Prudki (Kaliningrad)
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Prudki ( Russian Прудки , German Knauten ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Gwardeiskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) ) in the Bagrationovsk district ( Prussian Eylau district ).
Geographical location
Prudki am Flüsschen Beisleide (Russian: Reswaja) is located two kilometers southeast of Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) on the Russian trunk road A 195 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 128 ), that from Kaliningrad ( Königsberg , 30 kilometers) to Bagrationowsk ( Prussian Eylau , 8 kilometers) and continues to Poland . There is no train connection.
history
In 1324, what was then Knawthen was first mentioned in connection with an order's court from which the area was colonized. The later estate with the 99 ponds near Mühlhausen was named on a document dated May 8, 1448. In 1473 Knauten was given to the mercenary leader Georg von Kuenheim the Elder. , a close friend of Duke Albrecht of Prussia , and the Chamber Office, which emerged from the Ordenshof, moved to Schmoditten (today in Russian: Rjabinowka). Before his death in 1543, Georg von Kuenheim received medical treatment from old Nicolaus Copernicus . His son Georg von Kuenheim the Younger married Margarethe Luther , the daughter of the reformer Martin Luther , in 1555 and took his seat in Knauten in 1557.
Georg von Kuenheim's son Erhard von Kuenheim sold Knauten to Albrecht von Kalckstein in the middle of the 17th century . Together with his son Christian Ludwig von Kalckstein, he led a resistance movement of the nobility that tried to defend itself against the curtailment of their rights by Elector Friedrich Wilhelm von Brandenburg . Then Christoph Wilhelm von Kalckstein inherited Knauten. For a time he was under steward of the Crown Prince Friedrich, later also major general , envoy in Sweden , 1736 head of the Charité in Berlin and finally in 1747 the appointment as field marshal . In addition to Knauten, he also owned Wogau (today in Russian: Lermontowo), Romitten (Slawjanowka), Mühlhausen (Gwardeiskoje) and Schultitten (Strelnja). Subsequent heir was the later General Field Marshal Ludwig Karl von Kalckstein .
In 1841 Hermann Graf Kleist von Nollendorf , son of Field Marshal Friedrich Graf Kleist von Nollendorf, bought the Knauten estate. The marshal's baton and the KPM service were kept in the manor house until 1945, which King Friedrich Wilhelm III. von Prussia had given the war hero in 1817. Knauten finally came by inheritance in 1898 to the von Boddien family , who owned it until 1945.
Knauten in 1874 eponymous site of the newly formed administrative district Knauten in district Preußisch Eylau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia . The rural community Mühlhausen (today Russian: Gwardeiskoje) and the manor district Knauten were incorporated into the administrative district .
In 1910 396 inhabitants were registered in Knauten. On September 30, 1928, the Knauten Manor was converted into a rural community. In 1930 the Knauten administrative district expanded to include the rural community of Vierzighuben (today in Russian: Tambowskoje), which was reclassified from the Groß Lauth (Newskoje) district to here.
After the municipality of Knauten with its districts Louisenthal and Perkuiken (Russian: Solnzewo, now Berjosowka) was incorporated into the municipality of Mühlhausen (Gwardeiskoje) on January 1, 1936 and thus relieved of its independence, the administrative district of Knauten was also renamed "District Mühlhausen" , which then existed until 1945.
As a result of the Second World War , Knauten came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia and in 1946 was given the Russian name " Prudki ". Until 2009 the place was incorporated into the Gwardeiski soviet (Dorfsovjet Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) ) and has since been - due to a structural and administrative reform - a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) within the Gwardeiskoje selskojem posselenije (rural community Gwardeiskoje ) in Bagrationovsk Raion .
church
The majority of the population of Knautens, who were Protestant before 1945, was parish in the parish of the village parish in Mühlhausen (today in Russian: Gwardeiskoje). It belonged to the church district Preußisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Otto Nikutowski .
Church life could not take place in the time of the Soviet Union . It was not until the 1990s that new Protestant congregations emerged in the Kaliningrad Oblast . This is also the case in Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) , which has now again become the ecclesiastical home of the evangelical inhabitants of Prudki. Gwardeiskoje is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and belongs to the newly formed Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Prudki - Knauten at ostpreussen.net
- ^ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Knauten
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Knauten / Mühlhausen district
- ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Prussian Eylau district
- ↑ Rolf Jehke, district of Groß Lauth / Schrombehnen
- ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, along with Law No. 253 of June 30, 2008, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
- ↑ Ev.-luth. 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.
