Olkhovoye

settlement Olchowoje Korwingen Ольховое Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Founded 1407 Earlier names Carwingen (after 1407), Corwinge (after 1563), Corwingen (around 1900), Korwingen (until 1946) population 118 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40150 Post Code 238554 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 215 816 013 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 52 '  N , 20 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 51 '47 "  N , 20 ° 8' 55"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Olchowoje ( Russian Ольховое , German  Korwingen ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .

Geographical location

Olchowoje is located 26 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) and about nine kilometers south of Swetlogorsk (Rauschen) on the municipal road 27K-333 from Gratschowka (Craam) to the municipal road 27K-228 near Listopadowka (Bärholz) . There is no train connection.

history

Gutsdorf, known as Korwingen until 1946 , was founded in 1407. In 1874, it becomes part of the newly built office district cherry Appen (now Russian: Druzhba) in the district Fischhausen in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia . On November 8, 1894, the previous Korwingen estate was transformed into the Korwingen estate district . 66 inhabitants were registered here in 1910.

On September 30, 1928 Korwingen gave up its independence and merged with the neighboring towns of Lopsienen (today Russian: Rogatschowo), Mossycken (Russian also: Rogatschowo, but no longer exists) and Syndau (Wodnoje) to form the new rural community of Syndau. This belonged to the administrative district of Sankt Lorenz , which joined the Samland district in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , Korwingen and northern East Prussia became part of the Soviet Union in 1945 . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Olchowoje and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Shatrowski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . From 2005 to 2015 Olkhovoye belonged to the rural municipality of Krasnotorovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.

church

With its almost exclusively Protestant population before 1945 , Korwingen belonged to the parish of the parish church in Thierenberg (Russian: Dunajewka, no longer exists today) in the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Olchowoje is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Sons and daughters of the place

• Dietrich H. Bodenstein (1908–1984), biologist

Web links

• Olkhovoye on bankgorodov.ru

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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Korwingen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kirschappen / Weidehnen district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
5. ^ Rolf Jehke, St. Lorenz District
6. ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
7. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )