Pokrovskoye (Kaliningrad, Gusew)

settlement Pokrowskoje I. Bibehlen (Falkenhausen) II. Waiwern (Seilhofen) Покровское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gusew Earlier names I. Povillen, Bibehlischken (1590), Biebehlen (after 1590), Bibellen (1710), Biebellen (after 1711), Powielen (around 1839), Bibehlen (until 1938), Falkenhausen (1938–1946); II. Waywern (before 1554), Schilluppe (after 1555), Schillupönen (around 1615), Woiwern (before 1667), Weibern (before 1713), Waiwern (after 1818), Weywern (around 1839), Waiwern (until 1938), Seilhofen (1938–1946), Nowosselje (before 2005) population 131 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40143 Post Code 238043 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 212 816 006 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 39 '  N , 22 ° 9'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 38 '45 "  N , 22 ° 9' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Pokrowskoje ( Russian Покровское , German  Bibehlen , 1938 to 1945 Falkenhausen , as well as: Waiwern , 1938 to 1945 Seilhofen (Ostpr.) , Lithuanian Bibeliai , as well as: Vaivorai ) is a place in Gussew Rajon in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . The place belongs to the municipal self-government unit city district Gusew . The Waiwern / Seilhofen branch has been abandoned.

Geographical location

Pokrovskoje is seven kilometers northwest of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on a side road (27K-152) that goes from Otschakowo (Groß Kannapinnen , 1938 to 1946 Steinsruh) on the Russian trunk road A 198 (27A-040, former German Reichsstraße 132 ) to Priosjornoje (Gerwischkehmen , 1938 to 1946 Gerwen) leads. The next train station is Gussew on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway , for onward travel to Moscow .

history

Bibehlen / Falkenhausen

The part of today's settlement Pokrovskoje to the west is a small village that already existed at the beginning of the 16th century. Between 1874 and 1945 it belonged to the administrative district of Gerwischkehmen , which - renamed in 1939 to “District Gerwen” - belonged to the district of Gumbinnen in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 146 inhabitants were registered in Bibehlen. Their number decreased to 125 by 1933 and was 129 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938, Bibehlen was renamed “Falkenhausen” for political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names. The official confirmation of this renaming took place on July 16, 1938.

As a result of the war, the village came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 .

Waiwern / Seilhofen (Nowosselje)

Before 1945 the place consisted of several small farms and farms. In 1874 the village came to the newly established Stannaitschen district , which was renamed "Zweilinden district" in 1939 and belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945 .

The population of Waiwern was 134 in 1910 and decreased to 112 by 1933 and 94 by 1939.

The place name Waiwerns was changed in 1938 to "Seilhofen (Ostpr.)". In 1945 this village was also transferred to the Soviet Union and renamed Novosselje in 1947.

Pokrovskoye

In 1947 Bibehlen was renamed Pokrovskoje and at the same time the seat of a village soviet in Gusew Rajon . Before 1976, the place Novosselje was attached to Pokrovskoje, but this district was later abandoned. From 2008 to 2013 Pokrovskoye belonged to the rural municipality of Mikhailovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gusew.

Pokrowski selski Sowet / okrug 1947–2008

The village soviet Pokrowski selski Sowet (ru. Покровский сельский Совет) was established in June 1947. Its administrative seat was initially the place Pokrovskoje. In 1954, the Krasnopolski selski Sowet was connected to the Pokrowski selski Sowet. Before 1968 its administrative headquarters were moved to Priosjornoje . Since before 1975, the administrative headquarters were then in Michailowo . After the collapse of the Soviet Union , the administrative unit existed as the village district Pokrowski selski okrug (ru. Покровский сельский округ). In 2008 the remaining places in the village district were incorporated into the newly formed rural community Michailowskoje selskoje posselenije.

Place name	Name until 1947/50	Remarks
Bugry (Бугры)	Laugallen, 1938–1945: "Heubude"	The place was renamed in 1947 and initially belonged to the Krasnopolski village soviet. It was abandoned before 1975.
Ivaschewka (Ивашевка)	Wallehlischken, 1938–1945: "Hagelsberg"	The place was renamed in 1947 and connected to Michailowo before 1975.
Ekaterinovka (Екатериновка)	Frocks	The place was renamed in 1947 and abandoned before 1975.
Jelowoje (Еловое)	Kasenowsken, 1935–1945: "Tannsee"	The place was renamed in 1947 and initially belonged to the Krasnopolski village soviet.
Kaspijskoje (Каспийское)	at Wilpischen, since 1928: at Eichenfeld	The place was renamed in 1950 and was initially classified in the Maiski Village Soviet .
Krasnopolje (Краснополье)	Pötschkehmen, 1934–1945: "Pötschwalde"	The place was renamed in 1947 and was initially the administrative seat of the village soviet Krasnopolski.
Mikhailovo (Михайлово)	Eszerningken / Escherningken, 1938–1945: "Neupassau"	The place was renamed in 1947 and had been the administrative center since before 1975.
Novosselje (Новоселье)	Waiwern, 1935–1945: "Seilhofen (Ostpr.)"	The place was renamed in 1947 and connected to Pokrovskoje before 1975.
Pokrovskoje (Покровское)	Bibehlen, 1938–1945: "Falkenhausen"	The administrative headquarters until before 1968.
Prigorskoye (Пригорское)	Pötschkehmen [Gut], since 1920: Wilhelmsberg	The place was renamed in 1947 and initially belonged to the Krasnopolski village soviet. Before 1975 it was attached to Krasnopolje.
Priosjornoje (Приозёрное)	Gerwischkehmen [village], 1938–1945: "Gerwen"	The place was renamed in 1947 and initially belonged to the Krasnopolski village soviet. It was the administrative seat from before 1968 until 1975.

church

Before 1945 the population of Bibehlen resp. Falkenhausens and Waiwerns resp. Seilhofen almost without exception Protestant denomination. Both places were parish in different parishes : while Bibehlen / Falkenhausen belonged to the Gerwischkehmen church, Waiwern / Seilhofen was assigned to the old town church in Gumbinnen . Both parishes, however, were part of the same church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Pokrowskoje is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation that was newly established in the 1990s at the Salzburg church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) . It is part of the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

school

The children of Bibehlen / Falkenhausen and Waiwern / Seilhofen were taught at different schools. While there was a single-class elementary school in Waiwern, which was built before 1914 and an extension was added in 1932, the students of Bibehlen attended the school in the neighboring village of Wallehlischken (1938 to 1946: Hagelsberg).

Web links

• Pokrovskoye at bankgorodov.ru
• Pokrovskoye at prussia39.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. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Falkenhausen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district of Gerwischkehmen / Gerwen
4. ↑ ^{a b} Uli Schubert, municipality directory, Gumbinnen district
5. ↑ ^{a b} 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. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Seilhofen (Ostpr.)
7. ↑ Rolf Jehke, Stannaitschen / Zweilinden district
8. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Decree of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of November 17, 1947 “On the Renaming of Settlements in Kaliningrad Oblast”)
9. ↑ ^{a b} The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 июня 1947 г. "Об образовании сельских советов, городов и рабочих поселков в Калининградской области" (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 17 June 1947: On the Formation of village Soviets , Cities and workers' settlements in Kaliningrad Oblast)
10. ↑ According to the list of places in Kaliningrad Oblast from 1976.
11. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 16 июня 1954 г. № 744/54 «Об объединении сельских советов Калининградской области» (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of June 16, 1954, No. 744/54: About the Kalovradet Oblast Association)
12. ^ Heinz Hinkel: The administrative structure in the Soviet-occupied northern East Prussia. As of August 16, 1967, in “Zeitschrift für Ostforschung” (1969), pp. 54–76
13. ↑ According to the Административно-территориальное деление Калининградской области 1975 (The administrative-territorial division of the Kaliningrad 1975 published by Soviet the Kaliningrad) on http://www.soldat.ru/ (rar file). On a map from 1972 Priosjornoje is still marked as the administrative center.
14. ↑ 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.