Medenau Church
The church in Medenau in Logwino in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad (formerly the Königsberg area (Prussia) ) was a Protestant church from the Reformation until 1945 . Today there are still ruins left.
Geographical location
Logwino is located 19 kilometers northwest of the city of Kaliningrad on a side road that connects the Russian trunk road A 193 (formerly German Reichsstrasse 131 ) via Schipowka (Powayen station) and Tscherepanowo ((noble) Powayen) with the main road Pereslavskoje (Drugehnen) - Kumachovo (Kumehnen). - Kruglowo (Polish) connects. The nearest train station is Schipowka on the Kaliningrad – Baltijsk (Königsberg – Pillau) railway , the former East Prussian Southern Railway. Logwino is a settlement in the rural municipality of Pereslavskoje (Drugehnen) in Zelenogradsk Raion ( Cranz District ).
The wall fragments of the Medenau Church on the south-eastern edge of today's local area are accessible, but difficult to make out because some of them have overgrown.
history
Medenau was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. From the Reformation to 1945, the church, which dates back to the beginning of the 14th century, was used as a Protestant church. Medenau was parish seat for a wide-area parish and belonged until 1945 to Kirchenkreis Fischhausen (now Primorsk ) within the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches .
From 1896 a separate assistant preacher was appointed for the parish town of Groß Heydekrug (1939 to 1945 Großheidekrug , today in Russian: Wsmorje) and a separate parish was formed in 1909. In 1929 the place with the villages of Kaporn (Russian: Spasskoje, now Wsmorje), Klein Heydekrug, Margen, Marschenen (Wolotschajewskoje), Nautzwinkel (Schukowskoje), Pokeiten, Vierbrüderkrug (Kosmodemjanski) and Widitten (Ischewskoje) was separated from Medenau and became an independent one Parish of Groß Heydekrug declared, which received its own church building in 1931.
In 1925 (census) Medenau / Groß Heydekrug counted a total of 5,000 parishioners who lived in 34 parish towns. The Medenau area included 3,000 parishioners in 25 locations.
Because of the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war, church life in Medenau came to a standstill.
Today the place, now called Logwino, is located in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Swetly (Zimmerbude) , a subsidiary congregation of the Resurrection Church in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Church building
The Medenau church structure is a field stone building with brick corners , a polygonal choir and a brick tower. It dates from the beginning of the 14th century and was perhaps built as a fortification. An originally flat ceiling was later replaced by a star vault. Remnants of Gothic wall paintings have been preserved on the right side of the organ gallery.
In addition to the valuable altar, the interior also included two Gothic altar pieces on the two choir walls. The altar table came from the time it was built, while the tower and the triumphal arch were dated to 1704. The two main pictures showed the miracle of Pentecost and below the crucifixion of Jesus . The four evangelists stood on consoles between the pillars .
The pulpit , supported by an angel, was - like the galleries - a work from 1668 with the depiction of the pelican on the door and a richly decorated sound cover. The various carvings date from the beginning of the 16th century and were probably part of an earlier high altar.
The organ was built in 1693/94 by Johann Josua Mosengel , it had 15 stops on a manual and pedal . In 1866 Max Terletzki replaced this instrument with a new building with two manuals, pedal and 20 stops in a neo-Gothic case.
The bells were from 1521.
The church survived the Second World War unscathed. In an attempt to remove the two bells, the church caught fire in 1947 and the fire destroyed it. In the 1950s, the Soviet military blew up the walls to get building materials to repair roads. Fragments of the north wall and the choir (with the portal of the sacristy ) have been preserved. On the inside of the remains of the tower, remains of the cross vault of the tower hall and the beginnings of the tower stairs can be seen.
Parish places
After the separation of the church Groß Heydekrugs from Medenau, 24 parish places belonged to the parish of Medenau in addition to the parish:
| Surname | Russian name | Surname | Russian name | Surname | Russian name | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noble Medenau | * Condens | Slavyanskoye | Ponaks | Voronezhskoye | ||||
| Noble Powayen | Cherepanovo | Tendons | Powayen | Cherepanovo | ||||
| Powayen train station | Shipovka | Kragau, domain | Richthof | |||||
| Dorotheenhof | Pestschanoje | * Kragau, village | Prochladnoye | Schuditten | Orechowo | |||
| Elens mug | Lindenau | Sickenhöfen | Murmanskoye | |||||
| * Great Blumenau | Kremnjowo | Moss tendons | Quantity of goods | Kotelnikowo | ||||
| Klein Blumenau | Kremnjowo | Polepen | Malinovka | Wiping tendons | ||||
| Klein Medenau | Pollwitten | Rovnoye | Goat mountain | Podgornoje |
Note: * = school location
Pastor
From the Reformation to 1945, 23 clergymen officiated as Protestant pastors in Medenau:
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Church records
Of the church books of the parish Medenau the lists of names have for the Kommunikantenregister receive the years 1796 to 1808 and in Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg kept.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 454
- ↑ 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. (German Russian)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 34, illustrations 43 to 48
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland: Medenau
- ^ Karl Emil Gebauer, antiquities in the church in Medenau im Samlande , in: Neue Preußische Provinzialblätter 6, 1848, pages 285–287 and 7, 1849, pages 149–159
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 109–111
- ↑ Logwino - Medenau at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, as above, Volume III, page 454
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformatiuon to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 92
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Union , Berlin, 1992³, page 83
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′ 50 ″ N , 20 ° 12 ′ 43 ″ E