Ivanzovo
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Iwanzowo / German Thierau
Иванцово
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Iwanzowo ( Russian Иванцово , German German Thierau , Lithuanian Tyruva ) was a village in East Prussia . It was located in the area of today's Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg (Prussia) ) in the area of the village soviet Pogranitschny (Hermsdorf, Heiligenbeil district ) within the Bagrationovsk Rajon (Prussian Eylau) .
Geographical location
Iwanzowo had been on the Russian-Polish border since 1945, which ran directly on the southern outskirts. This location in the no man's land of the border region determined the fate of the place that could not survive here.
Before 1945, a section of the planned Reichsautobahn Berlin – Königsberg (today's Polish state road DK 22 or Russian regional road R 516 ) passed on the north-western outskirts of Deutsch Thierau . The site of the former station of Deutsch Thierau on the Reichsbahn line from Heiligenbeil (today in Russian: Mamonowo) via Zinten (Kornewo) to Preussisch Eylau (Bagrationowsk) can still be found today . It was closed after 1945.
history
Deutsch Thierau already existed in the 14th century. The place was first mentioned as a church village in 1375 with a size of 48 hooves.
Until 1945 it belonged to the district of Heiligenbeil in the administrative district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia .
In 1910 there were 549 inhabitants here. Their number rose to 622 by 1933 and was 662 in 1939.
In 1874 the administrative district Deutsch Thierau was formed, which consisted of the 12 rural communities and manor districts Bilshöfen, Deutsch Thierau, Freihof, Freudenthal, Gallingen, Hanswalde (community and estate), Herzogswalde, Lönshöfen, Mahlendorf, Prussian Thierau and Rosocken. Due to structural changes and incorporations, five municipalities formed the administrative district of Deutsch Thierau in 1945: Deutsch Thierau, Gallingen, Hanswalde, Herzogswalde and Lönshöfen. They were within the jurisdiction of the Heiligenbeil District Court .
church
Village church
The village church in Deutsch Thierau is mentioned as early as the 14th century (1412). The church was Catholic until the Duchy of Prussia was founded in 1525. It is a plastered brick building on a field stone foundation with a polygonal end of the choir and a wooden tower covered with clapboard from 1743. The interior consists of a flat wooden ceiling and a retracted choir made of cross vaults, the thin ribs of which rest on half-services with spurs. The walls of the nave are 1.50 to 1.70 m thick. The exterior decoration of the church is the west side with the ogival portal, which is profiled with two shaped stones, in rich variety. A circular screen with surrounding round bar profiles is inserted above the portal. On both sides of the circular screen there are two pointed arch screens and after the eaves there are again a small circular screen. A frieze of clay plates depicting human heads appears under the large circular screen. The organ was built by the Schuricht company from Gdansk and consecrated in 1859. The church was renovated in 1869 and 1906 and the organ in 1911. A black memorial plaque hangs on the right side wall of the church. The inscription commemorates two merited pastors who served at the church around 1700. It was the pastor Hornig, of whom the son became the father's official inquirer. During his tenure, the church tower was built. The parish had obtained the building funds through a petition from the pastor to King Friedrich II. The weather vane at the top of the church tower read "FRII 1741"; the number indicates the year of construction. Due to the war in 1945, the building had only lost the top two floors of the tower. The church itself was not damaged. After the division of East Prussia, the border with Poland runs directly on the southern outskirts, so that most of the village belongs to the Königsberg area. Thus the village is in the border security strip. In 1957 the church is still standing, but the decline continues. In 1990 the church is only a ruin with a collapsed roof and destroyed walls. The southern porch has fallen into disrepair and is covered with gravel. Only the north and south walls have been preserved. Only a granite font from the 14th / 15th centuries remains of the original furnishings. Century, a gilded chalice from 1696 and a similar octagonal wafer box from 1667 received.
Parish
The parish of Deutsch Thierau already existed in the pre-Reformation period. At the beginning of the 1930s there were more than 2000 parishioners who lived in 15 towns in the area, five of which had a schoolhouse:
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Two of these places - Hanswalde and Herzogswalde - are now on Polish territory, the rest belong to Russia. Most of them no longer exist today.
Until 1945 the parish of Deutsch Thierau belonged to the church district Heiligenbeil in the church province of East Prussia of the Protestant church of the Old Prussian Union .
Pastor
From the Reformation to the expulsion in 1945, 19 Protestant clergy were in office in Deutsch Thierau:
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Arno Schmökel, the last pastor of Eisenberg, took care of the community for six years from May 1939 to February 9, 1945. |
Personality of the place
- Erhard Riemann (1907–1984), folklorist and dialect researcher, winner of the East Prussian Culture Prize for Science 1976 , grew up in Deutsch Thierau, where his father worked as a teacher and cantor.
literature
- Friedwals Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Neidenburg-Stadt registry office, marriage register No. 16/1895