Schaworonkowo (Kaliningrad, Gusew)
settlement
Schaworonkowo
Gerwischken (Richtfelde) Жаворонково
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Schaworonkowo ( Russian Жаворонково , German Gerwischken , 1938 to 1945 Richtfelde , Lithuanian Gerviškiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Gusev in Gusevsky District .
Geographical location
Schaworonkowo is eight kilometers southwest of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on the regional road 27A-025 (ex R508 ). The next train station is Gusew on the Kaliningrad – Chernyshevskoye railway , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway for onward travel to Moscow .
history
Before 1945, Gerwischken , founded around 1554, consisted of widely scattered large and small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was part of the district of Nemmersdorf (today Russian: Mayakovskoye) in the district of Gumbinnen within the government district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .
For political and ideological reasons, Gerwischken was renamed "Richtfelde" on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938. In 1945 the village came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with all of northern East Prussia .
In 1950 the village was given the Russian name "Schaworonkowo" and was assigned to the village soviet Mayakovsky selski Soweet in Gusew Rajon . From 2008 to 2013 Shavoronkowo belonged to the rural municipality Mayakowskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gusew.
Population development
year | Residents |
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1910 | 228 |
1933 | 226 |
1939 | 238 |
2002 | 73 |
2010 | 79 |
church
Due to its predominantly Protestant population, Gerwischken resp. Richtfelde parish up to 1945 in the parish of the church Nemmersdorf (today Russian: Mayakowskoje). It was part of the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Schaworonkowo is located in the catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Web links
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)
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Richtfelde
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Nemmersdorf district
- ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
- ↑ census data
- ↑ 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.