Penki (Kaliningrad)

settlement Penki Skungirren (barn place) Пеньки Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk First mention 1638 Earlier names Sckungirren (around 1736), Skangirren, Skungirren (until 1938), Scheuersdorf (1938), Scheunenort (1938–1946) population 274 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238178 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 802 011 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 34 '  N , 21 ° 37'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 34 '10 "  N , 21 ° 37' 7"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Penki ( Russian Пеньки , German  Skungirren , 1938–1945 Scheunenort , Lithuanian Skūngiriai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

Geographical location

Penki located 15 km southwest of the Rajonszentrums Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) on the municipal street 27K-142 of Podgornoje (Wiepeningken / state Hausen) Federal Street A229 (earlier German national road 1 , now also Europastraße 28 ) to the station Ugrjumowo -Nowoje at the Tschernjachowsk-Schelesnodorschny (Insterburg- Gerdauen) , on which passenger traffic was discontinued in 2009.

history

The small village Skungirren was first mentioned in 1638 and before 1945 consisted of several large and small farms. In 1874, the place with the Julienhof residential area was incorporated into the newly established district (Prussia) district Obehlischken , which - between 1938 and 1945 called "district Schulzenhof" - belonged to the district of Insterburg in the district of Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945 . In 1910 the Skungirren manor had 245 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1929, the hunting lodge (forester's house) was incorporated into Skungirren. In 1933 236 people lived here, in 1939 there were still 212. For ideological and political reasons, numerous East Prussian places were renamed on June 3, 1938 . Skungirren was given the name "Scheuersdorf", which, however, did not receive the approval of the confirmation authority, which from July 16, 1938 had the name "Scheunenort".

In 1945 the village came to the Soviet Union as a result of World War II . In 1947 it was given the Russian name Penki and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Svobodnenski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk Raion . Later the place got into the Berezhkovsky selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2015 Penki belonged to the rural municipality of Svobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Chernyakhovsk.

church

In ski confusion resp. Before 1945, Scheunenort had a predominantly Protestant population. Until 1846 the place was in the parish of the church Didlacken (1938-1946 Dittlacken , today Russian: Telmanowo), but then came to 1945 to the parish of the church Obehlischken (1938-1946 Schulzenhof , today Russian: Selenzowo) and belonged to the parish of Insterburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Today Penki is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) , which was newly established in the 1990s, and which is also the parish of the Chernyakhovsk church region in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Personalities of the place

• Ernst Kasenzer (born June 19, 1891 in Skungirren, † 1943 in Dachau concentration camp), German businessman, Protestant people's missionary, member of the Confessing Church, resistance fighter against National Socialism

Web links

• Penki at bankgorodov.ru
• Penki 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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Scheunenort
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Schulzenhof district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Insterburg district
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Insterburg (Russian Chernyachovsk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
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.