Wessjolowka (Kaliningrad, Gurjewsk)

settlement Vessjolowka Sielkeim Весёловка Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk Founded before 1375 Earlier names Silkaymen (around 1375), Sylikeim (after 1404), Silkayme (after 1499), Silkaim (around 1540), Sylligkeim (after 1542), Sylkaym (after 1565), Sielkeim (until 1946) population 78 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40151 Post Code 238323 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 209 807 008 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 46 '  N , 20 ° 54'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 46 '2 "  N , 20 ° 54' 0"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wessjolowka ( Russian Весёловка , German  Sielkeim ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad . It belongs to the municipal self-government unit of the Guryevsk District in Guryevsk Raion .

Geographical location

Wessjolowka is located northeast of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the eastern tip of the Gurjewsk Rajon . The municipal road 27K-072 leads through the village from Saretschje (Kaymen) to Ossinowka (Stampelken) . The nearest train station is Dobrino (Nautzken) on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk (Koenigsberg – Tilsit) line .

history

The village, called Sielkeim until 1946, dates back to before 1375 in its foundation.

Between 1874 and 1945 Sielkeim was incorporated into the Kaymen district (1938–1946 Kaimen , today Russian: Saretschje) and belonged to the Labiau district in the Königsberg district of the Prussian province of East Prussia .

As a result of the Second World War , Sielkeim came to the Soviet Union due to its location in northern East Prussia . In 1950 the place was given the Russian name Vessjolowka and was assigned to the village soviet Dobrinski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . From 2008 to 2013 Vessjolowka belonged to the rural municipality Dobrinskoje selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Gurjewsk.

Population development

year	Residents
1910	429
1933	358
1939	371
2002	61
2010	78

church

The majority of the population of Sielkeim was Protestant before 1945 and was parish in the parish of Kaymen (1938–1946 Kaimen , Russian: Saretschje). It belonged to the parish of Labiau within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Vessjolowka is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Polessk (Labiau) , a branch of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Web links

• Vessjolovka at bankgorodov.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. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Sielkeim
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Kaimen district
4. ↑ The Указ Президиума Верховного Совета РСФСР от 5 июля 1950 г., №745 / 3, "О переименовании населённых пунктов Калининградской области» (Regulation 745/3 of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR "About renaming of places of Kaliningrad Oblast" from July 5, 1950)
5. ↑ census data
6. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran 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.