Klicken has been known since 1491, spelled Clicken. After 1540 it was called Klicke, after 1820 Klicken, spelled Klicken, and also Klükken. From the 1860s the name Klycken was used.
In 1785 Klicken was classified as a Kulm estate (kölmisch Gut) with two households. On Kulm estates, land ownership went back to the medieval Kulm law, and their owners were regarded as privileged members of the peasantry. The estate belonged to the Amt of Dirschkeim (Donskoye) in the Kreis of Schaaksen / Schakenschen (Nekrasovo).
In the 19th century Klicken was an estate which from 1867 formed a Gutsbezirk in the Kreis of Fischhausen (Primorsk; from 1939 part of the Landkreis of Samland).
The estate belonged to the parish of Heiligenkreutz / Heiligenkreutz (Krasnotorovka). Until 1874 Klicken belonged to the Amt of Fischhausen (Primorsk). In 1818 the Kulm estate of Klicken had two households.
In 1828 the Klicken estate owned 306 Morgen of land of average quality. Klicken consisted of one Kulm estate, one cottager's holding (Eigenkathner) and three households of hired tenant labourers (Instleute). In 1840 and 1858 the estate had two residential houses. By 1858 the land holdings of the Klicken estate had grown to 469 Morgen.
In 1864 the tax office registered four residential houses in the Klicken Gutsbezirk, which also included the outlying farm of Schnarling (54°53'51'' N 20°04'59'' E) (one of them on the Schnarling farm), as well as eight other buildings that were not subject to tax.
A guesthouse in Klicken.
In 1871 the Klicken Gutsbezirk had four residential houses, home to 14 families. Three of the houses were on the estate itself, and one more belonged to the Schnarling farm.
Klicken on a 1938 map of East Prussia.
On 13.06.1874 the Klicken Gutsbezirk was incorporated into the newly established Amtsbezirk of Sankt Lorenz / Sankt Lorenz (Salskoye). In 1879 the Klicken Gutsbezirk owned 231 ha of land (72nd among the 138 Gutsbezirke of the Kreis), and property tax receipts amounted to 1,914 marks (103rd place in the Kreis).
In 1885 the Klicken Gutsbezirk owned 143 ha of land, of which 100 ha were arable, 6 ha meadow and 15 ha forest. The estate had three houses and thirteen households. By that time the Schnarling farm had become uninhabited; at any rate, no residential buildings or population were recorded there. By 1895 the number of houses on the Klicken estate had not changed, but the number of resident families had fallen to twelve. By 1898 the Schnarling farm had ceased to exist altogether.
At the end of the 19th century there was a windmill three hundred metres north-west of Klicken, but it was later dismantled.
In 1905 the Klicken estate had three residential houses, home to 11 families. Property tax receipts per hectare amounted to 7.60 marks, 23.15% below the average for the Gutsbezirke of the Kreis of Fischhausen.
On 30.09.1928 the Klicken Gutsbezirk was abolished and incorporated into the rural municipality of Kraam / Kraam (Grachevka).
On 17.11.1947 Klicken was renamed the settlement of Klyukvennoye. In 1955 the settlement had 12 houses. By the end of the 1990s Klyukvennoye had 13 houses. Around 2007 a private animal shelter opened in Klyukvennoye. As of 2018 Klyukvennoye had about 35 houses, an agro-industrial facility, a greenhouse farm, a guesthouse and a holiday home.
Sights: the war grave of Senior Sergeant V.A. Voskresensky (15.04.1945).
Population trend: 1818 – 59, 1828 – 26, 1840 – 31, 1858 – 30, 1871 – 55, 1885 – 78, 1895 – 59, 1905 – 63, 1910 – 78, 1984 – 40, 2002 – 36, 2010 – 41, 2012 – 41 inhabitants.
Population trend of the Klicken Gutsbezirk: 1864 – 67, 1867 – 58, 1871 – 62, 1885 – 78, 1895 – 59, 1905 – 63, 1910 – 78 inhabitants.
Composition of the population of the Klicken Gutsbezirk in 1871: all 62 Protestants, children under 10 – 19, literate – 35 (81%).
Population trend of the Schnarling farm: 1818 – 8, 1840 – 12, 1858 – 13, 1871 – 7, 1885 – 0.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
