Church of Groß Schorellen
| Groß Schorellen Church (Adlerswalde Church) Кирха Гросс Шореллена |
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|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1906 to 1907 |
| Inauguration: | September 12, 1907 |
| Builder : | Master mason and carpenter Conrad, Tilsit |
| Architect : | District construction inspector Tappe, Pillkallen |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Groß Schorellen ( Church Province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 400 people |
| Tower height: |
35 m |
| Location: | 54 ° 49 '52 " N , 22 ° 25' 51.1" E |
| Location: |
Saratovskoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. Only a fragment of the tower wall remains of the church |
The church in Groß Schorellen ( Russian Кирха Гросс Шореллена , the place was called Adlerswalde (East Prussia) between 1938 and 1946 ) is one of the 14 East Prussian anniversary churches and chapels . In 1907, the Gothic- style building with a side- mounted tower was put into service and was a Protestant place of worship for the people living in the parish of today's Saratovskoye until 1945 . Only a remnant wall of the tower remains of the building.
Geographical location
Today's Saratovskoye is located east of the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad, southwest of the district capital Krasnosnamensk (Lasdehnen , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg) and northwest of the former district town Dobrowolsk (Pillkallen , 1938 to 1946 Schlossberg) . The village was a station on the Tilsit – Stallupönen / Ebenrode railway line until 1945 .
The location of the church is in the middle of the village and is still recognizable today from the tower, even if it is only a fragment.
Church building
The church in Groß Schorellen was a single-nave building made of field stones and bricks and built in the Gothic style. The foundation stone was laid on September 16, 1906, and the inauguration took place a year later on September 12, 1907. The church had a 35-meter-high tower placed sideways , which was crowned with a roof turret .
The then district building inspector Tappe from Pillkallen (today Russian: Dobrowolsk) had designed the church building, and the building itself was also created under his direction in cooperation with the master mason and carpenter Conrad from Tilsit (Sowetsk).
The church interior offered space for 400 people. It had a vaulted wooden ceiling, while the choir had a richly articulated massive vault. With a built-in side gallery , the church interior gave the impression of having two aisles. The church was painted in 1909 by the Frankfurt painter Ballin. The altar with crucifix , pulpit and organ front were decorated with simple ornaments. The organ itself was the work of Bruno Goebel from Königsberg (Prussia) (Russian: Kaliningrad), the successor of the master organ builder Max Terletzki .
The entire church was built as part of the festivities for the 200th anniversary of the coronation of Frederick III. of Brandenburg . In order to create a permanent memorial, the celebrations did not stop there, but 14 anniversary churches and chapels were built, which were carried out in the church province of East Prussia .
During the war in 1944/45, the church was hit on the tower. The nave remained undamaged, but burned out from 1956 to 1957. After the roof collapsed, the walls were torn down in order to extract stones for road construction. From the church itself only a ruined wall of the tower remains today.
Parish
Groß Schorellen became a Protestant church village on April 1, 1903. Until then, almost all of the parishes in the parish belonged to the Pillkallen Church . A pastoral care district had already been established from Pillkallen on April 1, 1897, and after ten years it received its spiritual center with the construction of the church. The parish office established in 1903 was occupied without interruption until 1945.
Until 1945 the parish of Groß Schorellen was part of the parish of Pillkallen (Schloßberg) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it counted 1,800 parishioners who lived in 17 parish places as well as smaller towns and places of residence. There was no church patronage .
The flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War and the subsequent restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union brought church life to a standstill in what is now known as Saratovskoye .
It was not until the 1990s that new Evangelical Lutheran congregations emerged in the Kaliningrad Oblast , whose Saratovskoye is closest to that in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) . It belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of the church Groß Schorellen (1938 to 1946 "Kirche Adlerswalde") also included 16 places, towns and places to live in addition to the parish:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bear catch share Ksp. Size Schorellen |
Kuranskoye | Mittenwalde (village) | Schkolnoye | |||
| Birkenfelde | Birkenhof | Kustarninkowo | Neudorf | Willow field | ||
| Doblendszen 1936–38: Doblendschen |
Kayserswiesen | Poscharskoye | Plamps | Triple | ||
| Karklaugken | Willow field | Vorontsovo | Ragupons | Mittenwalde (good) | Meshdurechye | |
| Cellar mixes | Stubbenheide | Sokol | Shaking | Mittenbach | Schanino | |
| Small spritzers | Saratovskoye | Schmilgen | Lukaschowka | |||
| Klein Tullen | Rod eyes | Filatowo | ||||
| Laukehlischken (forest) | Eagle angle | Wörth (forest) |
Pastor
Between 1897 and 1903 and 1945, five clergymen officiated as Protestant pastors at the Groß Schorellen church:
- Eduard Karl Paul Braun, 1897–1922
- Helmut Liedtke, 1923–1926
- Gerhard Walther, 1927–1931
- Konrad Oloff. 1932-1940
- Willy Genge, 1940-1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ Кирха Гросс Шореллена - The Church in Groß Schorellen (Russian text, with current photo)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 109, Fig. 478
- ↑ Large Schorellen
- ↑ Saratovskoye - Gr. Schorellen / Adlerswalde
- ↑ a b History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 485
- ↑ Schloßberger Heimatbrief of the district community Schloßberg / Ostpreußen e. V., Winsen / Luhe, 1987, p. 1
- ↑ 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 Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Hamburg 1969, p. 48
