Matzutkehmen (Goldap district)

Federal district	Northwest Russia
Oblast	Kaliningrad
Rajon	Nesterow
Earlier names	Maschutkeinen (from 1557), ; Masutkiem (from 1565), ; Massutkemen (from 1589), ; Matzudkehmen (from 1740), ; Matzutschen (from 1785), ; Matzuttkehmen (until 1907), ; Matzutkehmen (until 1938), ; Wellenhausen (1839 to 1946)
Time zone	UTC + 2
Geographical location
Coordinates	54 ° 25 ' N , 22 ° 44' E Coordinates: 54 ° 24 '33 " N , 22 ° 43' 39" E
	Location in the western part of Russia
	Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Postcard from Matzuthmen with a view of Lake Wyster and Lithuania

Matzutkehmen (1938 to 1946 Wellenhausen ) was a village in the district of Goldap and the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the former East Prussia . The village belonged to the parish of Szittkehmen and was located about 29.7 km northeast of Goldap.

history

Matzutkehmen resp. On March 18, 1874, Wellenhausen was incorporated into the newly established district of Kallweitschen (1938 to 1946 Kornberg , Russian: Priosjornoje, no longer existent), which belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Due to its location directly on the shore of Lake Wystiter and thus on the border between what was then East Prussia and Lithuania , smuggled goods were often transported across the lake . During the Second World War, the village was completely destroyed and not rebuilt.

Residents

1822: 87 inhabitants
1933: 211 inhabitants
1939: 190 inhabitants

Geographical location

The village was on the western bank of the Wystiter See in the northern part of what was then East Prussia , which is now in the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ). The location would be today in the area of the rural community Prigorodnoje (Petrikatschen , 1938-1946 Schützenort) , which belongs to the Nesterow Rajon ( Stallupönen district, Ebenrode district from 1939 to 1945 ).

church

Matzutkehmen (Wellenhausen) with its predominantly Protestant population belonged to the parish of Szittkehmen until 1945 (1936–1938 Schittkehmen , 1938–1946 fortified churches , today Polish: Żytkiejmy) in the parish of Goldap (Polish: Gołdap) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Place name

Earlier place names are:

from 1557 Maschutkeinen
from 1565 Masutkiem
from 1589 Massutkemen
from 1740 matzudkehmen
from 1785 Matzutschen
from 1905 Matzuttkehmen
until July 15, 1938 Matzutkehmen
from July 16, 1938 in Wellenhausen

Individual evidence

↑ Topographic map 1:25 000 (table sheet) from Kornberg 1944 http://amzpbig.com/maps/15102_Kornberg_1944.jpg ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
^ ^A ^b D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005)
^ Rolf Jehke, Kornberg district
^ New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state, by Leopold and Muetzell Krug (Alexander August), Alexander August Mützell at Google Books [1]

[topo15102-1] Topographic map 1:25 000 (table sheet) from Kornberg 1944 http://amzpbig.com/maps/15102_Kornberg_1944.jpg ( Memento from January 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )

[Lange-2] A ^b D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005)

[3] Rolf Jehke, Kornberg district

[4] New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state, by Leopold and Muetzell Krug (Alexander August), Alexander August Mützell at Google Books [1]