Pokrovskoye (Kaliningrad, Jantarny)

settlement Pokrovskoje Sorgenau Покровское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Urban district Jantarny Earlier names Neuhäuser, Ksp. Palmnicken (around 1785), Sorgenau (until 1946) population 579 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238581 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 420 562 001 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 51 ′  N , 19 ° 58 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 50 ′ 51 ″  N , 19 ° 57 ′ 50 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Prokowskoje ( Russian Проковское , German  Sorgenau ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad in the urban district of Jantarny .

Geographical location

Pokrovskoje is 38 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and two kilometers south of Jantarny (Palmnicken) on a side road that connects Russkoje (Germau ) with Jantarny on regional road 27A-013 (ex A192 ) (municipal roads 27K-367 and 27K- 063). At the time of the Soviet Union, the Prokovskoye-Novoye train station was the starting and destination point for trains to and from Kaliningrad on the Kaliningrad – Zelenogradsk – Primorsk line , which is no longer operated in this area.

history

The until 1946 Sorgenau village called was in the newly built 1,874 District Palvininkai (Russian Today: Jantarny) incorporated, which existed until 1945 and for district Fischhausen , 1939-1945 for the district Samland in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. On April 1, 1939, Sorgenau lost its independence and was incorporated into Palmnicken together with the neighboring village of Lesnicken (Russian: Rakuschino, no longer existent) .

As a result of the war, Sorgenau came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Pokrovskoje and was assigned to the village soviet Yantarski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion at the same time . Later the place was administered by the Yantarny Settlement Soviet. Pokrovskoye has been part of the Jantarny district since 2004 .

Population development

year	Residents
1910	556
1933	562
1939	659
2002	481
2010	579

church

Before 1945, the majority of the people of Sorgenau were Protestant . The place was incorporated into the parish of the parish church in Germau (today Russian: Russkoje) until 1906 , after which it belonged to the church of Jantarny in the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Prokowskoje 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 .

Personalities

• Martin Bergau (1928–2020), German contemporary witness and writer

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: Sorgenau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Palmnicken District
4. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
5. ↑ census data
6. ↑ 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.