Gross Lenkeningken Church
| Church Groß Lenkeningken (Church Großlenkenau) Кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена |
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| Construction year: | 1903/1904 |
| Inauguration: | October 23, 1904 |
| Style elements : | Brick building in the Gothic style |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Groß Lenkeningken ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 650 seats |
| Location: | 55 ° 0 '51.9 " N , 22 ° 11' 58.8" E |
| Location: |
Lesnoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church was blown up in 1960 and the material removed |
The church Groß Lengkeningken ( Russian Кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена ) was an East Prussian jubilee church , which was built in 1903/1904 as a brick building. Until 1945 it was the evangelical church for the residents in the parish of Groß Lenkeningken (the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Großlenkenau) in today's Lesnoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Lesnoje is located on the left bank of the Szeszuppe (1936 to 1938: Scheschuppe, 1938 to 1945: East River, today in Lithuanian Šešupė), six kilometers east of the district town of Neman (Ragnit) northeast of the Russian regional road R 508 (27A-027) and is from This can be reached via a side road (27K-112) leading to Lagernoje (Lenken) . There is no train connection.
Church building
The foundation stone was laid for the Groß Lenkeningken church on July 12, 1903 . In the following 15 months, an exposed brick building was built in the style of the Order Gothic , but with a choir tower in the east. The church interior was covered flat and had up to the chancel approach reaching galleries . It was painted by Max Seliger from Berlin .
The vestibule and the apse each had a cross vault . The altar was bricked, its top only consisted of a crucifix . The pulpit, on the other hand, had an ornamentation , albeit a simple one .
Repair work was carried out on the entire church building in 1925.
In 1905 the church received an organ . It came from the workshop of Bruno Goebel , the successor workshop of Max Terletzki in Königsberg (Prussia) .
The church bell consisted of three bells . All three indicated with the inscription on the 200th anniversary of the royal coronation of Frederick III. from Brandenburg (1701 in Königsberg). The Groß Lenkeningken church was one of 14 East Prussian so-called anniversary churches . For this reason, found themselves at the consecration on 23 October 1904 by General Superintendent , the significance was made Karl Johann Christian Braun of the building according to District President Wilhelm Hegel from Gumbinnen and the district administrator of the district Ragnit Georg Graf von Lambsdorff from Ragnit a . Two chandeliers were donated by the mother church in Ragnit . They had become dispensable there because of the switch to gas lighting.
The construction costs came to 64,000 marks in the end. The emperor participated with a “very high gift of grace” of 24,500 marks. The jubilee church committee made 10,000 marks available, the rest came from donations and collections.
The roof of the church was severely damaged during World War II . In the following years the building deteriorated more and more and was finally blown up in 1960. The bricks were removed by the residents as building material for their own purposes. Today wild grass and scrub grows on the last remaining foundation stones .
Baptismal font
Purely by chance, the former baptismal font was rediscovered in August 1993 in the rubble mound of the church . It was recovered and is now restored with the clearly legible inscription "Let the little children come to me and do not defend them, for such is the kingdom of God" on the site of the former church not far from the war memorial.
Plaque
In 2012, a memorial plaque was attached to the neighboring kindergarten , on which the history of the church is described in German and Russian. It is now said to be in the City History Museum in Neman (Ragnit) .
Parish
Until 1897, most of the villages in the parish of Groß Lenkeningken were part of the Evangelical Church of Ragnit , while others belonged to the churches of Budwethen (1938 to 1946: Altenkirch, Russian: Malomoschaiskoje), Trappönen (Trappen, Nemanskoje) and Wedereitischken (Sandkirchen, Timofejewo ) and Wischwill (Lithuanian: Viešvilė).
On October 1, 1897, the parish of Groß Lenkeningken was established, with a hall being rented as a place of worship until the church was built. The newly created parish included 21 parish places, towns and places of residence. As early as 1896, a clergyman worked here. The parish was not subordinate to any church patron . Until 1945 it belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the church district of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 there were 3840 parishioners.
A new parsonage was built next to the church in 1903, and a two-class school had already been built. It still stands today and continues to serve its original purpose.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population in connection with the Second World War and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union that began after 1945, church life in Lesnoye came to a standstill.
Today the place is in the extensive catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) , which was newly established in the 1990s and belongs to the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the parish, 20 places belonged to the parish of Groß Lenkeningken:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | ||
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| * Ackmenishks | Cat catching | ||||||
| Ascolians | Aschelingen | Klein Lenkeningken | Kleinlenkenau | Kustowo | |||
| * Bambe | Heidenanger (East Pr.) | Lugowoje, now: Ryadino |
(Noble) steering | Storage buoy | |||
| Dachsberg | Lobels | Russino, now: Tuschino |
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| Dirwonuppen | Ackerbach | Kostromskoje, now: Tushino |
Nemonge | Nemonje | |||
| Dundeln | Kraineje | * Nettschunen | Dammfelde (East Pr.) | Tushino | |||
| Fox Angle | * Raudszen , 1936–1938: Raudschen |
Rautengrund | Ryadino | ||||
| * Giewerlauken | Deer corridor | Nikolskoye | Broken rice | Sosnovka | |||
| Itching | Fox height | Makarovo | Schillis | Heidewald | |||
| (Noble) itch stone | Kraineje | Under egg ods | Sub chisels | Bolshoye Selo |
Pastor
At the time of the existence of the parish Groß Lenkeningken, six clergymen officiated at the church:
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Church records
The church records of the parish Groß Lenkeningken have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1896-1944
- Weddings: 1896 to 1944
- Funerals: 1896-1944
- Confirmations: 1920 to 1944
- Communicants: 1920 to 1944.
There is also a name register for the years 1913 to 1944.
References
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 111, fig. 493, 494
- ^ Lesnoje - Groß Lenkeningken / Großlenkenau at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Parish Groß Lenkeningken at the Tilsit-Ragnit district community ( Memento of the original from May 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена - The church Groß Lenkeningken at prussia39.ru (with historical photo and current images)
- ↑ Untereisseln at GenWiki
- ↑ The old font in the rubble hill of the church
- ↑ Крестильная чаша кирха Гросс Ленкенингкена The font of the church Groß Lenkeningken at prussia39.ru
- ↑ The baptismal font on the site of the former church
- ↑ Home work in the Tilsit-Ragnit district , in: Ostpreußenblatt No. 48/2012, p. 18
- ↑ Martin Lipsch, from the parish of Groß Lenkenau, Land an der Memel , 2013, p. 41
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 487
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 46
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The * marks a school location
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, p. 49
