , Quednau , Schönfließ , Seligenfeld , Stiegehnen and the Fresh Lagoon Manor.

The remaining communities were merged to form the new Samland district with the district office in Königsberg. In the spring of 1945 the district was occupied by the Red Army and then part of the Soviet Union .

Administrative division

The district of Samland included on January 1, 1945

the two cities of Fischhausen (today Primorsk ) and Pillau (today Baltijsk )
191 other communities, including the Baltic resort of Cranz with 5000 inhabitants
and four estate districts (Haff and Nehrungs shares).

There were also 67 administrative districts in the district . The administrative districts were (with details of affiliation to the former district and today's Russian names):

German name	previous district membership	Today's name	German name	previous district membership	Today's name
Arnau	Koenigsberg	Rodniki, before 2003: Marjino	Laptau	Fischhausen	Muromskoye
Bledau	Koenigsberg	Sosnovka	Lobitten	Koenigsberg	Lugovskoye
Borchersdorf	Koenigsberg	Zelenopolye	Löwenhagen until 1930: Friedrichstein	Koenigsberg	Komsomolsk Kamenka
Bulitten	Koenigsberg	Avangardnoye	Ludwigswalde	Koenigsberg	Lesnoye
Cranz	Fischhausen	Zelenogradsk	Dunning field	Koenigsberg	Polewoje
Damerau	Koenigsberg	Sokolowka	Medenau	Fischhausen	Logwino
Drugehnen , until 1930: Seefeld² or Willgaiten	Fischhausen	Pereslavskoje, Prostornoje and Kolossowka	Mogahnen², until 1931: Pluttwinnen	Fischhausen	Motewelowo, Werschinino
Fresh lagoon	Fischhausen / Koenigsberg		Neuhäuser ²	Fischhausen	Metschnikowo
Fritzen	Fischhausen	Sosnovka	Neuhausen	Koenigsberg	Guryevsk
Fuchsberg	Koenigsberg	Semyonovo	Neukuhren	Fischhausen	Pionerski
Foxyards	Koenigsberg	Slavyanskoye	Palm nod	Fischhausen	Jantarny
Sheaves of gall	Koenigsberg	Marshalskoye	Peyse	Fischhausen	Komsomolski
Georgenswalde , until 1930: Warnicken	Fischhausen	Otradnoye, Lesnoye	Pobethen	Fischhausen	Romanowo
Germau	Fischhausen	Russkoye	Poggenpfuhl	Koenigsberg	Mendeleevo
Godnicken, until 1930: Gauten	Fischhausen	Chekhovo, Putilovo	Post nod	Koenigsberg	Salivnoe
Godrienen	Koenigsberg	Laskino	Powunden	Koenigsberg	Chrabrowo
Goldsmiths	Fischhausen	Dimitrowo	Noise	Fischhausen	Svetlogorsk
Gollau	Koenigsberg	Poddubnoye	Rossitten	Fischhausen	Rybachi
Groß Blumenau , until 1931: Kondehnen²	Fischhausen	Kremnjowo, Slavjanskoje	Rudau	Fischhausen	Melnikovo
Large fraction	Fischhausen		St. Lorenz	Fischhausen	Salskoye
Great Dirschkeim	Fischhausen	Donskoye	Schaaken	Koenigsberg	Nekrasovo
Groß Heydekrug 1939–1946: Großheidekrug , until 1930: Kaporn²	Fischhausen	Vsmorje, funkoye	Schönwalde	Koenigsberg	Yaroslavskoye
Groß Kuhren	Fischhausen	Primorye	Seerappen , until 1930: Rogehnen²	Fischhausen	Ljublino
Great Legden	Koenigsberg	Dobroje	Steinbeck	Koenigsberg	Rybnoye
Big mix	Fischhausen	Svobodnoye	Nod	Koenigsberg	Pirogowo
Groß Ottenhagen , until 1927: Ottenhagen	Koenigsberg	Beryosovka	Tenkitten , until 1930: Domain Fischhausen	Fischhausen	Beregovoye, Primorsk
Grünhoff	Fischhausen	Roschtschino	Thierenberg	Fischhausen	Dunayevka
Heiligenkreutz	Fischhausen	Krasnotorovka	Trutenau	Koenigsberg	Medvedevka
Heiligenwalde	Koenigsberg	Ushakovo	Waldau	Koenigsberg	Nizovye
Kallen	Fischhausen	Zwetnoye	Forest castle	Koenigsberg	Pribreschny
Cherry tendons	Fischhausen	Vasilkovo	Wargen until 1930: Landkeim²	Fischhausen	Kotelnikowo
Kumehn	Fischhausen	Kumachyovo	Willow stretching , until 1930: cherry flaps	Fischhausen	Shatrovo, Druzhba
Curonian Spit	Fischhausen		Woytnicken ²	Fischhausen	Volodino
Curonian Lagoon	Fischhausen / Koenigsberg

² = submerged place

District Administrator

Klaus von der Groeben (1939–1945)

Place names

Minor changes in the spelling were made for:

Groß Heydekrug : 1939: Großheidekrug
Heyde-Maulen: 1938: Heidemaulen
Heyde-Waldburg : 1938: Heidewaldburg

literature

Paul Gusovius (ed.): The district of Samland. A home book for the former districts of Königsberg and Fischhausen . Holzner, Würzburg 1966 ( East German contributions from the Göttingen working group 38, ISSN 0474-8204 ; Göttingen working group publication 343).

Web links

Commons : Landkreis Samland - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

54.816666666667 20.65Coordinates: 54 ° 49 ′ 0 ″ N , 20 ° 39 ′ 0 ″ E

[sam-1] Samland district at Familienforschung-sczuka.de

[terri-2] Territorial changes in Germany

[3] Rolf Jehke, cities and administrative districts in the Samland district