Shirokoye (Kaliningrad)
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Schirokoje / Strobehnen,
also: Storchnest Широкое
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Schirokoje ( Russian Широкое , German Strobehnen and Storchnest, Prussian Eylau district ) is the common name of two originally independent places in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ). They belong to the Dologorukowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Dolgorukowo (Domtau) ) in the Bagrationowsk district ( Prussian Eylau district ).
Geographical location
Schirokoje is located in the Russian-Polish border area west of Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) on a side road that connects the Rajons capital with Dolgorukowo (Domtau) and continues to Pogranitschnoje (Hussehnen) . Until 1945 there was a connection to the railway line from Heiligenbeil (Mamonowo) via Zinten (Kornewo) to Bagrationowsk via the Stablack station (now also in Russian: Dolgorukowo) , which has now only been used for military purposes or has been completely shut down.
history
Until 1945
Sirokoje / straws
The village, formerly called Strobehnen , is four kilometers from Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) and consists of a few large and small farms. In 1874 Strobehnen was incorporated into the Henriettenhof district (from 1928: Althof district (Russian: Orechowo)). He was in the district of Prussian Eylau , Administrative district Königsberg , in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 76 people lived here.
On January 1, 1929, Strobehnen merged with the neighboring community of Storchnest (now also in Russian: Schirokoje) to form the new rural community of Strobehnen, which was taken over in 1930 to the Dexen district (now in Russian: Nagornoje), to which it belonged until 1945. In 1933 there were 175 registered inhabitants in the newly formed community Strobehnen, and in 1939 there were already 181 inhabitants.
In 1945 Strobehnen came to the Soviet Union as a result of the Second World War with northern East Prussia . In 1946 the village was given the Russian name " Schirokoje ".
Sirokoje / stork's nest
Three kilometers from Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) is the small village formerly called Storchnest , which is often confused with the place of the same name (now in Polish: Mokajmy) in the Prussian Holland district . The mentioned herein Storchnest but belonged until 1945 to the district Preußisch Eylau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia and was (in 1928 District in the District Henriettenhof 1874 Althof Russian (: Orekhovo)) incorporated. In 1910 there were 71 residents registered here.
On January 1, 1929, Storchnest merged with the neighboring village of Strobehnen (Russian also: Schirokoje) to form the new rural municipality of Strobehnen, and from 1930 it belonged to the Dexen district (now in Russian: Nagornoje). From 1945 the place belonged to the Soviet Union and in 1946 received the Russian name "Schirokoje" with the neighboring village Strobehnen.
Since 1946
The place united under the name Schirokoje belonged to the Orechowski soviet (Dorfsovjet Orechowo (Althof) ) until 2009 and has since been - due to a structural and administrative reform - a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) classified place within the Dolgorukowskoje selskoje posselenije (Rural community Dolgorukowo (Domtau) ) in Bagrationovsk district .
church
Before 1945, the population of the two villages Strobehnen and Storchnest was predominantly of Protestant denomination and parish in the parish of the town of Preussisch Eylau (today in Russian: Bagrationowsk). It belonged to the church district Preußisch Eylau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Martin Braun .
Today Schirokoje is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran village church in Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).
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)
- ^ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Strobehnen
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Henriettenhof / Althof district
- ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Prussian Eylau district
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Dexen district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Preussisch Eylau (Russian Bagrationowsk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Storchnest
- ↑ [Rolf Jehke, Henriettenhof / Althof district (as above)]
- ^ [Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Preußisch Eylau (as above)]
- ↑ 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. 253 of June 30, 2008, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )