Vorobyovo (Kaliningrad)

settlement Vorobjowo Groß Hohenrade Воробьёво Federal district Northwest Russia Oblast Kaliningrad Rajon Guryevsk Earlier names Hohen Rade (around 1539), Hogenradt (around 1540), Hoenrade (after 1542), Hoenrodt (after 1563), Hoenrhade (after 1565), Hohenrade (before 1910), Groß Hohenrade (until 1946) population 86 inhabitants (as of Oct. 14, 2010) Time zone UTC + 2 Telephone code (+7) 40151 Post Code 238313 License Plate 39, 91 OKATO 27 209 822 004 Geographical location Coordinates 54 ° 42 '  N , 20 ° 50'  E Coordinates: 54 ° 41 '55 "  N , 20 ° 49' 30"  E

Location in the western part of Russia

Location in Kaliningrad Oblast

Vorobjowo ( Russian Воробьёво , German  Groß Hohenrade ) 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

Vorobjowo is located 20 kilometers east of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) on the municipal road 27K-031 (old route of federal road A229 , former German Reich road 1 ). In the village, the municipal road 27K-214 branches off in a north-easterly direction, which already reaches the Gwardeisk district in Roschtschino (Possinders) .

Until 1945, Groß Hohenrade was a train station on the route from Königsberg (Prussia) and Prawten (Russian: Lomonossowo) to Possinder (Roschtschino) and Tapiau (Gwardeisk) of the Königsberg small railway .

history

The former Gutsdorf, known as Groß Hohenrade until 1946 , was incorporated into the newly established district of Heiligenwalde in 1874. He belonged to the district of Königsberg (Prussia) (1939 to 1945 district of Samland ) in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia .

In 1910 Groß Hohenrade had 90 inhabitants. On November 15, 1928, the independence of Groß Hohenrades expired when the manor village merged with the rural communities of Pogauen (Russian: Wyssokoje) and Rogahnen (Dworki) to form the new rural community of Pogauen.

As a result of the Second World War , northern East Prussia and with it Groß Hohenrade came to the Soviet Union . In 1947 the place was given the Russian name Vorobjowo and at the same time was assigned to the village soviet Nisowski selski Sowet in Gurjewsk Rajon . From 2008 to 2013 Vorobyovo belonged to the rural municipality Nizovskoye selskoje posselenije and since then to the urban district of Guryevsk.

church

Before 1945 the inhabitants of Groß Hohenrades were almost without exception Protestant denominations. Groß Hohenrade was a parish within the parish of the Church of Heiligenwalde (Russian: Uschakowo) in the parish of Königsberg-Land II in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Paul Kortzitzki .

Today Vorobyovo is located in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran Resurrection Church Community in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) , part of the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELCER).

Sons and daughters of the place

• Kurt Andersen (1898–2003), Brigadier General of the Federal Border Guard

Web links

• Vorobyovo 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: Groß Hohenrade
3. ^ Rolf Jehke, Heiligenwalde district
4. ↑ Uli Schubert, municipality directory, district of Königsberg
5. ↑ 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)
6. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )