Friedland Church (East Prussia)
The Friedland Church ( Russian Кирха Фридланд ) was the place of worship of today's Prawdinsk ( Russian Правдинск ) place (until 1946 Friedland in East Prussia). The oldest parts of the still existing building date from the second half of the 14th century. Originally the church was a Roman Catholic, until 1945 a Protestant and since 1990 as the Saint George Church ( Russian: Православный храм во имя святого Великомученика ия Победоносца Георesh ) a Russian Orthodox God.
Geographical location
Today's Russian Pravdinsk is 50 kilometers southeast of Koenigsberg ( Kaliningrad ). The place is a small town within the Pravdinsk Raion of Kaliningrad Oblast .
Church building
In its beginnings, the Friedlander St. George's Church was built from wood in 1313. When the Lithuanians invaded it, it burned down in 1347, but was then rebuilt from 1360 to 1380 as a brick hall with sacristy and tower. Before the end of the 15th century, the church received extensive renovations. A three-aisled basilica with seven bays was created by adding two rows of pillars .
The St. Anna Chapel was added to the side walls on the south side in 1506; it was later used as a private chapel by the von Proeck family ; after 1521 further chapels were added on the north side.
The church's valuable art furnishings were stolen in 1948. One of the three bells once survived the war in the Hamburg bell cemetery and is now ringing in the church in Langenhagen in Lower Saxony . It dates from 1746 and was made in the Königsberg bell foundry Dörling . The other two bells have remained in the bell tower. The larger bell dates from 1729 and still bears the monogram of Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia FWR .
Between 1961 and 1991 the church was misused and served as a warehouse for the consumer cooperative until it was repaired - also with the strong support of former Friedland church members - and is now the place of worship of the Russian Orthodox Church.
history
Until 1945
From the introduction of the Reformation up to 1945, there was a Protestant parish in Friedland. If it was once part of the inspection of the court preacher in Königsberg (today Kaliningrad), it was then integrated into the Friedland church district , which was converted into the Bartenstein church district (today in Polish: Bartoszyce) from 1927 . It was in the area of the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Before 1912 the parish had 4,500 parishioners.
Parish locations (until 1945)
Before 1945, the Friedland parish included the following villages:
| Name (until 1946) | Russian name (since 1946) |
|---|---|
| Battkeim | - |
| Bothkeim | Chistopolye |
| Oak grove | - |
| Friedlandshof | - |
| Götzlack | Krutoi Jar |
| Grünwalde | Antonovo |
| Hegewald | - |
| Heinrichsdorf | Rovnoye |
| Heyde | Kostyukovka |
| Kloschenen | Lukino |
| Lawdt | - |
| Mertensdorf | Tjomkino |
| Post tendons | Peredovoye |
Church records
Many church registers of the Friedland parish are now kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1640-1879
- Weddings: 1677 to 1888
- Burials: 1716 to 1884
- Confirmations: 1819 to 1823
Other church-chronical records are also available there.
Fourth coalition war
During the Battle of Friedland on June 14, 1807, the commander-in-chief of the Russian troops, General Levin August von Bennigsen - standing at the tower parapet of the church - commanded the Russian-Prussian troops against Napoleon's army.
Since 1945
During the time of the Soviet Union , church life was forbidden. In the 1990s a new evangelical congregation was formed in Pravdinsk, which belongs to the catchment area of the Resurrection Parish in Kaliningrad .
Today there is a Russian Orthodox community in Pravdinsk . It uses the former Protestant St. George's Church as a place of worship. Pravdinsk belongs to the Russian Orthodox Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltiysk .
Ursula Margarete Kluge (born July 26, 1928) was born in Friedland. Jandt, who has lived in Wolfenbüttel since the end of the Second World War , helped with the restoration work from 1992 to 2006.
On September 27, 2005 the church was consecrated as a Russian Orthodox church by the Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Kyrill .
Pastor
Until 1945 Friedland and the parish belonging to it was looked after by two clergymen (parish and deacon):
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Since 1990 the church has belonged to the Russian Orthodox Chernyakhovsk eparchy . The priests of the Church since 1990:
- 1997-2010: Wadim Degtjarjow
- since 2010: Dmitrij Cholsinjow
Web links
- Свято-Георгиевский храм Правдинск , st-ge.org (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Parish Church of St. George in Friedland / Prawdinsk
- ↑ Kirchspiel Friedland ( Memento of the original from November 27, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part 1: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union, Berlin, 1992³
- ↑ Parish Church of St. Georg , ostpreussen.net
- ↑ История Свято-Георгиевского храма , st-ge.org (Russian)
- ↑ В праздник Воздвижения Креста Господня митрополит Кирилл совершил освящение восстановленного православными знаменитого немецкого орденского храма в городе Правдинске , mospat.ru (Russian)
- ^ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968
Coordinates: 54 ° 26 ′ 37 ″ N , 21 ° 0 ′ 14 ″ E