Budwethen Church
| Budwethen Church (Church Altenkirch) Кирха Будветтена |
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| Construction year: | 1780-1782 |
| Style elements : | Field stone construction |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community of Budwethen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 55 '21.7 " N , 22 ° 12' 6.4" E |
| Location: |
Malomoshaiskoje Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church ruins are no longer in church property |
The Budwethen Church ( Russian Кирха Будветтена , the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Altenkirch) is a building built towards the end of the 18th century. Until 1945 it served the Protestant population in the East Prussian parish of what is now called Malomoschaiskoje in Russian as a place of worship.
Geographical location
Today's Malomoshaiskoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) is 17 kilometers southeast of the city of Neman (Ragnit) and is connected to the district town by a side road (27K-408). A rail link has not existed since the Sowetsk – Nesterow railway line was shut down .
Today's church ruins are in the town west of the road to Neman.
Church building
Budwethen was the first church to receive a small half-timbered building around 1686 , which had to be demolished in 1772 due to dilapidation. In the years 1780 to 1782 a new massive church was built, which was a simple rectangular field stone building without a tower . Only later did the church receive two gables , of which the western one ends in a pointed turret.
Inside the church, galleries were drawn into the aisles . The furnishings contained remains from the earlier baroque church. The pulpit altar was put together in 1782 using older carvings. The bronze chandelier was donated by members of the Salzburg community in 1832 on the occasion of their 100th anniversary ceremony as Salzburg exiles .
The organ from 1857 came from the Scherweit workshop in Königsberg (Prussia) . The organ builder Novak , who also came from Pregelstadt , carried out a later redesign .
The bells rang in a bell house separated from the church building. One of them bore the inscription At the time of the high-born fiefdom of Flans in Königsberg in 1695 gos me Gottfried Dornemann .
The church survived the Second World War unscathed, but was converted into a cultural center with a cinema for external use. The windows were walled up and rooms were added to the south and west. In addition, the roof tiles and rafters of the building were removed. In 1996 a fire destroyed the building. Today only ruinous remaining walls tell of the former church.
Parish
Already twenty years before the construction of the first Budwethener church was in the reign of the Great Elector the parish founded Budwethen. Until 1945 it belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the church district of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish numbered 4,000 parishioners who lived in 42 parish towns. The parish received its own pastoral office when it was founded. The first pastor was Pastor Theodor Lepner , who made an outstanding contribution to the Lithuanian language through his book " Der Prussische Lithuanauer " .
Because of the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war and because of the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in the parish of the place now called Malomoschaiskoje broke off.
The former parish village is now in the catchment area of an Evangelical Lutheran congregation that was created in the former parish village of Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) and is assigned to the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of Budwethen (1938 to 1946: Altenkirch) included 42 villages, localities and residential areas:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Scrape off | Shot | Sabrodino | Köllmisch Kackschen | Keppen | ||
| Old Eggleningken | Kamschen | |||||
| Antagminnen | Antaggen | Kimschen | Small cheeks | Sabrodino | ||
| * Anticancer | Hutfelde | Shirokodolye | King I | Vyshkino | ||
| Audeat | Freidorf | Cubic wages | Cubes | Kusmino | ||
| Eyeballs | Güldenflur | Kalacheva | Kissing | Kummenhof | ||
| Affirm | Behnen | Lepaloths | Lindweiler | Scherbakowo, later: Bobry |
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| Brandwethen | Branden | * Lesgewangminnen | Reading cheeks | Sabrodino | ||
| Budupönen | Hüttenfelde | Lindicken | Lukino, later: Kaschtanowka |
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| * Budwethen | Altenkirch | Malomoshaiskoje | Naujeningnken | Neusiedel (East Pr.) | Moskvino, now: Malomoshaiskoje |
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| * Dilben | Nestonwethen | Nests | Kalushskoye | |||
| Dundeln | Kraineje | New Eggelingken | Linden garden | Petropavlovskoye | ||
| Eszerningken, 1936–38: Escherningken |
Meadow field | * Pabu dolls | Finkenhagen | Kraineje | ||
| Egg crawling | Core reverb | Pötkallen | Potty | Petropavlovskoye, now: Kalacheyevo |
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| * Gaistauden | Ignatovo | Poplienen | Poplingen | Suslowo | ||
| Gindwillen | Prusgirren, 1931–38: Preußwalde |
Prussia forest | ||||
| * (Large) ballup | Löffkeshof | Okhotnichye | Skat ticking | Click | Dorokhovo | |
| Big Puskeppeln | Keppen | Skljankino | Skrebben | Cancers | ||
| Gudszen, 1936–38: Gudschen |
Insterbergen | Szurellen 1936–38: Schurellen |
Schurfelde | Poworino | ||
| Call waves | Peat fields | Gribojedowo | * Waszeningken, 1936–38: Wascheningken |
Waschingen | Torfjanoje | |
| Small Puskeppeln | Pushing | Protochnoye | Wing rails | East moor | Slobodskoye, now: Malomoshaiskoye |
Pastor
From the founding of the Budwethen parish to the end of the Second World War, 18 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Budwethen Church:
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Church records
The church registers of the parish Budwethen (Altenkirch) have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1695-1944
- Weddings: 1746 to 1944
- Burials: 1747-1944
- Confirmations: 1771 to 1826 and 1935 to 1944
- Communicants: 1772 to 1944.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The parish of Budwethen at GenWiki
- ↑ a b Kirchspiel Altenkirch (Budwethen) ( Memento of the original from October 15, 2014 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.
- ↑ a b Budwethen / Altenkirch at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 111, Fig. 491
- ↑ Кирха Буветтена - The Church Budwethen at prussia39.ru (with a historical photo and recordings of 2013)
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 487
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
- ^ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 26-27
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin 1992³, pp. 30–31
