Jantarny Church
The Jantarny Church ( Russian Кирха Янтарный ) was originally a place of worship for the Protestant community in the city of Palmnicken in East Prussia . It was inaugurated in 1892 and has served as a church building for the Russian Orthodox community in Jantarny since 1990 .
Geographical location
The church in Jantarny (Palmnicken) is located at the southern exit of the village on the eastern side of the street. The urban settlement Jantarny is the seat of the urban district Jantarny and is located on the amber coast in the west of the Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ) of the Russian Federation . Jantarny can be reached from the A 192 highway via Krasnotorowka (Heiligenkreutz) or Russkoje (Germau) . After the completion of the Primorskoje Kolzo (coastal motorway ring), the city will be connected via a direct feeder. There is no longer a train connection.
Church building
The former parish church in Palmnicken was founded by the Privy Councilor of Commerce Moritz Becker , who had a church built for the amber mining workers . After five years of construction, the church was consecrated on January 3, 1892.
The massive field stone and brick building with a pointed tower has stylistic echoes of the Georgen Chapel in the garden of the former Monbijou Palace in Berlin . The interior was in Romanesque style. As part of the renovation in 1936 were chancel two painted tapestries by Professor Richard Pfeiffer from Konigsberg appropriate to the crucified and the triumphant Christ showed. Instead of the altar devices stolen in 1919, the church received a foundation for modern devices made of copper with amber inlays in 1920.
An organ has been present in the church since its inception. The ringing originally consisted of two bells.
The church building remained unused between 1945 and 1990. In 1990 it was restored and given to the Russian Orthodox Church . The previous altar wall has been replaced by an iconostasis and the pews have been removed.
Parish
Evangelical (until 1945)
An independent evangelical parish existed in Palmnicken only since 1906. Until then, the place was a branch of the church Germau (today Russian: Russkoje ), and even earlier directly connected to the church in Lochstädt (today Russian: Pawlowo). Assistant preachers were installed in Palmnicken even before 1899, before a parish office was established in 1906. Palmnicken counted a total of 4,117 parishioners in 1925. The parish belonged to until 1945 Kirchenkreis Fischhausen (Russian Today: Primorsk) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . With the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war, Protestant church life in Palmnicken died out.
Parish places
Between 1906 and 1945, in addition to the parish, eight surrounding villages belonged to the parish of Palmnicken:
| Surname | Russian name | Surname | Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bardau | Gordowo | Kraxtepellen | ||
| Nod | Krasnopolje | Pepper mill | ||
| Big nod | Sinyavino | Worried | Pokrovskoye | |
| Small nod | Klenowoje | Warsaw | Vershkovo |
Pastor
Assistant preachers served in Palmnicken until 1906, from then on the specially established pastor's post was filled:
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Church records
Of the church books of the parish Palvininkai remain:
- Baptisms: 1906 to 1944 (with list of names)
- Weddings: 1906 to 1944 (with list of names from 1916)
- Burials: 1906 to 1944 (with list of names)
- Confirmations: 1905 to 1944
Also: lists of those killed in action from 1914 to 1917 and 1940 to 1943.
The documents are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
Russian Orthodox (from 1990)
A Russian Orthodox community has existed in Jantarny since 1990 and now uses the former Protestant parish church as a place of worship. It belongs to the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk of the Russian Orthodox Church .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 35 and Fig. 41
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland: Palmnicken
- ^ History of Jantarny - Palmnicken at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 454
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 107
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, page 90
Coordinates: 54 ° 51 ′ 58 ″ N , 19 ° 56 ′ 20 ″ E