Gerwischkehmen Church
| Gerwischkehmen Church (Gerwen Church) Кирха Гервишкемена |
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| Construction year: | 1803-1805 |
| Inauguration: | 1805 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction on field stone foundation |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Gerwischkehmen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 38 '25.2 " N , 22 ° 6' 0" E |
| Location: |
Priosjornoe Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The building is not owned by the Church |
The church in Gerwischkehmen (the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Gerwen) is a building from the beginning of the 19th century, which until 1945 was a Protestant church for the population in the former East Prussian parish of what is now called Priosjornoje in the Russian oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Priosjornoje is located nine kilometers northwest of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on the north bank of the Pissa . A side road (27K-180) runs through the village, which connects Furmanowo (Stannaitschen , 1938 to 1946 Zweilinden) via Krasnopolje (Pötschkehmen , 1938 to 1946 Pötschwalde) with the city of Chernyachovsk (Insterburg) . The next train station is Gussew on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway , for onward travel to Moscow .
Church building
The first church was built in Gerwischkehmen in 1730. It probably involves about the same style as the church Mallwischken (1938-1946: Mallwen) in Kirchenkreis Pillkallen (Castle Hill) and the Church Island, in the church district / Elchniederung lowlands have acted: an octagonal wooden central building with a small tower in the middle of Roof. The construction costs were paid from royal funds. This first church building became dilapidated and had to be demolished.
In its place, a new building was erected on the same site from 1803 to 1805. It was a plastered brick building on a field stone foundation without a tower with noticeably high windows and a hipped roof . The two bells , which had already been cast in 1729, could be taken over from the old church and hung in the roof of the new church. The interior was kept very simple. It was criss-crossed by galleries and structured by rows of columns. Altar and pulpit were united. An organ was purchased in 1847.
In 1933 the church received warm air heating .
The church building was damaged by artillery fire during World War II . In the following years, the breach in the east wall was walled up and the building was used as a fertilizer store. Most of the windows and the entrance portals were bricked up, and the west and east walls were broken through to open doors for motor vehicles to pass through. In 1989 the sacristy was torn down and the roof of the church was covered with asbestos sheets. The building has been empty since 1995, and re-use by the church is out of the question given the current state of construction.
Parish
The Protestant parish in Gerwischkehmen was founded in 1730. It was under royal patronage and in 1925 counted 2,752 parishioners who lived in 14 parish towns . Due to the numerous settlements of Swiss, Hessian and Palatinate people as well as Salzburg exiles , many church members of the Protestant-Reformed tradition lived here , who belonged to the Lutheran- oriented congregation in Gerwischkehmen, but rather attended the services of the Reformed New Town Church in Gumbinnen . From 1733 to 1746, pastors of the Gumbinn Old Town Church were still responsible for the church in Gerwischkehmen , before their own clergy started working here from 1746.
The church Gerwischkehmen belonged until 1945 to the church district Gumbinnen in the church province East Prussia of the church of the Old Prussian Union .
Parish places
For parish church Gerwischkehmen (1938-1946: Church Gerwen) belonged before 1945 except the vicarage Gerwischkehmen nor the places, towns and residential places:
| Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Bibles | Falkenhausen | Pokrovskoye | Pötschkehmen |
from 1934: Pötschwalde |
Krasnopolje | |
| * Eszerningken 1936–38: Escherningken |
Neupassau | Mikhailovo | Sampowen | Sampau | ||
| High joy | Shchepkino | Pouting | Neuchâtel (East Pr.) | |||
| * Large excesses | Greater Prussia Forest | Shachowskoye | Tzullkinnen, Chief Forester | Tannsee | ||
| * Kasenovsk |
from 1935: Tannsee |
Yelovoye | * Wallehlischken | Hagelsberg | Ivaschewka, now: Mikhailovo |
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| Small overruns | Kleinpreußenwald | Buoy buoy | Wilhelmsberg | |||
| Notz, forestry | Wilpischen | Oak field | Kaspiyskoye |
Pastor
Between 1746 and 1945, 22 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Gerwischkehmen church:
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Church records
The church registers of the Gerwischkehmen church have been preserved and are kept in the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1746-1874
- Weddings: 1746 to 1874
- Burials: 1746 to 1874.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gerhard Schenk, Church History Gerwischkehmen from June 10, 1971
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 97
- ↑ The church in Gerwischkehmen, photo around 1930
- ↑ Priosjornoje - Gerwischkehmen / Gerwen
- ↑ Кирха Гервишкемена The Gerwischkehmen Church (Russian) with photos from 2006
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 479
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 42, 50
- ↑ a b Official seat in Gumbinnen, Old Town Church