Okunjowo (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk)

settlement Okunjowo Kekorischken (Auerbach) Окунёво Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk Founded 1st half of the 17th century Earlier names Kekurischken (after 1820), Kekorischken (until 1938), Auerbach (1938–1946) population 22 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238176 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 813 013 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 42 ′  N , 21 ° 29 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 40 "  N , 21 ° 28 ′ 35"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Okunjowo ( Russian Окунёво , German  Kekorischken , 1938–1945 Auerbach, Wehlau district , Lithuanian Kekoriškiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

Geographical location

Okunjowo is located on the east bank of the river Auer (Russian: Torfjanka) about 23 kilometers northwest of the Rajon town of Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) . The municipal road 27K-226 leads through the place from Krasnooktjabrskoje (Groß Ponnau) to Dalneje (Groß Schirrau) on the federal road A216 (former German Reichsstraße 138 , now also European road 77 ). There is no train connection.

history

Kekorischken was founded in the first half of the 17th century. In 1874 the place was incorporated into the administrative district Plibischken (today Russian: Gluschkowo). He belonged to the district of Wehlau in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1938 the site was for political and ideological reasons, "Auerbach (county Wehlau)" renamed .

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 he received the Russian name "Okunjowo" and was assigned at the same time to the village Soviet Kamenski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk district . From 2008 to 2015 Okunjowo belonged to the rural municipality of Kamenskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Chernyakhovsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	183
1933	165
1939	157
2002	17th
2010	22nd

church

With its mostly Protestant inhabitants, Kekorischken resp. Auerbach parish until 1945 in the parish of the church Plibischken (today in Russian: Gluschkowo) and thus belonged to the church district Wehlau (Snamensk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Okunjowo is in the catchment area of ​​the evangelical-Lutheran congregation Talpaki (Taplacken) , a subsidiary congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church European Russia .

Web links

• Okunjowo at bankgorodov.ru
• Okunjowo at prussia39.ru
• Image gallery Kekorischken / Auerbach (before 1945)
• Picture gallery Okunjowo, Kekorischken / Auerbach (after 1945)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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)
2. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Auerbach (Wehlau district)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Plibischken district
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ census data
6. ↑ 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.