Sokolniki (Kaliningrad, Zelenogradsk)
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Sokolniki
Weischkitten Сокольңики
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Sokolniki ( Russian Сокольники , German Weischkitten ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .
Geographical location
Sokolniki is located 24 kilometers north of the oblast capital Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and ten kilometers southwest of the district town Zelenogradsk (Cranz) on the regional road 27A-013 (ex A192 ) directly at the intersection with Primorskoje Kolzo (coastal motorway ring). Until 1945, the Eisseln-Weischkitten railway station existed on the railway line from Cranz (Selenogradsk) to Neukuhren (Pionerski), which is now connected to the Kaliningrad railway line by two Ostanowotschny point (Op) Sokolniki-Nowy (until 1945 Cranz - Rosehnen ) and Sokolniki –Selenogradsk – Pionersky has been relieved.
history
The manor village, founded in 1405 and known as Weischkitten until 1946, with several large courtyards was incorporated into the newly established district of Michelau (today in Russian: Kamenka) in 1874 and belonged to the district of Fischhausen , from 1939 to 1945 district of Samland in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910, 43 residents were registered in the town, which was subdivided into Adlig Weischkitten and (Royal) Weischkitten, 15 of whom lived in Adlig Weischkitten.
On September 30, 1928, Weischkitten was incorporated into the rural community of Michelau. As a result, the Michelau district was dissolved and the community was integrated into the Grünhoff district (now in Russian: Roschtschino).
In 1945 Weischkitten came to the Soviet Union with all of northern East Prussia . The place received the Russian name Sokolniki again independently in 1947 and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Cholmski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . Later the place came to the Vishnevsky selski Sowet . From 2005 to 2015 Sokolniki belonged to the rural municipality of Kovrovskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.
church
Until 1945, almost without exception, a Protestant population lived in Weischkitten . The village was in the parish of Rudau (today in Russian: Melnikowo), which belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land II in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Sokolniki is now in the catchment area of the newly created Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) , a subsidiary congregation of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Web links
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 East Prussia picture archive: Weischkitten
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Grünhoff / Michelau district
- ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Fischhausen district
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )