Stepnoye (Kaliningrad, Chernyakhovsk, Svoboda)

settlement Stepnoje Purwienen (Altweiler) Степное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Chernyakhovsk Earlier names Darkkemis (?), Parwienen (?), Purschwienen (around 1698), Purwienen (until 1938), Altweiler (1938–1946) population 33 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40141 Post Code 238161 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 239 816 014 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 35 ′  N , 22 ° 0 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 34 ′ 51 ″  N , 21 ° 59 ′ 48 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Stepnoje ( Russian Степное , German  Purwienen , 1938–1945 Altweiler (Ostpr.) , Lithuanian Purvynai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Tschernjachowsk in chernyakhovsky district .

There is another place in Chernyakhovsk Raion, Stepnoye , which was formed as the successor of Gaiden .

Geographical location

Stepnoje is located 13 kilometers southeast of the Rajon town of Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) on the municipal road 27K-095 from the federal road A229 via Wessjolowka (Judtschen / Kanthausen) . The nearest train station is Wessjolowka on the Kaliningrad – Chernyshevskoje railway line (Königsberg – Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau) - a section of the Prussian Eastern Railway - for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.

history

The place once called Darkkemis was a small farming village with numerous individual farmsteads before 1945. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was incorporated into the Judtschen district (1938–1945 "Kanthausen district", Russian: Wessjolowka) and belonged to the Gumbinnen district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . On June 3, 1938, Purwienen was given the changed name "Altweiler" for political and ideological reasons.

In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union as a result of the Second World War with northern East Prussia . In 1947 he was given the Russian name "Stepnoje" and was assigned to the village Soviet Krasnopoljanski selski Sowet in Chernyakhovsk Raion at the same time . From 2008 to 2015 Stepnoye belonged to the rural municipality of Svobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Chernyakhovsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	141
1933	111
1939	120
2002	49
2010	33

church

The population of Puwienens resp. Before 1945, Altweilers was almost without exception a Protestant denomination and therefore parish in the parish of the Church of Ischdaggen (1938–1946: Branden, Russian: Lermontowo). The was in the church district Gumbinnen (Gussew) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Stepnoje is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen), which was re-established in the 1990s, with the parish seat for the church region of Gussew within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Altweiler Ostpr. (Purwienen) at the Gumbinnen district community
• 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): Altweiler
3. ↑ census data
4. ↑ 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.