Vysokoye (Kaliningrad, Bagrationovsk)
settlement
Wyssokoje / Tiefenthal
Высокое
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Wyssokoje ( Russian Высокое , German Tiefenthal , Lithuanian Tifentalis ) is a place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad and belongs to the rural community Dolgorukowskoje in Bagrationovsk district .
Geographical location
Vysokoye is located 21 kilometers northwest of the Rajons- and former district town of Bagrationowsk (Prussian Eylau) on the west bank of the Stradick river (Russian: Kornewka). Somewhat out of the way, the place can be reached via Medowoje (Tykrigehnen) on a side road that runs from Bagrationowsk via Krasnosnamenskoje (Dollstädt) and Slawskoje (Kreuzburg) to Swetloje (Kobbelbude) on the Russian trunk road R 516 (former Reichsautobahn Berlin – Königsberg “ Berlinka ") leads.
history
The before 1946 Tiefenthal village called was in the newly created 1874 District nominal nod (Russian Today: Medowoje) incorporated and belonged until 1945 to the district Preußisch Eylau in the administrative district of Konigsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1910, 325 residents lived here. Their number was 311 in 1933 and only 257 in 1939.
In the aftermath of the Second World War , Tiefenthal came to the Soviet Union in northern East Prussia and in 1947 was given the Russian name " Vysokoye ". Until 2008 it was incorporated into the village soviet or village district Pushkinski and since then - due to a structural and administrative reform - it has been classified as a “settlement” (Russian: possjolok) within the rural community Dolgorukowskoje .
church
Before 1945 the population of Tiefenthal was almost exclusively of Protestant denomination. The place was parish in the parish Kreuzburg (today Russian: Slawskoje) and belonged to the parish of Preußisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The last German clergyman was Pastor Arno Stritzel .
Today Vysokoye lies in the catchment area of the two newly formed Protestant parishes in Mamonowo (Heiligenbeil) and the village parish in Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) . Both are branch communities of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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)
- ^ Location information - picture archive East Prussia: Tiefenthal
- ^ Rolf Jehke, Sollnicken district
- ↑ Uli Schubert, community directory, Prussian Eylau district
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Preussisch Eylau (Russian Bagrationowsk). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).
- ↑ 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. 253 of June 30, 2008, specified by Law No. 370 of July 1, 2009
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty of Kaliningrad ( Memento of August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Web links
- Vyskoye bankgorodov.ru (Russian)