In 1785 Neuendorf is classified as a noble Vorwerk and village (Adelich Vorwerk und Dorf) with a church, a villa of the Steinbeck estate (Rybnoye) belonging to the Königsberg Kämmerei (treasury), a water mill, a windmill and a mechanical sawmill. In all there were 22 households here. In 1818 Adlig Neuendorf is defined as a noble estate (Adlig Gut) and Kammeramt (Kämmer Amt) with 24 households.
In the second half of the 14th century a church was built here. One of its three bells was dated 1504. In 1818 the church in Neuendorf was damaged by a hurricane. In 1818–19 it was rebuilt, becoming in effect a new building.
During the storming of Königsberg in 1945 the Neuendorf church was damaged, but the damage did not prove fatal.
In the mid-19th century Neuendorf was a knight's estate (Rittergut) which from 1867 formed a Gutsbezirk in Landkreis Königsberg (merged into Landkreis Samland in 1939). The estate belonged to the parish of Neuendorf-Steinbeck (Rzhevskoye, Kaliningrad – Rybnoye), in which the church in Neuendorf was considered the "mother" church and the one in Steinbeck the "daughter" church. Besides the estate itself, the Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf included the Vorwerke of Weitzenhof (54°39'48'' N 20°35'28'' E), Schäferei (°39'57'' N 20°36'35'' E) and Pregelkrug (54°41'32'' N 20°34'55'' E). In 1871 the Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf had 19 residential houses, in which 63 families and two single men lived. Of these, the Neuendorf estate itself had 10 houses, the Vorwerk of Weitzenhof six, the Vorwerk of Schäferei two, and the Vorwerk of Pregelkrug just one house.
On 30.09.1874 the Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf was incorporated into the newly established Amtsbezirk of Neuendorf. The first head of the Amtsbezirk was one Reuter, owner of the Neuendorf estate.
In 1879 Neuendorf owned 823 ha of land; the estate's annual net profit amounted to 15,141 marks. By these figures the Neuendorf estate ranked 11th and 3rd respectively in Landkreis Königsberg (out of 143), which placed it among the large farms.
On 30.09.1928 the Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf was converted into a rural community of the same name. On 14.05.1930 Adlig Neuendorf came to belong to the new Amtsbezirk of Adlig Neuendorf. The Adlig Neuendorf estate was now owned by the East Prussian Land Company (Ostpreußische Landgesellschaft), which leased it out. In 1932 the landholdings of Adlig Neuendorf amounted to 787 ha, including 450 ha of arable land, 168 ha of meadows, 120 ha of pasture and 49 ha of orchards and vegetable gardens. The farm had 71 horses, 105 head of cattle (including 39 cows), five sheep and seven pigs. On 01.04.1939 the community of Adlig Neuendorf was annexed to the municipality of Königsberg.
The Amtsbezirk of Neuendorf
On 30.09.1874 Gutsbezirk No. 6 Neuendorf was established in Landkreis Königsberg, consisting of the single Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf. On 30.09.1928 the Gutsbezirk of Adlig Neuendorf was reclassified as a rural community of the same name. On 14.05.1930 the Amtsbezirk of Neuendorf was abolished. In its place a new Amtsbezirk of Adlig Neuendorf was created, comprising three rural communities: Adlig Neuendorf (Kaliningrad, Rzhevskoye), Schönfließ (Kaliningrad, Komsomolskoye) and Seligenfeld (Kaliningrad, Dalnoye). On 01.04.1939 the rural communities of the Amtsbezirk of Adlig Neuendorf were annexed to the municipality of Königsberg, and the Amtsbezirk itself was dissolved.
On 18.08.1949, by decision of the Kaliningrad city executive committee, Adlig Neuendorf was renamed the settlement of Rzhevskoye within the Moskovsky District of Kaliningrad.
The settlement appeared in the directories of 1975 and 1963 and on maps of 1998, 1999 and 2000, but was absent from the 1997 directory. The place name was not popular among townspeople as early as the 1870s–80s, and by 2000 it was only occasionally remembered by old-timers and local historians.
In the first post-war years the church in Neuendorf was actively taken apart by the population for building materials; among other things, the wooden structural elements were dismantled for firewood. After the roof collapsed, the church deteriorated rapidly and was soon demolished. Remains of the foundations existed until the early 2000s, but then the area was redeveloped and even these fragments were destroyed. By 2020 all the burials in the churchyard had been looted. In March 2024 the foundations were razed to the ground by a bulldozer.
As of 2024 Rzhevskoye includes part of Podpolkovnika Yemelyanova Street and Kamyshovaya Street. The settlement has about 25 residential and industrial buildings. A considerable part of the area is occupied by an industrial zone.
Population of the Gutsbezirk and community of Adlig Neuendorf: 1867 – 335, 1871 – 315, 1885 – 441, 1905 – 336, 1910 – 368, 1925 – 354, 1933 – 477 inhabitants.
Population of the Adlig Neuendorf estate: 1818 – 274, 1871 – 169, 1905 – 194 inhabitants.
Composition of the population of the Gutsbezirk of Neuendorf in 1871: Protestant Christians – 309, Catholics – 6, children under 10 – 87, literate – 163 (72%), insane – 1.
Population of Weitzenhof: 1871 – 90, 1905 – 61 inhabitants.
Population of Schäferei: 1871 – 52, 1905 – 70 inhabitants.
Population of Pregelkrug: 1871 – 4, 1905 – 3 inhabitants.
Composition of the Steinbeck-Neuendorf parish: Gutenfeld (Lugovoye), Kaveling (Sosnovka), Kraußen (Maloye Borisovo), Kraußenhof (Maloye Borisovo), Neuendorf (Rzhevskoye), Steinbeck (Rybnoye), Steinbeck-Anker (54°40'28'' N 20°41'25'' E), Steinbeckellen (54°40'57'' N 20°40'47'' E).
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
