Matrosovka

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Matrossowka
until 1945: Gilgestrom
Gilge and Kurenkahn (1930)

Gilge and Kurenkahn (1930)

Data
location Kaliningrad Oblast , Russia
River system Memel
origin Junction from the Memel north of Istok (Neu Weynothen , 1938–1946 Preußenhof)
55 ° 7 ′ 24 ″  N , 21 ° 45 ′ 32 ″  E
muzzle below Matrossowo (Gilge) in the Curonian Lagoon Coordinates: 55 ° 0 ′ 30 "  N , 21 ° 12 ′ 42"  E 55 ° 0 ′ 30 "  N , 21 ° 12 ′ 42"  E

Communities Timirjasewo , Jasnoye , Golovkino

The Matrossowka ( Russian Матросовка, German until 1945 Gilgestrom ) is an estuary of the Memel in the Kaliningrad Oblast , Russia, which was converted into a waterway in Prussian times .

meaning

Like the Memel, the Gilge was of great importance for rafting in East Central Europe . While rafts of 125 m length and 18 m width were permitted on the Memel , traffic on the Gilge was limited to rafts 100 m long and 10 m wide.

Course and expansion

Leaving the Memel 9.5 km west-north-west of Sovetsk (Tilsit) , it flows mainly in a south-west direction through the elk lowland . Shortly after Matrossowo (Gilge) she comes across the Curonian Lagoon .

At Sapowednoje (Seckenburg) , the Kleine Friedrichsgraben, which is only 180 m interrupted by a dam, branches off in a southerly direction, and the Seckenburger Canal 4.5 km before Matrossowo (Gilge) . The latter is a navigable connection to the Nemonin (Nemonien) , from which there is a connection to the Deime and thus to the Pregel via the Polesski Canal (Großer Friedrichsgraben) . The approximately 6 km long section of the Gilgestrom between Seckenburg and the junction of the actual Seckenburg Canal was also expanded like a canal when it was built in 1833 and is therefore also known as the Seckenburg Canal .

literature

  • The Memel delta with the projects for the dike between the Ruß-Strom and the Gilge . Verlag Wiegandt, Hempel and Parey, Berlin 1880.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cornelius Kutschke : The feeders of the port - a) The inland waterways , in: Königsberg as a port city . Königsberg 1930, p. 35.