Church of Augstagirren
| Church of Augstagirren (Big Tree) Кирха Аугстагиррена |
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| Construction year: | 1923 to 1926 |
| Architect : | Friedrich Lahrs |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Augstagirren, Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union |
| Location: | 54 ° 49 '26 " N , 21 ° 20' 39" E |
| Location: |
Sosnovka Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical parish church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. The church is used for purposes other than intended |
The church in Augstagirren is a building from the 1920s. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the parish of the East Prussian village of Augstagirren , which was incorporated into the Groß Baum community in 1929 and is now located under the common name Sosnowka in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Sosnowka is located 18 kilometers east of the city of Polessk (Labiau) on the Russian trunk road A 190 (former German Reichsstrasse 126 ). The nearest train station is Bogatowo (Szargillen , 1936–1938 Schargillen , 1938–1946 Eichenrode) on the Kaliningrad – Sowetsk (Königsberg – Tilsit) railway line .
The location of the church is at the western end of the town north of the main street and is equipped with a reference to its current use as "Dom kultury" (Дом культуры = culture house).
Church building
The plan to build our own church in Augstagirren existed before the First World War , when our own parish was founded in 1909. But the church could only be built in the post-war years from 1923 to 1926.
According to the plans of the Königsberg architect Friedrich Lahrs (1880–1964) a large building with a high pitched roof was built, which is noticeably large for the small town . It is a field stone building with an altar niche in the east. The brick tower, which was placed on a granite foundation and plastered, was not built until later.
The interior of the church was covered by a vaulted ceiling, and on the north side, which was provided with a gallery , round windows let in daylight. The altar and pulpit were combined to form a pulpit altar .
The church survived the Second World War almost unscathed. As Кирха Аугстагиррена ("Church Augstagirrena") since March 23, 2007 listed building was used as a cultural center with a cinema. For this purpose, the windows were bricked up and the tower and the nave were covered with asbestos cement panels. Almost nothing is left of their old interior. In the meantime the roof has been re-covered and the church has been extensively renovated.
Parish
Up to 1909 the parish of Augstagirren belonged to the church Laukischken (today Russian: Saranskoje), in which already in 1906 a special pastoral care district for Augstagirren was formed with the use of auxiliary preachers. From 1907 there were also church registers. In 1909 the parish became independent, but - probably due to the war - only received its own pastorate in 1921. At the census of 1925, 1,815 parishioners were registered in the parish. When Augstagirren was incorporated into the neighboring community of Groß Baum in 1929, the parish retained the former place name.
The parish Augstagirren belonged to the church district Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . Due to the flight and displacement of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Sosnowka came to a standstill. Today the place is in the catchment area of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Polessk (Labiau) , a branch congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The Augstagirren parish, founded in 1909, included twelve localities, including three school locations (= *):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| * Eyes lunatic | Sosnovka | |
| Berszgirren, 1936–1938: Berschgirren |
Birch yards | Army bunk |
| * Burgsdorf | Beryosovka | |
| Friedrichsfelde | Beryosovka | |
| Big tree | Sosnovka | |
| New Sternberg (Forest) | ||
| Pogarblauken | Pogarben | |
| Schönwalde , Kr. Labiau | Beryosovka | |
| Schwentoje | Ottergrund | |
| Scribble | Hagenwalde | Poltawka |
| * Szargillen , 1936–1938: Schargillen |
Eichenrode | Bogatowo |
| Wasgien (forest) |
Pastor
During the period of its existence, from 1909 (pastoral district from 1906) to 1945, three clergymen were active in the parish Augstagirren, of which the first two as curate of the Church Laukischken but in Augstagirren living:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 59, fig. 192
- ↑ Sosnowka - Augstagirren / Groß Baum at ostpreussen.net (with pictures)
- ↑ Patrick Plew, Augastgirren Church with photos
- ↑ Кирха Аугстагиррена - The Church of Augstagirren with pictures from 2012
- ↑ Current photo at panoramio.com
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 464
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 (as above)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 18
