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Morskoje ( Russian Морско́е , about "sea village ", German Pillkoppen , Lithuanian Pilkopa ) is a village in the Zelenogradsk Rajon of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast and belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Zelenogradsk district . It is located on the Curonian Spit and is the last place on the Russian side, about five kilometers from the Lithuanian border.
history
The founding of Pillkoppen can be traced back to the construction of the wooden castle and chapel Neuhaus by the Teutonic Order in 1283. However, a Sami settlement probably existed at the same place before. Until the beginning of the 18th century the place was called Neustadt . Only then was the old name Pilkopa or Pillkoppen used again for today's place , which means castle hill . The original Neustadt settlement is probably two kilometers southwest under a dune. From 1728 to 1839 there were even two settlement areas in parallel. Threatened by shifting dunes, the residents of Alt-Pillkoppen founded Neu-Pillkoppen. When the shifting dune reached Neu-Pillkoppen, the place was rebuilt on the old settlement site.
Most of the residents managed to escape before the Red Army occupied the Curonian Spit and thus Pillkoppen in January 1945 .
With the affiliation to the RSFSR , the place name was changed to Morskoje . Since the 1990s, Morskoye has increasingly been the location of holiday homes and dachas.
Political Affiliation
Until 1939 the village of Pillkoppen belonged to the Fischhausen district (today Primorsk ); from 1939 to 1945 the district of Samland , which was formed on April 1, 1939 from the two districts of Fischhausen and Königsberg-Land.
Due to its membership of the Soviet Union from 1945, the village, now called Morskoye, came to the newly formed Primorsk Raion in the Kaliningrad Oblast . Since 1947 the place was administered by the settlement Soviet or the settlement administration of Rybachi . From 2000 to 2005 the place was possibly part of a village district administered from Lesnoi . From 2005 to 2015 Morskoye belonged to the rural municipality of Curonian Spit, administered from Rybatschi. Since then, the place has belonged to the Zelenogradsk district.
Population development
| year | Residents |
|---|---|
| 1910 | 228 |
| 1933 | 301 |
| 1939 | 301 |
| 2002 | 143 |
| 2010 | 126 |
church
The majority Protestant population of Pillkoppen was parish until 1945 in the parish Rossitten (today Russian: Rybatschi), which belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land II in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Ortwin Schack .
Today Morskoye lies in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) , which was newly established in the 1990s . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
The Russian Orthodox Church closest to Morskoye today is the Sergius Church in Rybatschi (Rossitten) within the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk of the Russian Orthodox Church in Russia .
Attractions
- Ephas height
- Swan Lake
There are only a few old houses in the village, the " Datschen " built since 1990 are regularly built in the German style. The place is not visited by day trippers due to its remoteness; the Baltic Sea beach (about one kilometer away) is not very popular, even in summer.
Trivia
In the spring of 1939, the location was, among other things, the setting for the film Die Reise nach Tilsit . Numerous outdoor shoots were completed here, which resulted in a small cinematic monument to the former East Prussian Pillkoppen.
literature
- O. Jessen: Village and dunes of Pillkoppen on the Curonian Spit . Communications of the Geographical Society of Rostock, Supplements, No. 8 (1937)
- AD Beljaewa, VL Beljaewa: Look into the past of the Curonian Spit. KGT, Kaliningrad 2004, ISBN 5-87869-121-3
- National Park Administration (ed.): Kuršių Nerija National Park / National Park "Kurschkaja Kosa". Places of Interest on the Curonian Spit , Klaipeda 2003
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)
- ↑ census data
