Talpaki

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settlement
Talpaki
Taplacken

Талпаки
Federal district Northwest Russia
Oblast Kaliningrad
Rajon Gwardeisk
First mention 1338
Earlier names Tapelawke (before 1400),
Taplawken (around 1440),
Tapplauwken (before 1459),
Taplacken (until 1947)
population 374 inhabitants
(as of Oct. 14, 2010)
Time zone UTC + 2
Telephone code (+7) 40159
Post Code 238214
License Plate 39, 91
OKATO 27 206 813 001
Geographical location
Coordinates 54 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 20'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 '3 "  N , 21 ° 20' 22"  E
Talpaki (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Talpaki (Kaliningrad Oblast)
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Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Talpaki ( Russian Талпаки , German  Taplacken , Lithuanian Toplaukiai ) is a place on the north bank of the Pregel in Russia in the Gwardeisk Raion of the Kaliningrad Oblast . Talpaki is a settlement of the municipal self-government unit in the Gwardeisk district .

Geographical location

The village is located in the historical region of East Prussia , nine kilometers northwest of Znamensk ( Wehlau ).

Talpaki has regional traffic importance. The autobahn-like section of the main road A229 ends here , which corresponds to the former Reichsstraße 1 from Königsberg (Prussia) to Eydtkuhnen and which today forms part of the road connection to the Russian heartland. In addition, the trunk road A 216 (former German Reichsstrasse 138 ) branches off northwards towards Sovetsk ( Tilsit ) and Lithuania .

Surname

Taplacken east of Königsberg and northeast of Wehlau on a map from 1908.
Town entrance

The place is mentioned for the first time in 1388 as Tapelawke . Since the place was even translated as Warmfelt in 1440 , it is assumed that the first part of the name can be reconstructed as * tapja 'warm'. Blažiene, meanwhile, compares with Lithuanian tapoti 'tapsen', onomatopoeic origin. The second part of the name is often found in settlement names and comes from Old Prussian or Lithuanian laucas 'field'.

history

The first mention of until 1946 Taplacken mentioned village took place in 1338. Between 1874 and 1945 the place was eponymous for a District , the for loop Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged. In addition to the rural community of Taplacken, the manor district of Domain Taplacken and the neighboring communities of Petersdorf (today Russian: Kuibyschewskoje) and Stobingen (Liwny) were incorporated into this administrative district.

In 1910 the rural community Taplacken had 280 inhabitants and the manorial district Domaine Taplacken 308 inhabitants. Both unite on September 30, 1928 to form the new rural community of Taplacken. The population was 436 in 1933 and 415 in 1939.

As a result of the Second World War , Taplacken came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 and was given the Russian name “Talpaki” in 1947; As one of the few in the former North East Prussia, the place was able to keep its historical name only slightly changed. At the same time, Talpaki was initially the seat of a village soviet, which was later temporarily moved to Kuibyshevskoye . From 2008 to 2014 the place belonged to the rural municipality Sorinskoje with seat in Talpaki. Since its dissolution, the place has belonged to the municipal self-government unit of the Gwardeisk district .

Ordensburg

Castle ruins in Talpaki

A Prussian castle hill 800 meters north of Taplacken an der Nehme is occupied . The order built the first castle complex in the 13th century, which was destroyed by the Lithuanians under Prince Kynstut in 1376. The later reconstruction took place on a promontory protruding from the mud, which was better to be secured, the actual Taplacken Castle . The expansion of cellars had to be avoided because of the damp ground. A domain was later set up in the castle .

church

With its almost exclusively Protestant population, Taplacken was parish until 1945 in the parish of the Petersdorf Church (East Prussia) (today in Russian: Kuibyschewskoje), which belonged to the church district of Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Church life collapsed due to the flight and displacement of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union . It was not until the 1990s that a new Evangelical Lutheran congregation was formed in Talpaki, a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

See also

literature

  • Blažiene, Grasilda: Hydronymia Europaea, special volume II, The Baltic place names in Samland , Wolfgang Schmid Ed., Steiner Verlag Stuttgart 2000
  • Salemke, Gerhard: Site plans of the ramparts of the former province of East Prussia , Gütersloh, 2005

Web links

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. Vytautas Mažiulis. Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas Vol. 4, RZ. Vilnius
  3. Blažiene, Grasilda: Hydronymia Europaea, Special Volume II, The Baltic place names, Wolfgang Schmid Ed Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2000, p 159th
  4. D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Taplacken
  5. ^ Rolf Jehke, Taplacken district
  6. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
  7. 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).
  8. The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 июня 1947 г. "Об образовании сельских советов, городов и рабочих поселков в Калининградской области" (Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR of 17 June 1947: On the Formation of village Soviets, cities and workers' settlements in Kaliningrad Oblast)
  9. Salemke, Gerhard: Maps of Wall castles of the former province of East Prussia, Gütersloh, 2005 Map 35/15
  10. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.propstei-kaliningrad.info