Leninskoye (Kaliningrad)

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settlement
Leninskoje
Pokraken (Weidenau (Ostpr.))

Ленинское
Federal district Northwest Russia
Oblast Kaliningrad
Rajon Slavsk
Earlier names Pokracken (after 1785),
Pokraken (until 1938),
Weidenau (Ostpr.) (Until 1946)
population 245 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Height of the center 10  m
Time zone UTC + 2
Telephone code (+7) 40163
Post Code 238610
License Plate 39, 91
OKATO 27 236 816 008
Geographical location
Coordinates 55 ° 7 '  N , 21 ° 42'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 6 '57 "  N , 21 ° 41' 35"  E
Leninskoje (Kaliningrad) (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Leninskoje (Kaliningrad) (Kaliningrad Oblast)
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Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Leninskoje ( Russian Ленинское , German  Pokraken , 1938 to 1945 Weidenau (Ostpr.) , Lithuanian Pakriokiai ) is a place in the Kaliningrad Oblast . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district .

Geographical location

Leninskoye is located 13 kilometers west of the former district town of Sowetsk (Tilsit) and eight kilometers northwest of today's Rajonskapital Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and can be reached via side roads from Oktyabrskoje (Alt Weynothen , 1938 to 1946 Weinoten) or Schtscheglowka ( (Greater) Brittania ) . Schcheglowka is also the nearest train station and is on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) . The Great Selse (Russian: Nemoninka) flows through Leninskoje .

history

The Pokraken estate has a long history. The first known document is dated November 8, 1614 and is a "purchase contract des Guhts Pokraggen belonging to the PostwegCöllmer Christoph Makeinen". In 1739, a lieutenant from Pilgrzim was also awarded the Cologne estate Old and New Pokraken, 6 Huben 29 Morgen Oletzkoisch from Pelchrzim . He pays 94 Taler Generalhubenschoß, 47 Taler forage money, 9 Taler Servis, and 8 Taler in interest, totaling 158 Taler.

The small village once called Pokraken became an official village on March 25, 1874 and gave its name to a newly established administrative district . It existed until 1945 and was until 1922 the district Tilsit , then to district Tilsit-Ragnit in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938 Pokraken was officially renamed "Weidenau (Ostpr.)". His district was renamed in 1939 in "Weidenau (Ostpr.)".

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 he was given the Russian name "Krasnoye" and was assigned to the village soviet Rschewski selski Sowet in Slavsk Raion . The place was expanded and renamed Leninskoye before 1975. He got into the Timirjasewski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2015 Leninskoye belonged to the rural municipality Timirjasewskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.

Population development

year Residents
1910 228
1933 199
1939 196
2002 282
2010 245

District Pokraken / Weidenau (1874–1945)

Between 1874 and 1945 the district of Pokraken existed, which was renamed in 1939 to "District of Weidenau (Ostpr.)" And was originally made up of nine, and finally seven villages:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946
Russian name Remarks
Old Jägerischken,
from 1930: Jägerischken
Pereprawa
Campinnischken (Kampinnischken)
from 1928: Schanzenkrug
Jägerischken Jägershof
Kallwen 1922 in the municipality of Tilsit incorporated
Naudwarrischken,
1931: Naudwarischken, Adelshof
Chistopolye
New Jägerischken Neujägershof 1930 incorporated into Alt Jägerischken
New Weynothen Prussia Court It's OK
Pokraken Weidenau Leninskoye
Urban sites Urbanshof Poimy
from 1925: Alt Weynothen Wine notes Oktyabrskoye until 1925: Weynothen district

On January 1, 1945, the Weidenau district also included: Adelshof, Jägershof, Preußenhof, Schanzenkrug, Urbanshof, Weidenau and Weinoten.

church

Protestant church

See the main article: Pokraken Church

Church building

The once Protestant church Pokraken was built between 1894 and 1896 with neo-Romanesque forms and a pointed tower. Today only a ruin remains of the building with a roofed tower and free-standing masonry of the nave .

Parish

The parish of Pokraken, which had 19 villages before 1945 , was founded in 1891, and a Protestant pastor was appointed here as early as 1890. In 1925 the parish had 1,800 parish members and until 1945 belonged to the church district Tilsit - Ragnit in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Leninskoje belongs to the Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) church region within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Mennonites

In the parish of Adlig Pokraken (1938 to 1946: Adliggrieteinen, Russian: Winogradowka, no longer exists today) there was a Mennonite community since 1831 . She used her own prayer room in what was then the manor house.

Web links

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 register of places in East Prussia (2005): Weidenau (Ostpr.)
  3. a b Rolf Jehke, Pokraken / Weidenau district
  4. 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)
  5. census data
  6. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 114, fig. 506 and 507
  7. Historical photo of the Pokraken Church at flickr.com
  8. Кирха Покракена - The Pokraken Church at prussia39.ru With photos of the church ruins from 2012
  9. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  10. ^ Photo of the Mennonite prayer hall in Adlig Pokraken from 1931