Schmatowka (Kaliningrad)

settlement Schmatowka / Schwirgsden (King's Garden ) Шматовка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Osjorsk Earlier names Schwirgsden (until 1938), Königsgarten (1938–1946) population 16 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238137 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 227 816 020 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 30 '  N , 21 ° 58'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 30 '10 "  N , 21 ° 58' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Schmatowka ( Russian Шматовка , German Schwirgsden , 1938-1946 Royal Garden is) a place in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (region Königsberg (Prussia) ) and belongs to Krasnojarskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Krasnojarskoje ( Sodehnen )) in Ozyorsky District (District Darkehmen , 1938- 1946 Angerapp ).

Geographical location

Schmatowka is located on the Russian trunk road R 517 (section of the former German Reichsstrasse 137 ), which connects the two cities of Chernyachovsk ( Insterburg ) and Osjorsk ( Darkehmen , 1938-1946 Angerapp ). It is eleven kilometers to the district capital of Osjorsk. There is no rail connection.

history

The former Schwirgsden belonged on May 6, 1874 to the six rural communities that formed the newly established district of Kallnen (1938–1946 Drachenberg , since 1946: Novo-Gurjewskoje). Until 1945 he belonged to the district of Darkehmen (1939–1945 district of Angerapp ) in the administrative district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1818 the village had 137 inhabitants, the number of which rose to 191 by 1863, in 1907 it was 212, then 195 in 1925, 185 in 1933 and 179 in 1939.

On June 3, 1938 - officially confirmed on July 16, 1938 - Schwirgsden was given the new name "Königsgarten" for political and ideological reasons.

As a result of the Second World War , Königsgarten came under Soviet administration and in 1946 was renamed "Schmatowka". Until 2009 it was incorporated into the Sadowski soviet (Dorfsovjet Sadowoje ( Ballethen )), then due to a structural and administrative reform in the Kaliningrad Oblast as a "settlement" (possjolok) it came to the Krasnoyarskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Krasnoyarskoje ( Sodehnen )) in the Osjorsk Raion .

church

Schwirgsden / Königsgarten was a parish with its predominantly Protestant population until 1945 in the parish Ballethen (Russian: Sadowoje). It was in the Darkehmen parish (1938–1946 Angerapp , since 1946: Osjorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Joachim Großkreutz .

During the time of the Soviet Union , church life was forbidden. It was not until the 1990s that new Protestant congregations formed again in various places in the Kaliningrad Oblast. Schmatowka is incorporated into the church region ("church district") Gussew ( Gumbinnen ), which belongs to the - also newly founded - provost of Kaliningrad within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER). The clergy responsible are those of the Salzburg Church in Gussew.

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. ^ Rolf Jehke, Drachenberg district
3. ↑ Jürgen Schlusnus, Schwirgsden  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
4. ↑ 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. 259 of June 30, 2008, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
5. ↑ Jürgen Schlusnus, Kirchspiel Ballethen ( Memento of the original dated November 30, 2012 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. 
6. ↑ Ev.-luth. 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.