Warkallen (Goldap district)

Lost place Warkallen (Wartenstein) Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Nesterow Founded before 1539 Earlier names Wackollenn (before 1556), Wirckallen (before 1724), Warckallen (after 1740), Warkallen (until 1938), Wartenstein (1938–1946) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 23 ′  N , 22 ° 20 ′  E Coordinates: 54 ° 23 ′ 0 ″  N , 22 ° 20 ′ 0 ″  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Warkallen (1938 to 1946: Wartenstein (Ostpr.), Lithuanian Varkaliai ) was a place in East Prussia . His orphaned Ortsstelle is today in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (region Königsberg (Prussia) ) in the current Tschistoprudnenskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Chistye Prudy (Tollmingkehmen , 1938-1946 Toll Mingen) ) in Nesterovsky District (District Stallupönen , 1939-1945 District Ebenrode ) .

Geographical location

Warkallen was on the northwest edge of the Rominter Heide (Russian: Krasny Les), nine kilometers north of the district town of Goldap (Polish: Gołdap), which is now part of Poland . The former German Reichsstraße 132 ran through the village , on the route of which the Russian regional road 27A-011 runs from Gussew (Gumbinnen) to the Russian-Polish border, which is only four kilometers away, and then continues as the Polish state road DK 65 . It was only three kilometers to the next train station in Rominten (1938 to 1946: Hardteck, today in Russian: Krasnolessje). This is where the railway lines from Gumbinnen (Russian: Gussew) to Goldap and from Goldap to Stallupönen (1938 to 1946: Ebenrode, Russian: Nesterow) met.

history

The later Warkallen was founded before 1539. The small village was incorporated into the newly established Rominten District in 1874, which - renamed "Hardteck District" in 1939 - belonged to the Goldap district in the Gumbinnen district of the Prussian province of East Prussia until 1945 .

Warkallen was the school location. The small town of Bromberg (no longer existent) belonged to the rural community .

In 1910, 127 residents were registered in Warkallen. Their number decreased to 107 by 1933 and totaled 117 in 1939. On June 3 - officially confirmed on July 16 - of the year 1938, Warkallen was renamed "Wartenstein (Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons to avoid non-German sounding place names. “Renamed.

As a result of the war and in connection with the flight and expulsion of the local population , the place came to the Soviet Union in 1945 with northern East Prussia . However, there was no longer any settlement and a Russian place name is not known. The village is considered extinct.

church

The population of Warkallen resp. Before 1945, Wartensteins was almost exclusively of the Protestant denomination. The village belonged to the parish of the church Rominten (Hartdeck) in the church district Goldap within the church province East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union . Today the Russian-Polish border runs through this parish area.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Register of Places East Prussia (2005): Wartenstein (Ostpr.)
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Rominten / Hardteck district
3. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, district Goldap
4. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Goldap district. (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).