Irkutskoye (Kaliningrad)

settlement Irkutskoje Plöstwehnen Иркутское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Zelenogradsk Founded 1325 Earlier names Plastwin (around 1539), Plastweyn (around 1542), Plastwein (around 1565), Plöstwhnen (before 1912), Plöstwehnen (until 1946) population 10 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40150 Post Code 238300 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 215 804 010 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 55 '  N , 20 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 55 '20 "  N , 20 ° 36' 57"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Irkutskoje ( Russian Иркутское , German  Plöstwehnen ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .

Geographical location

Irkutskoje is located in the northeast of the Zelenogradsk Raion , 24 kilometers from Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) . The place can be reached via a spur road that branches off at Novoselskoje (Willkeim) from a side road that connects Nekrassowo (Liska-Schaaken) with Sosnowka (Bledau) southeast of the district town of Zelenogradsk (Cranz) . There is no train connection.

history

The founding year of the village, known as Plöstwehnen until 1946, is 1325.

In 1874 Plöstwehnen was incorporated into the newly established district of Lobitten (today in Russian: Lugowskoje). Until 1939 it belonged to the district of Königsberg (Prussia) , from 1939 to 1945 to the district of Samland in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . On December 1, 1910, the village had 60 inhabitants.

On October 1, 1934, the rural community of Plöstwehnen and the neighboring towns of Stombeck (Russian: Rybnoje, no longer existent) and Willkeim were merged to form the new rural community Willkeim.

As a result of the Second World War , Plöstwehnen came to the Soviet Union due to its location in northeast Prussia . The place received the Russian name "Irkutskoje" again in 1950 and was at the same time classified in the village soviet Novoselski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . Later the place came to the Muromski selski Sowet in Zelenogradsk Raion . From 2005 to 2015 Irkutskoye belonged to the rural municipality of Kovrovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.

church

The residents of Plöstwehnens were predominantly Protestant until 1945 and parish in the parish of Powunden (today Russian: Chrabrowo ). It belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land II within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Irkutskoje lies in the catchment area of ​​two Evangelical Lutheran congregations that were newly established in the 1990s: Marschalskoje (Gallgarben) and Zelenogradsk (Cranz) . They are branches of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Irkutskoye 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: Plöstwehnen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Lobitten district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Königsberg
5. ↑ 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)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )