Yasnaya Polyana, Kaliningrad Oblast
Yasnaya Polyana (Russian Ясная Поляна, in the German time it was called Good Trakehnen, 1929 United Trakehnen ), is a village in Rajon Nesterov, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southeast of the area near the Rominter Heath. 1731 here of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia, called Soldier-King, the Royal Stutamt Trakehnen founded, which would unite all horse stocks of East Prussia in one big stud.
Geographical location
Yasnaya Polyana on the right bank of the Rodap (Russian: Rakówka ) is located on a side street that the Russian highway A 229 ( former German Reich Straße 1, today also European Route 28) to the south Romincka Forest and the places Ilyinskoye ( Kassuben ), Kalinino ( Mehlkehmen, 1938-1946 Birkenmühle ) and Uwarowo ( Ribbenischken, 1938-1946 Ribbenau ) connects before in the russian-Polish border near Saslonowo ( Szittkehmen / Schittkehmen, 1938-1946 fortified churches, Polish: Żytkiejmy ) loses.
Yasnaya Polyana is station ( Diwnoje Nowoje ) on the railway line from Kaliningrad (Königsberg ( Prussia )) to Tschernyschewskoje ( Eydtkuhnen, 1938-1946 Eydtkau ) and continue to Lithuania ( former Prussian Eastern Railway ).
Place name
The place name derives from a Trakehnen Baltic word ( Old Prussian or Lithuanian ) tetrakis = " clearing, fire plant " from. The Russian name also means bright clearing.
History
In the very north-western connection to the village in the district Stallupönen ( East Prussia ) was followed by the main Vorwerk of the Prussian main stud Trakehnen, it was the home of the Trakehner horse breed. The village Trakehnen not part of the stud.
By 1945, the town of Gross Trakehnen was a place in the district Stallupönen ( 1938-1946 district Ebenrode ) in the district of the Prussian province of East Prussia Gumbinnen. In 1885 the city counted 818 inhabitants, whose numbers dropped to 1933 to 508 and 501 in 1939.
On 24 June 1874, the district of Trakehnen was formed, which was composed of the rural community and the Iszledimmen Gutsbezirk Trakehnen. On October 10, 1884, the rural community Iszledimmen was disbanded because it had been bought for the stud. On September 30, 1929, the Gutsbezirk Trakehnen in the new rural community of Great Trakehnen was transformed, as only the District Trakehnen formed until 1945.
After the Second World War the town was Russian and was named Yasnaya Polyana, which means something like "Clear Glade " means. The repopulation was carried out as in most Russian parts of the former East Prussia, only sparse. In the village only a few houses from German period are today.
The assets of the stud farm are largely forfeited. In the former equerry House ( Castle Trakehnen ) and the former riding lads house is located since the end of World War II a school. Due to the students and teachers of the school lock the history of the place and the main stud Trakehnen be maintained in a small museum and presented on demand of the public.
Horse breeding is no longer operated directly on the site. However, is located for example in nearby majówka (the former state stud George Castle ) is a horse breeding.
Church
In its pre-1945 predominantly Protestant population Good or Great Trakehnen was in the parish Enzuhnen ( 1938-1946 Rodebach, today Russian: Tschkalowo ) incorporated and belonged to the church district Stallupönen ( 1938-1946 Ebenrode, Russian: Nesterov ) of the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.
During the Soviet Union times came the church life to a standstill. Only in the 1990s was at Yasnaya Polyana even a small evangelical church that meets in the absence of a separate church building in a private home. They divided the provost Kaliningrad in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia. The competent parish is the church of Salzburg in Gusev ( Gumbinnen ).
Sons and daughters of the town
- Karl Wilhelm Ammon (1777-1842), German author and Hippiatriker
- Georg Gottlieb Ammon (1780-1839), German author and Hippiatriker
- Walther Funk (1890-1960), German journalist, Nazi Minister of Economics and President of the Reichsbank