Gross Friedrichsdorf Church
| Church Groß Friedrichsdorf Кирха Гросс Фридрихсдорфа |
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| Construction year: | 1901-1903 |
| Inauguration: | May 17, 1903 |
| Architect : | unknown ( attributed to Friedrich Heitmann ) |
| Style elements : | Brick construction , neo-Romanesque |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Groß Friedrichsdorf ( Church Province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Tower height: |
about 30 meters |
| Location: | 55 ° 0 '30.3 " N , 21 ° 32' 50.7" E |
| Location: |
Gastellowo Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Uniate parish church |
| Local community: | no longer exists; The remains of the building are not owned by the church. |
The church Groß Friedrichsdorf ( Russian Кирха Гросс Фридрихсдорфа ) was built between 1901 and 1903 and was a Protestant place of worship for the residents of the parish of the former East Prussian town known today as Gastellowo until 1945 . Only the tower ruins and a wall fragment remain of the building.
Geographical location
Gastellowo is located in Slavsk Rajon ( Heinrichswalde district ) on a side road that connects Bolschakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , Kreuzingen from 1928 to 1946 ) with Timirjasewo (Neukirch) . There is a rail connection via the station in the nine kilometers northeast of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) on the Kaliningrad – Sowetsk (Königsberg – Tilsit) railway line .
The remaining ruins of the church are on the main road in the eastern part of the village, which leads to the banks of the Laukne (Russian: Rschewka).
Church building
Groß Friedrichsdorf received its first church in 1867. It was a round church made of wood with a low tower on top. This church was replaced in the first years of the 20th century by a new building in neo-Romanesque architecture and in solid construction . The wooden church was sold to Kaukehmen as an emergency church after the church there burned down.
The church, built of red bricks , had a tower about 30 meters high. The massive building with apse and south transept was inaugurated on May 17, 1903. The building had a mighty front, the tower stood on the southwest side. Because of the architectural similarity to the Luisenkirche in Königsberg (Prussia) - today a puppet theater in Kaliningrad - one suspects Friedrich Heitmann as the architect.
In 1903 an organ was installed that came from August Terletzki's workshop in Elbing .
The church came almost unscathed by the Second World War and was then used as a storage room for a collective farm . Over the years it was threatened with decay, so that the beams could no longer support the roof. In the 1980s, the walls of the nave were torn down to extract building material. The tower stopped. Its tilted tip was supposed to be repaired when, surprisingly, in a lead box in the undamaged tower knob documents such as construction contracts, construction plans and sketches were found, as well as a brief history of Groß Friedrichsdorf up to 1902. These documents were handed over to the State Archives in Kaliningrad.
Parish
The Evangelical Union parish of Groß Friedrichsdorf was founded in 1854. In 1869 she got her own parish office. The parish was patronatless and in 1925 had a total of 5,600 parish members who lived in a parish consisting of up to 30 villages and places . Until 1945 it belonged to the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Gastellowo came to a standstill after 1945. Today the village is located in the catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran parish of Slavsk , the central location of the Slavsk church region in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the parish until 1945, the parish Groß Friedrichsdorf also included villages and places to live (* = school locations):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| Ackmonien | Argental | Wessjoloje | * Oschke | Wild meadow | Kabachkovo | |
| Argenthal | Altargental | Vyazemskoye | * Peterswalde | Polessye | ||
| Bittehnischken | Argemünde | Wessjoloje | Plein | Tomskoje | ||
| Groß Heinrichsdorf | Rosenwalde | Olchowka | ||||
| Great Marienwalde | *Move | Ruckenfeld | Zalessovo | |||
| Iodine gall | Grunhausen | Lugowoje | Schillilwethen | Noiken | Polessye | |
| Klein Friedrichsdorf | Koschedubowo | Bootstraps | Kleinschneckenwalde | Sosnjaki | ||
| * Klein Heinrichsdorf | Malaya Olchowka | (Köllmisch) snails | Wessjoloje | |||
| Klein Marienwalde | * Snail Bog | Listwennoje | ||||
| Loheden | Sergehnen | Pastuchowo | ||||
| Medlauk | Franzrode | * Tunnish food | Schneckenwalde | Sosnjaki | ||
| * Neufelde | Trostyanka | Waßespindt | Großheinrichsdorf | |||
| Obolin | Alders | Chishovka |
Pastor
Between 1869 and 1945 officiated at the church Groß Friedrichsdorf as clergy:
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b The parish of Groß Friedrichsdorf / Elchniederung district community
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume 2, pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 92, fig. 372.
- ↑ a b Gastellowo - Groß Friedrichsdorf at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Historical photo of the church in Groß Friedrichsdorf
- ↑ Кирха Гросс Фридрихсдорфа - The church Groß Friedrichsdorf at prussia39.ru (with pictures of the tower ruins from 2012)
- ^ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume 3, Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 482.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 45
