Slavskoye, Russia
Slavskoye
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| Postal code(s)[3] | 238420 |
| OKTMO ID | 27703000336 |
Slavskoye (
settlement in the Bagrationovsky District, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located 20 kilometers (12 mi) south of Kaliningrad
.
History
In 1240, the
peace treaty signed in Toruń in 1466, it became a part of Poland as a fief held by the Teutonic Knights.[5] The town suffered damages in the Polish-Teutonic War of 1519–1521, which broke out after the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order refused to pledge allegiance to Poland. The war resulted in the secularization of the Teutonic Knights in 1525, and the establishment of the Duchy of Prussia
, which remained a fief of Poland.
In 1701, the town became part of the
Napoleonic Battle of Eylau in February 1807 and almost totally destroyed by a fire catastrophe on May 10, 1818, when 152 buildings burned down. Only the church, the vicarage, and the schoolhouse were not affected. Due to that disaster the regional administration was transferred to Preußisch Eylau
. In 1871, the town became part of Germany.
Kreuzburg was connected to the railway system in 1908.
Throughout the Soviet
expelled
, and the name was changed from Kreuzburg to Slavskoye.
Population
- 1740: 986
- 1816: 1,700
- 1823: 1,352
- 1843: 1,809
- 1875: 2,004
- 1885: 1,976, including 17 Catholics, 11 Jews
- 1910: 1,726
- 1939: 2,005
Notable residents
- Hermann von Boyen (1771–1848), Prussian fieldmarshal
- Michael Kongehl (1646–1710), baroque poet
- Michel Tolkien (1620-?), earliest known paternal ancestor of J. R. R. Tolkien, the English author
References
- ^ Russian Federal State Statistics Service (2011). Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года. Том 1 [2010 All-Russian Population Census, vol. 1]. Всероссийская перепись населения 2010 года [2010 All-Russia Population Census] (in Russian). Federal State Statistics Service.
- ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
- ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
- ^ Górski, Karol (1949). Związek Pruski i poddanie się Prus Polsce: zbiór tekstów źródłowych (in Polish). Poznań: Instytut Zachodni. pp. XXXVIII, 54.
- ^ Górski, pp. 96-97, 214-215
Bibliography
- Horst Schulz, Der Kreis Pr. Eylau, Verden/Aller 1983
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