Wolfsdorf (Niederung district)

Lost place Wolfsdorf, district Niederung Сенцово Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Slavsk Earlier names Wolffsdorff (around 1736) Time zone UTC + 2 Geographical location Coordinates 55 ° 3 '  N , 21 ° 33'  E Coordinates: 55 ° 3 '10 "  N , 21 ° 33' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wolfsdorf ( Russian Сенцово Senzowo ) was a village in the area of ​​today's Slavsk Rajon ( Heinrichswalde district ) in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area ).

Wolfsdorf was on a side street that today leads from Bolschakowo ( Groß Skaisgirren , 1938-1946 Kreuzingen ) via Gastellowo (Groß Friedrichsdorf) to Timirjasewo (Neukirch) . It was 13 kilometers to the former district town and today's capital of the Rajons, Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) . There was no train connection.

Before 1945 Wolfsdorf (still called Wolffsdorff around 1736 ) consisted of several scattered small farms. Between 1874 and 1945 the village was incorporated into the district of Skirbst, which was renamed on April 18, 1939 in "District Heideckshof" (Russian: Slobodskoje). It was in the Niederung district (1939 to 1945 Elchniederung district ) in the Gumbinnen administrative district of the Prussian province of East Prussia . In 1910 the village had 125 inhabitants. Their number rose to 149 by 1925, was 133 in 1933 and only 128 in 1939.

In 1945 Wolfsdorf came with northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union and in 1946 was given the Russian name “Sentsowo”. In the first post-war years the village was still settled, but was then abandoned.

Before 1945 the predominantly Protestant Wolfsdorf was parish in the parish of the Neukirch Church (today in Russian: Timirjasewo). It was in the parish of Niederung in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Location information East Prussia picture archive: Wolfsdorf
2. ^ Rolf Jehke, Heideckshof district
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Niederung district
4. ↑ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Niederung (Elchniederung). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).