Mokhovoye

Mochowoje (Russian Моховое, Wiskiauten German, Lithuanian Viskiautai ) is a place in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ). It is located in Rajon Selenogradsk ( circle Cranz ) and belongs to Kowrowskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Kowrowo ( Nautzau ) ).

Geographical location

Mochowoje located 23 kilometers north of the Oblasthauptstadt Kaliningrad (Königsberg ) and four kilometers south of the county town Selenogradsk ( Cranz ) on a side street off Muromskoje ( Laptau ) via Cholmy ( Muelsen ) to Wischnjowoje ( Wosegau ). At the southwest city limits of Primorskoje Kolzo runs (coastal beltway ). Sosnowka ( Bledau ) is the nearest railway station and is on the railway line, Kaliningrad - Selenogradsk - Pionerski ( Kaliningrad Cranz Neukuhren ).

History

The village called until 1946 Wiskiauten found its first mention in 1291. 1327 a Johann from Wiskiauten were a hoof in the ground lined with bramble " Sorcz " award. 1583 Gerge Thalau was invested here with seven hooves, his heirs appear to 1679 as the owner, then Nicolaus von Korff was one of the owners. Erhard Hirschbesaß in 1700 the estate Wiskiauten with Vorwerk Wickiau (now Russian: Klinzowka ), then owners were a family Oletzko, Thiesel of Taltitz of Czudnochowski and Hobegk. Under the family of the Rapp Good with Bledau (today Russian: Sosnowka ) combined. 1822 finally auctioned Wilhelm Ephraim Tortilowicz - Thierberg Bledau, Wiskiauten and Wickiau, and his family owned the estate with a circumference of 432 hectares last until 1945.

On July 17, 1896 District Committee had decided that the possessions Nuskern (now Russian: Besymjanka ) Wickiau ( Klinzowka ) Wiskiauten and Wosegau ( Wischnjowoje ) together formed the Gutsbezirk Wosegau. They were thus also to the administrative district Wosegau district Fischhausen in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia. On January 1, 1929, finally, the Wosegauer districts Wickiau and Wiskiauten were reclassified into the community Cranz ( Selenogradsk ), which belonged to the district of Sambia from 1939.

As a result of the Second World War came Wiskiauten with the northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union and was given the Russian name " Mochowoje ". In 1947 the newly formed Rajon Selenogradsk ( circle Cranz ) belonging, Mochowoje was until 2006 in the Wischnjowski Selski soviet ( village soviet Wischnjowoje ( Wosegau ) ) incorporated and is now looking for a structural and administrative reform a "municipal " (Russian: possjolok ) classified village within the Kowrowskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Kowrowo ( Nautzau ) ).

Burial Wiskiauten

Church

The inhabitants were mostly Protestant denomination Wiskiautens to 1945 and belonged to the parish Laptau (now Russian: Muromskoje ) in the parish of Königsberg Land II within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Today Mochowoje lies in the catchment area of ​​the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Selenogradsk ( Cranz ), a branch church of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg ) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia.