Grünheide Church (East Prussia)
| Grünheide village church ( Russian Кирха Грюнхайда ) |
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 Evangelical Church in Grünheide |
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| Construction year: | 1880 to 1882 |
| Inauguration: | May 21, 1882 |
| Builder : | Weber, Tilsit |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Grünheide (Church Province East Prussia) |
| Space: | 1390 people |
| Tower height: |
50 m |
| Location: | 54 ° 48 '21.6 " N , 21 ° 54' 37.7" E |
| Location: |
Kalushskoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | no longer available, church building demolished |
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The church in Grünheide ( Russian Кирха Грюнхайда ) was a cruciform brick church built according to Gothic and Romanesque models from 1882. Until 1945 it was the Protestant church for the population in the parish of what is now called Kaluschskoje in the former East Prussia and the now Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Kalushskoje is located 20 kilometers north of the city of Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) and is a train station on the Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk (Insterburg – Tilsit) railway line . The village is located in the Chernyakhovsk district (district Insterburg ) and has given the current rural community Kaluschskoje selskoje posselenije its name, although its official seat is in Sagorskoye (Pelleningken , 1938–1946 Strigengrund ).
The church stood on the eastern edge of the village, the location is difficult to make out today.
Church building
Grünheide only got a house of worship in the middle of the 19th century. At first it was an interim church : an old, thatched half-timbered building . The bells, which were handed over to their intended purpose in 1855, were also temporarily housed. In 1861 the king took over the patronage of the church. In 1880 the massive church building was finally financed through donations and royal grants. The foundation stone was laid in the same year.
A cross-shaped brick building was erected . based on Gothic and Romanesque models. A tower was built on the west side. The construction supervision was the responsibility of building officer Siehr from Insterburg (today Russian: Tschernjachowsk), the construction itself was carried out by master bricklayer Weber from Tilsit (Sowetsk). The nave was 28 meters long, the transept 23 meters. The tower was 50 meters high. Such dimensions exceeded the usual dimensions for rural churches.
The church interior was flat covered at a height of 16 meters and surrounded by galleries . There was space for 1,390 visitors. Special decorations of the church were the paneled ceiling, a stained glass window and the altarpiece , on which Christ's resurrection was depicted. A massive baptismal font in neo-Gothic form stood in front of the altar niche .
The church was inaugurated on May 21, 1882.
The church did not survive World War II and the subsequent Soviet era . Today you can only "visit" its former location.
Parish
When the cöllmische Gut Grünheyde was first mentioned in 1785 , it belonged with its almost exclusively Protestant population to the church of Aulowönen (1938–1946: Aulenbach, today in Russian Kalinowka ). In 1846 an independent parish was founded in Grünheide, the places of which from the neighboring parishes of the churches Aulowönen, Szillen (1936–1946: Schillen, Russian: Schilino ), Kraupischken (1938–1946: Breitenstein, Russian: Uljanowo ) and Pelleningken ( 1938–1946 ) 1946: Strigengrund, Russian: Sagorskoje ) were re-parished. In the same year its own parish office was established.
Until 1945, the Grünheide church belonged to the Insterburg parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it had a total of 3,500 parish members in 26 parish places.
In the spring of 1945 the parish of Grünheide was occupied by the Red Army . Flight and expulsion of the local population and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union in the following years brought church life to a standstill.
Today Kaluschskoje is located in the catchment area of an Evangelical Lutheran congregation that was newly established in the 1990s in not far away Shtschegly (Saugwethen , 1938–1946 Saugehnen) . It belongs to the Church region Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) in the provost Kaliningrad of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of Grünheide included the 26 villages:
| Surname | Change of name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change of name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | |
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| * Abrade | Ossaquell | Assafievo | * Meducallions | Honigberg | Vishnevoye | |
| * Antargen | Argenquell | Perovskoye | Mohlen | Glinoje | ||
| Berszien / Berschienen |
Perkunischken | Perkunsfelde | Drosdovka | |||
| Better | Novoye | * Pillwogallen | Lindenhöhe | |||
| Bublauken | Fallow field | Sorokino | Pladden | Drosdovka | ||
| Budupönen | Schattlauken | Schattenau | Prudovka | |||
| Burchardsbrück | * Seßlacken | Pridorozhnye | ||||
| Dirsen | Skerdien | Shards | ||||
| Dröschdorf | Drosdovka | * Stank | Rumyantsevo | |||
| * Franzdorf | Gorodetskoye | Sziedlauken / Schiedlauken |
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| Gaidszen / Gaidschen |
Meadow view | Chernyshevskoye | * Szierandszen / Schierandschen |
Schierheide | Vorotynovka | |
| * Grünheide | Kalushskoye | Warlen | Olenjowo | |||
| Laser stretching | Waszeningken / Wascheninken |
Grünacker | Belorusskoye |
Pastor
Eight evangelical clergy were active in Grünheide between 1846 and 1945:
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Church records
The church registers of the parish Grünheide are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1846, 1851-1860
- Weddings: 1846, 1851 to 1860
- Burials: 1846, 1851 to 1860.
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish Grünheide at GenWiki
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 102
- ^ Picture of the church in Grünheide (between 1927 and 1937)
- ↑ Кирха Грюнхайда - The Grünheide Church at russia39.ru (with a picture of the former location)
- ↑ 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, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 481 - * = school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 49
- ↑ Church registers in the administrative district of Gumbinnen
