Ludendorff (Labiau district)

place Ludendorff, until 1918: Groß Friedrichsgraben II Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 57 '  N , 21 ° 16'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 57 '0 "  N , 21 ° 16' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Ludendorff (until 1918: Groß Friedrichsgraben II ) was a place in the East Prussian district of Labiau . Today he is one of Rasino in the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District .

Geographical location

Ludendorff was on the southeast coast of the Curonian Lagoon east of the village Juwendt (1938–1946 Möwenort , today Russian: Rasino) not far from the main road between Labiau (Russian: Polessk) and Gilge (Matrossowo), today's Russian trunk road R 514 .

History

The village called Groß Friedrichsgraben II until 1918 - in contrast to Groß Friedrichsgraben I (from 1918 to 1946 Hindenburg , today in Russian: Belomorskoje) - was located like its "namesake" on Großer Friedrichsgraben (today in Russian: Polesski kanal), which the Deime ( Russian: Deima ) connects with the Nemonien (Nemonin) and the Seckenburger Kanal (Primorski kanal). In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established district of Nemonien (from 1938 "District of Elchwerder", Russian: Golowkino), which until 1945 belonged to the district of Labiau in the Koenigsberg district in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Groß Friedrichsgraben II had 345 inhabitants. On August 9, 1918, the village was renamed "Ludendorff" in honor of General Erich Ludendorff . If the number of inhabitants was 255 in 1933, it rose to 876 by 1939. The strong increase was due to the fact that on April 1, 1939 the communities Heidendorf and Möwenort (both in Russian today: Rasino) merged with Ludendorff to form the new community Ludendorff.

As a result of the war, Ludendorff came to the Soviet Union with all of northern East Prussia in 1945 .

church

Groß Friedrichsgraben II with its predominantly Protestant population belonged to the parish of the town church Labiau until 1853 and then came to the church of Gilge . Within the Gilger parish, the parish of Juwendt (1938–1946 Möwenort , Russian: Rasino) was formed in 1909 , to whose parish what was then called Ludendorff belonged until 1945. He was in the parish of Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Ludendorff (2005)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: District Nemonien / Elchwerder
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, district Labiau
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Labiau district (Russian Polessk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).