Swetly (Kaliningrad)

city Svetly Светлый coat of arms Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Urban district Swetly Founded 1640 Earlier names Zimmerbude (until 1946) City since 1955 surface 26  km² population 21,375 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Population density 822 inhabitants / km² Height of the center 5  m Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40152 Post Code 238340 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 425 Website www.svetly.ru Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 41 ′  N , 20 ° 8 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 41 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 8 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

List of cities in Russia

Swetly ( Russian Светлый ; until 1946 German Zimmerbude ; Lithuanian Cimerbūdė ) is a rajon-free city ​​in the Kaliningrad Oblast , Russia , west of Kaliningrad . Swetly has 21,375 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010) and is located on the Frischen Haff . The city is the seat of the urban district Swetly .

history

Zimmerbude west of Koenigsberg , on the north coast of the Frischen Haff , on a map from 1910.

Seat of the city council of Swetly

The place was founded around 1640 under the name Zimmerbude as a fishing village in what was then the Duchy of Prussia . Since 1946 it has had its current name, which can be roughly translated as bright city . 1955 was granted city rights. The places Peyse (Russian Komsomolski) and Neplecken (Russian Charkowskoje) were incorporated into Svetly .

Peyse

Peyse was a fishing village east of the Fischhausener Wiek. A naval base has been located here since 1935 . Since 1938 a coal-fired power station has been used to supply electricity. With two docks, the Peyser Haken was an ideal industrial site.

Swetlowski selski Sowet 1947–1949

The village soviet Svetlowski selski Sowet (ru. Светловский сельский Совет) was established in the Primorsk district in the summer of 1947 . Its administrative seat was the place Swetloje (dt. Zimmerbude). The following places belonged to the village soviet:

Place name	German name (until 1947)
Bobrowo (Боброво)	Kobbelbude (forester's house)
Kharkovskoye (Харьковское)	Nephew
Kostrowo (Кострово)	Bludau
Kremnjowo (Кремнёво)	Groß Blumenau and Klein Blumenau
Svetloje (Светлое)	Room shack

In 1949 the two places Komsomolski (Eng. Peyse) and Swetloje were merged to form the workers' settlement Swetly. The Svetlowski Posselkowy Sowet (ru. Светловский поселковый совет), to which the place Kharkovskoye probably belonged, was spun off from Primorsk Raion and administered from the city of Baltiysk until 1952 . After a few months in which the Settlement Soviet was reassigned to Primorsk Raion, in the same year it came to the newly established Kaliningrad suburb zone (ru. Пригородная зона Калининграда, Prigorodnaja sona Kaliningrada), which was administered from Kaliningrad . The other places of the Svetlowski selski Sowet were probably assigned to the Logwinski selski Sowet within the Primorsk Raion in 1949 .

Population development

year	Residents
1933	921
1959	7,419
1970	14,836
1979	17,031
1989	19,936
2002	21,745
2010	21,375

Note: census data

church

Russian Orthodox Church of St. Barbara in Swetly

Orthodox

There are two Russian Orthodox churches in Swetly . The first is called the Church of the Annunciation and the second is dedicated to the martyr Barbara . They belong to the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltiysk of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Catholic

The Roman Catholic Church has its own church in Swetly.

Evangelical

Church building

The Protestant church in Zimmerbude came from Cranz (today Russian: Zelenogradsk). There it served the residents and holidaymakers as a church from 1855, but it soon turned out to be too small and had to give way to a new church. A grateful customer was the room shack, where a church service building was missing. It was a simple, shapeless half-timbered building that was built into Zimmerbude in 1899. Next to the church was a belfry with two bells.

The building survived the Second World War unscathed, was then plastered and used as a cinema . Now the former church is said to be in use as an outbuilding of the Russian Orthodox Church .

Parish

A Protestant parish in Zimmerbude has only existed since 1901, when it was formed two years after the construction of the church building from parts of the parishes of the Medenau Church (now Russian: Logwino (Kaliningrad) | Logwino) and the Fischhausen (East Prussia) ( Primorsk ) church . With the parish locations Neplecken (Russian: Charkowskoje, no longer existent), Peyse (Komsomolski, in Swetly) and Zimmerbude it belonged to the parish of Fischhausen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . Since 1896, Zimmerbude received its own parish office, whose office holders looked after 1,400 parishioners (as in the census of 1925). In office until 1945 were the pastors: Albert Gottschalk, 1896–1932, and Georg Sperling, 1933–1943. The latter was head of the pastors' emergency association founded by Martin Niemöller and was active in the Confessing Church , whereby his parish in Zimmerbude was one of the liveliest in Samland .

Flight and expulsion as well as the subsequent restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union brought the evangelical church life in Zimmerbude to a standstill. It was not until the 1990s that new Evangelical Lutheran congregations emerged in the Kaliningrad Oblast . Today Swetly is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia . Until April 13, 2014, the congregation used the church of the Roman Catholic congregation for the services. On Palm Sunday 2014, the parish hall with church hall (in the Peyse district ) was consecrated by Bishop Dietrich Brauer and handed over to the congregation for worship.
The Evangelical Lutheran parish in Swetly currently consists of around 30 mostly older parishioners (mostly women).

Partnerships

There are partnerships with the Polish cities of Kętrzyn (formerly Rastenburg ) and Świnoujście (formerly Swinoujscie ). Since July 2012 there has been a town partnership with the Belarusian city ​​of Lida and since September 20, 2012 with the Swedish city ​​of Karlshamn . On May 22, 2014, a town twinning with Molodechno in Belarus was concluded.

economy

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The main industries are fishing and fish processing. The port is also important as a transshipment point; the Lukoil group maintains a mineral oil port here. In 2011, the expansion of the port began. With an investment volume of 310 million euros, a deep water terminal with three piers and a new shipyard are to be built by 2013.

education

There are three state middle schools in Swetly. In 2010 around 2,600 children and young people attended the city's educational institutions.

transport

In Svetly there is a stop on the Kaliningrad - Baltiysk railway line , which has not been served since 2009 due to inefficiency.

In the city buses no go. 105 and 108. A ride within the city costs eight rubles (the equivalent of about 0.20 € ). A one-way bus ride to Kaliningrad, around 28 kilometers away, costs 47 rubles (€ 1.17) and takes about an hour and ten minutes. Students and schoolchildren pay half the fare.

There are also Marshrutka connections to Kaliningrad, Baltiysk and Kaliningrad Airport .

Picture gallery

The pictures were taken in June 2012.

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  Buildings on Nakhimov Boulevard

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  Sovetskaya Street

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  Crossroads on Kaliningradskaya Street

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  New building on Kaliningradskaya Street

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  The Sudoremontnik Stadium

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  Small mall

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  music school

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  Monument to the liquidators of the Chernobyl disaster

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  The city park

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  The Kaliningrad Maritime Canal

Web links

• Swetly on mojgorod.ru (Russian)

See also

• List of cities in Kaliningrad Oblast

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. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
3. ↑ only Groß Blumenau was renamed
4. ↑ The place Komsomolski had possibly been administered from Baltijsk (or Kaliningrad) before 1949
5. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 37, fig. 69
6. ↑ Patrick Plew, Churches in Samland: Room Bude
7. ↑ Swetly - Zimmerbude at ostpreussen.net
8. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 152
9. ↑ 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. 
10. ^ Preussische Allgemeine Zeitung / episode 15-11 of April 16, 2011
11. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2013 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.