Zarya (Kaliningrad)

settlement Sarja Groß Wersmeningken (Großstangenwald) Заря Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk First mention 1557 Earlier names Groß Paußeln (?), Wersmininken (around 1590), Werszmeninken (around 1720), Groß Werschmeningken (around 1785), Groß Wersmeningken (until 1938), Großstangenwald (1938–1946) population 14 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238161 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 816 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 59'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 34 '7 "  N , 21 ° 58' 55"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Sarja ( Russian Заря , German  Groß Wersmeningken , 1938-1946 Großstangenwald , Lithuanian Didieji Versmininkai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

Geographical location

Sarja is located 13 kilometers southeast of the Rajon town of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) . The place can only be reached by land, for example from Krasnopoljanskoje (Groß Gaudischkehmen / Großgauden) . The next train station is Wessjolowka (Judtschen / Kanthausen) on the Kaliningrad – Chernyshevskoje railway line (Königsberg – Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau) - a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway - for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.

history

Groß Wersmeningken until 1938 was first mentioned in a document in 1557. Between 1874 and 1945, the farming village in was District Judtschen (from 1938 "District Kant Hausen", now Russian: Wessjolowka) incorporated and thus belonged to the district Gumbinnen in Administrative district Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The Grünwalde district forester also belonged to the rural community of Groß Wersmeningken.

As a result of the war, the village with northern East Prussia came to the Soviet Union in 1945 . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name "Zarya" and was assigned to the village soviet Krasnopoljanski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk Raion at the same time . From 2008 to 2015 Zarya belonged to the rural municipality of Svobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Chernyakhovsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	230
1933	249
1939	222
2002	13
2010	14th

church

The population of Groß Wersmeningken resp. Before 1945, Großstangenwalds was almost without exception a Protestant denomination and thus parish in the parish of the Church of Ischdaggen (1938–1946: Branden, today in Russian: Lermontowo). She belonged to the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Sarja is in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) with the parish seat for the church region of Gussew in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

school

In Groß Wersmeningken there was a two-class elementary school before 1945 in a school building built before 1914.

Web links

• Großstangenwald (Groß Wersmeningken) in the Gumbinnen district community
• Zarya at bankgorodov.ru
• Zarya 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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Großstangenwald
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Judtschen / Kanthausen 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.