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Lessistoje
Nassawen Лесистое
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Lessistoje ( Russian Лесистое ; German formerly Nassawen ) is a settlement in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Nesterov in Nesterovsky District .
Geographical location
Lessistoje is located on the municipal road 27K-074 three kilometers south of Kalinino (Mehlkehmen / Birkenmühle) on the northeast edge of the Rominter Heide .
Until 1945 Nassawen was a train station on the Gumbinnen – Goldap railway line .
Place name
The German place name reminds of the Nassauer who immigrated here .
history
Due to its location in the northeast of the wooded Rominter Heide , Nassawen was then and Lessistoje is today characterized by forestry. Initially, the Rominter Heide was administered by two " forest rangers " who had their headquarters in Warnen and Nassawen. In 1910, which was one rural community Nassawen 323 inhabitants, and in Gutsbezirk Nassawen, forester lived 17 people. In 1919, the Nassawen rural community expanded to include the Jägersthal manor district, which was incorporated.
On September 30, 1929, part of the Nassawen, Forst manor district was reclassified into the newly formed rural community Schwentischken . Another part of the Nassawen, Forst manor district was incorporated into the Rominter Heide manor district, part of Kr. Stallupönen, Forst.
In 1933 there were 350 residents in Nassawen, the number of which rose to 403 by 1939. From April 1, 1938, the Oberforstamt Rominter Heide, based in Nassawen, was no longer part of the general forest administration, but was subordinate to the Reichsjagdamt in Berlin and thus to the Reichsjägermeister Hermann Göring . The forest offices Nassawen, Warnen, Rominten and Schittkehmen , and from 1939 also Unterfelde belonged to this forest office .
Nassawen belonged to the district of Stallupönen until 1945 (1938-1946 district of Ebenrode ) in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .
As a result of World War II , Nassawen came under Soviet administration. In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Lessistoje in 1947 and was also assigned to the Kalininski selski Sowet in Nesterow Rajon . From 2008 to 2018 Lessistoje belonged to the rural municipality of Tschistoprudnenskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Nesterow.
Jägersthal / Nassawen district
On June 24, 1874, the Jägersthal district was formed as the predecessor of the later Nassawen district . At that time, nine rural communities and one manor district belonged to the "founding" locations:
| Name (until 1938) | Name (1938-1946) | Today's name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rural communities : | |||
| Aszlauken, from 1936 Aschlauken |
Kalkhöfen | - | |
| Damerau | Damerau | - | |
| Grünwalde | - | - |
1937 incorporated into the community of Damerau |
| Little Grigali | - | - |
1896 incorporated into Aszlauken |
| Krajutkehmen | Dürrfelde | Woikowo | |
| Nassawen | Nassawen | Lessistoje | |
| Neuteich | - | - |
1937 incorporated into the community of Damerau |
| Schönbruch | - | - |
1937 incorporated into the community of Damerau |
| Szinkuhnen, from 1936 Schinkuhnen |
Schenkenhagen | Borovikovo | |
| Manor : | |||
| Jägersthal | - | - |
1919 incorporated into the Nassawen community |
In 1939 the Jägersthal district was renamed Nassawen District. Until 1945 it was divided into the five municipalities of Damerau, Dürrfelde, Kalkhöfen, Nassawen and Schenkenhagen, of which only two still exist as settlements today.
Administrative district of Forst Nassawen / Rominter Heide
Another administrative district had its administrative seat in Nassawen and was also formed on June 24, 1874 - with the illustrious name: Royal Forests Nassawen District . It was formed by the two estate districts:
| Name (until 1946) | Today's name |
|---|---|
| Nassawen, Forest | Lessistoje |
| Warn, forest | Oserki |
This District was later in District Forstrevier Nassawen renamed and was called in 1909 District Nassawen forest . On September 30, 1929, a new rural community Schwentischken was formed, into which parts of the manor districts Nassawen Forest and Warnen Forest were incorporated. A manor district of Rominter Heide, part of Kr. Stallupönen Forst, was also formed. Finally, on March 5, 1932, the Nassawen Forest district was given the new name of the district of Rominter Heide, part of Kr. Stallupönen , which in 1938 was given the final name of the district of Rominter Heide, part of Kr. Ebenrode. In 1945 this administrative district consisted only of the Rominter Heide estate, part of Kr. Ebenrode Forest.
church
Evangelical
Nassawen with its predominantly Protestant population until 1945 was incorporated into the parish Mehlkehmen (1938-1946 Birkenmühle ). It belonged to the church district Stallupönen (1938-1946 Ebenrode ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Peter von Freyhold.
All church life was forbidden during the Soviet era . In the 1990s, a new evangelical congregation was formed in Kalinino, which was assigned to the Kaliningrad provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia . The clergy responsible are the pastors of the Salzburg Church in Gussew .
Russian Orthodox
Today Lessistoje is the location of a small Russian Orthodox Church, whose parish is part of the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia .
Personalities of the place
- Eugen von Sperber (1808–1879), politician
- Matthias Lackner (1835–1926), superintendent in Königsberg
- Walter Frevert (1897–1962), forester in Nassawen from 1936 to 1944, last chief forester on the Rominter Heide
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)
- ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Stallupönen (Ebenrode, Russian Nesterow). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Nassawen District
- ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Rominter Heide, part of Kr. Ebenrode
- ^ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968