Church Kremitten
Coordinates: 54 ° 39 ′ N , 20 ° 57 ′ E The church in Kremitten (before 1920 also Cremitten , Russian Кирха Кремиттена ) was a brick building on a field stone foundation, completed around 1360/1370and servedas a Protestant churchfrom the Reformation to 1945. All that remains of the building in the place now called Losowoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) is a heap of rubble that has overgrown.
Geographical location
Losowoje is located on the north bank of the Pregel (Russian: Pregoja) and south of the A 229 trunk road (formerly German Reichsstrasse 1 , now also Europastrasse 28 and 77 ), ten kilometers from the city of Gwardeisk (Tapiau) . The next train station is Gwardeisk on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) (former Prussian Eastern Railway ) line for onward travel to Lithuania and the Russian heartland. Before 1945, Königlich Kremitten , as it was also called, was part of the municipality of Langendorf (today in Russian: Sokolniki) in the East Prussian district of Wehlau . The location of the church is difficult to make out and only recognizable by the few remains of rubble.
Church building
The Kremitten church was a brick building built on a field stone foundation . Construction of the church began in 1340 and it was completed in 1360/1370.
The building is said to have the distinctive and unadulterated character of the early Samland churches. It had a polygonal choir closure , the vault from the 14th and 15th centuries. The three-story west tower was from the 15th century and received its octagonal helmet in 1833 .
Remains of medieval wall paintings could be seen on the choir walls . The Gothic carved altar from the beginning of the 16th century was one of the most important works of art in East Prussia . The coronation, however, came from the 19th century. The triumphal arch was pre-Reformation (around 1500), the figure of St. George came from the beginning of the 16th century. Other furnishings such as the pulpit , stands and galleries were as well as several epitaphs and pictures from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1872 the church received an organ from Rohn's workshop in Wormditt (now in Polish: Orneta). The two bells were cast in 1855.
The church came almost unscathed through World War II . But then it was looted, the floor was torn out and the figures were thrown away. The outer walls were still standing in the 1970s. In 1980 the ruins were blown up to extract building material. Only a small and completely overgrown heap of rubble reminds of the former church in Kremitten.
Parish
The founding of a church in Kremitten is said to go back to around 1260. The Reformation had already found its way here before 1527 and therefore quite early . Until 1945, the parish with its extensive parish belonged to the Wehlau church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In the 1925 census, the parish counted 3,000 parishioners in almost 40 parish towns.
Due to flight and expulsion as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life came to a standstill after 1945 in what was once East Prussia and also in the place then known as Losowoje.
It was not until the 1990s that new Evangelical Lutheran congregations formed in the Kaliningrad Oblast . The closest to Losowoje is the one in the city of Gwardeisk (Tapiau) , a branch of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
Before 1945 the parish of the Kremitten church had 38 parish locations (* = school locations):
| Surname | Russian name | Surname | Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albrechtshof | Kuxtern | Kurgan | ||
| Bartenhof | Jablonowka | Langendorf | Sokolniki | |
| Behlacken | Grushevka | Lieblacken | Dobrolyubovo | |
| * Biothen | Malinovka | Lux house | Serowo | |
| Bonslack | Gorky | Podewitten | Malinovka | |
| Brandt | Podollen | Losovoye | ||
| Oak trees | Kalinowka | * Pomedia | Pruschaly | |
| Ellerlack | Popehnen | Zvenievoye | ||
| Fichtenhof | Noble Popelken | Cholmy | ||
| Lucky paint | Buffing | |||
| Gaiters | Olenino | Schalwen | Fruktuwoje | |
| Large pog Firmen | * Schiewenau | Borskoye | ||
| Heather jug | Schöneberg | |||
| * Irglacken | Kalinkowo | Stamping | Ossinovka | |
| Kirkenau | Tarse | |||
| Klein Birkenfeld | Wolnoye | Thulpörschken | Markovo | |
| Small pog Firmen | Treuschhof | |||
| Kleinhof | Forest castle | Pribreschnoye | ||
| * Kremits (Noble and Royal) |
Losovoye | * Wargiens | Velikolukskoye |
Pastor
From the Reformation to the end of the Second World War, 18 pastors served as Protestant clergy at the Kremitten church:
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Web links
- Historical church photo (tower) at prussia39.ru
- Historical village view with church at russia39.ru
- Gallery with pictures of churches before 1945
- Gallery with remnants of debris after 1945
Individual evidence
- ^ D. Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Kremitten
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland: Kremitten
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 82, fig. 313-318
- ↑ Losowoje - Kremitten at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ 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. (Russian German)
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of Ortpreussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 474
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 28
