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Lost place
Izmailowo / Willuhnen
Измайлово
Federal district Northwest Russia
Oblast Kaliningrad
Rajon Krasnosnamensk
First mention 1621
Time zone UTC + 2
Geographical location
Coordinates 54 ° 48 '  N , 22 ° 39'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 47 '52 "  N , 22 ° 39' 13"  E
Willuhnen (European Russia)
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Location in the western part of Russia
Willuhnen (Kaliningrad Oblast)
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Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Willuhnen ( Russian Ismailowo ) is an extinct village in what was once northern East Prussia in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ). It was in the middle between Dobrowolsk (Pillkallen , 1938 to 1946 Schloßberg) and Kutusowo (Schwirwindt) in Krasnosnamensk Rajon ( Lasdehnen district , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg ).

history

The village of Willuhnen was in Prussian Lithuania , the north-eastern part of old East Prussia. The village of Willuhnen was first mentioned in 1621.

During the administrative reform in 1815, Willuhnen came to the Pillkallen district (1938 to 1945 "Landkreis Schloßberg (Ostpr.)"), Which was also the most northeastern in Prussia . The farming village took off after it had a Pillkaller Kleinbahn station . Shortly before the First World War, the village south of Lake Willuhn (now Russian: osero Borodinskoje) had almost 200 inhabitants. In August 1914, the village, like the entire area, was occupied and damaged by Russian troops. In 1939 there were 291 inhabitants.

In the course of the autumn offensive of the Red Army in 1944, it advanced via Schirwindt to Willuhnen, which has now been evacuated by its residents. The front came to a standstill here until the January offensive, but on January 16, 1945 the village was finally conquered. After the occupation of northern East Prussia by the Soviet Union , Willuhnen - called "Ismailowo" in Russian since 1946 - was initially settled, but then abandoned. The largely depopulated area between the two neighboring cities of Dobrowolsk and Kutusowo became a large military training area , in the middle of which was the location of Willuhnen.

Willuhnen District (1874–1945)

From 1874 to 1945 Willuhnen was an official village and gave its name to an administrative district in the Pillkallen district (1939 to 1945 "Landkreis Schloßberg (Ostpr.)") In the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In the beginning there were 19 rural communities or manor districts, in the end there were 14:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946		 Russian name Remarks
Abschruten
Ksp. Okay 		Schruten
Batsch throats Buzzard forest 1928 incorporated into Kummehlupchen
Batschken Buzzard eyrie 1928 incorporated into Kummehlupchen
Bühlen
Dörschkehmen Derschau (East Pr.) 1928 incorporated into Uszalxnen
Eszeruppen
1936–46: Escheruppen
Jodeglien Moosheim (East Pr.)
Jodszen
1936–38: Jodschen
Ksp. Okay 		Kleinhildesheim
Kailen
Kötschen Köschen Serkalnoye
Throat picks from 1928:
Ebenfelde
Kissing Cross height
Lengschen Bog meadow
Paplips from 1928:
Walddorf
Paulicken
Ksp. Okay
Szieden from 1936:
divorces		 Mirny
Uszalxnen Small show 1928 renaming to "Dörschkehmen"
Willuhnen (municipality) Izmailovo
Willuhnen (good) 1928 incorporated into the rural community of Willuhnen

On January 1, 1945, the Willuhnen district formed: Bühlen, Derschau, Ebenfelde, Kailen, Kleinhildesheim, Köschen, Kreuzhöhe, Moorwiese, Moosheim, Paulicken, Schieden, Schruten, Walddorf and Willuhnen.

church

Church building

A first church was built in Willuhnen in the 17th century. It became dilapidated and was replaced by a new building between 1893 and 1895. The result was a neo-Romanesque brick building with a high pointed tower in front of it with four corner turrets, which became a landmark of the place that was visible from afar. The church building did not survive the Second World War . There are only sparse remains of the foundation wall.

Parish

After the Reformation, the inhabitants of Willuhnen were mostly Protestant . In 1621 the village became Kirchdorf with a large parish of 39 villages . The parish, which in 1925 had a total of 4,417 parishioners, until 1945 belonged to the parish of Pillkallen (Schloßberg) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

literature

  • Ch. B. Lindau: From Lake Konczer near Willuhnen. (Pillkallen district) . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Third episode. Volume 11, Königsberg 1866, pp. 534-537.
  • Oskar Brunckow (ed.): The living spaces of the German Reich . Berlin-Schöneberg 1909.
  • Meyers Orts- und Verkehrslexikon for the German Empire . 5th edition. Leipzig 1913, p. 1157 .
  • Anatoly Bakhtin: Forgotten Culture. Churches in North East Prussia . Husum 1998.
  • Christian Papendiek: The north of East Prussia. Land between failure and hope . Husum Printing and Publishing Company, Husum 2009, ISBN 978-3-89876-232-8 .

Footnotes

  1. ^ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Willuhnen
  2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Willuhnen District
  3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 111, Fig. 490
  4. ↑ Historical picture of the Willuhnen Church
  5. ^ Remnants of the foundation wall of the Willuhnen Church
  6. ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 486