Shiguli (Kaliningrad)

settlement Shiguli Reckeln Жигули Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gusew First mention 1556 Earlier names Roekelheim, Redkeimenn (after 1556), Reklekiem (before 1583), Rheckeln (after 1734), Rehckeln (after 1736), Reckeln (until 1946) population 0 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40143 Post Code 238033 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 212 813 003 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 30 '  N , 22 ° 5'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 '26 "  N , 22 ° 4' 54"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Schiguli ( Russian Жигули , German  Reckeln , Lithuanian Rėkliai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Gusev in Gusevsky District .

Geographical location

Schiguli is twelve kilometers southwest of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) and can be reached via a cul-de-sac from Mayakovskoye (Nemmersdorf) . There is no train connection.

history

The village called Roekelheim at the time was first mentioned in 1556. Before 1945 the place consisted only of a few small farms and homesteads. Between 1874 and 1945 Reckeln belonged to the District Nemmersdorf in district Gumbinnen in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 94 inhabitants registered in Reckeln. Their number decreased to 62 by 1933 and was 63 in 1933.

As a result of the war, Reckeln came to the Soviet Union in 1945 along with all of northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Shiguli and was assigned to the village soviet Mayakovsky selski sovet in Gusew Rajon . From 2008 to 2013 Shiguli belonged to the rural community Mayakovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gusew.

church

The majority of the residents of Reckeln were of Protestant denomination before 1945 and the place was therefore parish into the parish of the Nemmersdorf church. It belonged to the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Shiguli is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Krasnoyarskoje (Sodehnen) , a branch of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) within the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Schiguli at bankgorodov.ru
• Schiguli 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. ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Reckeln
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Nemmersdorf district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Gumbinnen district
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Gumbinnen district (Russian Gussew). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 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)
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.