Wesnovo (Kaliningrad, Slavsk)

settlement Wesnowo Wasserlauken (Wasserlacken) Весново Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Founded around 1660 Earlier names Wasserkehm (around 1660), Sommerfeld (after 1660), Wasseruppen (around 1719), Warserutschen (around 1724), Waßerlaugken (after 1736), Wasserlauken (until 1938), Wasserlacken (1938–1946) population 31 residents (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40163 Post Code 238606 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 236 804 002 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 47 '  N , 21 ° 43'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '0 "  N , 21 ° 42' 50"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wesnowo ( Russian Весново , German  Wasserlauken , 1938 to 1945 Wasserlacken , Lithuanian Vasarlaukiai ) is a place in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad . It belongs to the local government unit Stadtkreis Slawsk in slavsky district .

Geographical location

Wesnowo is located 20 kilometers northwest of the former district town of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) and 28 kilometers south of the present day capital of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and can be reached via a spur road from Krasnoye (Lindicken) . There is no train connection.

history

The village, founded around 1660 and then called Wasserkehm , consisted of several small farms before 1945. In 1874 it was in the newly built office district chug incorporated, named in 1927 "District Buchhof" and until 1945 the county Insterburg in Administrative district Gumbinnen the Prussian province of East Prussia belonged.

For political and ideological reasons to avoid foreign-sounding place names, Wasserlauken was renamed "Wasserlauken" on June 3rd - officially confirmed on July 16th - of the year 1938. On April 1, 1939, the village was finally incorporated into the municipality of Lindenberg.

In 1945 the place came to the Soviet Union in the wake of the war with northern East Prussia . In 1947 he was given the Russian name "Wesnowo" again and was also assigned to the Kalinowski selski Sowet in the Bolshakovo Rajon . The place later came to the Vysokovsky selski Sowet in Slavsk Raion . From 2008 to 2015, Wesnovo belonged to the rural municipality of Bolshakovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Slavsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	132
1933	104
2002	32
2010	31

church

The almost exclusively Protestant population of Wasserlaukens resp. Wasserlackens was parish until 1945 in the parish of the Aulowönen Church (1938 to 1946: Aulenbach, today in Russian: Kalinowka). It belonged to the church district Insterburg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Wesnowo is in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Bolshakowo , a branch congregation in the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Wesnowo at bankgorodov.ru
• Wesnowo at prussia39.ru

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. ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Wasserlacken
3. ↑ 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)
4. ↑ census data
5. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )