Lauknen Church
| Church Lauknen (Church Hohenbruch (East Prussia)) Кирха Лаукнена |
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| Construction year: | 1905 |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Lauknen ( church province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 58 '10.3 " N , 21 ° 24' 47.3" E |
| Location: |
Gromovo Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. Only the tower ruins remain of the church |
The church in Lauknen ( Russian Кирха Лаукнена , the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Hohenbruch) was a neo-Gothic building from the beginning of the 20th century. Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church for the residents of the extensive parish of today's Gromowo in the former East Prussian district of Labiau and the current district of Slavsk (district of Heinrichswalde ) in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ). Today only the ruins of the tower of the former church remain .
Geographical location
Today's Gromowo can be reached via a side road that branches off in Salessje (Mehlauken , 1938 to 1946 Liebenfelde) from the Russian trunk road A 190 (former German Reichsstrasse 126 ) in a northerly direction. Zalessye is also the nearest train station and is on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) . The tower ruins can be found just before the central intersection of the town, which extends over five kilometers.
Church building
Lauknen had a church for a long time. The old church was demolished and on June 27, 1850 the foundation stone was laid for a wooden circular church building. A turret adorned it as a crown. Furnishing included a crucifix made of ivory , two stone altar candlesticks , a silver-plated baptismal font and a chalice - and Host box .
In 1905 the church was rebuilt in Gothic style with a high tower inserted in the southwest corner. To the east was the sanctuary with inserted sacristy added. The nave was dominated by the dark pews. A gallery with benches was attached to the south side , as well as a location for the organ on the west side .
Except for one hit by artillery , the church survived the Second World War almost unscathed. While the slightly damaged roof from 1945 could be repaired by local residents, the nave was subsequently used as a quarry and was removed. After all, the tower was used as a water tower . At least that's how it has survived the years, albeit in a very damaged condition. It is visible from afar.
Parish
An independent parish was only founded in Lauknen in 1854, which was branched off from the Gilge church . The post for a clergyman had already been established a year earlier. The church patronage was state. In 1925 the parish of the church Lauknen had 4200 parishioners who lived in 16 different towns and villages. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the parish of Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Because of the flight and expulsion of the local population, after 1945 church life in Lauknen (which was called "Hohenbruch (East Prussia)" from 1938) came to a standstill. The restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union put an end to all religious activity anyway. In the 1990s, a new Evangelical Lutheran congregation was established in the nearby Golowkino (Nemonien , 1938 to 1946 Elchwerder) on the coast of the Curonian Lagoon , in whose catchment area Gromowo is today. It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of the church Lauknen belonged to 16 villages and smaller villages (* = school location) until 1945:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| * Alt Heidlauken | Wiepenheide | Bugorki | New Heidlauken | Gorky | ||
| * Elchtal | Salivnoe | New break | ||||
| Julienbruch | Brusnichnoye | Nemonia, forest | Elchwerder, forest | |||
| * Königgrätz | * Petricken | Welmdeich | Fontanka | |||
| Kupstien | Moor fields | * Sadowa | Mochowoje | |||
| Langendorf | * Schenkendorf | Grushevka | ||||
| Lukewarm | Hohenbruch (East Pr.) | Gromowo | Schetricken | Wiepenheide | ||
| * Mauschern | Kleinlangendorf | Passechnoye | * Timber | Rybatskoye |
Of all these parish places, only the parish still exists today.
Pastor
At the time of the existence of the independent parish of Lauknen, new Protestant clergymen officiated at the church:
- Leo Jonas, 1853-1854
- Robert Friedrich Th. Boettcher, 1854–1868
- Johann Albert Schneider, 1868–1882
- August Heinrich Wetzki, 1884–1893
- Hermann Otto Arthur Salopiata, 1894–1901
- Ernst Albert Paul Harner, 1897
- Christoph Lepenies, 1901–1910
- Alfred O. Johannes Schulz, 1910–1933
- Martin Schultz, 1933–1945
Individual evidence
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland / Church Lauknen
- ↑ a b Gromowo - Lauknen / Hohenbruch at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1938, p. 59, fig. 195 and 196.
- ↑ Кирха Лаукнена - The church in Lauknen at prussia39.ru (with photos of the tower ruins from 2012)
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 465.
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 84.
- ↑ Jonas (1824-1854) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
