Sokolowka (Kaliningrad)
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Damerau Соколовка
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Sokolowka ( Russian Соколовка , German Damerau, Koenigsberg / Samland district ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .
Geographical location
Sokolowka is located 22 kilometers northeast of the city of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) on the municipal road 27K-080 from Bajewka (Kuikeim) to Georgijewskoje (Konradshorst) . In the village, the municipal road 27K-378 branches off to Uslowoje ( (Royal) Neuendorf) in a northerly direction .
The next train station is Bajewka 1 ( Kuggen before 1945 , today Russian: Perwomaiskoje) on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) . Until 1945 there was also a rail connection via the station in Molsehnen (today in Russian: Kosmodemjanskoje) on the Prawten – Schaaksvitte (Lomonossowo– Kaschirskoje ) railway line of the Königsberger Kleinbahn .
history
The village once called Damerau with its district Karlshof (Russian: Sowchosnoje) was the eponymous place and official seat of the district of Damerau in the district of Königsberg (Prussia) (1939 to 1945 district of Samland ) of the Prussian province of East Prussia from 1874 to 1945 . In 1910 Damerau had 220 inhabitants.
On September 30, 1928, the rural community of Damerau expanded to include the neighboring village of Daniels (today in Russian: Tretyakovka). The number of inhabitants rose to 305 by 1933 and was already 354 in 1939.
As a result of the Second World War , Damerau came to the Soviet Union due to its location in northern East Prussia . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Sokolowka and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Saliwenski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . Later the place came into the Dobrinski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2013 Sokolowka belonged to the rural municipality Dobrinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Guryevsk.
District of Damerau (1874–1945)
On April 30, 1874, the district of Damerau was formed, which initially consisted of six and in 1945 five municipalities:
| Surname | Russian name | Remarks |
|---|---|---|
| Damerau | Sokolowka | |
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Daniels with Hannchenthal |
Tretyakovka | 1928 incorporated into Damerau |
| Kropiens | Gajewo | 1930 reclassified to the district of Gallgarben |
| Kuikeim | Bayevka | |
| Langendorf | Morgunowo | |
| (Royal) Neuendorf | Uzlovoye | 1930 reclassified to the district of Gallgarben |
| from 1930: Ginthieden | Pavlovo | 1935 reclassified to the administrative district Sudnicken |
| from 1930: Molten tendons | Kosmodemjanskoye |
On January 1, 1945, the communities of Damerau, Kuikeim, Langendorf and Molsehnen still belonged to the Damerau district.
church
The majority of the residents of Damerau were Protestant before 1945 and parish in the parish of Schaaken with a parish seat in the Schaaken Church (today in Russian: Schemtschuschnoje). It belonged to the parish of Königsberg-Land II in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Sokolowka is in the catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Marschalskoje (Gallgarben) . 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).
Sons and daughters of the village
- Karl Fjodorowitsch Kessler (1815–1881); Russian zoologist, university professor and university rector of German origin
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: Damerau
- ↑ a b Rolf Jehke, Damerau district
- ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Königsberg
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Samland district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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 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.
