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Lost place Thewellen (Tewellen) Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Earlier names Mitzko Tehwell (after 1676), Mitzko Thewehl (before 1750) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 10 '  N , 21 ° 22'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 10 '30 "  N , 21 ° 21' 36"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Thewellen , 1938–1945 Tewellen , Lithuanian Tėveliai , is a desert in the area of Slavsk Rajon in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad in the former East Prussia .

Geographical location

The rural community Thewellen bordered to the north and east on the rural community of Derwehlischen, which existed until 1932, today the settlement of Rasliw .

history

The little once Thewellen called place was about 1785 a farming village and was in 1874 as a rural municipality in the district of spitting (the place was called between 1938 and 1945: stuccoes, now Russian: Jasnopoljanka) integrated, which the county Heydekrug in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged . After the Memelland was separated from the German Reich as a result of the First World War, the town and its administrative district became part of the Niederung district (from 1939 it was called Elchniederung district) with its seat in Heinrichswalde (today in Russian: Slavsk).

In 1910 134 inhabitants were registered in Thewellen. Their number rose to 184 by 1925, was 157 in 1933 and was still 138 in 1939. On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - in 1938 the spelling of the name was changed to "Tewellen".

As a result of the war, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 . It was no longer renamed there. It is unknown whether it was initially repopulated.

church

The population of Thewellens resp. Before 1945, Tewellens was almost exclusively of the Protestant denomination. The village belonged to the parish of the church Schakuhnen (the place was called between 1938 and 1945: Schakendorf, today Russian: Lewobereschnoje), which was assigned to the parish Niederung in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Rasliw lies in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) , which was newly established in the 1990s, within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Thewellen at genwiki.genealogy.net
• Thewellen at gov.genealogy.net

Individual evidence

1. ↑ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Tewellen
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Spucken / Stucken district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district Heydekrug
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Niederung (Elchniederung). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
5. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )