Chekhovo, Kaliningrad Oblast

Tschechowo (Russian Чехово, German Uderwangen, lit. Čechovas ) is a place in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ). It is located in the northeast of Rajon Bagrationowsk ( circle Prussian Eylau ) and belongs to Gwardeiskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Gwardeiskoje ( Mühlhausen) ).

  • 3.1 Church building
  • 3.2 parish
  • 3.3 priest (until 1945)

Geographical location

Tschechowo located 23 kilometers southeast of Kaliningrad (Königsberg ) and 22 kilometers northeast of the Rajonshauptstadt Bagrationowsk ( Prussian Eylau ). Through the town the Russian highway A runs 196 ( former German Empire Road 131), which runs from Kaliningrad to after Krylowo (North Castle ) and before 1945 until after Arys (now Polish: Orzysz ) led. In Tschechowo one of Gwardeiskoje ( Mühlhausen) ends (on the highway A 195 ( former National Highway 128 ) located ) on Tambowskoje ( Vierzighuben and Karlshof ) and Soldatskoje ( Lewitten and Pilgrim ) next side street.

By 1945, the then Uderwangen was called Place railway station on the railway line from Königsberg (now Russian Kaliningrad ) to Angerburg (now Polish: Węgorzewo ), which is no longer in operation but.

Due to the northern area of the place of Frisching (Russian: Prochladnaja ) flows on its way to the Vistula Lagoon, near Uschakowo (Brandenburg).

History

Uderwangen was founded in 1365 as interest village. On May 7, 1874 Location name to the newly established office district Uderwangen, which existed until 1945 and belonged to the district of Prussian Eylau in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia.

In the years 1885 and 1887 parts of Gutsbezirks Gauleden (forest ) were incorporated into the rural community Uderwangen. 1910 was one of the place in 1223 inhabitants.

On September 30, 1928, the rural communities Uderwangen and balance included (Russian: Kertschenskoje ) and the estate districts Eberswalde ( Mochowoje ) and Pilgrim ( Soldatskoje ) to the new rural community Uderwangen together, the 1933 1321 and 1939 already 1616 inhabitants counted.

As a result of the Second World War came Uderwangen with the northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union and was in 1946 - occur more than once - called " Tschechowo ". By the year 2009 was as Tschechowo Tschechowski soviet ( village soviet Tschechowo ) central location for eleven surrounding villages. Due to structural and administrative reform Tschechowo heard since then as "settlement " (Russian: possjolok ) classified village to Gwardeiskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Gwardeiskoje ( Mühlhausen) ) in Rajon Bagrationowsk of the Kaliningrad Oblast.

District Uderwangen (until 1945)

Uderwangen was 1874-1945 Official village and the eponymous site of an office district to the first four rural communities and three estate districts joined together and in the on January 1, 1945 six municipalities were incorporated:

In 1930, the places Ackerau were (Russian: Armeiskoje ) from the District Blankenau ( Tscherkassowo ) and Lewitten ( Soldatskoje ) from the District United Lauth ( Newskoje ) and 1937 Thoms village ( Solnetschnoje ) from the District Wittenberg ( Niwenskoje ) in the District Uderwangen reclassified on 1 January 1945 from the communities Ackerau ( Armeiskoje ) Frisching ( Prochladnoje ) Lewitten ( Soldatskoje ), Thoms village ( Solnetschnoje ) Trinkeim ( Wyssokoje ) and Uderwangen ( Tschechowo ) existed.

Tschechowski Soviet (until 2009)

By the year 2009, there was the village Soviet Tschechowo ( " Tschechowski soviet " ), were incorporated in the eleven villages:

Since 2009, these settlements are composed with the exception of Kertschenskoje ( balance ), Prochladnoje ( Frisching ) and Wyssokoje ( Trinkeim ), which are now all but disappeared, as " settlements" to Gwardeiskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Gwardeiskoje ( Mühlhausen) ).

Church

Church building

When Uderwangener church is a low plastered fieldstone house which was built along with the tower basement in the 14th century. The cultivation of the choir and the sacristy was in the 16th century, while the neo-Gothic tower upstairs with the field frieze was only in 1876 placed.

Today is of the whole building, only the ruined tower, which has been provisionally secured from decay.

Parish

Uderwangen was an old village church and as such was already in pre-Reformation period. With the advent of the Reformation the place Pfarrsdorf remained and was a long time for inspection of the Konigsberg Oberhof preacher. By 1945, in the parish of Prussian Eylau it was then (Russian: Bagrationowsk ) incorporated within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

At the time the Soviet Union was the church life to a standstill. Only in the 1990s originated in the Kaliningrad Oblast again Protestant congregations, one of which in Gwardeiskoje ( Mühlhausen) Tschechowo is closest. It is a branch church of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg ) and belongs to Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia ( ELCER ).

Pastor ( 1945 )

From the Reformation to 1945, officiating in 25 Protestant clergymen Uderwangen:

  • Johann Kostett, 1541/1545
  • Georg Kolbitz, from 1545
  • Andrew Finkel Thaus until 1566
  • Paul Wagner, 1577-1587
  • Johann Wilhelm Rohdius until 1621
  • Albrecht Wegner Elder, 1627
  • Albrecht D. J. Wegner
  • Martin Frank, 1663-1667
  • Johann Pancras, 1667-1710
  • Johann Wilhelm Pancras, 1701-1710
  • Nicolaus Friedrich Pöpping, 1710-1724
  • Gottfried Thien, 1724-1739
  • Johann Jacob Wagner, 1739-1750
  • Johann Christoph Mine, 1750-1768
  • Christian Friedrich Becker, 1768-1787
  • Georg Ludwig Heroldt, 1797-1823
  • August Theodor Siemienowski, 1824-1834
  • Carl Heinrich Wilhelm Neumann, 1834-1843
  • Hans Carl Eduard Räbel, 1843-1853
  • Rudolf Emil Ottomar Kleist, 1853-1854
  • Carl Ludwig Bandisch (1810-1900), 1854-1891
  • Karl Rudolf A. Hering, 1892-1915
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Steckel, 1915-1923
  • Bruno Wiebe, 1924-1929
  • Hans Buttgereit, 1930-1945
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