Znamenka (Kaliningrad, Bagrationovsk)

settlement Snamenka / Groß Hoppenbruch Знаменка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Bagrationovsk Earlier names Great Hoppenbruch population 48 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238450 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 203 825 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 32 ′  N , 19 ° 59 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 31 ′ 49 ″  N , 19 ° 59 ′ 18 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Snamenka ( Russian Знаменка , German Groß Hoppenbruch , lit. Znameska ) is a village in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area ) in the former East Prussia and belongs to the Pogranitschnoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Pogranitschny (Hermsdorf) ) in Eyon Bagrationovsk (district of Preussishlau ).

Geographical location

Snamenka - the place name is more common in Russia - is located northeast of the city of Mamonowo ( Heiligenbeil ) and is a train station (one kilometer southeast of the village) on the railway line Malbork ( Marienburg ) - Braniewo ( Braunsberg ) - Mamonowo - Kaliningrad ( Königsberg (Prussia) ) the former Prussian Eastern Railway . Not far from Gnadenthal (today Russian: Bogdanowka) on the Russian trunk road A 194 (former German Reichsstrasse 1 , now also Europastrasse 28 ), a side road branches off in a north-westerly direction, which leads to Snamenka and on to Wesjoloje ( Balga ).

history

Groß Hoppenbruch, on the east bank of the Frischen Haff , north of Heiligenbeil and south of the headland of Balga , on a map from 1910 (see left half of the picture).

On June 11, 1874, Groß Hoppenbruch (the place Klein Hoppenbruch (Uljanowka) is 25 kilometers further northeast near Uschakowo ( Brandenburg (Frisches Haff) )) with the rural communities of Follendorf, Perscheln and Schirten (Potjomkino) and the manor districts of Gabditten, Gedilgen, Keimkallen (Krasnodonskoje) and Ritterthal merged to form the Keimkallen district . In 1910 Groß Hoppenbruch had 207 inhabitants.

On July 12, 1929, Groß Hoppenbruch was spun off from the Keimkallen district and assigned to the Balga (Wesjoloje) district. In 1933 there were 335 inhabitants in Groß Hoppenbruch, in 1939 there were 299.

Until 1945 Groß Hoppenbruch belonged to the district of Heiligenbeil in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . The village has been under Soviet or Russian administration since 1945 and has been called Snamenka since 1947. It belongs to Pyatidorozhnoye in Bagrationovsk Raion in Kaliningrad Oblast .

church

Groß Hoppenbruch was ecclesiastically until 1945 - with predominantly Protestant residents in the parish of Balga (Wesjoloje) in the church district of Heiligenbeil (Mamonowo) in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

literature

• Wulf D. Wagner: The goods of the district of Heiligenbeil in East Prussia. Rautenberg, Leer 2005, ISBN 3-7921-0640-X .

Web links

• Ostpreußen.net
• District Balge with Rolf Jehke

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. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947). The German place name was referred to there as Gross Choppenburg .