Olchowatka (Kaliningrad)

settlement Olchowatka / Walterkehmen (Großwaltersdorf) Ольховатка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gusew Founded around 1554 Earlier names Walterkiem, Walterkeim (around 1557), Walterkem (around 1590), Walterkehmen (until 1938), Großwaltersdorf (1938–1946) population 520 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40143 Post Code 238031 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 212 807 005 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 30 ′  N , 22 ° 17 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 ′ 9 ″  N , 22 ° 17 ′ 19 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Olchowatka ( Russian Ольховатка , German  Walterkehmen , 1938 to 1946 Großwaltersdorf , Lithuanian Valterkiemis ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Gussewski gorodskoi okrug (Gussew (Gumbinnen) district ).

Geographical location

Olchowatka is located on the Rominte (Russian: Krasnaja), twelve kilometers southeast of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) . The regional road 27A-011 (former German Reichsstrasse 132 ), which connects Gussew with the Polish Gołdap (Goldap) , runs through the village . A side road (27K-327) from Yasnaja Poljana (Trakehnen) or Novostroika ends in the town, as well as an overland connection from Dubrawa (Buylien , 1938 to 1946 Schulzenwalde) . Before 1945 the place was a train station on the Gumbinnen – Goldap railway via Tollmingkehmen (1938 to 1946: Tollmingen, today in Russian: Tschistyje Prudy).

history

The place, founded around 1554 and then called Walterkiem , was a Protestant church village from 1607 . The Vorwerk Emilienhof was integrated. On March 18, 1874, the place was Amtsdorf and thus eponymous for an administrative district . It existed until 1945 - renamed the "Großwaltersdorf District" in 1939 - and belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

Walterkehmen had 386 inhabitants in 1910. It increased on September 30, 1928, when the Klein Tellitzkehmen manor district (1938 to 1946: Klei Tellrode, no longer existent today) was incorporated. The population was 502 in 1933 and 478 in 1939.

On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938 Walterkehmen was renamed "Großwaltersdorf". The reason was the political and ideological defense against foreign-sounding place names. In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with the whole of northern East Prussia . In 1946 the place received the Russian name "Olchowatka" and was assigned to the Lipowski selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Lipowo (Kulligkehmen , 1938 to 1946 Ohldorf) ) in the newly formed Gussew Rajon ( Gumbinnen district ). Due to a comprehensive structural and administrative reform, Olchowatka was classified as a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) in 2008/09 in the network of the newly created Kalininskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Kalininskoje (Augstupönen , 1938 to 1946 high flow) ), which in 2013 in the Gussewski gorodskoi okrug (Gussew district) rose. Currently (as of October 14, 2010) Olchowatka has 520 inhabitants.

Walterkehmen district (Großwaltersdorf), 1874–1945

When it was established, eleven communities belonged to the Walterkehmen district (1939 to 1945: Großwaltersdorf district), and at the end of the day nine communities:

Place name	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name	Remarks
Great Tellitzkehmen	Tellrode	Olchowatka
Jock		Kirpichnoye	1928 incorporated into Schestocken
Jodszen 1936–38: Jodschen	Schwarzenau (East Pr.)	Dworiki
Klein Tellitzkehmen	Klein Tellrode		1928 incorporated into Walterkehmen
Matzutkehmen	Matzhausen	Rechitsa
Pillkallen	Hoheneck	Tolstovo
Praßlauken	Praßfeld	Muravyovo
Rödszen 1936–38: Rödschen	Röden	Gajewo
Sample leak	Brückental (East Pr.)
Schestocks	Peterstal	Shipownikovo
Walterkehmen	Großwaltersdorf	Olchowatka

On January 1, 1945, only the municipalities of Brückental, Großwaltersdorf, Hoheneck, Matzhausen, Peterstal, Praßfeld, Röden, Schwarzenau and Tellrode formed the district.

church

→ Main article : Walterkehmen Church

Church building

The Walterkehmen Church is a building erected in 1717 and destroyed in the Battle of Gumbinnen in 1914 , which was rebuilt in 1925/26. After being damaged in the Second World War , it was no longer used for church services, but was used as a compound feed storage hall with the necessary modifications.

Parish

The Protestant parish Walterkehmen was founded in 1607 and before 1945 belonged to the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had 4,600 parishioners who lived in more than thirty parish places.

Flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the subsequent restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union brought church life in Olchowatka to a standstill. Today the place is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Dubrawa (Buylien , 1938 to 1945 Schulzenwalde) , which was newly established in the 1990s, within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

school

Before 1945 three teachers taught at a three-class elementary school in Walterkehmen. The school building was rebuilt in 1914.

personality

Connected to the place

• Johannes Blaskowitz (1883–1948), German army officer, attended the primary school in Walterkehmen between 1889 and 1897 as the son of the local pastor

Web links

• Olchowatka at bankgorodov.ru
• Olchowatka at prussia39.ru
• Dr. Grenz, Groß-Waltersdorf (Walterkehmen)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Großwaltersdorf
3. ^ ^{A b} Rolf Jehke, District Walterkehmen / Großwaltersdorf
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Gumbinnen district
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gumbinnen district (Russian Gussew). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1st, 2009
7. ↑ According to Law No. 230 of May 29, 2013
8. ^ Church and Gasthaus Walterkehmen, historical photo
9. ↑ Photos of the church building from 2012
10. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 480
11. ↑ 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.