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Krasnolesye

Coordinates: 54°23′40″N 22°22′30″E / 54.39444°N 22.37500°E / 54.39444; 22.37500
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Krasnolesye
Красноле́сье
Rural locality
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Krasnolesye is located in Kaliningrad Oblast
Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye
Location of Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye is located in European Russia
Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye (European Russia)
Krasnolesye is located in Russia
Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye
Krasnolesye (Russia)
Coordinates: 54°23′40″N 22°22′30″E / 54.39444°N 22.37500°E / 54.39444; 22.37500
CountryRussia
Federal subjectKaliningrad Oblast
Elevation
150 m (490 ft)
Time zoneUTC+2 (MSK–1 Edit this on Wikidata[1])
Postal code(s)[2]
238023Edit this on Wikidata
OKTMO ID27624406151

Krasnolesye (Russian: Красноле́сье; German: Rominten, Groß-Rominten, Hardteck; Polish: Rominty Wielkie;[3] Lithuanian: Raminta, Rominta) is a settlement in Nesterovsky District of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, situated on the Krasnaya River (Rominta) close to the border with Poland, in the north of the Romincka Forest. East of Krasnolesye lies Lake Vistytis.

History

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Hunting lodge in 1914

The village goes back to a hunting lodge which was first mentioned in a document of 1572. The village later became a colony of tar distillers. Until 1657, it was under the suzerainty of the Kingdom of Poland. Rominten had already been a hunting place for Prince Elector Frederick William of Brandenburg-Prussia in 1683. The region was elevated to an Imperial Court Hunting District by German Emperor Wilhelm II in 1890. The emperor's Rominten Hunting Lodge was built in 1891. After World War I Rominten remained a state hunting district, while the Lodge remained Wilhelm's private property.

In September 1933 Wilhelm refused to allow Hermann Göring to stay in the lodge, subsequently Göring built his Reichsjägerhof Rominten. After Wilhelm's death Göring forced the heirs to sell the Lodge to himself.[4] Göring used the new structure until the arrival of the Red Army in 1944.

In 1938 Groß-Rominten was renamed Hardteck to erase traces of non-German origin. When East Prussia was divided between Russia and Poland after World War II, Rominten became part of the Soviet Union. In 1947, it was renamed Krasnolesye (Red Woods).

Further reading

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  • Frevert, Walter (2008). Rominten: Das ostpreußische Jagdparadies. BLV Buchverlag. ISBN 978-3-8354-0458-8 (in German)
  • Neumärker, Uwe and Knopf, Volker (2007). Görings Revier: Jagd und Politik in der Rominter Heide. ISBN 978-3-86153-457-0 (in German)

References

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  1. ^ "Об исчислении времени". Официальный интернет-портал правовой информации (in Russian). 3 June 2011. Retrieved 19 January 2019.
  2. ^ Почта России. Информационно-вычислительный центр ОАСУ РПО. (Russian Post). Поиск объектов почтовой связи (Postal Objects Search) (in Russian)
  3. ^ M. Kiełczewska; Wł. Chojnacki (1946). Okręg Mazurski: mapa komunikacyjno-administracyjna wraz z niemiecko-polskim i polsko-niemieckim słownikiem nazw (Map). 1:500,000 (in Polish). Poznań.
  4. ^ Neumärker, Uwe; Knopf, Volker (2007). Görings Revier – Jagd und Politik in der Rominter Heide (in German). Ch. Links. p. 49. ISBN 978-3-86153-457-0.
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