Tarasovka (Kaliningrad)

Lost place Tarassowka / Alt Sussemilken (Friedrichsrode) Тарасовка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Polessk Founded 1782 Earlier names Sussemilken (after 1785), Sussemilken (before 1895), Alt Sussemilken (until 1938), Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.) (Until 1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 56 '  N , 21 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '8 "  N , 21 ° 21' 34"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Tarassowka ( Russian Тарасовка , German  Alt Sussemilken , 1938 to 1946 Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.) , Lithuanian Sinieji Susimilkiai ) was a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ). It existed until the 1960s. Its local office is located in the far south-east of the Golowkinskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Golowkino (Nemonien , 1938 to 1946 Elchwerder) ) in the Polessk district ( Labiau district ).

Geographical location

The Tarasowkas locality is located 18 kilometers northeast of the district town of Polessk (Labiau) on the west bank of the Timber Canal (Russian: Golowkinski kanal) and can be reached on a road coming from the southeast. The nearest train station is Bogatowo (Szargillen , 1938 to 1946 Eichenrode) on the Kaliningrad – Sowetsk (Königsberg – Tilsit) railway line .

history

The village of Sußimilken , founded in 1782, was named as a rural community within the Pfeil district from 1908 . This was in the district of Labiau in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 Alt Sussemilken had 323 inhabitants. The number was 320 in 1933 and rose to 449 by 1939.

On December 1, 1935, Alt Sussemilken was reclassified from the Pfeil district to the Lauknen district (between 1938 and 1945 " Großes Moosbruch district "), with the district affiliation remaining unchanged. On June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938, Alt Sussemilken was renamed to "Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names.

But this renaming did not last long: when the place came to the Soviet Union in 1945 as a result of the war with northern East Prussia , it was given the Russian name “Tarasovka” in 1946. From 1947 to the newly formed Polessk Rajon ( Labiau district ), the place was incorporated into the newly created Golowkinski selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Golowkino (Memonies , 1938 to 1946 Elchwerder) ). A kolkhoz started operating in the village, but had to close again in the 1960s. The building and the church were torn down to obtain building materials. The place was abandoned and is now considered extinct.

church

See the main article → Church of Sussemilken

Church building

Alt Sussemilken was one of the youngest foundations of the Labiau district as a church village. In the years 1905/06 a church was built here, which was considered the jubilee church . It was a wood-clad building with a narrower choir room . The tower was also paneled in wood, and the pulpit and baptismal font were also made of wood. The church had an organ from the workshop of Bruno Goebel in Königsberg , today's Kaliningrad.

The church building survived the Second World War unscathed. Afterwards it was used by others or remained unused. When the kolkhoz went out of operation in the 1960s and was torn down, the church was also destroyed, of which only a few remaining foundations and the base can be made out today.

Parish

The parish of Sussemilken, based in Alt Sussemilken, was founded in 1903 and separated from the Mehlauken church . An assistant preacher had been employed here since 1900, and his position was converted into an ordinary one in 1903. In 1925 the parish, comprising nine localities, had 2,300 parishioners. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the church district Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Because of the flight and displacement of the local population, church life came to a standstill. Moreover, the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union made any revival impossible.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ from 1936 to 1938 the spelling was Schargillen
2. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.)
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, district arrow
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Labiau
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Labiau district (Russian Polessk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ^ Rolf Jehke, Lauknen / Großes Moosbruch district
7. ^ Tarassowka - Sussemilken / Friedrichsrode
8. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 58
9. ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 465