Mallwischken Church
| Mallwischken Church (Church Mallwen) |
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|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1729-1730 |
| Inauguration: | 1730 |
| Style elements : | Timber construction , octagonal construction |
| Client: | Evangelical Parish Mallwischken ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 43 '41.8 " N , 22 ° 13' 38.2" E |
| Location: |
Maiskoje Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church building no longer stands |
The church in Mallwischken (the place was called from 1938 to 1946: Mallwen) was in octagonal built construction wooden building and until 1945 a Protestant church for the parish residents of the once East Prussia and today Maiskoje -called village in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast (region Königsberg (Prussia ) ).
Geographical location
Today's Maiskoje is 16 kilometers north of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on the Russian highway A 198 (27A-040, section of the former German Reichsstrasse 132 ). There is no train connection to the place.
The former location of the church is now a free space and is located west of the former Gumbinner Chaussee not far from the building of the former school that still exists today.
Church building
Mallwischken became a church village in 1730 when a church was built here. In addition, the community received from King Friedrich Wilhelm I a donation of 7,000 thalers. An octagonal wooden central building was created, in the planning of which Karl Friedrich Schinkel is said to have participated and on which a wooden tower with access was placed in the context of a fundamental renovation from 1827 to 1829 .
The interior of the church was spanned by a stucco-clad wooden dome ceiling. The decor was very simple. The pulpit looked like a part of the galleries surrounding the interior .
The church received an organ in 1796. The ringing consisted of three bells .
The church building survived the world wars, but was gradually dismantled after 1945. At the end of the 1960s there was no trace of the building. In the 1980s, a square was laid out on its site, which is flanked by a cultural center.
Parish
In 1724 the Protestant parish Mallwischken was built as part of the East Prussian rétablissement . The parish initially belonged to the Insterburg inspection (today in Russian: Tschernjachowsk), then until 1945 to the Pillkallen parish (Schloßberg) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Mallwischken received its own pastoral position in the founding year 1724, and assistant preachers were already employed here before that.
In 1925, 3106 parishioners belonged to the parish Mallwischken, who lived in 28 parish places, towns and places of residence. As a result of flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life came to a standstill in the village, now called Maiskoje, after 1945.
Today the village is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) , which was newly established in the 1990s, within the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The church in Mallwischken was assigned to a large parish until 1945 , which consisted of 28 places:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Abrade | Bitzingen | Vasilkovo | Paberdszen 1936–38: Paberdschen |
Base hooves | ||
| Antballen | Evening forest | * Plimballen | Osterfelde (East Pr.) | Groznoye | ||
| * Birkenfelde | Kleinbirkenfelde | Beresino | Pritzkehmen | Mühleck | Surovkino | |
| Dubinnen | Duben | Pinch louvers | ||||
| Ederkehmen | Edern | Podlipkowo | Rosenfelde | |||
| Oak fields | Sassupönen | Sassenbach | ||||
| Big stimbers |
since 1935: stimbers |
Shirokopolje | * Smail | Alexandrowka, later: Beresino |
||
| Henskehmen | Sprindacker | Krassilowo | Forehead eyes | Foreheads | ||
| Katharinenhof | * Uszballen 1936–38: Uschballen |
Birkenried | Loschtschinka | |||
| Small Pillkallen | Kleinschloßberg | Wall lice 1936–38: Wall louse |
Rotenkamp (East Pr.) | Ossinovka | ||
| Little stimbers | Werdehlischken | Will (East Pr.) | ||||
| Löbtuballen | Löbagrund | Platowo, later: Beresino |
Winger groups | Lauterbrücken | ||
| * Mallwischken | Mallwen | Corn bunk | Wittgirren | Lay | Zhigulyovo | |
| Naujeningken | Nauningen | Chutorskoye | * Twisting balls | Sparrows | Kropotkino |
Pastor
Protestant clergy at the Mallwischken Church:
- NN. Engelbrecht, 1718
- Johann Gabriel Heinsius, 1719
- Johann Christoph Grasemück, 1724–1733
- Georg Liesiewski, 1734–1774
- Johann Christian Fischer, 1771–1791
- Johann Heinrich Anderson, 1791-1800
- Johann Christoph Prellwitz, 1800–1805
- Christian Wanner, 1805-1840
- Johann Ferdinand Vollberg, 1840–1846
- Gustav Adolf Leopold Hecht, 1847–1863
- Ferdinand Rudolf Hermann Schulz, 1863–1864
- Christoph Sturies, 1864–1873
- Julius Otto Passarge, 1874-1894
- Rudolf Otto Theodor Hass, 1896–1897
- Otto Julius Winkel, 1897–1912
- Rudolf Bobeth, 1912-1916
- Immanuel Renkewitz, 1916-1924
- Arthur Brodowski, 1924-1936
- Kurt Heinz Saalfeldt, 1942–1945
Church records
Of the church books of the parish Mallwischken the wars have survived and are in the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig kept:
- Baptisms: 1724-1801 and 1852-1868
- Weddings: 1724 to 1875
- Burials: 1724-1875.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The former location of the church, today a free space, summer 2011
- ↑ a b Maiskoje - Mallwischken / Mallwen - at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Mallwischken, Kirchdorf an der Gumbinner Chaussee, Pillkallen district, East Prussia - at GenWiki
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 110, fig. 482–483
- ↑ The church in Mallwischken - photo from before 1930
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968 p. 485
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The * marks a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 90–91
- ↑ a b c d A. Hecht, H. Schulz († 1864), C. Sturies († 1891) and J. Passarge († 1894) were members of the Corps Littuania
