Luzhki (Kaliningrad, Slavsk)

settlement Luschki dittballen (scattered layer) Лужки Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Earlier names Didballen (before 1900), Dittballen (until 1938), scattered layer (1938–1946) population 78 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Height of the center 20  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40163 Post Code 238611 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 236 816 010 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 45'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 3 '14 "  N , 21 ° 44' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Luschki ( Russian Лужки , German  Dittballen , 1938 to 1945 Streulage , Lithuanian Didbaliai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district .

Geographical location

Luschki is located five kilometers northeast of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) directly on the border with the city of Sowetsk (Tilsit) . A side street that connects Slavsk with Sovetsk runs through the village. The nearest train station is Rschewskoje (Adlig Linkuhnen) on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk (Königsberg – Tilsit) railway line .

history

The small village formerly known as Dittballen was incorporated into the newly established Sand River district in 1874 (1938 to 1946: Lindental, today in Russian: Prigorodnoje) and until 1945 belonged to the Niederung district (renamed “Elchniederung District” in 1938) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3, 1938, Dittballen was renamed "Streulage" for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union in the wake of the war with northern East Prussia . He received the Russian name "Luschki" in 1947 and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Rschewski selski Sowet in Slavsk Raion . Later the place came to the Timirjasewski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2015 Luzhki belonged to the rural municipality Timirjasewskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	85
1925	68
1933	65
1939	80
2002	91
2010	78

church

The population of Dittballen resp. Before 1945, the majority of the scattered denomination was Protestant . The place belonged to the parish of the church Heinrichswalde (today Russian: Slawsk) within the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) in the church province East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . The church connection to Slavsk still exists today. An Evangelical Lutheran congregation has formed in the district town and is the parish seat of the church region of the same name within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Luzhki at bankgorodov.ru
• Luzhki at prussia39.ru

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 Location Register East Prussia (2005): Streulage
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district Sandfluss / Lindental
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. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )