Matzutkehmen (Gumbinnen district)

Lost place Retschiza / Matzutkehmen, 1938–1946 Matzhausen Речица Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Nesterow Earlier names Matzutkiem (after 1439), Matzutkeimen (after 1542), Mazukemen (after 1593), Maziutkiem (after 1603), Matzutkehmen (until 1938), Matzhausen (1938–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 27 '  N , 22 ° 19'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '10 "  N , 22 ° 19' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Matzutkehmen , 1938–1946 Matzhausen ( Russian Речица , Lithuanian Mažutkiemis ) was a place in the East Prussian district of Gumbinnen , which from 1946 onwards became part of the Nesterow district ( Stallupönen district , 1938–1946 Ebenrode ) in the Russian Kaliningrad region ( Königsberg region (Prussia ) ) was assigned.

Geographical location

Matzutkehmen with its two road bridges over the Rominte river (Russian: Krasnaja) was 17 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Gumbinnen (Russian: Gussew) and was on the connecting road between Tollmingkehmen (1938–1946 Tollmingen , Russian: Tschistyje Prudy) and the main road Gumbinnen– Goldap (now Polish: Gołdap) in a northerly direction. Until 1945, Meldienen (1938–1946 Gnadenheim , now defunct ) was the next train station on the now no longer existing railway line from Gumbinnen via Tollmingkehmen and Szittkehmen (1936–1938 Schitttkehmen , 1938–1946 Wehrkirchen , Russian: Saslonowo, Polish: Żytkiejmy) after Goldap.

history

The village called Matzutkehmen or Matzhausen until 1946 was incorporated into the then newly created district of Walterkehmen (1938–1946 Großwaltersdorf , Russian: Olchowatka) in 1874 with another ten places and was assigned to it until 1945. The Walterkehmen district belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Matzutkehmen had 405 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 289 and in 1939 283.

On June 3, 1938 (with official confirmation from July 16, 1938) Matzutkehmen was renamed "Matzhausen" for political and ideological reasons. The Walterkehmen district was also renamed "Großwaltersdorf district" a year later. As a result of the war, Matzhausen came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 and in 1946 was given the Russian name “Retschiza”. A year later the place was assigned to the newly formed Rajon Nesterow ( Stallupönen district , 1938-1946 Ebenrode ) and incorporated into the Tschistoprudnenski selski soviet , Dorfsovjet Tschistyje Prudy (Tollmingkehmen , 1938-1946 Tollmingen ). The place was only inhabited for a short time, then it was abandoned and its trace is lost.

church

With its predominantly Protestant population, Matzutkehmen resp. Matzhausen until 1945 in the parish of the church Walterkehmen (1938-1946 Großwaltersdorf , today in Russian: Olchowatka), which belonged to the church district Gumbinnen (today in Russian: Gussew) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Web links

• Matzhausen (Matzutkehmen)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange: Geographical Register of Places East Prussia: Matzhausen (2005)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke: Großwaltersdorf district
3. ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Gumbinnen district
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gumbinnen district (Russian Gussew). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume III: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 480