Werbnoje (Kaliningrad)
settlement
Werbnoje
Darienen Вербное
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Werbnoje ( Russian Вербное , German Darienen ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Selenogradsk in Zelenogradsky District .
Geographical location
Werbnoje on the southern shore of the Curonian Lagoon (Russian: Kurschski Saliw) located 24 kilometers north of the Oblasthauptstadt Kaliningrad (Konigsberg) and five kilometers southeast of the Rajonstadt Zelenogradsk (Cranz) on the municipal road 27K-211 Sosnowka (Bledau) with Lugowskoje (Lobitten) connects . The nearest train station is Sosnowka on the Kaliningrad – Zelenogradsk – Pionersky railway line (Königsberg – Cranz – Neukuhren) .
history
The village, called Darienen before 1946 , which was still called Wargienen until 1855 , was incorporated into the newly established Bledau district (today in Russian: Sosnowka) in 1874 and belonged to the Königsberg district (Prussia) (1939 to 1945 Samland district ) in the Königsberg administrative district of the Prussian province East Prussia . On July 12, 1909, the town - which had a total of 143 inhabitants in 1895 - was incorporated into the Bledau (Sosnowka) manor district and thus lost its independence.
In 1945 Darienen came to the Soviet Union like all other towns in northern East Prussia . The place received the Russian name Werbnoje in 1947 and was assigned at the same time to the village soviet Cholmski selski Sowet in Primorsk Raion . Later the place came to the Vishnevsky selski Sowet . From 2005 to 2015 Werbnoje belonged to the rural community Kovrovskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the city district of Zelenogradsk.
church
Darienen with its predominantly Protestant population was until 1945 in the parish Cranz - Sarkau (Russian: Selenogradsk-Lesnoi) the parish and belonged to the church district Königsberg Country II within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . Pastor Waldemar Leege was the last German clergyman . Even today, Werbnoje is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) , which was newly established in the 1990s , now a subsidiary congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
FAPSI control center
Today there is a large-scale control center of the Federal Agency for Government Telecommunications and Information (FAPSI, Russian: Federalnoje Agentstwo Prawitelstwennoi Swjasi i Informazii - ФАПСИ) southwest of the Werbnoje settlement .
Personalities
- Hugo Tortilowicz von Batocki-Friebe (* 1878; † July 12, 1920 in Darienen), royal Prussian district administrator
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Darienen
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Bledau district
- ↑ 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 in Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )