Altroßgärter Church

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The Altroßgärter Church in Königsberg

The Altroßgärter Church was a Protestant church in Königsberg (Prussia) .

history

The Altroßgärter Church was located in the Roßgarten district and was given its name to avoid confusion with the Neurossgärter Church . In 1623 it was consecrated as a small chapel. In 1651 the foundation stone was laid for a church that was built around the chapel. The tower with a tent roof was not covered until 1693. The high altar was from 1677, the baroque baptismal chamber with the left confessional by Isaak Riga was from 1692.

The organ was built between 1744 and 1747 (acceptance on March 10th) by Adam Gottlob Casparini with 27 stops on two manuals and pedal . A special feature are the two caryatids (here one of the figures male!), Which should actually have carried the outer towers of the prospectus . Probably due to a misunderstanding, the height of the two figures was measured incorrectly, so that they were simply positioned slightly to the side in front of the prospectus. As a result, they stretch their hands in the air without any burden. In 1786 it was repaired by the builder. In 1897 Max Terletzki built a new organ in the historic case, now with three manuals and a pedal. In 1913 the Wilhelm Sauer company again built a new instrument in the Casparini case. The movement and case were destroyed by fighting in 1944/1945.

The burial chamber on the north side had a door forged in 1712 by the locksmith Johann Michael Sommer .

The first clergyman at the Altroßgärter Church was Georg Weissel , who wrote the text of the song Power up the door ( Evangelical Hymn Book (EG) No. 1, Praise to God No. 107) for its inauguration on the 2nd Advent in 1623 . He was inducted into office in this church one Sunday later. On this occasion he wrote the text of the song Such, who wants there, a different goal (EG No. 346). One organist was Otto Fiebach .

The church survived the two British air raids on Königsberg , but was then destroyed during the capture by the Red Army in the Battle of Königsberg . In the immediate post-war period, deceased Germans were buried in mass graves in the churchyard around the destroyed church. The rubble was cleared away in the 1970s.

Pastor

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Four clergymen officiated at the same time at the Altroßgärter Church, supported by assistant preachers after 1916:

  • Georg Weissel , 1623-1635
  • Christian Kuhn, 1635-1652
  • Andreas Otto, 1641-1652
  • Georg Falck, 1652-1720
  • Christian Kleipcke, 1653–1675
  • Daniel Rohde, 1675–1679
  • Johann Ehrhard Scheibenpoden,
    1679–1690
  • Christoph Zeidler, 1691–1727
  • Christoph Conrad Falck, 1697–1742
  • Johann Friedrich Weitenkampf,
    1723–1733
  • Georg Friedrich Lindner, 1733–1749
  • Georg Steinkopf, 1738–1770
  • Johann David Engelschmied, 1749–1762
  • Daniel Heinrich Großmann, 1761–1798
  • Matthias Bernhard Strauch, 1768–1774
  • Johann Schultz, 1775–1776
  • Daniel Wilhelm Kahle, 1777-1820
  • Gottfried Laudien, 1798–1816
  • Ernst Gottfried Kahle, 1813–1860
  • Carl Henrich Weiss, 1816–1838
  • Karl Ludwig Volkmann, 1838–1849
  • Karl Ludwig Kossak, 1849–1877
  • Otto Wilhelm Ferdinand Kahle, 1860–1880
  • Hermann Adolf Kauffmann, 1877–1899
  • Georg Hermann W. Eilsberger , 1880–1907
  • Karl Otto Sommer, 1898–1909
  • Bruno Ankermann, 1899–1926
  • Bruno Küßner, 1908–1927
  • Friedrich Heinrich E. Federmann, 1910–1926
  • Paul Piechowski, 1916
  • Bernhard Gensch, 1920–1922
  • Max Brunau, 1922-1923
  • Carl Ernst Czygan, 1927–1930
  • Willy Pensky, 1927-1945
  • Karl Thude, 1929–1930
  • Wilhelm Krüger, 1930–1936
  • Gerhard Siebert, 1932
  • Martin Tarnow, 1933-1936
  • Erich Leidreiter, 1937–1945
  • Erich Lackner, 1938–1945

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings . Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: history of the royal. Capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia . Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia . 3 volumes, Böhlau, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg - history of a world citizenship republic . Hanser , Munich 2005, ISBN 3-446-20619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Between Memel and fresh lagoon . Trescher, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era . Husum Druck, Husum 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .

Web links

Commons : Altroßgärter Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 344-350.
  2. ^ Hans Graf von Lehndorff: Ostpreußisches Tagebuch: Notes of a doctor from 1945 - 1947 . dtv, 1997, ISBN 978-3-423-30094-0 .
  3. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 66

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 0 ″  N , 20 ° 31 ′ 28 ″  E