Evangelical Church Heinrichswalde (Niederung District)
| Evangelical Church Heinrichswalde (Niederung / Elchniederung district) Кирха Хайнрихсвальде |
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 The Evangelical Church in Heinrichswalde (Slavsk) in 2011 |
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| Construction year: | 1867 to 1869 |
| Inauguration: | October 15, 1869 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction , neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Heinrichswalde ( Church Province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 2 '48.3 " N , 21 ° 41' 14.2" E |
| Address: | ul.Sovetskaya Slavsk Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | The church is no longer owned by the church |
The Evangelical Church in Heinrichswalde ( Niederung / Elchniederung district in East Prussia ) is a three-aisled brick building from the middle of the 19th century. Until 1945 it was the parish church for the parish of today's Slawsk district town in what is now Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ) in Russia . The church has not been in church ownership since 2013.
Geographical location
Today's city of Slavsk is 14 kilometers southwest of Sowetsk (Tilsit) not far from the Russian highway R 513 . The former Protestant parish church is located in the eastern part of the city at ul. Sovetskaya.
Church building
A wooden church in Heinrichswalde was built in 1686 and consecrated on October 27, 1686. But already in 1691 it was too small, which is why the church patroness Rosina von Hallen had a new church built in 1694, this time made of timber . However, the increasingly dilapidated building had to be closed in 1862.
The church was then fundamentally and almost entirely renovated in the neo-Gothic style between 1867 and 1869. A three-aisled brick building was built with a tall and massive tower in front of it with a filigree top and stepped gable . The building was inaugurated on October 15, 1869.
The naves are vaulted, the walls are secured by high buttresses . There were galleries in the side aisles.
The altar is made of red sandstone , in front of which is the baptismal font made of the same material. Both date from 1828. Remains of old carvings have come down to us from the previous church .
The organ came from the workshop of the organ builder Johann Rohn from the East Prussian Wormditt (today Polish: Orneta). The church bell originally consisted of three bells cast in 1686, 1717 and 1827, respectively. In 1901 lightning struck the tower. The damage could be repaired.
The church survived the Second World War unscathed. However, after 1945 the building was used as a warehouse for a long time . The equipment was lost. In addition, a steady decline in the building fabric was accepted. In 1993 the church was given back to the Protestant church, and numerous initiatives were committed to the preservation and restoration of the building. However, the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Slavsk was too small to support the church from then on. In 2011, the building was handed over to the local parish of the Russian Orthodox Church . But the church only used it for two years, only to give it up on March 6, 2013 and hand it over to the local tourist information center for profane use as a historical center, a museum or a tourist complex. The Evangelical Lutheran congregation uses a barn that has been converted into a parish hall as a place of worship.
Heinrichswalde parish
A Protestant parish was founded in Heinrichswalde on February 27, 1686. Initially part of the Tilsit inspection , it was integrated into the Niederung church district (from 1939 Elchniederung) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1890 the parish had 7500 parishioners, 1050 of them Lithuanians , which is why the services were always held in German and Lithuanian. In a census in 1925, 6444 parishioners were registered in the parish of Heinrichswalde, who lived in the city and in 30 places and smaller towns in the area. They were looked after by only one pastor, whose position was expanded to include an assistant preacher in 1849.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , Protestant church life in Slavsk broke off.
It was not until the 1990s that an Evangelical Lutheran congregation emerged again , which developed into the parish center of many others in the Slavsk church region. It is part of the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia with its seat in Moscow .
Parish places
Before 1945, in addition to the town of Heinrichswalde, the parish also included 29 towns and smaller towns and places to live (* = school location ):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Noble clay quarry | Lepestkowo | Klaarhof | Paporotnikowo | |||
| * Noble Linkuhnen | Rzhevskoye | Little Brittania |
since 1928: Brittania |
Shcheglowka | ||
| * Argoloths | Argendorf | Priosjorje | Köllmisch Linkuhnen | Zheleznodorozhnye | ||
| Augustlauken | Hohensprindt | Nassenthal | Kryzhovnikovo | |||
| Baltrus | New Descherin | Deschen | ||||
| Brunischken | New care | Paporotnikowo | ||||
| Bürgerhuben | * Noragehlen | Urbansprind | ||||
| Clemenswalde (Klemenswalde) | Reussenhof, forest | |||||
| Third ball | Scatter | Luschki | * Sand river |
since 1931: Lindental |
Prigorodnoye | |
| Griegolienen | Broken clay | Sapovedniki | Snails , forest | Corn bunk | ||
| Great Britain |
since 1928: Brittania |
Shcheglowka | Schneckendorf, Forst | |||
| Green tree | Szalloge | |||||
| * Grüneberg | * Tomatoes | Dalneje | ||||
| Heinrichswalde | Slavsk | Warnie | Warnien | |||
| Hohensprindt, Forst | Wilkehler Moor |
Pastor
Between 1686 and 1945 officiated at the church in Heinrichswalde as Protestant clergy:
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Church records
The church registers have been preserved and are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms from 1686 to 1874 (also name register from 1804 to 1839),
- Weddings from 1686 to 1874,
- Funerals from 1732 to 1874.
Church district Niederung / Elchniederung
Heinrichswalde was the central administrative center for the Niederung district (from 1938 "Elchniederung district"). The corresponding church district comprised 13 parishes or parishes :
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| Gowarten | Dzerzhinskoye | |
| Great Friedrichsdorf | Gastellowo | |
| Heinrichswalde | Slavsk | |
| Ins | Prichaly | |
| Kallningken | Herdenau | Prochladnoye |
| Karkeln | Myssovka | |
| Chewing | Kuckerneese | Jasnoye |
| Old Lappienen | Rauterskirch | Bolshiye Bereschki |
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Neukirch (Joneykischken) |
Timiryasevo | |
| Jack cocks | Schakendorf (East Pr.) | Levobereschnoe |
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Seckenburg (large Kryszahn) |
Sapovednoye | |
| Big Skaisgirren | Kreuzingen | Bolshakovo |
| Skören | Gorodkovo |
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation. Königsberg 1777, p. 144.
- Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources. Volume 2. Gumbinnen 1863, pp. 85-112.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Buildings and facilities in Heinrichswalde at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 92, fig. 373
- ↑ It was one of the four former churches in East Prussia that were transferred back, next to the village church Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) , the Salzburg church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) and the church Turgenewo (Groß Legitten)
- ↑ Кирха Хайнрихсвалье - The Heinrichswalde Church at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012/2013)
- ↑ Notification of return at ostpreußen.net
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 482
- ^ The parish of Heinrichswalde
- ↑ 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 Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 53–54
