Starorusskoye (Kaliningrad)

settlement Starorusskoje Eythienen Старорусское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk Earlier names Eythienen (until 1945) population 29 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 209 819 024 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 55 '  N , 20 ° 41'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 54 '58 "  N , 20 ° 41' 24"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Starorusskoje ( Russian Старорусское , German  Eythienen ) is a rural settlement in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .

Geographical location

Starorusskoje is not far from the south bank of the Curonian Lagoon, one kilometer south of Kaschirskoje (Schaaksvitte) on the municipal road 27K-053 and 26 km northeast of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) .

history

Eythienen was founded about 1405 and was until 1945 the district Samland in the administrative district of Konigsberg in East Prussia . In 1939 it had 270 inhabitants.

After the area was annexed to the Soviet Union , the village received the status of a rural settlement (possjolok) . In 1950 it was given the Russian name Starorusskoje (starorusski = Old Russian) and was assigned to the village soviet Kaschirski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . In 1954 Starorusskoje got into the Marschalski selski Sowet . From 2008 to 2013 the place belonged to the rural municipality Khrabrowskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district Guryevsk.

Old place names

• Eutyn (around 1500)
• Ewtynn (after 1540)
• Euthinen (after 1565)
• Eytunen (after 1692)
• Eytinen - (after 1820)

church

Until 1945 the majority Protestant population of Eythienens was parish in the parish of Schaaken with seat in the church of Schaaken (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 Starorusskoje lies in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Marschalskoje (Gallgarben) . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

traffic

From 1901 to 1945 the narrow-gauge railway line Prawten – Schaaksvitte of the Königsberger Kleinbahn ran through Eythienen .

literature

• Friedrich Gottlob Leonhardi: Earth description of the Prussian monarchy . Hemmerde and Schwetschke publishing house , Halle 1791
• Joseph Meyer, Erich Uetrecht: Meyers Orts- und Verkehrs-Lexikon des Deutschen Reichs . Publishing house Bibliographisches Institut , Leipzig 1913

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. ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
3. ↑ 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.