Gowarten Church
| Church Gowarten Кирха Говартена |
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| Construction year: | 1921 to 1922 |
| Style elements : | Hall construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Gowarten ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 52 '48.1 " N , 21 ° 45' 51.5" E |
| Location: |
Dzerzhinskoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | The church building is used by others. It is no longer in church property |
The Gowarten Church ( Russian Кирха Говартена ) dates from the early 1920s. Until 1945 it served as a Protestant church for the parish of the East Prussian village with the now Russian name Dzerzhinskoe . Today the church building is used by others.
Geographical location
Today's Dzerzhinskoye is located in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ), 19 kilometers southeast of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and six kilometers east of the central center Bolschakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , Kreuzingen from 1938 to 1946 ) . The nearest train station is Bolshakovo on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .
The church building is on the main street Bolschakowo - Nismennoje (Pleinlauken , 1938 to 1946 Rosenthal) west of the intersection with a side street that connects Kanasch (Jurgaitschen , Königskirch 1938 to 1946 ) with Pridoroschnoje (Groß Asznaggern , 1938 to 1946 Grenzberg) .
Church building
The Gowarten Church is a simple hall building with a roof turret as a bell carrier. It was built in 1921/22 with great commitment from the community.
The interior of the church is also characterized by simplicity, as it could only be completed after the inflation as a result of the First World War . So the equipment did without valuable items. The simple pulpit was positioned behind the altar table , above which hung a picture of Jesus' Last Supper . The organ was purchased from the teachers' college in Ragnit (now Russian: Neman).
The church building survived the fighting of the Second World War almost unscathed. In the following years, however, it was no longer used as a place of worship. There were modifications such as the removal of the roof turret, changes to the windows and the covering of the roof with asbestos cement panels instead of the roof tiles. The interior became a leisure club room, other parts of the building became a library or a shop. In this way, however, the building has at least been preserved.
Parish
A parish was established on October 1, 1906 in the village, which is almost exclusively inhabited by a Protestant population. Before that, Gowarten and the surrounding villages belonged to the Skaisgirren church with the parish seat in Groß Skaisgirren (1938 to 1946: Kreuzingen, today Russian: Bolshakowo), from where as early as 1903 the "Gowarten Pastoral District" was supplied with specially assigned clergy. The parish was without patronage . In 1909 a pastorate was established here, but it was not until 1920 after the war that it was regularly filled. In the meantime, healing preachers or the clergy of the Skaisgirren church were responsible. In the absence of a separate church, the services took place in the school.
After the establishment of the church, a very lively community life began. There was a trombone choir , a women's aid , a young girls 'and a young men' s association. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . It was assigned a parish with 17 villages and living spaces and an area of 35 km². It was located in the so-called "Dreiländereck" in the southeastern part of the Niederung district (from 1938: Elchniederung district ) and bordered on the Tilsit-Ragnit districts in the east and Insterburg in the south.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Gowarten came to a standstill in the years after 1945. In the 1990s an Evangelical Lutheran congregation was established again in nearby Bolshakovo, in whose catchment area Dzerzhinskoye is today. It is a branch congregation within the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) in the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the parish, 16 villages and places in the area belonged to the Gowarten church:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| Alxnupönen | Klein Obscherningken | Kleinwalde | Chistopolye | |||
| Demedszen 1936–1938: Demedschen |
Hawk height | Klein Wannaglauken | Haslingen | |||
| Friedlauken | Friedlau | Svobodny | Kriplauken | Kripfelde | Kimrskoye | |
| Big Kriposen | Large cribs | Paoss knowledge bars | ||||
| Great Obscherningken | Gutsfelde | Chistopolye | Pareisgirren | |||
| Great Wannaglauken | Large forest | Pervomaiskoye | Serpentines | |||
| Grudszen 1936–1938: Grudschen |
Gruten | Novorchok | Skieslauken | Kieslau | ||
| Small Kriposen | Small cribs | Szemlauken (Kr. Insterburg ) 1936–1938: Schemlauken |
Roßberg (East Pr.) | Levobereschye |
Pastor
Until 1945 officiated in the parish of Gowarten as Protestant clergy:
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Footnotes
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 92, Fig. 372
- ↑ Exterior view of the Gowarten Church (historical photo)
- ↑ Interior of the Gowarten Church (historical photo)
- ^ Dserschinskoje - Gowarten at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Кирха Говартена The Gowarten Church near prussia39 - with a photo from 2013
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 482
- ↑ The parish Gowarten (Trakeningken) - Kreisgemeinschaft Elchniederung
- ↑ 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. (Russian German)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 44
