Volnoye (Kaliningrad, Pravdinsk)

settlement Wolnoje / Wolla (Ebenau) Вольное Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Pravdinsk Earlier names Wolla (until 1938), Ebenau (1938–1945), Wollja (1945–1947) population 20 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Post Code 238412 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 233 802 005 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 23 '  N , 21 ° 23'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 23 '10 "  N , 21 ° 23' 10"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Wolnoje ( Russian Вольное , German Wolla , 1938–1945 Ebenau (Ostpr.) ) Is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and belongs to the Gorodskoje posselenije Schelesnodoroschnoje (township Schelesnodoroschny) in Pravdinsk district .

Geographical location

Wolnoje is seven kilometers northeast of the former district town of Schelesnodoroschny on a side road that connects Vishnevoye ( Altendorf ) on the Russian highway A 196 with Oserki and Gussewo on the highway R 508 .

Until 2001 there was a connection to the Toruń – Tschernjachowsk (Thorn – Insterburg) line via the “Oserki-Wolnoje” station (until 1945 “ Georgenfelde ” ) , the section of which has been decommissioned on Russian territory.

history

The former Wolla - until 1945 located in the district of Gerdauen in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia - belonged in 1874 to the ten rural communities or manor districts that formed the newly established administrative district of Schloss Gerdauen. In 1910 the village had 193 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the municipality expanded to include the Brolost manor district , which was incorporated into the rural municipality of Wolla. When the district of Schloss Gerdauen was dissolved on November 24, 1931, Wolla came to the district of Annawalde (Russian: Smolnoje), which was renamed "District Barraginn " only one year later and again in 1938 as "District Georgenhain".

In 1933 there were 276 people in the rural community of Wolla, although their number had fallen to 236 by 1939. On June 3, 1938 - with official confirmation of July 16, 1938 - Wolla was renamed Ebenau with the addition "(Ostpr.)" For political and ideological reasons .

After the Second World War, the place came to the Soviet Union with northern East Prussia in 1945 and was renamed as Wollja in Wolnoje in 1947 . Until 2009, the place within the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad was incorporated into the Vishnevsky soviet (Dorfsovjet Vishnevoye) and since then - due to a structural and administrative reform - it has been classified as a “settlement” (possjolok) within the Gorodskoje posselenije Schelesnodoroschnoje (township Schelesnodoroschnoje ) in Pravdinsk Raion .

church

The predominantly Protestant population of Wolla / Ebenau was in the until 1945 parish Gerdauen in the same church district within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches the parish.

Today Wolnoye is located in the catchment area of ​​the Protestant parish in Chernyakhovsk , which belongs to the Kaliningrad provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

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. ^ Rolf Jehke, District of Schloss Gerdauen
3. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory
4. ^ Rolf Jehke, Georgenhain district
5. ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. Landkreis Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschnyj). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006). 
6. ↑ 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 of the Kaliningrad Oblast" of November 17, 1947)
7. ↑ According to the Law on the Composition and Territories of Municipal Forms of the Kaliningrad Oblast of June 25th / 1. July 2009, along with Law No. 476 of December 21, 2004, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
8. ↑ Gerdauen parish
9. ↑ Ev.-luth. Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )