Nikitowka (Kaliningrad, Polessk)

settlement Nikitowka Lablacken and Marienhof, Labiau Никитовка district Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk First mention 1302 Earlier names Labelawk (1302), Labelack (around 1391), Labbelaucken (around 1539), Lablauken (around 1565), Lablack (around 1871), Lablacken (until 1945) population 93 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40158 Post Code 238651 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 230 810 010 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 52 ′  N , 20 ° 56 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 51 ′ 51 ″  N , 20 ° 56 ′ 28 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Nikitowka ( Russian Никитовка , German  Lablacken and Marienhof , Labiau district ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Polessk in Polessky District . The Marienhof branch has been abandoned.

Geographical location

Nikitowka is located east of the Eastern Canal (today Russian: Vostotschny kanal), eleven kilometers west of the Rajonstadt Polessk (Labiau) . The municipal road 27K-106 runs through the village from Slavyanskoje (Pronitten) to Uschakowka (Kampkenhöfen) . It is four kilometers to the Curonian Lagoon . Slavyanskoye is the nearest train station on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .

history

Rennet

In 1302 the then Labelawk got its hands on . Instead of a forester's house from the time of the order, a manor house was built here towards the end of the 17th century. Until 1788 the estate belonged to the Ostaus , from whom it was inherited through his daughters and sons-in-law, first by Christoph von Kleist , then by Chamberlain von Wnuck in 1832 and Werner von Gustedt-Lablacken in 1877 .

The Lablacken estate around 1860 ( Alexander Duncker collection )

Werner von Gustedt-Lablacken was the owner of the manor and also a member of the German Reichstag . He had dams, dykes and drainage ditches built to protect his more than 1,000 hectare estate on the lagoon from flooding. He also built a small port, established a horse breeding facility and procured modern agricultural machinery. He had the manor garden converted into an English landscape park. In 1903 Hans Detlev von Massow was his successor, and in 1913 Lieutenant Oskar Pein . The last landowner, Franz Waldhauer, a merchant from Pronitten , was slain in 1945 by members of the Red Army .

In 1928, Lablacken was completely settled.

Since April 9, 1874, the place was Amtsdorf and thus eponymous for a newly established district . It existed until 1945 and belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

On January 14, 1908, the Annenhof manor district (today in Russian: Rybkino) was spun off from the Lablacken manor district , followed by the Damm manor district and the rural community of Kampken (both today: Uschakowka) and the Steinau manor district (Russian: Kamenka) on October 16, 1909 .

The population of Lablacken was 297 in 1910. On August 11, 1915, the district of Taktau (Ijulskoje) was spun off. Annenhof and Steinau came back to Lablacken as districts on September 30, 1928, which has now been converted from an estate district into a rural community. The population was 532 in 1933 and was already 568 in 1939.

Marienhof

Marienhof was before 1945 a Vorwerk of goods Lablacken (see above).

Nikitovka

As a result of the war, Lablacken and Marienhof came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 Marienhof was given the Russian name Nikitowka and was assigned to the village soviet Slawjanski selski Sowet in Polessk Raion at the same time . On the maps known since the 1970s, the Marienhof location is depicted as abandoned, while the former Lablacken is identified with Nikitowka. It is astonishing that Lablacken (apparently) was not officially renamed. From 2008 to 2016 Nikitowka belonged to the rural municipality of Turgenevskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Polessk.

Lablacken district

The administrative district of Lablacken existed between 1874 and 1945. Originally three manor districts (GB, as an alternative to rural communities (LG)) belonged to it, but their number increased until 1915 and then decreased to only three communities by 1945:

Surname	Russian name	Remarks
Fischer-Taktau	Ijulskoje
Rennet		1928 converted into a "rural community"
Schlepecken , 1938–1946: Kleinpronitten	Ovrashye	1928 in the LG Proni tablets , District Legitten , incorporated
from 1892: Julienhöhe	Ijulskoje	1928 incorporated into Willmanns
from 1892: Willmanns
from 1908: Annenhof	Rybkino	1928 incorporated into Lablacken
from 1909: dam	Ushakovka	1928 incorporated into Kampken
from 1909: Kampken	Ushakovka
from 1909: Steinau	Kamenka	1928 incorporated into Lablacken
from 1915: Taktau	Ijulskoje	1928 incorporated into Kampken

On January 1, 1945, three communities formed the Lablacken district: Kampken, Lablacken and Willmanns.

church

The majority Protestant population of Lablacken was parish in the parish of the church Groß Legitten (Russian: Turgenewo). It belonged to the parish of Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Wilhelm August Woel .

Even today Nikitowka is ecclesiastically oriented towards the Church of Turgenewo (= Gross Legitten ). A new Evangelical Lutheran congregation was established here, which is a subsidiary congregation of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) . It belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

school

Before 1945 there was a two-class village school in Lablacken, the last German headmaster of which was Fritz Adloff. The school building is still preserved today, but is used for other purposes.

Personalities

Connected to the place

• Werner von Gustedt-Lablacken (1842–1908), owner of the manor on Lablacken from 1877 to 1903, member of the German Reichstag
• Jenny von Gustedt (1811–1890), German writer, spent the last years of her life from 1883 with her son in Lablacken, where she died on June 29, 1890

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): Lablacken
3. ↑ Lablacken at ostpreussen.net
4. ↑ ^{a b} Rolf Jehke, Lablacken district
5. ↑ Uli Schuibert, municipality directory, district Labiau
6. ^ 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). 
7. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Marienhof
8. ↑ 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)
9. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.