Archangel Michael Church (Chernyakhovsk)
The Archangel Michael Church ( Russian Кирха Архангела Михаила ) in Chernyakhovsk (until 1946 Insterburg) has been a place of worship of the Russian Orthodox Church since 1992 . It was built between 1886 and 1890 in a neo-Romanesque style. It served the Reformed community of Insterburg as a church until 1945 and was a garrison church for a long time . The church is in the southern old town, east of the city park ( Russian gorodskoi park ).
building
The foundation stone for the new Reformed Church in Insterburg was laid in 1886. This created a replacement for the first simple building built in 1735. In a four-year construction period, the church was built according to the plans of the Berlin architect Friedrich Adler , who, as the department head for church construction, was a high-ranking construction officer in the state building administration. The church was consecrated on April 24, 1890, although it was not given a name according to the Reformed tradition. The 60 meter high tower in the west and two smaller towers in the east have a defining effect.
After the Second World War , the church initially served as a warehouse until 1979 , also as a club and finally as a basketball sports hall for the Spartak Chernyakhovsk club . In 1986 the building burned down and gradually began to deteriorate.
In 1989, citizens of the city took the initiative and stopped the decline. The building received a new copper roof in the same year after it was taken over by the Russian Orthodox Church . This set up the house of God u. a. with the installation of an iconostasis , and on May 2, 1992 the "new" church was solemnly consecrated to the Archangel Michael by the archbishop and metropolitan of the dioceses of Smolensk and Kaliningrad Kyrill .
local community
Reformed
A Reformed congregation was formed in Insterburg in 1701 by Schotten , after the plague in 1709/1710 by Nassauers and the Swiss , for whom a church was built in 1735. At times there were two preachers working here. Before 1945, the parish with its 1,700 parish members belonged to the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , but not - like the parishes of the Luther and Melanchthon Church in Insterburg - to the parish of Insterburg, but to a specially German-Reformed inspection in Königsberg. The Insterburger parish included the Reformed church members in the city and in the district of Insterburg with the exception of the Neunischken (1938-1946 Neunassau , Russian: Priwolnoje) localities.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population, reformed church life in Insterburg also came to a standstill. It was not until the 1990s that an Evangelical Lutheran congregation formed in Chernyakhovsk, and the city became the seat of its own parish office for the church region of Chernyakhovsk with over 20 congregations. The parish is assigned to the Kaliningrad provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Pastor (1701–1945)
At the time of the existence of the Reformed congregation in Insterburg, 14 clergymen officiated at the church:
- Christian Ernst König, 1701–1717
- Wilhelm Crichton, 1718-1730
- Jakob Wilhelm Tamnau, 1730–1757
- Jean Pierre Remy, 1731 and 1736–1740
- Jakob Schröder, 1741–1779
- Johann Christoph Müller, 1762–1771
- Ernst Heinrich Cannot, 1771–1797
- Anton Ludwig Théremin, 1781–1782
- Karl Lambert, 1783-1819
- Johann Gottlieb Kramer, 1819–1833
- Johann Franz Albert Gillet, 1834–1856
- Hermann Th. Hch. Adalb. Merguet, 1846-1876
- Emil August D. Hundertmarck, 1876-1919
- Waldemar Lüders, from 1927
Orthodox
In the 1990s, a Russian Orthodox community was formed in Chernyakhovsk , which, together with the city authorities, took on the reformed Church, which was threatened with decay. Chernyakhovsk is a parish in the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk (Koenigsberg and Pillau) formed in 2009 from the Dioceses of Smolensk and Kaliningrad .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 103.
- ^ Reformed Church / Garrison Church Insterburg at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Кирха Инстербурга / Church Insterburg at prussia39.ru (with pictures of the church from 2012/13)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 103; Volume III: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 508.
- ↑ Ref. Kirchspiel Insterburg at genealogy.net ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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. (Russian German)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 233.
- ↑ Hundertmarck was a member of the Corps Littuania .
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 37 ′ 57.1 ″ N , 21 ° 48 ′ 49.6 ″ E