Ushakovo, Novomoskovsky Rural Okrug, Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast

The village Uschakowo (Russian Ушаково, German Brandenburg ( Vistula Lagoon ), Lithuanian Pokarviai ) in East Prussia is located on the Vistula Lagoon in Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ), Russia. It belongs to Nowomoskowskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Nowomoskowskoje ) in Rajon Guryevsk (district Neuhausen ).

  • 3.1 parish
  • 3.2 pastor until 1945

Geography

Uschakowo lies on the River Prochladnaja ( German: Frisching ), which flows into the Vistula Lagoon. He now belongs to the rural community Nowomoskowskoje ( administrative seat Schosseinoje, formerly Warthen ) of Rajon Guryevsk ( Neuhausen ). By 1945, the National Highway 1 of Aachen Berlin led by Königsberg ( Prussia) by the place, the present Russian A 194

History

For the Teutonic Order built Margrave Otto III. of Brandenburg in 1266 at the Frisching estuary a castle, to monitor the entry of vessels to Königsberg. From 1275 it was expanded in stone. From 1266 to 1499 it was the seat of Commander. Burned in 1520, it was after the recovery from 1525 to 1752 the seat of a main office man. After that lapse, the stately castle was demolished after 1776.

Under the protection of the castle, a Lischke had developed, the 1513 received the Tangible. The church, built from 1320-1340, received in 1648 only a high spire. Brandenburg became the market town and had a small port since 1729. From 1818 onwards, Brandenburg belonged to the district Heiligenbeil in the district of the province of East Prussia, Königsberg.

Population Development

Church

Parish

Before 1945, Brandenburg was the seat of an evangelical rectory. To him belonged to a vast parish within the church district Heiligenbeil ( Mamonowo ) of the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. A total of 16 villages were in the parish incorporated (* = school location ):

  • Albehnen (Russian: Gorky )
  • * Brandenburg
  • Dümpelkrug
  • Friedrichshof, Kr Heiligenbeil
  • Honey Tree
  • Small Hoppenbruch ( Chertovka )
  • Kamnicken
  • Korschenruh ( Ladygino )
  • Kranzberg
  • Morken
  • Pinnau
  • * Pokarben
  • Reginenhof
  • Schoischen, 1938-1945 Schofield 's
  • Tengen
  • Wedderau

Pastor until 1945

From the Reformation until the expulsion in 1945 officiated in Brandenburg as an evangelical pastor:

  • Johann Ulrich, 1543
  • Caspar Kurau, 1545
  • Johann Schwartz, 1546-1573
  • Andreas Kaufmann, 1569-1570
  • Johann Gangolphus, 1570-1576
  • Tobias Schweichel, from 1576
  • Solomon Huebner, 1584
  • Lawrence head nail, 1592-1600
  • Georg Löselius, 1600-1609
  • Peter Nicolai, 1609-1617
  • Heinrich Crusius, 1617-1620
  • Johann Halbach of the gate, 1621-1639
  • Georg Mylius, 1639-1640
  • Daniel Nicolai, 1640-1661
  • Valentin Schultz, 1661-1682
  • Heinrich Pusch, 1682-1688
  • Sigmund Frommhold ring from 1688
  • Tobias Schweichel, 1693-1704
  • George Hein, 1705-1740
  • Johann Daniel Tapcken, 1739-1757
  • Johann Christoph Wessel, 1758-1761
  • Gottfried summer, 1761-1789
  • Johann Gottlieb Meier, 1789-1830
  • Franz Leopold Kopplius, 1852-1856
  • Friedrich Otto Hoffmann, 1856-1882
  • Carl Gustav torture, 1882-1885
  • Carl Heinrich A. J. Dreschhoff, 1886-1897
  • Gottfried Hermann Julius Podlech, 1898-1927
  • Fritz Schiweck, 1927-1945

Attractions

Get the ruins of the Order Castle and the tower of the parish church from the 14th century. The ruin is added to Russia's list of state worth preserving architectural monuments. According to a list by Forbes Magazine, the castle is one of the most dilapidated monuments of the Russian Federation.

Castle of Brandenburg Margrave Otto III. built in the second half of the 13th century as protection against the Prussians. In the time of the Teutonic Order, it was considered important Commandery. From 1322 a fragment of the cross of Jesus to have been kept in the castle. The castle was destroyed several times in the 15th and 16th centuries. After the destruction of the Second World War it was not restored until today. Rather, it was used by Russian settlers for building materials.

A relic of Saint Catherine of Alexandria was brought in 1378 from the collection of the Emperor Charles IV in gratitude for the support of Commander Günther von Hohenstein to Brandenburg. The Warmia Bishop Henry III. Surbom took over leadership after the death of the Emperor. She was kept there in the castle chapel and entered the Marienburg, where she was in the chapel of the Grand Master, of the St. Catherine's Chapel, erected later.

Guryevsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast Vehicle registration plates of Russia OKATO Teutonic Knights Lischke (settlement) Haandfæstning Protestant Reformation Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Malbork Castle
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