Rodniki (Guryevsky urban district)

The former name is Arnau. First mentioned in documents in 1304 (settlement of Arnovo). Around 1320 (according to other sources - 1364), the church of St. Katarina was built. In 1322 there stood the fortified house of the Teutonic Order . Until 1636, it belonged to the Löbenicht hospital of Koenigsberg . At one time it came into the possession of Theodore Hippel (1741-1796).

In 1795, the future writer Ernst Theodore Amadeus Hoffmann (1776-1822), who was friends with Hippel's nephew, visited Arnau.

The Proisis Arnau estate, located north of Arnau, since 1826 belonged to the prominent statesman of Prussia - Theodor von Schön (1773-1856), a liberal reformer and advocate for education. He laid a park in the estate and landscaped the church territory. Since 1840, he constantly lived on the estate, where he died in 1856.

At the beginning of the 20th century, passenger ship communication was carried out between Königsberg and Arnau. In 1910, there were 108 inhabitants, in 1933 - 403 inhabitants, in 1939 - 439 inhabitants.

In 1946, Arnau was renamed the village of Maryino, the estate Proisis Arnau - in the village of Rodniki. In 1993, Rodnikov was located east of Ryabinovka (until 1946, the village of Jungfravendorf, with time the name was transformed into Jungferndorf), in 2003 - Maryino.

In 2012, a new cardiology center was opened in Rodniki - one of seven such centers in Russia. ^[3]

On May 30, 2019, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to open a convent of the Holy Great Martyr Catherine in Rodniki in the Rodniks, the eponymous parish of the Russian Church existing in the village and using the Church of St. Katarina, appointing him Mother Superior Theodosius (Izgin) ^[4] .

• Church of St. Katarina (1320) - one of the oldest church buildings in the region, it preserved a large number of medieval frescoes.
• Monument to Theodor von Schön