Lengwethen Church

The church in Lengwethen ( Russian Кирха Ленгветена , the place was called Hohensalzburg between 1938 and 1946 ) is a plastered stone building erected at the beginning of the 18th century and was until 1945 a Protestant church for the village in the now called Lunino in the parish of the former East Prussian and now called Lunino Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Koenigsberg Region (Prussia) ).

location

Today Lunino located 14 kilometers southwest of the county seat Neman (Ragnit) on the Russian highway A 198 at its junction with the side road 27K-186 Schilino (Szillen , 1936-1946 Schillen) with Uslowoje (Rautenberg) and Wesnowo (Kussen) connects . Until 1945 there was a rail connection via the Kulminnen station (1938 to 1946: Kulmen, Russian: Kuibyschewo, no longer existent today) on the Kraupischken – Ragnit railway line of the Insterburger Kleinbahnen .

The location of the church, of which only remains of the wall are left today, is north of the 27K-187 not far from the intersection with the A 198.

Church building

The church was built by exiles from Salzburg who were settled by Friedrich Wilhelm I (Prussia) after the Great Plague . Between 1732 and 1735 a simple plastered field stone building without a church tower was built . Separated from the church building was a separate bell house with two bells . There was a vestibule in the west and a sacristy in the east . The interior of the church was flat and had galleries around it. The brick floor supported the wooden benches made with backrests. The interior was simple. The altar and the pulpit were united and without figurative decoration. The immigrants from Salzburg brought the brass bowl of the baptismal table with them from their homeland. It shows various figures, flowers and leaves in a chased manner. In the center was a woman holding flowers and a wreath in her hands. The altar devices were works from the 18th century. The organ on the west gallery dates from 1858 . In 1933 the church underwent a major renovation.

The church remained intact during the Second World War . From 1951 it was used as a cultural center for a different purpose . Then, in 1980, the building received a major renovation and renovation work, with the roof being covered with asbestos panels . A second floor was moved into the vestibule. In the meantime the building has fallen into disrepair, there are only remains of the wall.

Parish

The Lengwethener Church existed for several years before its own congregation was established in the place. The founding year of the parish is 1741, at the same time a parish office was established. The parish village included 32 places, towns and places of residence that made up the parish . In 1925 the parish had 2,800 parishioners.

Until 1945 the parish of Lengwethen (from 1938: Hohensalzburg) belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the Second World War and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in the village, then called Lunino, came to a standstill.

Today, Lunino is in the catchment area of ​​an Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) that was newly established in the 1990s and belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish places

To the parish of Lengwethen belonged:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name
* Balandszen, 1936–38: Ballandschen	Ballanden			Laskowethen	To let
Scoff	Beiningen	Lunino		Mixlauken	Mix
Dazzle				Palapken	Palken	Tjoploje
Burkandt	Burental	Andreyevo		* Pallmoons	Burental	Andreyevo
* Gerskullen	Gerslinden	Gannowka		Perkuhnen
Grays		Bersarino		Petroshks	Petern	Anissimowo
* Jestwethen	Jesten			Pieraggen	Mountainside
Kallenen, village		Bersarino		* Swaddling		Luganskoye
Kallenen, good		Kalinino		Reinecken
* Kapotschen	Caps			* Salleningken	Sallingen	Bryullovo
Karlshof		Yermakovo		Sauerwalde
Warps	Kettingen			* Scharken
Kleginnen	Clink			Shear		Balashevskoye
Krauleidehlen	Crawl			Tilszenehlen , 1936–38: Tilschenehlen	Source grounds	Shdanki
Culminates	Kulmen	Kuibyshevo		Trumpats	Godparents
Kurstwethen	Courses			Weedern		Talniki

Pastor

Between 1741 and 1945, 25 Protestant clergymen officiated as pastors at the Lengwethen Church (Hohensalzburg):

• Johann Christian Lüneburg, 1741–1745
• Christoph Hoffmann, 1746–1752
• Christian Curländer, 1752–1766
• Bernhard Gottlieb Kalau, 1766–1776
• Christian Bartholomäus Voss, 1777–1791
• Friedrich Ernst Mikisch, 1791–1797
• Johann David Rudolph, 1797-1803
• Johann Simon Kanning, 1803-1804
• Leopold Wermbter, 1805-1811
• Ernst Gottlieb Horn, 1811–1813
• David Jonathan Naugardt, 1813-1818
• Carl L. Th. Kalau von Hofe, 1818–1824
• Johann Schneller, 1825–1832
• Casemir Iwan Weber, 1832–1839
• Theodor Wilhelm L. Weinreich, 1839–1842
• Johann Heinrich Lehmann, 1842–1850
• Franz Theodor Schmidt, 1851–1879
• Eugen Oskar Theodor Weiß, 1880–1882
• Theodor Gustav Struck, 1884–1888
• Louis Arno Thiel, 1888–1898
• Hermann Otto Max Brunau, 1898–1906
• Karl Friedrich W. Gaser, 1909–1918
• Wilhelm Krüger, 1920–1930
• Ernst Ehlert, 1930–1935
• Helmuth Barutzky, 1936–1945

Church records

The church records of the parish of Lengwethen (Hohensalzburg) have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

• Baptisms: 174-1853
• Weddings: 1741 to 1754, 1758 to 1800
• Burials: 1741 to 1785, 1791 to 1855.

Footnotes

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tilsit-Ragnit district: parish locations, villages and living spaces  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 111–112, Figs. 495 and 496
3. ↑ Кирха Ленгветена - The Lengwethen Church at prussia39.ru (with historical photo and photos from 2013)
4. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 488
5. ↑ 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. 
6. ↑ The * indicates a school location
7. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 84
8. ↑ Schmidt († 1879) was a member of the Corps Littuania .
9. ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, p. 77
10. ↑ pages are partially damaged

Coordinates: 54 ° 55 ′ 14 ″  N , 22 ° 4 ′ 49 ″  E