Rovnoje (Kaliningrad, Gwardeisk)

settlement Rownoje / Romau Ровное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gwardeisk First mention 1394 Earlier names Romaw (after 1394), Rohmau (after 1871), Romau (until 1947) population 114 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40159 Post Code 238210 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 206 816 015 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 37 '  N , 21 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 36 '52 "  N , 21 ° 5' 23"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Rownoje ( Russian Ровное , German  Romau , Lithuanian Romuva ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Znamenskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Znamensk (Wehlau) ) in Gwardeisk district ( Tapiau district ).

Geographical location

Rownoje is located south of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja), four kilometers southeast of the current Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) and ten kilometers southwest of the former district town Znamensk (Wehlau) , in the middle of an area with numerous gravel lakes . The Russian trunk road R 508 runs through the village , into which a side road from Rutschji (Bieberswalde) to (Adlig) Damerau (no longer existent) joins in Rownoje . The nearest train station is Gwardeisk 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. Until 1945, the nearby Imten (Russian: Karjernoje, no longer existent) was the next station on the now defunct small railway between Tapiau (Gwardeisk) and Friedland (Prawdinsk), operated by the Wehlau – Friedländer Kreisbahnen .

history

The village, called Romau until 1947, was first mentioned in 1394.

In 1874 the rural community Romau came to the newly established district of Bieberswalde (today Russian: Rutschji) in the district of Wehlau , administrative district of Königsberg , the Prussian province of East Prussia . It existed until 1945.

In 1910, 232 residents were registered in Romau. Their number fell to 182 by 1933 and was 196 again in 1939.

In 1945 Romau came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia and in 1947 was given the Russian name "Rownoje". In the same year the place was assigned to the newly created Rajon Gwardeisk ( Tapiau district , instead of the former Wehlau district ) and incorporated into the Bolschepoljanski selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Bolschaja Poljana (Paterswalde) ). Today, due to a structural and administrative reform with its 114 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010), Rownoje is a place characterized as a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) within the Znamenskoje selskoje polsselenije (rural community Znamensk (Wehlau) ).

church

With its predominantly Protestant inhabitants, Romau was incorporated into the parish of the Tapiau town church (now Russian: Gwardeisk) until 1945 . It belonged to the church district Wehlau (Snamensk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In Gwardeisk there is again a Russian Orthodox community (whose church is the former parish church) and an Evangelical Lutheran community. It is a branch of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Rovnoje bankgorodov.ru
• Rovnoje at prussia39.ru

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{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)
2. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Romau
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Bieberswalde district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
5. ↑ 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). 
6. ↑ 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
7. ↑ 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.