Sosnjaki (Kaliningrad)

settlement Sosnjaki Tunnischken (Schneckenwalde) Сосняки Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Earlier names Tannischken (around 1785), Tunischken (after 1871), Tunnischken (until 1938), Schneckenwalde (until 1946) population 47 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40163 Post Code 238602 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 236 807 014 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 0 ′  N , 21 ° 28 ′  E Coordinates: 55 ° 0 ′ 9 ″  N , 21 ° 28 ′ 22 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Sosnjaki ( Russian Сосняки , German  Tunnischken , 1938 to 1945 Schneckenwalde , Lithuanian Tuniškiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district . The place Sosnjaki is today, however, at the local point Peterswalde (together with Schillelwethen initially in Russian Polessje), while the local point Tunnischken has been abandoned.

Geographical location

Sosnjaki is located east of Gastellowo (Groß Friedrichsdorf) south of the river Schnecke (Russian: Ulitka) on an overland road that leads to the submerged locality of Kuwschinowo (Alt Seckenburg) , where the Schnecke and Schalteik unite to form Nemonien . There is no train connection.

history

The place once called Tunnischken consisted of the village and a forestry department before 1945 . Between 1874 and 1945 the village belonged to the Peterswalde district (Russian: Polessje, no longer existent) in the Niederung district - from 1938 " Elchniederung district " - in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 there were 405 inhabitants in Tunnischken. Their number was 408 in 1925, rose to 525 by 1933 and amounted to 483 in 1939 - the village was called "Schneckenwalde" from June 3, 1938.

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . In 1947 he was given the Russian name "Sosnjaki" and was assigned to the village soviet Gastellowski selski Sowet in Slavsk Raion at the same time . From 2008 to 2015, Sosnjaki belonged to the urban municipality of Slavskoje gorodskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.

church

The population of Tunnischken resp. Before 1945, Schneckenwaldes was almost without exception a Protestant denomination and was parish in the parish of the Groß Friedrichsdorf church. It belonged to the church district Niederung (Elchniederung) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Sosnjaki lies in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) , which was newly established in the 1990s . It is the parish and seat of the church region Slavsk in the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Sosnjaki at bankgorodov.ru
• Sosnjaki 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 Location Register East Prussia (2005): Schneckenwalde
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Peterswalde district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, Community directory, Niederung district
5. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Niederung (Elchniederung). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )