Nagornoje (Kaliningrad, Nesterow)

Lost place Nagornoje / Wilpischen (Wilpen) Нагорное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Nesterow Earlier names Grumblaucken (before 1785), Wilpischken (after 1785), Wilpischen (until 1938), Wilpen (1938–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 '  N , 22 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 40 '36 "  N , 22 ° 32' 53"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Nagornoje ( Russian Нагорное , German  Wilpischen , 1938 to 1945 Wilpen , Lithuanian Vilpišiai ) was a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and in the former East Prussia . The orphaned local authority is in the area of ​​the rural municipality Prigorodnoye selskoje posselenije in Nesterow district .

Geographical location

Nagornoje was five kilometers north of the city of Nesterow (Stallupönen , 1938 to 1946 Ebenrode) on the Russian regional road R 510 (27A-012). Nesterow was the next station on the railway line of the former Prussian Eastern Railway between Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and Tschernyschewskoje (Eydtkuhnen , 1938 to 1946 Eydtkau) .

history

The small village called Grumblaucken before 1785 consisted of several small farms and farmsteads before 1945. In 1874 the place was incorporated into the newly established Drusken district (Russian: Bolschoje Saretschnoje, no longer existent), which existed until 1945 and became the Stallupönen district - renamed "Ebenrode district" between 1939 and 1945 - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 102 inhabitants registered in Wilpischen. Their number rose to 123 by 1933 and was 112 in 1939.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938, Wilpischen was renamed "Wilpen" for political and ideological reasons to defend against foreign-sounding place names. In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with all of northern East Prussia and in 1946 was given the Russian name “Nagornoje”. In 1947 the village was incorporated into the newly formed Prigorodny selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Prigorodnoje (Petrikatschen , 1938 to 1946 Schützenort) ), which was assigned to the Nesterow Rajon ( Stallupönen district , 1938 to 1946 Ebenrode) . The place was only populated for a short time and was then abandoned.

church

The majority Protestant population was parish up to 1945 in the parish of the church Stallupönen / Ebenrode and thus belonged to the church district Stallupönen / Ebenrode in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The numerically few Catholics belonged to the parish of the far away parish church of St. Nikolaus in Sturmhübel (today Polish: Grzęda) in the deanery Rößel (Reszel), which was part of the diocese of Warmia .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wilpen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Drusken District
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Stallupönen district
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Stallupönen / Ebenrode. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).