Medvedevo (Kaliningrad)
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Medvedevo
Norgau Медведево
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Medwedewo ( Russian Медведево , German Norgau ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .
Geographical location
Medvedevo is located 27 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) on the municipal road 27K-340, a cul-de-sac branching off the municipal road 27K-138 that runs from Pereslavskoje (Drugehnen) to Kruglowo (Poland) . Until 1945 Norgau was a train station on the Fischhausen – Marienhof railway line , the Fischhausener Kreisbahn , which was not put back into operation after the Second World War.
history
The Noriow field , on which the village of Norgau and the Klein Norgau estate (Russian: Ramenskoje, no longer exists) developed, was first mentioned in 1310. In the valley of the earlier so-called Norgauer little river there is a castle wall , with a circumference of 450 meters one of the largest Old Prussian Fliehburgen the Samland was.
In 1874 the rural community of Norgau with the Gut Klein Norgau was incorporated into the newly established administrative district Thierenberg (Russian: Dunajewka, submerged place). Until 1939 it belonged to the district of Fischhausen , then until 1945 to the district of Samland in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 321 inhabitants were registered in Norgau.
On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Norgau expanded to include the Jouglauken manor district (Russian: Gruschino, no longer existing) from the Gauten district and the Düringswalde manor district (no longer existent). The population climbed to 479 by 1933 and was already 496 in 1939.
In 1945 Norgau came to the Soviet Union within northern East Prussia as a result of the war . In 1947 the place was named Medvedevo and was assigned to the village soviet Logwinski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion at the same time . Later the place came into the Shatrowski selski Sowet . From 2005 to 2015 Medvedevo belonged to the rural municipality of Krasnotorovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.
church
The overwhelming majority of the Norgau population was of Protestant denomination before 1945 and was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Thierenberg (Russian: Dunajewka, no longer existing). It belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Medvedevo is located in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church congregation in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) , which was newly established in the 1990s, in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Personality of the place
- Samuel Echt (1888–1974), Jewish elementary school teacher in Danzig, born in Norgau
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Medwedewo - Norgau at ostpreussen.net
- ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Norgau
- ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Klein Norgau
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Thierenberg District
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Gauten / Godnicken district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Samland district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )