Nagornoje (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk)
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Nagornoje
Geswethen (Landwehr) Нагорное
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Nagornoje ( Russian Нагорное , German Geswethen , 1938–1945 Landwehr (Ostpr.) , Lithuanian Gesviečiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .
Geographical location
Nagornoje is located six kilometers northeast of the city of Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) on the municipal road 27K-175 from Majowka (Georgenburg) via Pridoroschnoje (Seßlacken) to Uljanowo (Kraupischken / Breitenstein) . The place used to be a train station on the Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk railway line (Insterburg – Tilsit) .
history
The small village once called Gesswethenn was founded in 1615. In 1874 it was in the newly built office district Szieleitschen (1936-1946: no longer Schieleitschen today existent) incorporated, which the district Insterburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In 1910 there were 113 inhabitants registered in Geswethen.
On September 30, 1928, the Szieleitschen manor was incorporated into the Geswethen rural community, and the Szieleitschen district was renamed "Geswethen District" on February 1, 1930. The population rose to 167 by 1933 and was already 178 in 1939. On June 3, 1938, Geswethen was given the new name "Landwehr (Ostpr.)" On September 13, 1938 for political and ideological reasons the corresponding renaming of the district followed.
In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union due to its location in northern East Prussia . In 1947 he was given the Russian name "Nagornoje" and was assigned to the Kaluschski selski Sowet in the Chernyakhovsk Rajon at the same time . 1954 came the place in the Majowski selski soviet . Since 1997 Nagornoje has belonged to the Kaluschski selski okrug village district. From 2008 to 2015 the place belonged to the rural municipality Kalushskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Chernyakhovsk.
District of Geswethen (Landwehr) 1930–1945
When the Szieleitschen district was renamed "Geswethen district" on February 1, 1930, five municipalities were assigned to it:
| Surname | Change of name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swethed | Landwehr | Nagornoje | |
| Gillischken | Insight | Prirechnoye | |
| Pagelien | Perelesnoye | ||
| Roßthal | Krugloje | ||
| Tarputsches | Tarps | Bryanskoye | 1939 incorporated into the municipality of Insterblick |
On January 1, 1945, only the four communities of Insterblick, Landwehr, Pagelienen and Roßthal belonged to the administrative district, which was then called the “Landwehr District (Ostpr.)”.
cenotaph
Not far from Nagornoje, on the site of the extinct village of Szieleitschen, there is a memorial dedicated to the Russian Field Marshal and Minister of War Michael Andreas Barclay de Tolly (1761-1818). It was in 1821 on the initiative of King Friedrich Wilhelm III. built. On a bronze plaque on the cast iron obelisk is documented in German and Russian: The noble general who paved the way of honor through courage and bravery in many battles and who in the war to liberate the peoples in the years 1813, 1814 and 1815 as leader of allied armies in glorious battles .
church
The population of Geswethens resp. Before 1945, Landwehrs was almost exclusively of the Protestant denomination. The village was parish in the parish of the church Georgenburg (today Russian: Majowka ) and thus belonged to the church district Insterburg in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Nagornoje is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) , which was newly established in the 1990s . It is the parish of the Chernyakhovsk church region in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
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)
- ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Landwehr (Ostpr.)
- ^ Rolf Jehke, District Szieleitschen / Geswethen / Landwehr (Ostpr.)
- ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Insterburg district
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Insterburg (Russian Chernyachovsk). (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)
- ^ Rolf Jehke, District Szieleitschen / Gestwethen / Landwehr (Ostpr.) - as above
- ↑ Памятник Барклаю де Толли в Нагорном Barclay de Tollys monument in Nagornoje - with pictures
- ^ Nagornoje - Geswethen / Landwehr (Ostpr.) / Szieleitschen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
