Slavsk
Slawsk (Russian Славск; until 1946 German Heinrichswalde, Lithuanian Gastos ) is a small town in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast, established a Rajonsverwaltung ( Rajon Slawsk ) and the urban community Slawskoje gorodskoje posselenije ( Славское городское поселение ). The town has 4614 inhabitants (as of October 14, 2010 ). The present name Slawsk derives from the Russian word Slava (Glory ) from, freely translated glorious city.
- 2.6.1 sons and daughters of the town
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 Municipality arrangement
- 4.1 Notes and references
- 4.2 External links
Geography
The town is the center of the region Elchniederung - a bog region at the Curonian Lagoon. It is located 15 kilometers southwest of Sowjetsk (formerly Tilsit ) and the border with Lithuania.
The city Slawsk ( Heinrichswalde )
History
The place is known since 1292. 1657 got him Ehrentreich Heinrich of Halle (hence the local name) is the Great Elector. The manor, close to the church, built in 1686, in 1738 domain and later privatized. The last owner of the family beer friend came in 1945 on the run around. Heinrichswalde 1818 administrative center with District seat of the newly established Prussian county lowlands ( from 1938 Elchniederung ) in the district Gumbinnen. In 1939, the survey was introduced to the city, but this was prevented by the outbreak of war. In 1891 it was connected to the railway Tilsit - Königsberg, which contributed to the prosperity of the market place. Dairy farming with cattle, dairies and production of Tilsit cheese flourished. Salt and sulfur springs were discovered, a " salt -and sulfur -containing solar and Bath tub " was born. Heinrichswalde allowed to " climatic health resort " and " garden city " call. It was destination especially for the near Tilsit. With the circle Elchniederung Heinrichswalde was evacuated in October 1944 before the march of the Red Army, only until the circle Heiligenbeil. On January 20, 1945, Soviet troops occupied the place. The drainage systems were destroyed, the surrounding marshy land.
After the Second World War, the city came to the Soviet Kaliningrad and received a city charter in 1946 under the present name.
Demographics
Note: Census data
Economy and Transport
Slawsk located since 1891 on the railway line Kaliningrad Sowetsk (Königsberg - Tilsit ) and is about the Russian highways A 216 ( former German Empire 138, now also European Route 77 ) over the branch Nowokolchosnoje (sand Lauken, 1938-1946 sand field ) and the R 513 accessible. In addition, secondary roads connect the city with Sowetsk and Gastellowo ( United Friedrichsdorf ) in the surrounding area.
Church
Protestant
See the main article → Evangelical Church Heinrichswalde ( circle lowland )
Church building
The Evangelical Lutheran Church Heinrichswalde at ul Sovetskaya was built 1867-1869 with hochaufragendem and correspondingly far into the country peering tower in the Gothic Revival style. The previous building, a half-timbered church, was from 1686 to 1694. Carved out of the old church was taken over into the new. The entire interior of the church was in 1945 and then destroyed, the building itself was in decline. After 1990 he was renewed with significant German assistance, particularly through the Kreisgemeinschaft Elchniederung. Unfortunately, parts of the interior have been stolen again and destroyed window. The church was taken over in 2011 by the Russian Orthodox Church, which, however, again aufgabund on March 6, 2013 was the city's tourist information center without consideration.
Parish
Heinrichswalde was until 1944 a parish with 30 affiliated locations. The congregation was founded on February 27, 1686 and originally belonged to the inspection Tilsit, until 1945 then to the church district lowland / Elchniederung within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. The population in 1944 has been completely evacuated. After 1990, a small Protestant community of Germans from Russia has formed again, in 1993, the former evangelical parish church took over, they gave back in 2011 but since the building maintenance exceeds the financial capacity of the municipality. The Protestant church no longer takes place in the church, but only in a converted barn at a community center now. The church is to save the font from the Church of the defunct Soviet period Inse village on the Curonian Spit in the Elchniederung for themselves and set up in the barn succeeded. Slawsk is the parish seat and its name to one of the four church regions in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia.
Orthodox
In 1995, the Russian Orthodox Church has built its own house of worship in Slawsk and is at the Sovetskaya ul. It was dedicated to St. John of Kronstadt. The local church is part of the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk the Russian Orthodox Church.
Catholic
Also at ul Sovetskaya is a Roman Catholic church in the form of a simple once probably used as a residence building. The church is dedicated to Saint Frances of Rome.
Sight
It originated in the village of a small German - Russian Museum, the memorabilia of former German inhabitants shows.
Personalities
Sons and daughters of the town
Urban community Slawsk
General
Since the administrative reform in the Kaliningrad region 2008/2009 is Slawsk eponymous city and administrative center of the urban community Slawskoje gorodskoje posselenije live with six other settlements and a total of 6266 inhabitants (as of 2010 ) living in an area of 212 km ² (more than two-thirds of them in the city Slawsk ).
Together with the three rural communities Bolschakowo ( United Skaisgirren, 1938-1946 Kreuzingen ) Jasnoje ( Kaukehmen, 1938-1946 Kuckerneese ) and Timirjasewo ( New Church ), it forms the Rajon Slawsk ( circle Heinrichswalde ).
Neighboring communities of the municipality Slawsk are:
- In the south and west: Bolschakowo
- In the north: Timirjasewo
- Located Schilino ( Szillen, 1936-1946 Schillen ) beiets in Rajon Neman ( circle Ragnit ): In the East.
Community structure
At the township Slawsk next to the city Slawsk include six rural communities: