Zverevo (Kaliningrad, Pravdinsk)

settlement Swerewo / Wall paints Зверево Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Pravdinsk Earlier names Wall lacquers (until 1950) population 40 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238412 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 233 802 007 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 20 '  N , 21 ° 24'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 20 '10 "  N , 21 ° 24' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Swerewo ( Russian Зверево , German wall paints ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ). It is located in Prawdinsk district ( Friedland district (Eastern Pr.) ) And belongs to Gorodskoje posselenije Schelesnodoroschnoje (township of Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) ).

Geographical location

Swerewo is six kilometers east of Schelesnodoroschny (Gerdauen) on the Russian trunk road A 196 (former German Reichsstrasse 131 ). Before 1945, a street led south from the previous wall lacquer , which connected the towns of Assaunen (now Polish: Asuny) and Aftinten (Aptynty) to what is now the Polish Voivodeship Road 591 (former Reichsstraße 141 ), but today it is connected to the Russian-Polish one State border is cut.

Before 1945, Wandlacken was a train station on the railway line from Königsberg (Kaliningrad) via Löwenhagen (Komsomolsk) and Gerdauen to Angerburg (Węgorzewo) , which is no longer in operation.

Place name

The German place name is reminiscent of the location of Wandlackens in the former Prussian tribal area of Barta . The name describes "humid area" (undan / Wundan = water, laucas / lack = arable, field, homestead).

history

The former Gutsdorf Wandlacken was between 1874 and 1930 also the district village for the district Wandlacken, which belonged to the district of Gerdauen in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 389 inhabitants in wall paint.

In 1930 the administrative seat of the district was relocated to Altendorf (Russian: Wischnjowoje).

In 1933 there were 578 people in the municipality of Wandlacken, and in 1939 there were still 569 people. Until 1945, the districts of Bawien (1938–1945 Bauden , Russian: Nikitino), Klinthenen (Snamenka), Linde (Michailowka), Rehfließ and Wickerau (Cherkassovka) belonged to the municipality of Wandlacken .

In 1945 wall paints came to the Soviet Union within northern East Prussia and in 1950 received the Russian name " Swerewo ". Until 2009 the place was incorporated into the Wischnjowski Soviet (Dorfsowjet Wischnjowoje (Altendorf) ) within the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad since 1991/92 . Since then - due to a structural and administrative reform - it has been classified as a "settlement" (possjolok) within the Gorodskoje Posselenije Schelesnodoroschnoje (township of Schelesnodorozhny (Gerdauen) ) in Pravdinsk district .

District wall paints

When the Walllacken District was formed on April 9, 1874, it included:

Name (until 1946)	Today's name
Rural communities :
Klinthenen	Snamenka
Pre-lacquer	Krymskoje
Schiffus	Siwoszewo *)
Manor :
Wall paints	Swerevo
Vorwerk :
Linden tree	Mikhailovka
Wickerau	Cherkassovka

*) = is now on Polish territory

On May 18, 1930, the district wall paints in "District Altendorf " (Russian: Wischnjowoje) was renamed.

church

The overwhelming majority of the population of Wandlacken was of the Protestant denomination before 1945 . The village was in the parish of today situated on the territory of Poland Church Assaunen (Polish: Asuny) the parish and belonged to the parish of Gerdauen within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches .

Today's Swerevo lies in the church region of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

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. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Wall Lacken / Altendorf
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ↑ 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 in the Kaliningrad region" of July 5, 1950). The German name is printed on candlesticks in the renaming decree .
6. ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, along with Law No. 476 of December 21, 2004, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
7. ↑ Rolf Jehke, District Wall Lacken / Altendorf (as above)
8. ^ Parish Assaunen
9. ↑ Ev.-luth. Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )