Orechowo (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk)

settlement Orechowo Neu Löbkojen (Neulepkau) Орехово Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk Founded 1832 Earlier names Neu Löbkoyen (after 1871), Neu Lebkojen (after 1898), Neu Löbkojen (until 1938), Neulepkau (1938–1946) population 2 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238176 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 813 012 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 43 '  N , 21 ° 28'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 43 '16 "  N , 21 ° 28' 24"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Orechowo ( Russian Орехово , German  Neu Löbkoyen , 1938–1945 Neulepkau , Lithuanian Liepkojai ) is a very small town in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district . The place Orechowo is today, however, at the Alt Löbkoyen / Altlepkau location, while the Neu Löbkoyen / Neulepkau location is abandoned.

Geographical location

Orechowo is located 20 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Snamensk (Wehlau) on a road that leads from Dalneje (Groß Schirrau) on the Russian trunk road A 216 (former German Reichsstrasse 138 , today also European route 77 ) to here. There is no train connection.

history

The establishment date to 1938 New Löbkojen , then to 1946 Neulepkau is mentioned village in 1832. As a residential place the community Lapischken (1938-1946 Fox Hill , Russian: Dubrowskoje, no longer in existence) of the small place to belong District United Schirrau (now Russian: Dalneje) in the district of Wehlau and the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3, 1938, Neu Löbkojen was renamed "Neulepkau" for political and ideological reasons.

As a result of the Second World War , Neu Löbkojen / Neulepkau came with northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union in 1945 and was given the Russian name Orechowo in 1950. At the same time, the place was incorporated into the village soviet Kamenski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk Raion . From 2008 to 2015 Orechowo belonged to the rural municipality of Kamenskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Chernyakhovsk.

church

The population of Neu Löbkojens resp. Until 1945, Neulepkaus was predominantly of the Protestant denomination and belonged to the Church of Groß Schirrau (today Russian: Dalneje) in the church district of Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Orechowo is located in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Talpaki (Taplacken) , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

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): Neulepkau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Groß Schirrau district
4. ↑ 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)
5. ↑ 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. 

Web links

• Orechowo at bankgorodov.ru
• Orechowo at prussia39.ru
• Picture gallery Lapischken / Fuchshügel and Neu Löbkojen / Neulepkau (until 1945)
• Picture gallery (as above, after 1945)