Karkeln Church
| Church Karkeln Кирха Каркельна |
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|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1722 Extension: 1898/1899 |
| Style elements : |
Field stone construction , later: neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Karkeln ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 11 '23.4 " N , 21 ° 15' 47.9" E |
| Location: |
Myssovka (Kaliningrad) Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church was demolished in 1959 |
The church in Karkeln ( Russian Кирха Каркельна ) was a building that was first erected in 1722 as a field stone structure, then in 1898/1899 in neo-Gothic style with a tower and expanded. Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the residents of the East Prussian parish of what is now called Myssowka in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ). The church no longer exists.
Geographical location
Today's Mysovka is located on the east bank of the Curonian Lagoon (Russian: Kurschskaja saliw) at the mouth of the Karkeln river of the same name (now Russian: Schirokaja) in the Rohrbucht (Kamyschewy saliw). The place is the end point of the Russian regional road R 513 coming from Sowetsk (Tilsit) . There is no train connection.
The former location of the church is in the south-eastern part of the village on the site of the former cemetery. A clubhouse now stands on the site of the church.
Church building
The first church to be built in Karkeln in 1680 was a building made of wood and clay and provided with a thatched roof. But this burned down. In 1722 a new church was built, initially as a stone building without a tower, then in 1898/1899 with a choir , sacristy , galleries and a tower in neo-Gothic style.
Inside the church, the ceiling was slightly vaulted. Remnants of the furnishings of the first church were brought in, including a valuable wooden chandelier . Altar and pulpit were united. In the course of the expansion work, the organ was restored in 1898 .
The Karkelner Church survived the Second World War only tolerably and with damage due to a mine explosion. But then the roof leaked and in 1949 the tower burned down. When the whole country was flooded in 1959 after a dike breached, the church was torn down and the stones were used to fill in the washouts. Today there is a clubhouse on the square of the church.
Parish
Originally the Karkelner Church was a branch church of the Ruß Church (the place is called today in Lithuanian: Rusnė ) in the Heydekrug (Lithuanian: Šilutė) church district. In 1644 Karkeln became an independent parish with its own parish . Between 1711 and 1834, Karkeln belonged to the Schakuhnen Church (between 1938 and 1946 the place was called Schakendorf, today in Russian: Levobereschnoje), then until 1847 to the Kallningken Church (1938 to 1946: Herdenau, Russian: Prochladnoje). After 1847 the parish of Karkeln was transferred to the parish Niederung (from 1939: Elchniederung) within the church province of East Prussia to the church of the Old Prussian Union . This affiliation lasted until 1945.
In 1925 the parish Karkeln belonged to 1,189 parishioners who lived in four parish towns and villages.
Flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union brought church life to a standstill in the place now called Myssowka. Today the village lies in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) , which was newly established in the 1990s, within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
Until 1945 the parish of Karkeln included:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
|---|---|---|
| Akminge (proportionately) | Ibenwerder | Selenez |
| * Karkeln | Myssovka | |
| Parungaln | ||
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Tramischen (without Eisenberg) |
Tramming | Rasdolnoye |
Pastor
Protestant clergy at the Karkeln church :
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1644 to 1711:
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1842 to 1945:
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Church records
The church book documents have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1754 to 1765, 1767 to 1874
- Weddings: 1754 to 1765, 1834 to 1874
- Burials: 1754 to 1765, 1767 to 1875.
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 164-165.
- Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources . Volume 2, Gumbinnen 1863, pp. 14-15.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Кирха Каркельна - The Karkeln Church at prussia39.ru
- ↑ Karkeln at wiki-de
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 93, Fig. 375
- ↑ The Karkeln Church around 1900
- ↑ Myssowka - Karkeln at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 62
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 483
- ↑ a b Karkeln parish near the Elchniederung district community
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ * = school location
