Peskowo (Kaliningrad)

Lost place Peskowo / Groß Schönau Песково Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Pravdinsk Earlier names Groß Schönau (until 1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 21 '  N , 21 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 21 '0 "  N , 21 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Peskowo ( Russian Песково , German Groß Schönau ) is a submerged place and last belonged to the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) to the area of ​​today's Pravdinskoje gorodskoje posselenije (municipality Prawdinsk (Friedland (Ostpre,) )) in Prawdinsk district Friedland ).

Geographical location

Peskowo was 17 kilometers west of the former district town of Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) and 1 kilometer east of the Alle (Russian: Lawa). From Prawdinsk (Friedland) a side road led south via Kostjukowka (Heyde) and Bytschkowo (Kaydann) to the later Russian-Polish border area with the end point Peskowo, where the road ran, before 1945, however, to Stablack (today Polish: Stabławki) led.

history

The place formerly called Groß Schönau went back in its beginnings to the 14th century. In 1874 Großschönau was in the newly built office district Lindenau in district Gerdauen in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia incorporated.

In 1910 the rural community Groß Schönau had 416 inhabitants. On September 30, 1928, the municipal area expanded to include the manor districts Stablack (now Polish: Stabławki) and Silginnen (Silginy). In 1933 there were 435 inhabitants in the community of Groß Schönau, compared to 387 in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , Groß Schönau came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia and was located on the immediate border with Poland . After 1945, the place that was given the Russian name "Peskowo" was still inhabited, but was then abandoned and before 1992 abandoned . Until 2009, Peskowo was part of the Sevski soviet (Dorfsovjet Sevskoje (Böttchersdorf) ) and would today be assigned to the Pravdinskoje gorodskoje posselenije (municipality of Prawdinsk (Friedland) ) in Pravdinsk district .

church

Church building

A church was built in Groß Schönau as early as the 14th century (around 1360). It was destroyed by fire on May 9, 1835, which also destroyed numerous houses in the village. A new church was built on the foundations of the medieval church by 1837. It survived the war relatively well, but was then left to decay - probably also because of the town's border location. Today only the ruins of the tower and parts of the outer walls of the nave remain.

Parish

Groß Schönau was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation found its way early on, and Groß Schönau and the parish of Lindenau (now in Polish: Lipica) formed a common parish . The parish seat, however, was Groß Schönau. It belonged to the church district Gerdauen (today Russian: Schelesnodoroschny) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Parish places

Despite two churches, the parish of Groß Schönau-Lindenau was relatively small. Five places belonged to it, which today - as far as they still exist - are located on Russian and Polish territory: Groß Schönau (Peskowo / RUS), Hartels (PL), Kaydann (Bytschkowo / RUS), Lindenau (Lipica / PL) and Stablack (Stabławki / PL).

Pastor (until 1945)

In the parish of Groß Schönau-Lindenau with a parish seat in Groß Schönau, the following officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945:

Valentin Wilkdemannsdorf, 1527 Johann Holtze, 1535 Caspar Scheibichen, 1549–1579 Matthäus Marquardt, 1579–1610 Justus Grube, 1610-1625 Caspar Grube, 1625–1654 Laurentius Christiani, 1654–1677 Michael Geisler, 1677-1711 Johann Friedrich Stoltzenberg, 1704–1709 Theodor Pfeiffer, 1729–1782 Carl Friedrich Kriese, 1779–1780 Carl Friedrich Koerber, 1781–1787 Justus Wilhelm Schleswig, 1788–1823

Christian Grünhayd, 1823-1840 Gustav Ludwig Reichenbach, 1841–1864 Karl Jeremias Heinersdorff , 1864–1877 Emil Rudolf W. Rousselle, 1877–1884 Johann Otto Chr. Meissner 1885–1894 Reinhold Theophil Dembowski, 1894-1914 Wilhelm August Woelk, 1914–1925 Hans Jakobsen, 1925–1929 Johann Heider, 1933–1934 Reinhold Lassek, 1935–1937 Otto Rosentreter, 1938–1939 Wolfram Eduard Ottom. Maass, 1939-1943 Walter Kallwitz, 1943–1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Location information-picture archive East Prussia: Groß Schönau
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Lindenau district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Gerdauen
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ Pictures (1–5) of the destroyed church in Groß Schönau  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
6. ^ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 47