Kaukehmen Church
| Kaukehmen Church (Kuckerneese Church) Кирха Каукемена |
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 The Kaukehmen Church in 2011 |
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| Construction year: | 1704 to 1708 tower: 1881 to 1884 |
| Builder : | Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt |
| Style elements : | Hall church with a polygonal end |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community of Kaukehmen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 1,000 seats |
| Location: | 55 ° 10 '29.9 " N , 21 ° 32' 45.2" E |
| Location: |
Jasnoe Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The unused building is owned by the Russian Orthodox Church |
The Kaukehmen Church ( Russian Кирха Каукемена , the place was called "Kuckerneese" between 1938 and 1946) in the former East Prussia is a massive hall building built at the beginning of the 18th century with a tower later added. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the residents in the parish of what is now called Jasnoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ). The unused closed church ruin consists of the outer walls of the tower and nave .
Geographical location
Today's Jasnoye is a town of 1,500 people two kilometers south of the Memel (now Russian: Neman) and is 18 kilometers from the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and 138 kilometers from the oblast capital, Kaliningrad (Königsberg) . The Russian regional road R 513 runs through the town from Sowetsk (Tilsit) to Myssowka (Karkeln) , south of which the site of the church ruins is located near the Old Market .
Church building
A first church was mentioned in Kaukehmen in the middle of the 16th century "built on a hill". It was torn down in 1576 for a new building. In its place a wooden church was built again in 1661, which, however, had to be demolished because of its dilapidation. In 1702 the chronicle reports that the word of God could only be preached at the greatest risk of death .
In the years 1704 to 1708, with the help of Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt and under the supervision of Paul Lagewald from Trumpeiten (1938 to 1946: Trumpenau, Russian: Schanino, no longer existent), a massive hall building with a polygonal finish was built. The tower, which replaced the previous wooden belfry , was only added from 1881 to 1884. He carried four bells and received a tower clock .
The church was described in 1895: the current Protestant parish church was built in 1661, the tower between 1881 and 1884. Plastered brickwork; 18.8m long, 8.2m wide, the end of the octagon with the sacristy behind. Weather vane over the octagon; a devil with a fish tail and dragon wings, blowing a horn; XVII century windows, closed in a semicircle, are placed in rectangular frames. Inside there is a vault with arches with ears. Altar and pulpit with unattractive carving with the von Halle coat of arms and that of his wife Anna Maria von Rohr .
Probably because of negligence during soldering work on the gutter, the church burned down completely on May 27, 1904. The restoration of the building lasted until 1906 and resulted in an increased capacity with 1,000 seats and 500 standing places. On December 9, 1906 (2nd Advent) the church was consecrated again.
The church furnishings included a pulpit altar made in Baroque style , the altar parapet and the baptismal font . There were galleries on the south, west and north sides . The ceiling over the interior was vaulted. The altarpiece dates from the 17th and 18th centuries, including a silver communion chalice with a gilded interior and the inscription Merk. Heinrich Cöler, bailiff in Kukkernese den. 9 September 1763 . It was a work from Tilsit (today Russian: Sowetsk). There was also a brass chandelier with sixteen arms donated in 1682 , the coronation of which was an eagle on which Jupiter sat with a scepter and a bundle of lightning .
Johann Josua Mosengel built an organ in 1722 with a manual and 11 stops . This organ was repaired in 1758 and repaired by the organ builder Albrecht Jordan in 1764 . Johann Scherweit built a new organ in the Mosengel case as early as 1843/44, which now had 24 registers on 2 manuals and pedal . The Scherweit organ in the Mosengel case burned down with the church in 1904. After its restoration, the Bruno Goebel workshop in Königsberg (Prussia) , which had succeeded Max Terletzki , built a new organ with 27 registers on 2 manuals and a pedal.
The ringing consisted of three bells .
The church survived the Second World War unscathed, and in 1947 the organ was still playable. That changed due to the subsequent misuse of the church space as a warehouse and the church tower as a water tower . The church roof collapsed in the 1980s. It was not until 1992 that the building was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church that the nave was given an emergency roof. However, there was no church use. A warehouse was added on the south side. While the sacristy in the east is still usable, all of the old furnishings are missing. Since the Russian Orthodox Church became the owner of the church in 2010, the building has been repaired several times. However, it is still not used for worship.
Parish
A Lutheran congregation had existed in Kaukehmen since 1576, and clergymen had been active here since 1547. Due to the size of the parish and parish , two pastors were in office at the same time from 1557. The second pastorate was abolished in 1704, but then rebuilt from 1874. Originally the parish Kaukehmen - until 1695 the church Plaschken (today Lithuanian: Plaškiai ) was assigned to it - belonged to the Tilsit inspection . Until 1945 it was part of the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population, church life came to a standstill in the place, which has since been renamed "Kuckerneese".
Today Jasnoe is in the catchment area of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
Until 1945 the parish of Kaukehmen (Kuckerneese) had 28 villages and places to live:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
Lithuanian name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
Lithuanian name |
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| * Alt Sellen | * Leitgirren | Leitgiriai | ||||||
| Building | Summer farms | Oboyan |
Lys times 1936–1938: Lyscheiten |
Lischau | Vishnevka | |||
| * Great Allgawischken | Schlichtingen | Gribki | New Sellen | |||||
| * Great Schilleningken | Didieji Šilininkai | Neuhof | ||||||
| * Heinrichsfelde | Andruliai | Neuhoff | ||||||
| Kaplanischken | * New care | Abrusovo | ||||||
| * Chewing | Kuckerneese | Jasnoye | Sausseningken | Dairy farm | Cherkasskoye | |||
| Kaukehnellen | Sköpen | Mostovoye | ||||||
| Kill chicks | Skulbetwarren | |||||||
| Klein Allgawischken | Allgau | Oserki | Skuldeinen | Gribki | ||||
| Klein Schilleningken | Šilininkeliai | Trumpeiten | Trumpenau | Schnaino | ||||
| Small Trumpeiten | Kleintrumpenau | Usseinen | Stellwagen | Dalneje | ||||
| * Kloken | Klyuchi | * Warskillen | Kalinowka | |||||
| Kuckerneese | Wietzischken |
Pastor
Between 1547 and 1945, Protestant clergymen worked at the Kaukehmen church:
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Church records
The church registers of Kaukehmen are only preserved as film versions of the Reichssippenamt and are now stored in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig . Available:
- Baptisms = 1668-1824, 1828-1844, 1848, 1859-1874
- Weddings = 1750–1848, 1863–1874
- Funerals = 1749–1762, 1767–1848, 1863–1874
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Кирха Каукемена - Kaukehmen Church at prussia39.ru (with historical photo and current images)
- ↑ Kuckerneese parish at the Elchniederung district community
- ↑ a b c Kaukehmen at wiki-de
- ↑ a b Buildings and facilities in Kaukehmen / Kuckerneese - at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 93, Figs. 381 and 182
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 214–215
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 483
- ↑ 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.
- ^ Parish Kuckerneese
- ↑ * = school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 63
