Grünhayn Church (East Prussia)
The church in Grünhayn was a field stone building and for more than 400 years a Protestant place of worship for the people in the East Prussian parish Grünhayn , which was called Krasnaja Gorka after 1946 and was located in the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ) of the Russian Federation . Today there is no trace of the church building.
Geographical location
Grünhayn or what was later to become Krasnaja Gorka is an extinct village that was ultimately destroyed by the fighting scenes for filming on a military training area - through complete destruction. The place was on a side road that leads from Sorino (Poppendorf) on today's trunk road R 514 in a north-westerly direction to Ratnoje (Freudenberg) . In town, a road branched off to Groß Michelau (Russian: Sobolewo, no longer existent). The closest train stations to Grünhayn are Gwardeisk ( Tapiau , 7 kilometers) and Snamensk ( Wehlau , 10 kilometers) on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway . The church stood southwest of the main street.
Church building
The Grünhayner Church was a plastered field stone building with a retracted choir and probably the successor to a church that had existed as early as 1361. The tower was only built at the end of the 17th century. It was divided by pointed arches and circular apertures .
The richly decorated altar and pulpit as well as the carved estate date from the 17th century . The bells were cast in 1773 and 1833.
Parish
Grünhayn was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period at the beginning of the 14th century. Already in 1540 a Lutheran clergyman was active here in the spirit of the Reformation . Until 1945 the parish of Grünhayn belonged to the Wehlau inspection (today Russian: Snamensk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had 2,860 parishioners. The church patronage was royal, ultimately state.
Parish places
The extensive parish of Grünhayn Church comprised thirty localities up to 1945 (* = school location):
| German name | Russian name | German name | Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Adamsheide | Leipen | Nikolskoye | ||
| Baining | Showering | Dunayevka | ||
| * Bergitten | Dairy stall | |||
| Freudenberg | Ratnoye | * Nickelsdorf | Strelnikovo | |
| Friedrichsthal | Soldatowo | Pelohnen | Vyborgskoye | |
| * Groß Balzerischken 1938–1946: Balzershof |
Grigoryevka | * Poppendorf | Sorino | |
| Great Birkenfelde | Grigoryevka | Raths Grenz | Grigoryevka | |
| Great Michelau | Sobolewo | * Ripen | ||
| * Grünhayn | Krasnaya Gorka | Rockeimswalde | ||
| * Green linden | Yershovo | Rudlack | ||
| Hainbuchenwerder | * Schaberau | Istrovka | ||
| Johannenhof | Give | Krasnoyarskoye | ||
| Katharinenhof | Sworns | |||
| Keber | * Spray paint | Grigoryevka | ||
| Koethen | Soldatowo | Frames | Istrovka |
Pastor
In the period from the Reformation to the end of the Second World War , 24 clergymen were active as Protestant pastors in Grünhayn:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Grünhayn 1998 , in: Wehlauer Heimatbrief , 60th episode, winter 1998/99, p. 67
- ^ Picture of the church in Grünhayn before 1945
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 83
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 475
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume I, Göttingen 1968, p. 542
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, as above, Volume III, p. 475
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 49
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 5.9 ″ N , 21 ° 10 ′ 9.5 ″ E