Talpaki
Talpaki (Russian Талпаки, Taplacken German, Lithuanian Toplaukiai ) is a town on the north bank of the Pregel in Russia in Rajon Gwardeisk ( circle Tapiau ) of the Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ). Talpaki is a settlement of Sorinskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Sorino ), which here has its administrative headquarters.
Geographical location
Talpaki - Nine kilometers northwest of Snamensk ( Wehlau ) has regional importance for traffic. So here ends the highway like developed section of the main road A229 (Russia), which corresponds to the former National Highway 1 of Königsberg ( Prussia ) to Eydtkuhnen and now forms a portion of the road link to the Russian mainland. Also, here ( Tilsit ) and Lithuania branches off highway A 216 ( former German Empire Road 138) north towards Sowjetsk from.
Name
For the first time the place is mentioned in 1388 as Tapelawke. Since the place is called Warmfelt 1440 even translated, it is assumed that the Erstglied of the name is as * tapja ' hot ' to reconstruct. Blažiene compares, however, with Lithuanian tapoti ' pat ', onomatopoeic origin. The second part of the name is common in place names and comes from Old Prussian and Lithuanian Laukas 'field '.
History
The first mention of that to 1946 Taplacken village took place in 1338th Between 1874 and 1945 the place was its name to a district office, who belonged to the circle Wehlau in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia. In such office district next to the rural community Taplacken also the Gutsbezirk domain Taplacken and the neighboring municipalities Petersdorf were (now Russian: Kuibyschewskoje ) and Stobingen ( Livny ) incorporated.
In 1910, the rural community Taplacken 280 and Gutsbezirk domain Taplacken counted 308 inhabitants. Both come together on September 30, 1928 the new country community Taplacken. The population amounted in 1933 to 436 in 1939 and was still 415
In consequence of the Second World War Taplacken 1945, with the northern East Prussia to the Soviet Union and was awarded the 1946 Russian name " Talpaki "; the place was so, just keep little modified one of the few in the former North - East Prussia, its historical name. 1947 " substitute " the place of the circle Wehlau in the newly created Rajon Gwardeisk ( circle Tapiau ) on its eastern border, it is settled. At the same time Talpaki is soviet in the Kuibyschewski Selski ( village soviet Kuibyschewskoje ( Petersdorf ) ) incorporated. Due to structural and administrative reform Talpaki is today with its currently 374 inhabitants ( 14 October 2010) to Sorinskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Sorino ( Popp village) ), headquartered in Talpaki.
Order Castle
Busy is a prußischer Schlossberg 800 meters north of Taplacken on the Accept. The Order established in the 13th century, a first castle, which was destroyed by Lithuanians under Prince Kynstut 1376. The subsequent reconstruction took place on a protruding out of the morass better to be backed promontory, the castle itself Taplacken had to be omitted because of the wet ground on the expansion of basements. In the castle, a domain was established later.
Church
With its almost exclusively Protestant population Taplacken was until 1945 in the parish of the Church Petersdorf ( East Prussia ) (now Russian: Kuibyschewskoje ) the parish, which belonged to the Church of the Old Prussian Union Church District Wehlau in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia. Because of flight and expulsion of the native population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union, church life collapsed. Only in the 1990s formed in Talpaki a new Lutheran church, a branch church of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg ) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia.