Allenberg Church (Wehlau)

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The Allenberg Church in the former East Prussian district town of Wehlau and today known as Snamensk settlement was built between 1847 and 1852. It was the evangelical institutional church of the Allenberg Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Institution, which was in existence until 1940 and is now - no longer used by the church - in a barracks area of the Russian armed forces .

Geographical location

Snamensk is located in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg (Prussia) area ) at the confluence of the Alle (Russian: Lawa) in the Pregel (Pregolja) and is accessible via the Russian trunk roads A 229 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 1 ), R 508 and R 514 (formerly Reichsstrasse 142 ). Snamensk is also a station on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , the former Prussian Eastern Railway for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.

The Allenberg Church is located in the district south of the railway line on the left bank of the Alley, which was also called “Clebnikowo” in Russian after the war, within a building complex used by the military and can be reached from the R 514 trunk road.

Church building

The Allenberg Church was created in connection with the establishment of the oldest East Prussian Provincial Sanatorium and Nursing Home Allenberg for 250 patients in the years 1848 to 1852. On September 1, 1852, when the institution was commissioned, it was opened as a place of worship for the initially 59 patients. It was a plastered brick building with an octagonal west tower included. The interior of the hall building was plain and simple. The view of the worshipers was directed to a simple altar table with a crucifix and altar candlesticks, behind which the pulpit was. An organ was installed behind the rows of pews .

Until 1940 the church was a Protestant place of worship for the institutional community , which grew to 500 patients by 1900 and to which a total of 1,400 patients belonged in 1929 (1,020 of whom were Protestant church members). It lost its function in 1940 when the sanatorium and nursing home was closed and numerous patients were deported to the Soldau concentration camp and murdered in the course of "Aktion Lange" . A garrison of the Schutzstaffel (SS) of the NSDAP became a subsequent user . In 1945 she gave up the premises again. In 1945 the area was cleared.

In the Soviet and Russian times, the former prison buildings were used as barracks . The purpose of the church on the site is not clear. The military district is inaccessible.

Parish

From 1852 to 1940 there was a Protestant community of institutions, initially in the Allenberg manor, and from 1928 in the district of Wehlau (Znamensk). It was affiliated to the church district of Wehlau within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , the parish salary lay with the East Prussian provincial committee . Initially supported by the clergy from the parish church of St. Jacobi in Wehlau, there was a separate asylum parish between 1863 and 1928, whose service was then taken over by the parishes of the Paterswalde church (Russian: Bolschaja Poljana ).

Pastor

Protestant clergy in the Allenberg community:

  • Hermann Gottlieb WJ Jackstein, 1863–1867
  • Leopold Eugen Muellner, 1868–1873
  • Carl Ferdinand Oskar Rohde, 1874–1878
  • Eduard Rudolf Wilhelm Theel, 1882–1928.

References

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Allenberg at ostpreussen.net
  2. ↑ Boris Böhm, Hagen Markwardt, Ulrich Rottleb: "Will be transferred to a state sanatorium and nursing home in Saxony today" - the murder of East Prussian patients in the National Socialist killing center in Pirna-Sonnenstein in 1941 . Ed .: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. 2015, ISBN 978-3-86583-976-3 , pp. 23 ff .
  3. ^ Sascha Topp, Christoph Mundt, Wolfgang U. Eckart, Maike Rotzoll, Gerrit Hohendorf, Petra Fuchs, Paul Richter: Sick killings in East Prussia - A comparison of "Aktion Lange" and "Aktion T4" in: The National Socialist "Euthanasia" campaign "T 4" and its victims . Ed .: Ferdinand Schöningh. 2010, ISBN 978-3-506-76543-7 , pp. 169 ff .
  4. ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 509
  5. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 14

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Coordinates: 54 ° 36 '  N , 21 ° 13'  E