Prudy (Kaliningrad, Gwardeisk)
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Prudy / Genslack
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Prudy ( Russian Пруды , German Genslack , Lithuanian Genšlaukiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Oserki (Groß Lindenau) ) in Gwardeisk district ( Tapiau district ).
Geographical location
Prudy is located on the south bank of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja) in the southwest of the district capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) . The Russian trunk road R 508 runs through the village . The next train station is the Ostanowotschny point "Op 1252 km" on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) - part of the former Prussian Eastern Railway - for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.
Place name
Today's Prudy was originally called Geizelauken . This Prussian name should mean something like "heron field" and refer to the former abundance of fish in the Pregel and the excellent breeding opportunities in the forest. Another possibility is the name of a landowner Gense . In connection with the Prussian word “lack” = “field”, the “land of the gene” would be meant here.
history
The Gutsdorf, known as Genslack until 1946, was first mentioned in a document in 1357. The once rich clay deposits and the favorable location on the Pregel led to the fact that in 1465 the municipality of Kneiphof (Königsberg) was given land here with the right to dig clay and built a brick factory here.
In 1616, Genslack came into the possession of Salomon von Hülsen through an exchange . Later owners were the von Reichmeister, von Gaudi and von Bolschwing families . The latter ensured that the Zimmau brickworks came to the estate. In 1821 Baron von Heyking took over the estate and combined it with the Schatullgut Oberwalde (Russian: Saretschnoje, no longer existent). Between 1838 and 1841 Genslack was in the possession of a Count Klinckowström , after which it came to the district councilor Friedrich von Marées, who finally sold it to a Fritz Müller. At that time, Oberwalde and Paulinenhof (no longer existent) also belonged to the estate. In 1929 the Genslack estate was relocated by the settlement company due to economic difficulties. A country year home for girls was established in the manor house in the 1930s.
On June 13, 1874, gene lacquer seat and the eponymous site of an administrative district that existed until 1945 and for district Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. At first only the manor districts Genslack and Rathsziegelei formed the administrative district, in 1896 the rural community Oberwalde (Russian: Saretschnoje, no longer existent) was added. On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Oberwalde, the manor district of Genslack and Neu Zimmau (Russian: Dolina, no longer existent, then part of the manor district of Tapiau domain) merged to form the new rural community of Genslack. This then only formed the Genslack district.
In Genslack there were 157 inhabitants in 1910, due to the structural changes there were 438 in 1933 and 419 in 1939.
In 1945 Genslack came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia and in 1946 was given the Russian name "Prudy". In 1947 the place was assigned to the newly created Rajon Gwardeisk ( Tapiau district ) and incorporated into the Saretschenski selski soviet (Dorfsowjet Saretschje (Pregelswalde) ). Today, due to a structural and administrative reform with its 95 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), Prudy is a “settlement” (Russian: possjolok) declared place within the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Oserki (Groß Lindenau) ).
church
With its predominantly Protestant population, Genslack was parish into the parish of the Starkenberg Church (Russian: Krasny Bor) until 1945 . It belonged to the church district Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Prudy is located in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Gwardeisk (Tapiau) , a subsidiary of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Personalities
- Carl Friedrich Ludwig von Gaudi (174–1784), director of the War and Domain Chamber in Bromberg and heir to Genslack.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b 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)
- ↑ Prudy - Genslack at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Genslack
- ↑ Prudy - Genslack at ostpreussen.net (as above).
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Genslack district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
- ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wehlau district (Russian Snamensk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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. 502 of February 24, 2005, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
- ↑ 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.
