Schilleningken (parish of Schirwindt)
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Schilleningken (Ostdorf)
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Schilleningken (1938 to 1946 Ostdorf (Ostpr.) ) Was a place in the east of East Prussia in today's area of Dobrowolskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Dobrowolsk) in Krasnosnamensk Raion (Lasdehnen , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg) of the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) .
Geographical location
Schilleningken was 24 kilometers northeast of the former district town of Pillkallen (1938 to 1946 Schloßberg) on the west bank of the Scheschuppe (Шешупе, Šešupė), which forms the border between Russia and Lithuania here.
Schilleningken was the easternmost town in the German Empire until 1945 . Then the eastern part of East Prussia was added to the Soviet Union. The surviving residents were either captured or displaced.
From Schirwindt (now Russian: Kutusowo) an impassable road led directly into the town. Schirwindt was also the next station on the railway line from Pillkallen via Grumbkowkeiten to here until 1945 , which was operated by the Pillkaller Kleinbahn .
history
In 1664 the village formerly called Schilleningken was mentioned for the first time. Between 1874 and 1945 the place belonged to the administrative district Schirwindt in the district of Pillkallen (1939 to 1945 "Landkreis Schloßberg (Ostpr.)") In the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Schilleningken had 62 inhabitants.
On September 30, 1928, Schilleningken expanded by merging with the Dwarischken estate (1938 to 1945: Löbelshorst, no longer existing today) to form the new rural community of Schilleningken. The total number of inhabitants was 195 in 1933 and 142 in 1939. On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938, Schilleningken was renamed "Ostdorf (Ostpr.)" In order to avoid the ideological and political demand to take foreign sounding place names into account. The addition "Parish Schwirwindt" previously distinguished the place from the village of Schilleningken, Ksp, also located in the Pillkallen district . Laser stretching , now in Russian: Chlebnikowo.
As a result of the war, Schilleningken resp. Ostdorf 1945 with the whole of northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union . Because of the flight and displacement , there were no more local residents. Until July 4, 1955 he had the Russian name к Шилленингкен, then Самарское.
The place is now considered extinct. Only fragments of ruins are visible. He is lying in the border restricted area bordering Russia to Lithuania .
church
The residents of Schilleningken resp. Before 1945, Ostdorf were almost without exception Protestant denomination. The village was parish in the parish of the Immanuel Church Schirwindt , which belonged to the parish of Pillkallen (Schloßberg) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Individual evidence
- ↑ 54 ° 48 ′ 48.7 ″ N , 22 ° 53 ′ 11.2 ″ E see eastern border according to historical maps
- ^ Rolf Jehke: District of Schirwindt
- ^ Uli Schubert: Community directory, Pillkallen district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Pillkallen district (Russian Dobrowolsk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "On renaming the place names of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of 5 July 1950 Page 13 / Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР 'О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области' - 5 июля 1950 г. - №745_3