Kussen village church
| Kussen village church (Кирха Куссена) |
|
|---|---|
 The remaining walls of the Kussen village church |
|
| Construction year: | 1742 to 1743 |
| Inauguration: | June 23, 1743 |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Kussen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 45 '21 " N , 22 ° 20' 49" E |
| Location: |
Wesnovo Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The ruins of the church are falling into disrepair. |
The village church in Kussen ( Russian Кирха Куссена ) is a massive building made of field stones and dates from 1743. Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the inhabitants of the parish of the then East Prussian and now Wesnovo named place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area ( Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Wesnowo is in the east of the Kaliningrad Oblast on the regional road R 508 (27A-027) between Dobrowolsk (Pillkallen , 1938 to 1946 Schloßberg) and Gussew (Gumbinnen) at the confluence of a side road coming from Lunino (Lengwethen , 1938 to 1946 Hohensalzburg) . There is no train connection. The remaining walls of the church are located in the town on the right side of the road to Lunino.
Church building
The first church stood in Kussen as early as 1586, but its year of construction will be set before the mid-16th century. In 1531 Duke Albrecht of Prussia elevated the place to a church village , and Bishop Georg von Polenz established the location for a church in 1538. On the instructions of the Prussian King Friedrich the Great , the old church was replaced by a new building in 1742/1743, which was inaugurated on June 23, 1743.
The Kussener village church is a massive building made of field stones with a wooden roof tower . In 1790 extensions were made.
The interior of the church was covered flat, and the surrounding galleries were each supported by seven pillars. The pulpit altar was without any decorations. The baptismal font and the altar devices were only added to the furnishings after 1900.
The church had an organ that was built in 1700 by Johann Josua Mosengel . Obviously, when the church was rebuilt in 1743, the organ was taken over into the new church, as it is mentioned in the church inventory from 1785. It cannot be determined when it was lost.
The ringing consisted of two bells from 1922.
The church survived the Second World War without damage. After 1945, however, the church was used as a warehouse for agricultural equipment. During this time the tower was lost. The extensions in the east and west no longer existed, the roof collapsed. In the 1990s the building was no longer used and has been falling into disrepair ever since. In 2008 only part of the church walls remained, by 2016 the remaining gable wall also collapsed.
Parish
The Protestant parish in Kussen was founded in 1586 after the population there was initially cared for by the pastor from Kattenau (today in Russian: Sawety). Initially it belonged to the Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk) inspection department , until 1945 it was incorporated into the church district of Pillkallen (Schlossberg) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The parish of Kussen consisted of 34 towns, villages and places to live and in 1925 had 5,500 parishioners. The pastor's post was occupied continuously from 1585 to 1945.
Flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War and the subsequent restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union brought church life in Wesnowo to a standstill. Protestant church members living here today live in the catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The extensive parish of the Kussener village church included:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antmirehlen 1935–1946: Advertise |
Saltykowka | Calves | Schwaighöfen | Orlovskoye | ||
| Bednohren | Stahnsdorf (East Pr.) | Kiggen | Steinershöfen | Muravyovo | ||
| Belsen | Kischenbannies | Bühlerhof | Stalingradskoje, then: Dalneje |
|||
|
Bludszen 1936–1938 Bludschen |
Vierhöfen (East Pr.) | Fevralskoye | Klein Henskischken | Kleinhensken | ||
| * Bruszen 1936–1938 Bruschen |
Gravel fields | Wesnowo | Kögsten | Michelfelde | Nowinki | |
| Budszuhnen 1936–1938 Budschuhnen |
Ash height | * Kisses | Wesnowo | |||
| Budupönen | Booths | Petrovskoye | * Laugall | Lorenzen | Petrovskoye | |
| Perennials | Podlesnoye | Meschkuppen | Bear farms | Kuprino | ||
| * Draugupönen 1938–1939 Deihornswalde |
from 1939: Dreihornswalde |
* Ming voice steal | Mingen | Kuprino | ||
| * Duden | Dudenwalde | Denisovo | Ming voices | Wiesenbrück | Medvedkino | |
| Eggleningken | Pine Mountain | Muravyovo | * Radszen 1936–1938 Radßen |
Radenau | ||
| * Eymenishken Baltadons | Wheat fields | Blackball | Grundweiler | Drosdowo | ||
| Eymischken-Wassaken | Mare break | Dimitrowo | Septinlope 1928–1946 Siebenlinden |
Petrovskoye | ||
| * Henskischken | Hensken | Schelannoje | * Bobbins | Fevralskoye | ||
| Heinrichsfelde | Urblaugken | Vacation | Wesnowo | |||
| * Jänischken | Hansruh | Saosjornoje | Wallindszen 1936–1938 Wallindschen |
Wallinden | Romaschkino | |
| Jodszen 1936–1938 Jodschen |
Field mill | Nagornoje | Wassantkehmen | Wilderness clearing | Wesnowo |
Pastor
Between 1585 and 1945, 20 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Kussen village church:
|
|
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 98-99.
- Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources . Volume 2, Gumbinnen 1863, pp. 469-481.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Wesnowo - kisses
- ^ Walter Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 109, figs. 480 and 481
- ↑ 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, p. 239
- ↑ 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, p. 106
- ↑ Erwin Spehr, The Church of Kisses and their decay
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 485
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 79
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
