Georgenburg Church
| Georgenburg Church | |
|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1693 tower: 1847 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Georgenburg, ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 39 '38.7 " N , 21 ° 48' 15.8" E |
| Location: |
Majowka Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. The church ruins are used by others |
The church in Georgenburg in East Prussia was a Protestant parish church in today's Majowka in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ) until 1945 . The church was built in 1693 as a brick building and is today - with multiple external uses - just a ruin with an attached warehouse.
Geographical location
Majowka is located two kilometers north of the city center of the Rajon capital Chernjachowsk (Insterburg) on the Russian trunk road A 197 (formerly German Reichsstraße 137 ) on the river Inster (Russian: Instrutsch). The next train station is Chernyakhovsk on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) - part of the former Prussian Eastern Railway - for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland.
Church building
As early as 1429 there was a church in Georgenburg. The brick building with a polygonal closed choir , which is still in existence today, was built in 1693 and was given a raised tower in 1847.
The interior was flat covered. The altar and the pulpit were richly decorated with carvings. Both date from around 1700 and were later combined to form a pulpit altar. The carving had its counterparts on the gallery parapets . The entire interior was extensively restored in 1857.
Around 1770 the church received an organ . The ringing consisted of two bells.
The church stood west of the castle on a hill above the Instertal. The view from the river meadows to the ensemble of castle, parish church and the tall manor buildings was impressive. The church is missing in this panorama today.
Parish
Georgenburg was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. The doctrine of the Reformation found its way here very early. Between 1542 and 1564 Georgenburg was administered from the Saalau Church (Russian: Kamenskoje). The site was soon assigned to the Insterburg inspection and remained in the church district of Insterburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 .
In 1925 the extensive parish had 5200 parishioners. Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life came to a standstill after 1945. Today Majowka is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) , which was newly established in the 1990s, within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the parish, the parish of Georgenburg is divided into 42 individual places, towns and places of residence (* = school location):
| Surname | Change of name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change of name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Augustlauken | Lindenhof | ||||||
| * Auxkallen | Ringelau | Nice bees | Krasnaya Gorka | ||||
| Auxkallnehlen | Blumenbach | New green | |||||
| Flower valley | Ovrashnoye | New care | |||||
| Budwethen | Schönwaldau ( since 1931) |
Voronino | Neuteich | ||||
| Eszergallen (Eßergallen) | Padrojen | Drojental | Gornostayevo | ||||
| Freiwalde | * Pagelien | Perelesnoye | |||||
| Georgenburgskehlen | Kleingeorgenburg | Timiryasevo | * Pleinlauken | Rosenthal | Nismennoye | ||
| Swethed | Landwehr | Nagornoje | Pawar Slides | ||||
| * Gillischken | Insight | Prirechnoye | Horizontal bars | ||||
| * Great Kalkeningken | Kalkhöhe | Saborje | Roßthal | Krugloje | |||
| Guttawutschen | Lipowka | Stagutschen | Kammergut | ||||
| Ischdaggen | Brandenau | Berestovo | * Stinking | Strong nod | Sovkhoznoye | ||
| Justinenhof | Szacken (Schacken) | Schackenau | Lipowka | ||||
| * Kamputschen | Szieleitschen (Schieleitschen) | ||||||
| Camzards | Bergental (since 1928) |
Privolnoye | Tarputsches | Tarps | Bryanskoye | ||
| * Thimbles | Horstenau (since 1928) |
Tobacco | |||||
| Klein Kalkeningken | Uszeszern from 1928: Roßthal |
Krugloje | |||||
| Small horizontal bars | Blüchersdorf | Forest house | |||||
| * Leipeningken | Georgental (since 1928) |
Dowatorovka | Werxnen | Clay fields | |||
| Leppienen | Zwion | Dowatorovka |
Pastor
From the Reformation until 1945, the following were Protestant clergy at the Georgian Church:
- NN.
- N. Arnoldi, from 1538
- NN., 1541
- Laurentius Scheyer, from 1564
- Johann Walther, 1568–1572
- NN., From 1573
- Johann Bilauck, 1576–1603
- Valentin Feuerstock, 1604–1626
- Georg Kewnick, 1626-1659
- Georg Pusch, 1659
- Johann Rebentisch d. Ä., From 1659
- Christoph Rebentisch, 1679–1680
- Johann Rebentisch d. J.,
1680-1710 - Georg Friedrich Dressler, 1709–1710
- Chr. Friedrich Weißermel, 1710–1725
- Peter Gottlieb Mielcke, 1726–1735
- Johann Samuel Hassenstein, 1736–1755
- Christian Lowin, 1755-1771
- Hohann Wilhelm Vorhoff. 1771-1819
- Abraham Hart, 1798-1801
- Ludwig Böhmer, 1802–1812
- Gottfried Ludwig Hirsch, 1812–1833
- Leopold Jacob Krüger, 1833–1857
- Ernst Adolf Jacob Krüger, 1850–1857
- Franz Theodor W. Passauer, 1857–1876
- Friedrich Oskar Meder, 1876-1894
- Franz Martin Neßlinger, 1894–1933
- Erich Riedel, 1933–1940
- Herbert Drews, 1940-1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion , Hamburg, 1968, page 41
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 102, fig. 440 and 441
- ↑ Georgenburg at wiki-de.genealogy.net (with pictures of the church and the rectory that still exists today)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, The History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 481
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, as above, Volume III, page 481
- ^ Friedwald Moeller, as above, page 41
- ↑ a b c Krüger († 1858), Passauer († 1876) and Neßlinger († 1938) were members of the Corps Littuania
