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Lasdehnen Church (Haselberg) Кирха Ласденена Church of St. Peter and Paul Krasnosnamensk Церковь Петра и Павла Красноснаменск
Once a Protestant, now Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul, Lasdehnen (Haselberg) / Krasnosnamensk
Construction year:	1875 to 1877
Inauguration:	October 5, 1877 (Protestant), October 1992 (Orthodox)
Builder :	District architect Costede, Pillkallen
Architect :	Friedrich August Stüler
Style elements :	Neo-Gothic , three-aisled basilica
Client:	Evangelical Parish of Lasdehnen, Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union
Space:	1100 people
Tower height:	40 m
Location:	54 ° 56 '59.2 "  N , 22 ° 29' 44.6"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 56 '59.2 "  N , 22 ° 29' 44.6"  E
Location:	Krasnosnamensk Kaliningrad , Russia
Purpose:	Evangelical Lutheran , now: Orthodox parish church
Local community:	Russian Orthodox Community
Diocese :	Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltiysk of the Russian Orthodox Church

The church in Lasdehnen ( Russian Кирха Ласденена , the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Haselberg) is a neo-Gothic brick building with an apse and high tower . Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the town in the parish of the former East Prussian town and today's Krasnosnamensk in the northeast of the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ). Since 1992 it has been the worship center of the local Russian Orthodox community .

Geographical location

Today's district town Krasnosnamensk lies on the Scheschuppe River at the intersection of several regional and secondary roads. It is ten kilometers to the state border with Lithuania . A train connection has not existed since 1945.

The church is located in the former district of Neuhof-Lasdehnen (1938 to 1946: Altbaum, Russian: Smolenskoje) on a hill that slopes steeply to a scale some distance from the city center. The high tower allows the church to be seen from afar.

Church building

A first church in Lasdehnen, which existed as early as 1578 , was destroyed and burned down - probably due to the invasion of the Shamaites . A follow-up building, for which Elector Friedrich Wilhelm had donated the money and the bricks , was closed in 1869 because it was in disrepair.

According to designs by the Prussian master builder and Berlin architect Friedrich August Stüler , the construction of a new church began in 1875, the foundation stone of which was laid on June 8, 1875. The Pillkaller district architect Costede was in charge of the construction . A rectangular neo-Gothic brick building with an apse and a 40 meter high tower was built . As a three-aisled basilica , the church offered space for 1,100 worshipers. In the east was the sanctuary with two side extensions. In the west, the tower also had two extensions.

The interior of the church, like its exterior, was designed in a neo-Gothic style. The ceiling was vaulted over the central nave . The altar was made of wood and the baptismal font was made of terracotta . Before 1945 the parish archives still contained a glass picture from 1578, a communion chalice from 1691 and a paten from 1661.

The church was only slightly damaged during the Second World War . After 1945, however, it was repurposed and used as a warehouse . At least in this way the building was preserved somewhat intact. A square door had only been broken through on the southern wall. In the upper part of the tower, at its southeast corner, was an unexploded artillery shell .

In 1991 the construction was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church . She had a fundamental renovation carried out and equipped the chancel with an iconostasis corresponding to the Orthodox liturgy . In October 1992 the church was consecrated by Metropolitan Kyrill I. Since then it has been named the " Holy Apostles Peter and Paul ".

Parish

The existing until 1945. Protestant church Lasdehnen (1938: Costanosellari) experienced its founding in 1578. Once the inspection Ragnit belonging she was last part of the church district Pillkallen (Castle Hill) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . In 1925 it counted 8,061 parishioners who lived in a large parish of more than 50 villages, towns and places of residence (including 13 school locations). Initially there was only one clergyman in the church, an assistant preacher was appointed from 1846 and a second pastor's office was established from 1874.

Flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union made church life after 1945 no longer possible in Lasdehnen as in the entire area of the Kaliningrad Oblast .

It was not until the 1990s that new Protestant and Orthodox communities emerged. In Krasnosnamensk, for example, a Russian Orthodox community with the once Protestant parish church was able to establish itself as a place of worship. It is part of the Kaliningrad and Baltiysk Diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church . For Protestant church members, however, the next - Evangelical Lutheran - congregation is in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgwangen ). It belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish locations (until 1945)

For parish church Lasdehnen (Costanosellari) belonged before 1945 next to the vicarage (including the living space Bergershof , now Russian: Samarskoye) still 54 villages, towns and residential places:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name
Old Skardupönen	Koenigsfeld			* Löbegallen	Löbenau	Tolstovo
* Alxnupönen	Altsnappen	Vysokoye		Löblaugken	since 1929: Waldlinden	Rossoshanskoje, now: Ostrogoschskoje
Ambrasgirren	since 1929: Waldlinden	Rossoshanskoje, now: Ostrogoschskoje		Lubinehlen	Lubenwalde	Illowaiskoje
Antbudupönen	Vormwalde			* Maszuiken 1936–38: Maschuiken	Log forest	Udarnoye
Bagdans	Clearing	Sheikino		New Löbegallen	Neulöbenau	Meshdurechye
* Balloups	Bale	Polyanskoye		* New Skardupönen	Border forest	Pugachovo
Scoff	Leg nod	Dolgoje		Neuhof laser stretching	Old tree	Smolenskoye
Budupönen	Sand height	Berestovoye		Nickel stanates	Old tree	Smolenskoye
Darguszen (Forst) 1936–38: Darguschen	Seven oaks	Srednerechye		Payszeln 1936–38: Payscheln	Insterwangen	Lvovskoye
Endruscheiten	Kleinluben	Udarnoye		* Plonszöwen	since 1936: forest hooves	Paporotnoe
Eygarren	Eiger			Move		Rossoshanskoje, now: Ostrogoschskoje
Border forest		Pugachovo		Sallehnen	Sallen
Gricklaugken	Bonick	Selenolessye		Schillenehlen	River fields
Groß Darguszen 1936–38: Groß Darguschen	Tanneck			* Schilleningken	Ebertann	Khlebnikovo
* Great Wersmeningken	Langenfelde	Belkino		Schönhof
Hermoneiten	Hermannshof	Jolkino		Storms		Paporotnoe
Inster (forest)				Szogelgalwen 1936–38: Schogelgalwen	Pine eyrie
* Itching	Meißnersrode	Illowaiskoje		Trakinnen
Kalnishken	Hohentann			* Tulipingken	Tulpeningen	Zarechnoye
Kallwellen (forest)	Lindnershorst			* Dolls		Podgornoje
Carunishks	Koenigsfeld			Uszballen 1936–38: Uschballen	Lindnershorst	Polyanskoye
Klein Darguszen 1936–38: Klein Darguschen	Grenzheide	Srednerechye		Uszbördszen 1936–38: Uschbördschen	Carp angle	Ostrogozhnoye
Klein Wersmeningken	Dreßlershausen			Uszeszuppen 1936–38: Uscheschuppen	Old tree	Smolenskoye
Wages				Uszproduppen 1936–38: Uschproduppen	Badger heather	Udarnoye
Royal grace	Friedrichsweiler	Polyanskoye		Wersmeningken (forest)	Langenfelde
* Lasdinehlen	Sommerswalde	Michurino		Weszkallen (forest)	since 1929: Waldlinden	Rossoshanskoje, now: Ostrogoschskoje
* Laukehlischken	Caesar's rest	Danilevskoye		Woitekats	East ford	Zarechnoye

Pastor (1578–1945)

32 evangelical clergy officiated at the church Lasdehnen:

• Stanislaus Musa, until 1584.
• Daniel Musa, 1584-1623
• Johann Wittich, 1623-1631
• Johann von Sanden, 1631–1643
• Tobias Woller, until 1666.
• Johann Sperber, 1666–1683
• Gottfried Sperber, 1683–1688
• Abraham David Lüneburg, 1688–1706
• Johann Christ. Rosochatius, 1698-1709
• Johann Schultz, 1709-1710
• Johann Friedrich Falck, 1710–1754
• Carl Christoph Schiemann, 1753–1764
• Daniel Gottfried Dresler, 1764–1799
• Johann Ernst Lengnick, 1798–1826
• August Ferdinand Lengnick, 1825–1827
• Gotthilf Wilhelm Ernst, 1827–1844
• Carl Wilhelm Gottfried Schreiner, 1844–1866
• Theodor Otto Leopold Pastenaci, 1846–1853
• Hermann Jacob Theodor Krüger, 1853–1855
• Hugo Richard Friedrich Marcus, 1855-1860
• Georg Adolf Michael Kerkau, until 1896.
• Gustav Eduard Friedrich Hahn, 1866–1877
• Eugen Louis Oskar Stephani, 1874–1880
• Ludwig Emil Mack, 1877–1905
• Carl Johann Robert Schimkus, 1887–1896
• Alfred Otto Johann Schulz, 1896–1910
• Georg Louis B. Wittke, 1905–1925
• Ernst Koehler, 1911–1916
• Kurt Donde, 1920-1932
• Hans Jakobsen, 1923–1926
• Erich Sack , 1926–1943
• Gustav Müller, 1933–1945

Church records

Of the church books of the parish Lasdehnen / Costanosellari have survived and are in the Saxon State Archive in Leipzig kept:

• Baptisms: 170 to 1834.
• Weddings: 1683 to 1702, 1705 to 1765, 1803 to 1834.
• Burials: 1710-1834.

literature

• Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, p. 132.
• Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources . Volume 2, Gumbinnen 1863, pp. 482-506.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} laser stretching at GenWiki
2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 109, Fig. 479
3. ^ AP Bachtin, Churches of East Prussia. Old and new photos. Information on history , series: Sights in the Kaliningrad Region A 87, Baltpromo Verlag, Kaliningrad, 2013, pp. 48–49.
4. ↑ Кирха Ласденена - The church Lasdehnen at prussia39.ru (with photos of the church from 2012)
5. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 485.
6. ↑ 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. 
7. ↑ A * indicates a school location
8. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 82–83.
9. ↑ ^{a b c} Pastenaci († 1863), Hahn († 1877) and Mack († 1906) were members of the Corps Littuania .