Stepnoye (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk, Kalushskoye)

settlement Stepnoe Gaiden Степное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk Earlier names Gayden (around 1785), Gaiden (until 1946) population 33 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238174 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 807 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 47 '  N , 21 ° 48'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 46 '48 "  N , 21 ° 48' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Stepnoje ( Russian Степное , German  Gaiden , Lithuanian Gaidžiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

The place Stepnoje is no longer at the Gaiden location, but at the locations Groß Warkau (Russian initially Schischkino), Mittel Warkau and Klein Warkau (Russian initially jointly Stassowo). The Gaiden branch is deserted.

There is another place in Chernyakhovsk district, Stepnoje , the former Purwienen / Altweiler .

Geographical location

Stepnoje in its current location is about twelve kilometers north of the city of Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) and about four kilometers southeast of Kalinowka (Aulowönen , 1938–1946 Aulenbach) on regional road 27A-009 (ex A 197 , former German Reichsstrasse 137 , local offices Mittel and Klein Warkau) or about two kilometers east of it (Groß Warkau branch). Aulowönen was the next train station until 1945 and was on the Insterburg – Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen (Russian: Tschernjachowsk – Bolschakowo) railway line , which is no longer in operation, of the Insterburger Kleinbahnen .

history

The small village of Gaiden was in 1874 in the district of Groß Franzdorf (1931–1945 "district of Franzdorf", Russian: Gorodetskoje, no longer existent), then before 1908 in the district of Aulowönen (1938–1945: "Aulenbach district", today in Russian: Kalinowka ) incorporated and belonged to the circle Insterburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 70 inhabitants registered here. Their number was only 63 in 1933 and dropped to 46 by 1939.

In 1945 Gaiden came to the Soviet Union as a result of the war with northern East Prussia and was given the Russian name Stepnoje in 1950. At the same time, the place was incorporated into the village Soviet Kalinowski selski Sowet in Bolshakovo district. Later the village came to Chernyakhovsk Raion with this village soviet . Since the 1970s at the latest, Stepnoje has been used to refer to the former towns of Groß Warkau (in Russian initially Schischkino), Mittel Warkau and Klein Warkau (in Russian initially jointly Stassowo) further south, while the former Gaiden has been abandoned. From 2008 to 2015 Stepnoye belonged to the rural municipality Kalushskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Chernyakhovsk.

church

The majority of the population of Gaiden was Protestant before 1945 and parish in the parish of the Aulowönen Church (1938–1946: Aulenbach, today in Russian: Kalinowka). It belonged to the church district Insterburg in the church province East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Stepnoje is in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Bolshakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , 1938–1946 Kreuzingen) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Stepnoye at bankgorodov.ru
• Stepnoje 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): Gaiden
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district Groß Franzdorf / Franzdorf
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Aulowönen / Aulenbach district
5. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Insterburg district
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. City and district of Insterburg (Russian Chernyachovsk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ 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)
8. ↑ 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.