Eydtkuhnen Church

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The Eydtkuhnen Church in Chernyshevskoje, Russia (until 1938 Eydtkuhnen, until 1946 Eydtkau ) in the former East Prussia and today 's Kaliningrad Oblast was a Protestant , neo-Romanesque parish church . Until 1945 it belonged to the Stallupönen church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

history

The small town of Eydtkuhnen on the border with what was then Russia grew rapidly in the 19th century. Eydtkuhnen had become a border station and re-gauging station on the Prussian Eastern Railway , so that many people found work. For the majority of the Evangelical Lutheran population, a church was built from 1887 to 1889 according to plans by Friedrich Adler and consecrated in 1889. To the west of it a rectory was built, the front gable of which incorporated elements of the church architecture.

In 1914 Eydtkuhnen was partially destroyed by Russian troops, but the church was preserved. At the beginning of the National Socialist era , party members tried to have two stone stars of David removed from the outer wall. The parish, however, successfully resisted it.

In the final phase of the Second World War, the church burned down as a result of the fighting between the Wehrmacht and the Red Army . It has been in ruins ever since. After the war, the building was used as a warehouse for military goods for a long time.

Location, architecture, earlier equipment and current condition

The church ruin (2009)

The church ruin is located in the middle of the loosely built town of Chernyshevskoye north of the train station in the middle of wasteland. Until 1944 the church was located in a park-like area, in which four paths led towards the church according to the shape of a cross.

The church is neo-Romanesque with a cross-shaped floor plan and is made of red brick . It had two high towers with a square floor plan that looked more Gothic . In the north and south walls of the projecting transept there is still a bricked Star of David. In the choir there are three double arched windows , above three round windows. These shapes also characterize the other outer walls, including the towers. The ceiling has a star vault . The pulpit was - seen from the benches - to the left of the altar .

Today only the ruins of the church with the two tower substructures exist without the former pointed roofs. The ground floor is bricked up. The roof is missing, but the vault is partially preserved. The previous interior is no longer there. The rectory is also walled up.

Parish

In 1883 Eydtkuhnen became an independent parish after it had been separated from the parish of Bilderweitschen . Until 1945 Eydtkuhnen belonged to the church district Stallupönen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

After 1945 the Protestant church life came to a standstill. Today, in the neighboring town of Babuschkino ( Groß Degesen ), eight kilometers to the north-west, a new evangelical congregation has formed, which belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER). The responsible rectory is that of the Salzburg Church in Gussew ( Gumbinnen ).

Pastor 1883–1945

Between 1886 and 1945 18 Protestant clergy were active in Eydtkuhnen / Eydtkau, between 1883 and 1886 as vicars , then as pastors:

  • Gustav Adolf Kollepke, 1883
  • Georg Eugen Peter Henkys, 1884–1886
  • Georg Max Henkys, 1886–1893
  • Julius Ernst Eduard Kalweit, 1894–1898
  • Paul Friedrich Ferdinand Hafke, 1898–1902
  • Otto Gerß, 1902–1924
  • Georg Kern, 1906–1909
  • Friedrich Worm, 1909–1913
  • Erwin Kürschner, 1913–1918
  • Walter Prang, 1918
  • Eugen Bauer, 1921–1923
  • Gerhard Ruhmland, 1924–1926
  • Max Lechner, 1924-1931
  • Herbert Kriwath, 1927–1929
  • Ernst Segschneider, 1931–1937 (also superintendent )
  • Erwin Schröter, 1939–1945

Church records

The church records on baptisms, weddings and burials from the years 1883 to 1944, confirmations from 1924 to 1944 have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg . The ecclesiastical books of the fallen from 1914 to 1918 and 1939 to 1944 are also located there as special documents.

Web links

Commons : Eydtkuhnen Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on churches in the old district of Ebenrode , accessed on December 14, 2011
  2. ↑ Information on Eydtkuhnen at ostpreussen.net , accessed on December 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 36
  4. ^ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin. Part 1: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Union. Berlin 1992³, p. 38

Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 23.5 ″  N , 22 ° 44 ′ 0.3 ″  E