Chistopolje (Kaliningrad, Pravdinsk)

settlement Tschistopolje / Bothkeim Чистополье Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Pravdinsk Earlier names Bothkeim (until 1947) population 33 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238400 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 233 819 020 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 26 '  N , 20 ° 57'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 25 '51 "  N , 20 ° 56' 45"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Tschistopolje ( Russian Чистополье , German Bothkeim ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and belongs to the Domnowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Domnowo (Domnau) ) in Pravdinsk Rajon ( Friedland district (Eastern Prussia) ).

Geographical location

Tschistopolje is four kilometers southwest of Prawdinsk (Friedland) and can be reached via a strait that branches off the Prawdinsk – Schirokoje (Schönbruch) road (former German Reichsstrasse 142 ). A rail connection has not existed since the pre-1945 railway line from Königsberg (today in Russian: Kaliningrad) to Heilsberg (today in Polish: Lidzbark Warmiński) with the Preußisch Wilten (Russian: Snamenskoje) train station is out of service.

history

Gutsdorf, formerly known as Bothkeim , and its district Grünwalde (Russian: Antonowo) belonged to the Mertensdorf district (Russian: Tjomkino) between 1874 and 1928 . It belonged to 1927 the county Friedland , then to district Bartenstein (Ostpr.) In the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910, 108 inhabitants were registered in Bothkeim. On November 1, 1928, Bothkeim gave up its independence and was incorporated with Grünwalde in the rural community Deutsch Wilten (Russian: Yermakowo) and thus belonged to the Abbarten (Prudy) district, which was renamed "Deutsch Wilten District" from May 4, 1930 has been.

As a result of the Second World War , Bothkeim came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia and in 1947 received the Russian name "Tschistopolje". Until 2009 the place was part of the Poretschinski soviet (village council Poretschje (Allenau) ) and since then - due to a structural and administrative reform - it has been classified as a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) within the Domnowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Domnowo ( Domnau) ) in Pravdinsk Raion of Kaliningrad Oblast.

church

With its almost exclusively Protestant population, Bothkeim was parish before 1945 in the Friedland parish (today in Russian: Prawdinsk). It belonged to the church district of the same name , later to the church district Bartenstein (now Polish: Bartoszyce) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Even today there is a church connection from Tschistopolje to Pravdinsk, whose parish is now a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) . It belongs to 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, Mertensdorf district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Friedland district
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Abbarten District / Deutsch Wilten
5. ↑ Through the Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 17 ноября 1947 г. «О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Ordinance of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the RSFSR "On the Renaming of Places of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
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. ↑ Place directory / parishes of Bartenstein district ( memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ Ev.-luth. 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.