Evangelical Church Ragnit
| Evangelical Church Ragnit (Евангелическая кирха Рагнита) |
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_-_panoramio.jpg) Torso of the Evangelical Church Ragnit, 2010 |
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| Construction year: | 1772 tower: 1853 |
| Style elements : | Three aisles |
| Client: | Evangelical Parish Ragnit ( Church Province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 2 '7.4 " N , 22 ° 1' 36.2" E |
| Address: | Oktyabrskaya ul.Neman Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The building used by others is no longer the property of the Church |
The Evangelical Parish Church in Ragnit is a building erected in 1771/1772 initially without a tower and until 1945 was a Protestant place of worship for the former East Prussian and now Neman city in the northeast of the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad (Königsberg area in Prussia).
Geographical location
Today's Neman is located on the southern bank of the river of the same name ( German Memel ) on the Russian trunk road A 198 (former German Reichsstrasse 132 ). The nearest train station is Sowetsk (Tilsit) , the end point of the railway line coming from Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) .
The former church building is located in the south-east of the city center on Oktjabrskaja uliza ("October Street").
Church building
A church building that already existed in the 15th century was replaced by a new one in 1517, which was destroyed by flames in a fire in the Seven Years' War in 1757 . In the years 1771/1772 it was replaced by a new building. It was a plastered three-aisled building whose plans Johann Friedrich Fischer created. The tower was not added until 1853.
The interior of the church was arched in the middle and kept flat on the sides. The wide, encircling galleries reached up to the east wall . The room was determined by a well-structured pulpit altar from 1775. The organ dates from the time the church was founded.
The church building, which came almost unscathed by the Second World War , was completely rebuilt after 1945. A furniture store was set up in the nave and apartments above it. After an accident in 1993, the tower was removed up to the height of the roof ridge of the nave, so that only its substructure is left. The entire church furnishings were lost.
In the eastern part of the former church building, a room was made available as a Catholic chapel in 1993 , and a prayer room for the Russian Orthodox Church was built in the western part , which it used until 1995. Then she moved into a newly built church.
Parish of Ragnit
Ragnit was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. With the Reformation , Lutheran clergy began their service here , first a Lithuanian pastor, then a German minister, from 1888 a third clergyman, first as assistant preacher , then from 1917 on a regular post.
Ragnit was the seat of its own inspection and a later church district , which was converted with the neighboring church district Tilsit after 1920 into the new church district Tilsit-Ragnit - while retaining the two dioceses of Tilsit and Ragnit, but with the separation of the parish north of the Memel . Until 1945 he belonged to the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In the 1920s, the Protestant parish in Ragnit counted 13,000 parishioners who lived in more than 40 parish locations in addition to the city .
After 1945, flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the war brought church life to a standstill in the city now known as "Neman".
While Catholic and Orthodox church services are taking place here again today, Protestant church members living here are now oriented towards the nearest Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) . It is part of the Chernyakhovsk / Slavsk (Insterburg / Heinrichswalde) church region in the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The great majority of the parish members lived in the town of Ragnit, a smaller part in the extensive parish with 46 towns, smaller towns and places to live:
| Surname | Change name (1938-1946) |
Russian name |
Lithuanian name |
Surname | Change name (1938-1946) |
Russian name |
Lithuanian name |
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| Alexen | Aleksai | Courses | Rakitino | ||||||
| * Althof-Ragnit | Michurinsky | Lepaloths | Soldering | Druzhinino | |||||
| * Bit tendon shoulder arms | Bitėnai | Mattischken | Klingsporn | Shuravlyovo | |||||
| Bit tendon Uszbitschen | B.-Ußbitschen | Užbičiai | * Upper egg peas | Chisels | Gorino | ||||
| Bludischken | Palentien | Palen | Dubrawino | ||||||
| * Beans | * Paskallwen | Schalau | Dubki | ||||||
| Charlottenwalde | Shirokodolye | * Paszuiszen 1936–38: Passußen / Paschuischen |
Altengraben | Rutschi | |||||
| Dorlauken | Dorfelde | Pellehnen | Dreidorf (East Pr.) | Shdanki | |||||
| Final rest | Wenderoth | Wsspolje | Pötischken | Flachdorf | Ivovoye | ||||
| Girschuns | Girdschunai | * Petratschen | Petersfelde (East Pr.) | ||||||
| Groosten | Gorkino | Prowoiszen 1936–38: Prowoic |
Prosh | ||||||
| (Large) Neuhof-Ragnit | Kotelnikowo | Scheidischken | Divorce | Barvenkovo | |||||
| * Gudgallen | Grossfelde | Gudkowo | Flakes | Schuppenau | Sharovo, now: Wetrowo |
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| Ikschen | Mountain village | Nikitino | * Sobersken | Bersken | Walzowo | ||||
| Jautelischken | Tehlen | Kuprijanowo | Steireggen | ||||||
| Jonien | Tilsenau | Otwaschnoje, now: Gudkowo |
Quilting | Steffenshof | |||||
| Karlsberg | Korodowo | Stiemerau | |||||||
| Kaukerwethen | * Titschken | Table setting | Podgornoje | ||||||
| Peeling kia | Kleinmark | Krasnoye Selo | Tracking | ||||||
| * Kindschen , 1928–1946: Groß Kindschen |
Iskra | Tussainen | Chapayevo | ||||||
| * Klapaten | Advised | Krasnoye Selo | Wallullen | Wallenfelde | |||||
| Klein Neuhof-Ragnit | Akulowo | * Willingness | Willmannsdorf | ||||||
| Krakonischken | Krakiniškiai | * Woy stretching | Stretching | Wetrowo |
Pastor
The pastors officiated at the church in Ragnit as evangelical clergy:
- Ambrosius N., from 1538
- Johann Tusien, before 1540
- Hans Pappel, 1540
- Martin Mosvid , 1549-1563
- David N., 1562
- Augustin Jamund , 1563-1576
- Hans Hoppe, 1564
- Johann Blumenaju, from 1569
- Johann Hafer, from 1569
- N. Hynerus,?
- Joachim Colonius,?
- Simon Waissnarus, 1579
- Joachim Cloccowius, 1593
- Samuel Hurtelius, from 1599
- Johann Gettkandt, from 1600
- Georg Beselmann, 1625
- Johann Hurtelius, from 1633
- David Hoppe, 1636-1639
- Job Lerner d. Ä., 1639-1660
- Job Lerner d. J., 1660-1680
- Johann Schöning, 1665–1667
- Albrecht Pusch, 1667–1671
- Marcus Naunien, 1671-1710
- Heinrich Julius Hagemann, 1680–1700
- Georg Bogendorf, 1690-1710
- Job Naunien, 1695-1726
- Balthasar Gottfried Hoppe, 1711–1734
- Johann Friedrich Leo, 1726-1730
- Ernst Fr. Schimmelpfennig, 1731–1768
- Martin Lindenau, 1735–1757
- Otto Gottlieb Fiedler, 1758–1784
- Johann Christoph Wander, 1768–1788
- Joachim Jakob Krüger, 1783–1807
- Daniel Friedrich Mielke, 1788-1818
- Johann Bernhard Fiedler, 1807–1832
- Karl Heinrich Malkwitz, 1818–1850
- Carl August Jordan, 1832-1871
- Carl Eduard Ziegler, 1851–1873
- Carl Eduard Schrader, 1872–1887
- Carl Alexander Tiedtke, 1873–1881
- Albert Hammer, 1881-1907
- Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Pauly, 1888–1904
- Alfred Fr. Emil Pipirs, from 1888
- Theodor Ad. Pastenaci, 1892-1894
- August Ed. Sinnhuber, 1894-1896
- Ferdinand Radtke, 1896–1902
- Hermann Georg Alb. Poetz, 1902
- Ferdinand WK Lubenau, 1902–1905
- Theodor Gustav Struck, 1904–1926
- Johannes Seemann, 1905–1907
- Robert Julius Triebel, 1906
- Benno Rudolf Franz Riech, 1907–1911
- Georg Richard E. Woede, 1908–1928
- Bernhard Moderegger, 1913
- Max Walter Prill, 1917–1925
- Hermann Braun, 1925–1933
- Ernst Garmeister, 1927–1942
- Walter Jurkschat, 1930–1945
- Friedrich Jung, 1933–1945
- Christian Zürcher, 1943–1945
Church records
Of the church books of the parish church Ragnit have survived and are in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg kept:
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German municipality: To baptize:
Weddings:
Funerals:
Confirmations:
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German rural community: To baptize:
Weddings:
Funerals:
Confirmations:
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Lithuanian municipality: To baptize:
Weddings:
Funerals:
Confirmations:
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Church district Tilsit-Ragnit / Diocese Ragnit
Until the 1920s, Ragnit was the official seat of an inspection or a church district . Then Ragnit was combined with the neighboring church district Tilsit, but the two separate dioceses remained. Only the places north of the Memel were eliminated.
The diocese of Ragnit of the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit comprised nine parishes until 1945:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| Budwethen | Altenkirch | Malomoshaiskoje |
| Groß Lenkeningken | Großlenkenau | Lesnoye |
| Kraupischken | Breitenstein | Ulyanovo |
| Lengwethen | Hohensalzburg | Lunino |
| Ragnite | No, sorry man | |
| Rautenberg | Uzlovoye | |
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Szillen 1936–46: Schillen |
Schilino | |
| Trappings | Bustards | Nemanskoye |
| Wedereitischken | Sandkirchen | Timofeeva |
The parish of the church Wischwill (now Lithuanian: Viešvilė), which is now in Lithuania, used to belong to it.
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. 126-128.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Today's tower entrance of the church
- ↑ Today's side view of the church
- ↑ Ragnit at Genwiki
- ↑ a b c buildings in Ragnit at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 112, Fig. 497
- ↑ Евангелическая кирха Рагнита The Evangelical Church Ragnit at prussia39.ru (with historical and current photos)
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 488
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 117
- ↑ a b c d Schrader († 1887), Hammer († 1907), Radtke († 1939) and Superintendent Struck († 1945) were members of the Corps Littuania
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part 1: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, pp. 96–97
