Velikolukskoje (Kaliningrad, Gwardeisk)

settlement Velikolukskoje / Wargienen Kr. Wehlau Великолукское Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk First mention 1528 Earlier names Wargiens (until 1946) population 83 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40159 Post Code 238220 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 206 804 002 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 39 '  N , 21 ° 0'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 38 '30 "  N , 21 ° 0' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Welikolukskoje ( Russian Великолукское , German  , Kreis Wehlau Wargienen , lithuanian Vargynai ) is a place in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (region Königsberg (Prussia) ) and belongs to Slawinskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Slawinsk (Goldbach) ) in Gvardeysky District (District Tapiau ).

Geographical location

Velikolukskoje on the north bank of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja) is 15 kilometers west of the former district town of Znamensk (Wehlau) and three kilometers southwest of the current district metropolis of Gwardeisk (Tapiau) and can be reached via a side road. Today there is only a rail connection via Gwardeisk, until 1945 Bonslack- Popehnen (Russian: Gorki (now defunct) -Swenjewoje) was the next train station on the route from Tapiau via Possinder (Russian: Roschtschino) to Königsberg (Prussia) , operated by the Wehlau – Friedlander Kreisbahnen .

history

The village formerly called Wargienen was first mentioned in 1528. Between 1874 and 1945 it belonged to the administrative district (Russian: Gorki, no longer exists) Bonslack in district Wehlau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 there were 160 inhabitants registered in Wargien. Their number rose to 178 by 1933 and was 196 in 1939.

In 1945 Wargienen came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia and in 1946 received the Russian name "Velikolukskoje". Until 2009, the place was incorporated into the Borski selski soviet (Dorfsovjet Borskoje (Schiewenau) ) and has since been a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) classified as a "settlement" (Russian: possjolok) within the Slawinskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Slavinsk (Goldbach) ). in Gwardeisk Raion of Kaliningrad Oblast .

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Wargienens was parish before 1945 in the parish of the Kremitten Church (Russian: Losowoje) and belonged to the Wehlau church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Velikolukskoje is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Gwardeisk (Tapiau) , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELCER).

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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Wargienen
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Bonslack district
4. ^ Uli Schubert, community directory, Wehlau district
5. ↑ 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). 
6. ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, in conjunction with Law No. 502 of February 24, 2005, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
7. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

• Velikolukskoye bankgorodov.ru