Schönfließ is first mentioned in 1521, when a hospital founded here earlier was transferred to the town of Kneiphof (Kaliningrad, Kant Island). In 1528 the town of Kneiphof also became the owner of the village of Schönfließ.
In 1785 Schönfließ was classified as a noble village belonging to the Königsberg treasury (Adelich Dorf der Königbergschen Kämmerey gehörig). The village had 24 households. By 1818 the number of households had fallen to 20, and Schönfließ itself was described as a noble village.
In the 19th century Schönfließ was a village which from 1818 formed a municipality in the Landkreis Königsberg (merged into the Landkreis Samland in 1939). The village belonged to the church parish of Seligenfeld (Dalnoye, Kaliningrad). On 24.09.1866 traffic opened on the East Prussian Southern Railway (Ostpreußische Südbahn) from Königsberg to Bartenstein (Bartoszyce, Poland). The line passed west of Schönfließ, but no station was provided on it for the villagers. Near Schönfließ there was only a house for the track inspectors. In 1871 Schönfließ had 33 residential buildings, home to 67 families and 5 single men. On 30.04.1874 the rural municipality of Schönfließ was incorporated into the newly established Amtsbezirk (administrative district) of Seligenfeld (Dalnoye, Kaliningrad). The first head of the Amtsbezirk, in 1874–92, was the Schönfließ estate owner August von Berken. In 1927 a school is mentioned in Schönfließ; its building has survived to this day. On 14.05.1930 the municipality of Schönfließ passed to the newly created Amtsbezirk of Adlig Neuendorf (Rzhevskoye).
Lesnaya River.
On 01.04.1939 the municipality of Schönfließ was dissolved and incorporated into the municipality of Königsberg, becoming one of its city districts.
On a Red Army map Schönfließ was given the simplified name Shenflis (1930s).
In April 1945 strongpoints of the city’s second defence line were located near Schönfließ, and the assault on it caused considerable damage to the district’s buildings.
On 29.07.1948, by decision of the Kaliningrad City Executive Committee, Schönfließ was renamed Komsomolsky Gorodok. By a new decision of 18.08.1949, Komsomolsky Gorodok was given the name of the settlement of Komsomolskoye.
By 1965, by estimate, around 40% of the buildings of pre-war Schönfließ remained in the settlement of Komsomolskoye. Transport links with Komsomolskoye were provided by bus route No. 9, which at first ran north of the settlement (along Muromskaya Street) but in the 1970s began to pass through the settlement itself. The route still runs today (2024).
In 1993 three five-storey blocks of flats were built on the site of pre-war buildings. Another five-storey residential building went up in 2005. In 2015–17 the Moskovsky Dvorik complex of five nine-storey buildings was built in Komsomolskoye. Today the settlement of Komsomolskoye has one of the buildings of Secondary School No. 15, a furniture shop, grocery shops (including 2 supermarkets) and a hotel. A beach and a café have been set up on Lake Schönfließ. Only about 15–20 pre-war buildings remain in the settlement.
Sights: the pre-war school building (Secondary School No. 15).
Population: 1818 – 334, 1867 – 380, 1871 – 375, 1885 – 455, 1905 – 364, 1910 – 354, 1925 – 472, 1933 – 578 inhabitants.
Composition of the population of Schönfließ in 1871: all 268 Protestants, children under 10 – 70, literate – 141 (68%), deaf-mute – 1.
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
