St. Adalbert Chapel (Tenkitten)

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The Sankt Adalbert Chapel in East Prussia on the Samland Baltic Sea coast in the southwest of the village of Tenkitten (today: Beregovoye (Kaliningrad, Baltijsk) ) was a church building that served as a place of worship from 1424 to 1669, badly damaged by a storm in 1669 and not afterwards was rebuilt.

history

Tenkitten, northwest of Fischhausen on the north bank of the Frischen Haff , on a map from 1910. Southwest of Tenkitten near the coast the location of the St. Adalbert Chapel (see left half of the picture).

Tenkitten is said to have had a first church between 1014 and 1035 during the reign of the Danish King Knut IV over the Samland .

According to tradition, Saint Adalbert was probably martyred near Tenkitten on April 23, 997 . The exact place of death is not documented; the crime scene is said to have been not far from the Baltic coast.

In the period 1422–1424 the Order Marshal Ludwig von Lanse († 1451) had a memorial chapel built there, which was consecrated in 1424 at the time of the Samland bishop Johann . According to the Fischhausen superintendent Friedrich Wilhelm Lange , who measured the outer floor plan of the chapel in 1834, the nave was oriented from east to west and, including the bell tower, was 85 feet long (≈ 26.70 meters), while its width in the north Southbound was 29 feet (≈ 9.10 meters); the Sankt-Adalbert-Kapelle was one of the smaller chapels in Prussia.

The chapel became a place of pilgrimage , as Pope Eugene IV had promised its visitors a hundred-day indulgence .

In the course of the Reformation , the pilgrimage chapel was rededicated as a Protestant parish church in 1525. On November 24, 1669, the chapel collapsed in a heavy storm . At that time Heinrich Vasoldt (1622–1684) was pastor of the St. Adalbert Chapel. The shrine of the Marien Altar was given to the museum in Marienburg . Around 1840 there was an initiative to build a new St. Adalbert Chapel near Tenkitten on the old site where the remains of the wall were still there. The initiative came from the Catholic Bishop of Gniezno , Martin von Dunin , who had paid a visit to Königsberg in 1840 and who had also come to Tenkitten on this occasion. On the highest order of April 4, 1842, a memorial chapel was then planned that the two denominations should spatially share. Since the evangelical portion of the population far outweighed this idea could not prevail.

Until 1945 Tenkitten was incorporated into the parish of the parish in Lochstädt , whose pastors lived in Tenkitten and which belonged to the parish of Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Beregovoye is in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Swetly , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Furnishing

Mary Altar

Altar of Mary from the St. Adalbert Chapel near Tenkitten

The altar of Mary shows the coronation of the Mother of God in the middle as well as St. Barbara and St. James on the side wings. The back of the side wings are decorated with scenes from the legend of the martyr of St. Adalbert painted. The altar dates from 1504 - presumably from a Nuremberg workshop - and was a joint gift to the church in Tenkitten from Grand Master Friedrich von Sachsen , Lochstädter caretaker von Reitzenstein and Amber master Leo von Waiblingen. After the chapel collapsed, it was briefly moved to the Lochstedt castle chapel , but was soon sold. It can be concluded from this that Lochstedt has always been a place of worship for St. Adalbert. At the end of the 1660s, Mr. von Blell – Tüngen acquired the altar and donated it, along with many other collectibles, to the Marienburg. Today the altar can be viewed in the Marienburg Museum.

St. Adalbert Cross

The St. Adalbert Cross near Tenkitten

In 1822, a 9.5 m high wooden cross made from an oak trunk was erected on the barely recognizable remains of the ruins of St. Adalbert's Chapel , which did not withstand the storms for long.

The Polish Countess Wielopolska donated an almost equally high iron cross (8.78 m) because she found refuge in Fischhausen in the November uprising in 1831. Count Dohna-Wundlaken , Consistorial President in Königsberg i. Pr. , Had the iron tendrils incorporated. The cross stood until the Battle of Königsberg in April 1945. For the 1000th anniversary of the martyrdom of St. Adalbert in 1997 a new cross was erected.

literature

  • Ernst August Hagen : About the St. Adalbert's Chapel in Tenkitten . In: New Prussian Provincial Papers . Volume 5, Koenigsberg 1848, pp. 256-276.
  • Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia, from the oldest times to the fall of the rule of the German order . Volume 1, Königsberg 1827, Supplement No. III: The Sanct Adalberts-Chapel on the beach of the Baltic Sea , pp. 663–666.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of Tenkitten at ostpreussen.net
  2. ↑ Johannes Voigt : History of Prussia, from the earliest times to the fall of the rule of the German order . Volume 1, Königsberg 1827, pp. 270-273. and pp. 660-663.
  3. ↑ William Pierson : Elektron or Ueber die ancestors, the relatives and the names of the old Prussians. A contribution to the oldest history of the state of Prussia . Berlin 1869, p. 78 .
  4. ↑ Johannes Voigt: History of Prussia, from the earliest times to the fall of the rule of the German order . Volume 1, Koenigsberg 1827, pp. 663-666.
  5. ^ A b c d Friedrich Wilhelm Lange : Message about the iron cross erected at Tenkitten in memory of St. Adalbert . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 12, July-December 1834, pp. 441-454.
  6. ↑ a b c Regensburg newspaper . No. 34 of February 3, 1844, p. 134, right column.
  7. ↑ Johannes Voigt: History of Prussia, from the earliest times to the fall of the rule of the German order . Volume 1, Königsberg 1827, p. 279.
  8. ↑ a b c Robert Kuhlemann: The Adalbert Cross
  9. ↑ 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.propstei-kaliningrad.info
  10. ^ Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon . Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1
  11. ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Lange : Addendum to the description of the St. Adalbert Cross erected at Tenkitten in the Provinzial-Blatte November-Heft 1834 . In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 17, Königsberg 1837, pp. 385-386.

Coordinates: 54 ° 43 ′ 42.6 ″  N , 19 ° 56 ′ 46.8 ″  E