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Wundlacken Estate

Wundlacken Estate

Wundlacken (Wundlacken) was founded in 1284. Until 1785 it was called Wundilauken. In the 19th century Wundlacken was a knight's estate (Rittergut), forming from 1867 a Gutsbezirk (estate district) in the Landkreis Königsberg. The estate belonged to the church parish of Haffstrom (Shosseyny, part).

Besides the estate itself, the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken included the farm (Vorwerk) of Godrienen and the forest lodge (Waldhaus) of Wundlacken. In 1871 the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken had ten dwelling houses, in which 34 families lived. Of these, the estate accounted for eight dwelling houses, with one more each on the farm and at the forest lodge.

In 1874 Amtsbezirk No. 15, Wundlacken, was created in the Kreis Königsberg. It comprised the rural municipalities of Godrienen (Laskino), Heyde-Wundlacken (Shosseyny, part), Warthen zu Waldburg (Shosseyny, part) and Warthen zu Wundlacken (Shosseyny, part), as well as the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken and the Hochkrug estate (Shosseyny, part).


Map of the Wundlacken estate


The first head of the Amtsbezirk of Wundlacken, in 1874–79, was Inspector Petersen of Wundlacken; then, in 1879–1900, the Amtsbezirk was headed by the owner of the Wundlacken estate, Graf zu Dohna. In 1912–19 the post of head of the Amtsbezirk was held by Chief Inspector Treutler, also of Wundlacken.

Wundlacken on a map of East Prussia



On 29.03.1906 the village of Heyde-Wundlacken, previously an independent rural municipality, became part of the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken. On 01.03.1923 the Amtsbezirk of Wundlacken was abolished, and the estate and Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken passed to the Amtsbezirk of Kalgen. On 30.09.1928 the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken was merged with the municipality of Warthen (Shosseyny, part) into the new rural municipality of Wundlacken. On 01.04.1939 the municipality of Wundlacken passed to the Amtsbezirk of Godrienen. Before the Second World War the municipality of Wundlacken comprised the villages of Warthen (Shosseyny, part) and Anker, the Wundlacken estate, the Wundlacken forest lodge, the Godrienen farm and the highway keeper's house.

Population of the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken: 1867 – 203, 1871 – 182, 1885 – 220, 1905 – 210, 1910 – 208 inhabitants.

Population of the municipality of Wundlacken: 1925 – 389, 1939 – 337 inhabitants.

Composition of the population of the Gutsbezirk of Wundlacken in 1871: Protestant Christians – 180, Catholics – 2, children under 10 – 49, literate – 85 (65%).


Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.