Neukirch Church (Niederung District)

Neukirch Church (Joneykischken) (Кирха Йонейкишкена)
Construction year:	1739/40
Inauguration:	November 27, 1740 (1st Advent)
Style elements :	Field stone church
Client:	Evangelical parish Joneykischken ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	55 ° 5 '5.8 "  N , 21 ° 36' 40.1"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 5 '5.8 "  N , 21 ° 36' 40.1"  E
Location:	Timirjasewo Kaliningrad , Russia
Purpose:	Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Local community:	not available anymore. The church ruins are no longer in the possession of the church

The church in Neukirch ( Russian Кирха Йонейкишкена , the place was called "Joneykischken" until 1770) in the former East Prussian Niederung district (Elchniederung) is a simple field stone building from the first half of the 18th century and was a Protestant parish church for the parish of today's Timirjasewo until 1945 named place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ). Today there is only a ruin of the church.

Geographical location

The village called Timirjasewo today is located six kilometers northeast of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) on the Russian trunk road R 513 . The nearest train station is Slavsk on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .

The location of the remaining church ruins is in the eastern part of the village, northeast of the road to Sapowednoje (Seckenburg , until 1924 Kryszahnen) .

Church building

The first church in Joneykischken was built of wood in 1635 at the instigation of the patroness Rosina von Hallen . However, it burned down in 1727 after a lightning strike. The new building of the church lasted until 1740, the inauguration took place on the 1st of Advent. In connection with the construction of the church, the place name was changed from "Joneykischken" to "Neukirch" in 1770.

The new church was a simple field stone building with a tower. A wooden barrel vault spanned the interior with two side galleries . The pulpit and altar formed a unit; the remnants of an earlier baroque altar were used to assemble them .

The organ was installed in 1757 and was the work of Adam Gottlob Casparini in Königsberg (Prussia) (today Russian: Kaliningrad). The church bell consisted of three bells .

The church survived the Second World War unscathed. But then it was used as a warehouse for agricultural products. The windows were walled up and the vestibules in the north and south torn down. The door openings were enlarged as a passage for vehicles. Carelessness caused the structure to burn down in 1995. Today only the ruins of the tower and the remains of the walls of the nave are left.

Parish

The parish of Joneykischken (also: "Joneikischken") was founded on March 2, 1651, but was only equipped with its own pastorate from 1771. For the growing parish , the deployment of an additional assistant preacher was required from 1870. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it had 5,582 parishioners who lived in 40 towns and places. In addition to the church ruins, the parsonage still bears witness to the time before 1945. It was built at the same time as the church and after 1945 was used as a school at times.

Because of the flight and displacement of the local population in connection with the war and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Timirjasewo collapsed after 1945. Today the place is in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) in the 1990s . It is the parish seat of the Slavsk ecclesiastical region within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish places

Before 1945, 40 localities and smaller towns belonged to the parish of the Neukirch Church:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name
Noble Althof-Skirbst		Slobodskoye		Lakendorf		Bogunovo
Noble Groß Skirbst		Grawinoje		Langenberg		Privolye
Noble Kreywehlen	Adelau	Solonzy		Leitwarren		Abrikossovka
Alleckneiten	Kurwensee			Lenten booth		Uglowoje
To Rokaites	Little Rockitten	Kamskoye		Lessen
Aschenberg		Dolinovka		Lindendorf
Beard logs	Oswald	Tumanowka		Mägdeberg
Bogdane	Bolzfelde	Werchni Bisser		New Bogdahnen	Bolzhagen	Nizhny Bisser
Budehlischken	High oak	Groznoye		Neuendorf
Doblienen		Dublinino		New frost		Svetloje
Dwarrehlischken	Herrendorf	Solonzy		Neukirch , until 1770: Joneykischken		Timiryasevo
Gilkendorf		Uwaly		Pawarszen	Kleinwarschen	Slavnoe
Gronwalde				Rokaites	Rokitten
Gumbehlischken	Oak wood	Grawinoje		Schönrohr
Hohenwiese		Dubrovka		Selseningken	Selsen
Ibenberg		Trjochgornoje		Skirbst	Heideckshof
Johannsdorf		Romaschkino		Stobingen		Pridorozhnye
Little Skirbst	Kleinheideckshof	Slobodskoye		Wolfsberg		Verryanka
Köllmisch snails		Wessjoloje		Wolfsdorf		Sentsovo
Köllmisch Skirbst				Ziegelberg

Pastor

Between 1771 and 1945, pastors and auxiliary preachers were active at the Neukirch church:

Christian Lowin, 1771-1783 Friedrich Sperber, 1783–1804 Christian Ferdinand Zippel, 1804–1805 Johann Christian Meier, 1805-1831 Andreas Friedrich Zippel, 1831–1848 Friedrich Ludwig Kraus, until 1848. Johann Gottfried H. Zippel, 1849–1850 Johann Heinrich Lehmann, 1850–1869 Emil August Daniel Hundertmark, 1870. Daniel Albert Th. Hoffheinz, 1870–1894 Adolf Ferdinand Keil, 1887–1888 Hermann Otto Arthur Salopiata, 1888. Karl Rudolf Arthur Hering, 1889–1890 Siegfried Dembowski, 1890-1891

Friedrich August Klein, 1891-1892 Walter Eichhorst, 1892–1894 Gustav Adolf Rösenberg, 1894–1899 Eugen Louis Oskar Stephani, 1894–1911 Alfred Dümke, 1899–1902 Otto Hermann Heisler, 1902–1903 Alfred Müller, 1903–1905 Rudolf Macarus Vetter, 1903–1905 Paul Knapp, 1906–1909 Georg Müller, 1910–1913 Johann Lozereit, 1911–1931 Wilhelm Krüger, 1920. Richard Fritz Paluk, 1926–1927 Paul Kaschade, 1932–1945

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Timirjasewo - Neukirch at ostpreussen.net
2. ↑ ^{a b} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 102.
3. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 93, Fig. 383
4. ↑ Historical church picture at flickr.com
5. ↑ Кирха Йонейкишкена - The Joneykischken Church (New Church) at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012)
6. ^ The parish of Neukirch (Joneykischken) in the Elchniederung district community
7. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 483.
8. ↑ 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.