Lochstedt Castle Chapel
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The Lochstädt Castle Chapel was part of Lochstedt Castle and was built in the last decade of the 13th century in Gothic style and was the Protestant parish church for the parish of the then submerged Lochstädt (Russian: Pawlowo) in the East Prussian district of Fischhausen in today Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg Region (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
The village of Lochstädt in the southwestern tip of the Samland was on the amber coast only a few kilometers from the Baltic Sea . Before 1945 it could be reached via the former German Reichsstraße 131 (later: Russian trunk road A 193 ) or the Neuhäuser train station (now Russian: Metschnikowo) of the Pillau Seestad – Fischhausen – Königsberg (Pr) of the former East Prussian Southern Railway . The castle Lochstädt with the castle chapel was located in the south of the village between the road and the railway line. The castle grounds are now in the area of Baltijskoje gorodskoje posselenije (Baltijsk (Pillau) ) in the Baltijsk district ( Pillau district ).
Castle chapel
"The chapel is exactly like in the Hochschloss zu Marienburg with two cross-vaulted yokes and a three-quarter star, which" arises from two services each of the choir wall and the two side walls. The wall services at first one choir corner are connected directly by straps and cut off triangular corner fields, which independently are closed with a three-lobed vault. " As a result, the choir bay is designed as a polygon, and through this trick the viewer receives the impression of a polygonal final development of the choir room. The graceful foliage capitals of the vaulted ribs rest on basket-shaped capitals with various sculptural decorations. They stand on short limestone pillars , which arise from the crowns of eyelashes . Under the windowsill runs all around with flat tendrils and is covered in the round arches. (The same jewelry can be found made from the same molds at the Marienburg castle as it was in Brandenburg in 1887) "
During the time of the Order , a church, St. Adalbert's Church, was consecrated to Adalbert of Prague in Tenkitten (now Russian: Beregovoye), the place where he was probably martyred . It was rededicated in 1525 as a Protestant parish church. On November 24, 1669, it collapsed due to dilapidation. As a result, the service was relocated from Tenkitten to the nearby Lochstädt , in order to be celebrated in the chapel of the castle complex there until 1945.
The Lochstädt Castle Chapel was a single-nave Gothic building from the years 1290 to 1300, which was housed in the south wing of the castle complex. With the addition of triangular flaps in front of the east wall, its vaults gave the impression of a polygonal space closure. The confessional from St. Adalbert's Church was kept in the attached sacristy . Since the altar had been brought to Marienburg (now in Polish: Malbork), it was replaced by a newer work in the Lochstädter Castle Chapel. The pulpit , the font and the organ were also new.
At the end of the Second World War , the half-height south wing with the sacristy and a west wing were preserved. The remains of the castle were demolished in the 1960s.
Altar of Mary from Tenkitten
The altar of Mary from Tenkitten in Samland shows the coronation of the Mother of God in the middle cupboard and St. Barbara and St. Jacobus on the side wings. This altar from 1504 - probably from a Nuremberg workshop - was a joint gift from Grand Master Friedrich von Meißen , Lochstädter caretaker von Reitzenstein and Amber Master Leo von Waiblingen to the church in Tenkitten. After the church collapsed, it was temporarily taken to the Lochstedt castle chapel, but was sold soon afterwards. It can be concluded that Lochstedt has always been a place of worship for Saint Adalbert. Later Mr. von Blell – Tüngen bought the altar and donated it to the Marienburg along with many other collectibles . Today it can be viewed in the Marienburger Museum.
Parish
Lochstädt was already a church village in pre-Reformation times, at that time - from 1422/24 - with the St. Adalbertskirche in Tenkitten. Lochstädt, however, belonged to the mother parish of the Alt Pillau Church (today the city of Baltijsk ). After the place of worship was relocated to the Lochstädt castle chapel, the Alt Pillau church became a branch in the Lochstädt parish until 1885, after which it was independent. The clergy of the parish of Lochstädt continued to live in Tenkitten (Beregovoye). At the census in 1925, 1092 parishioners in eight parish towns belonged to the Lochstädter parish. Until 1945 it was assigned to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia, part of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Parish places
Before 1945, eight parish locations belonged to the Lochstädter parish:
| German name | Russian name |
|---|---|
| Damerau | Stepnoje |
| Gaffs | Parusnoye |
| limestone | Uspeschnoye |
| Laying tendons | Popovka |
| Lochstädt | Pavlovo |
| Neuhäuser | Metschnikowo |
| Osterau | Ossetrovo |
| Tenkitten | Beregovoye |
Pastor
From the Reformation to 1945, there were 26 Protestant clergy in Lochstädt (with residence in Tenkitten):
- NN., 1525
- N. Brixius, until 1580
- Arnold Hecker, 1580-1602
- Friedrich Reuss, from 1602
- Johann Wilhelm Rhodius, from 1604
- Georg Petersen, until 1628
- Friedrich Grünenberg, 1628–1630
- Johann Thilo
- Joachim Settgast, until 1656
- Heinrich Vasoldt, 1656–1684
- Johann Christoph Beyer, 1684–1698
- Christoph Vasoldt, 1698–1729
- Johann Jacob Vasoldt, 1729-1736
- Friedrich von Schäwen, 1737–1762
- Christian Wilhelm Brokowski, 1762–1791
- Samuel Krackau, 1791–1798
- Michael Theodor Nagel, 1799–1808
- Carl Sigismund Kepper, 1808-1815
- Johann Gottfried Schultz, 1815–1824
- Carl G. Adolf Hoffmann, 1824–1839
- Conrad Wilhelm Huebner, 1839–1881
- Paul Theodor Schmidt, 1883–1887
- Carl Robert Erdmann Heger, 1888–1906
- Edmund Albert W. Johannes Pauly, 1906–1923
- Hans Hermenau, 1923–1924
- Walter Becker, 1925–1945
Church records
The church records of the parish of Lochstädt (also of the Alt Pillau church until 1885 ) have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1663-1944
- Weddings: 1684 to 1944
- Burials: 1684 to 1944.
Some of the church registers are provided with name registers. There is also a chronicle for the years 1768 to 1791 and 1807.
photos
Chapter in the chapel
Chapter in the chapel
Console with chapter
Ornamental frieze in the chapel
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Architectural and art monuments of the Samland, Königsberg 1891, pp. 78–79.
- ^ Burg Lochstädt at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 34, fig. 40
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 454
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland: Lochstädt
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 87
- ↑ Hübner († 1881) was a member of the Corps Littuania .
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, page 79
Coordinates: 54 ° 42 '25.3 " N , 19 ° 57' 4.6" E