Suvorovo (Kaliningrad, Gwardeisk)

settlement Suworowo / Zohpen Суворово Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Gwardeisk First mention 1311 Earlier names Saupin (before 1404), Sopen (after 1540), Zopen (after 1820), Zohpen (until 1946) surface 1.48 km² population 109 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40159 Post Code 238223 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 206 816 010 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 37 '  N , 21 ° 2'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 37 '29 "  N , 21 ° 2' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Suworowo ( Russian Суворово , German  Zohpen , Lithuanian Suopynai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Oserki (Groß Lindenau) ) in the Gwardeisk district ( Tapiau district ).

Geographical location

Suworowo is five kilometers southwest of the Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) on the Russian highway R 508 . The Kaliningrad – Nesterow (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) railway runs right through the town , but without a stop. The next train station is Gwardeisk.

history

The village, called Zohpen until 1946, was a Prussian settlement. It was first mentioned in 1311. Between 1874 and 1945, the place in the then newly constructed was District Pregelswalde (now Russian: Saretschje) incorporated, which for Wehlau circle in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

In 1910 there were 289 inhabitants registered in Zohpen. Their number rose to 293 by 1933 and stood at 302 in 1939.

As a result of the war, Zohpen came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 and in 1946 was given the Russian name “Suworowo”. In 1947 the place was assigned to the newly created Rajon Gwardeisk ( Tapiau district ) and incorporated into the Saretschenski selski soviet (Dorfsowjet Saretschje (Pregelswalde) ). Today, Suworowo with its currently 109 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) is a qualified settlement (Russian: possjolok) within the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Oserki (Groß Lindenau) ).

church

Until 1945, the majority Protestant population of Zohpen was parish in the parish of the Tapiau town church (today in Russian: Gwardeisk). It was part of the church district Wehlau (Snamensk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Suworowo is still in the Gwardeisk catchment area, where a new Evangelical Lutheran congregation was established in the 1990s. 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} 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): Zohpen
3. ↑ Zohpen at the Wehlau district community (PDF; 1.6 MB)
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Pregelswalde district
5. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
6. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Wehlau district (Russian Snamensk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
7. ↑ Due to a structural and administrative reform in accordance with the law on the composition and territories of the municipal entities of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1st. July 2009, along with Law No. 502 of February 24, 2005, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
8. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Suvorovo bankgorodov.ru
• Suvorovo at prussia39.ru