Jubilee Church

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Jubilee Church or Jubilee Chapel are named as the following churches, which commemorate an anniversary :

Church events

To people

To the royal coronation in Königsberg in 1701

Jubilee Church of Noble Kessel (Kosciołek Szlachecki)
Jubilee Church Korschen (Korsze)
Olschöwen Jubilee Church (Olszewo Węgorzewskie)
Jubilee Church Puppen (Spychowo)

At the turn of the 20th century there was a lack of church buildings in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . 14 newly founded parishes had no church of their own, and there was no prospect of an early construction. There were 26 rural communities in East Prussia with more than 5,000 parishioners (including one over 14,000), and 46 parishes each comprised more than 50 places, including the rural community Memel with almost 100 villages. The ways to the church were sometimes over 15 kilometers. A total of 40 churches would have been built. There was a lack of funds everywhere.

In order to provide an effective remedy, the idea arose in the church province of East Prussia to hold the anniversary celebrations on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the coronation of Frederick III. of Brandenburg in Königsberg in 1901 not to celebrate with lavish festive events, but to create a permanent memorial by building churches in East Prussia. A capital of 100,000 marks should form the basis, generous donors topped it up. In May 1901, a call was made to the clergy in the province to raise funds for the construction of ten anniversary churches so that they could start building them in the anniversary year.

At the end of the campaign on September 8, 1901, the surprisingly high amount of 228,000 marks resulted. This enabled the committee to build 12 churches and 2 chapels, six of them in parishes that had already been established. At the same time, with the construction of four more churches, new parishes could be set up, and two more churches were built, which later became independent parishes. Two chapels were also built. On December 23, 1912, the empress received the final report after the 14th anniversary church had been completed.

East Prussian Jubilee Churches

Church and place name Changed place name from
1938 to 1945/46		 Inauguration date Church district Today's place name country
Church noble cauldron March 1, 1906 Johannisburg Kociołek Szlachecki Poland
Bialutten Church December 20, 1904 Soldau Białuty Poland
Chapel Bischdorf
( parish Rößel )		 1903 Rössel Sątopy-Samulewo Poland
Gross Lenkeningken Church Großlenkenau October 23, 1904 Tilsit-Ragnit / Diocese of Ragnit Lesnoye Russia
Church of Groß Schorellen Adlerswalde September 12, 1907 Pillkallen / Schloßberg Saratovskoye Russia
Kassuben Church September 24, 1908 Stallupönen / Ebenrode Ilyinskoye Russia
Korschen Evangelical Church July 17, 1904 Rastenburg Korsze Poland
Lipowitz Evangelical Church Lindenort October 5, 1906 Ortelsburg / Diocese of Ortelsburg Lipowiec Poland
Nattkischken Church November 29, 1904 But against Natkiškiai Lithuania
Olschöwen Church Kanitz December 19, 1905 Angerburg Olszewo Węgorzewskie Poland
Paleiten Church July 1, 1906 Heydekrug Paleičiai Lithuania
Paszieszen Church 1912 Heydekrug Pašyšiai Lithuania
Church dolls April 2, 1905 Ortelsburg / Diocese of Passenheim Spychowo Poland
Sussemilken Church Friedrichsrode August 9, 1906 Labiau Tarasovka Russia

Reason unknown

References

  1. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 1, Göttingen, 1968, pp. 370–371