Gross Ottenhagen Church
The church in Groß Ottenhagen was a plastered stone building from the 15th century and served the population in East Prussian Groß Ottenhagen (today Russian: Berjosowka) as a Protestant church until 1945 . Today only the tower ruins and wall fragments remain from the building.
Geographical location
Berjosowka is located southwest of the Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) on the Russian highway R 508 . The then Groß Ottenhagen belonged to the Samland district until 1945 (before 1939 Königsberg district (Prussia) ) in the Prussian province of East Prussia . As Berjosowka the place is today a settlement within the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (rural community Oserk (Groß Lindenau) ) in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ). The next train station is Oserki -Nowyje on the Kaliningrad-Nesterow railway line (Königsberg-Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway .
The church in Groß Ottenhagen stood in the upper village north of the railway line. The location is difficult to find today.
Church building
Around 1340 there was already a church building in Groß Ottenhagen ("Ottinhayn"). In the 15th century, a plastered field stone building with brick corners and a western tower was built. The latter is still preserved today as a ruin. In the middle of the 18th century, the nave was extended by a transverse building and vaulted and provided with galleries .
The interior decoration dates from the years between 1715 and 1720. The pulpit altar is said to come from Johann Christoph Döbel and may have been created earlier. Originally the altar stood on the south wall of the nave, it was not joined with the pulpit until 1740. A confessional from 1695 - it came from the altar master's workshop - with pointed foliage and winding columns was a special item in the inventory.
In 1877 the church was extensively restored. The top of the church tower, which until then had been covered with wooden shingles, became lower and was given a Welsche hood made of sheet metal. The tower height was 32 meters.
The village of Groß Ottenhagen suffered badly as a result of the events at the end of the war. The church was badly damaged, the spire destroyed and the roof burned down. Apart from a few fragments of the wall, only the ruins of the tower now exist.
Parish
A church was founded in Groß Ottenhagen in the time of the order around 1340. The Reformation soon found its way here, the first Lutheran clergyman Johann Tiburtius still had to take care of the Starkenberg church (now in Russian: Krasny Bor ). A church visitation took place here in 1543 . Before 1945, that belonged to the parish of Great Otten Hagen to church district Königsberg-Land I (south of the Pregel ) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . The 1925 census recorded a total of 2,800 parishioners who lived in 16 parish towns.
As a result of the events of the Second World War with the flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy in the Soviet Union , church life in Berjosowka and in the entire Königsberg region came to a standstill.
It was not until the 1990s that new Evangelical Lutheran congregations emerged in the Kaliningrad Oblast , of which the one in Gwardeisk (Tapiau) Berjosowka is closest. It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
16 localities (* = school location) belonged to the parish of Groß Ottenhagen:
| Surname | Russian name | Surname | Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ellerwalde | Lindenthal | Yuzhnoye | ||
| * Great Barthen | Osjornoje | * New Lindenau | Dachnoye | |
| * Great Lindenau | Oserki | rose Garden | Sapadnoye | |
| * Great Ottenhagen | Beryosovka | Sand b. Löwenhagen | ||
| Klein Lindenau | Osjorskoye | Seewalde | Ostrovskoye | |
| * Klein Ottenhagen | Polessye | Vorwerk sheep farm | Kastanowka | |
| Lindenberg | Saosjarnoye | Waldhof | Saizewo | |
| Lindenhof | Roslowka | Whatien | Pestschnaoje |
Pastor
In the period from the Reformation to 1945, 26 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Groß Ottenhagen Church:
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Church seal
The centuries-old seal of the Groß Ottenhagen church has been preserved. Anna Kraemer , the daughter of the former sexton Wichmann , saved it through internment in post-war East Prussia to the west. It is now kept in the Prussian Museum in Minden .
Web links
- Picture of the church tower ruin Groß Ottenhagen
- Кирха Гросс Оттенхагена / The Church of Groß Ottenhagen at prussia39.ru
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Broschel Calendar, The Church of Groß Ottenhagen (PDF; 4.3 MB)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Portraits of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 54, fig. 151
- ^ Berjosowka - Groß Ottenhagen at ostpreussen.net
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 462
- ↑ 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 Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume III (as above)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 107
- ↑ Peter Kraemer, Hidden on the Body. The church seal Ottenhagen and its history; in: Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung, January 7, 2006 ( Memento of the original from December 11, 2015 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.
Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ' N , 20 ° 51' E