Niebudszen Church

Church Niebudszen (Church of the Herzogskirch) Кирха Нибудшена
Construction year:	1691-1700
Inauguration:	1693
Style elements :	Brick building on field stone base
Client:	Evangelical parish in Niebudszen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Floor space:	12.75 × 34.55 m
Location:	54 ° 39 '46.4 "  N , 22 ° 15' 13.6"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 39 '46.4 "  N , 22 ° 15' 13.6"  E
Location:	Krasnogorskoye Kaliningrad , Russia
Purpose:	Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Local community:	Not available anymore. The building is not owned by the Church

The church in Niebudszen (the place was called between 1936 and 1938: Niebudschen , between 1938 and 1946 Herzogskirch ) was built between 1691 and 1700 and served the population in the parish of the former East Prussian town as a Protestant church until 1945 . Today the Russian Orthodox Church temporarily uses the few rooms that can still be used as a prayer room.

Geographical location

The place known today as Krasnogorskoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) is nine kilometers northeast of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on a side road (27K-152), the Otschakowo (Groß Kannapinnen , 1938 to 1946 Steinsruh) on the trunk road A 198 (27A-040, once German Reichsstraße 132 ) connects with the regional road R 508 (27A-027) near Kubanowka (Brakupönen , 1938 to 1946 Roßlinde) . The next train station is in Gusew on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) of the former Prussian Eastern Railway - for onward travel to Moscow .

The ruins of the church building are in the northern part of the village on the main road.

Church building

Already in 1615 there was a church in Niebudszen. It was made of fir wood and received a tower in 1621 . Between 1628 and 1639 the tower suffered severe damage from a hurricane , but was rebuilt. In 1655 the church received an altar . In the 1680s the church became too small and was demolished in 1689.

From 1691 a new building was erected, which could not be completed until 1700. The result was a brick building on a field stone base with a polygonal finish, where echoes of Dutch architecture could be recognized. The inauguration of the church took place in 1693, and numerous construction works were necessary in the following years. Even afterwards, only the foundation of the bell tower existed.

The interior of the church was flat and had galleries on the sides. In 1697, the Königsberg carver Isaak Riga made a baroque altar with space for a confessional . Later only remnants remained, including a figure of the Evangelist Matthew , and the later new altar was simple and carried a large crucifix , behind which the unadorned pulpit wall rose.

In 1702 the church received an organ . It was replaced by a new building in 1866. The bell of the church consisted of a bell from the year 1797. It hung in the roof over the southern entrance hall.

The church building survived the Second World War and still had the entrance portal in the west, the bell over the southern entrance hall and the remains of the Riga altar. After 1945, however, it was used as a warehouse for grain and agricultural equipment and even as a meat sales point. In 2001 the Russian Orthodox Church set up the southern entrance hall as a prayer room. In addition, the church windows were glazed to keep out harmful weather influences. In May / June 2012 the church burned down - presumably as a result of arson. Today the outer walls with a temporary roof are still standing. A tower in front of it and an intermediate building to the south hall now form the premises for the Russian Orthodox Church. Regular use for worship services, however, is not yet possible.

Parish

A Protestant parish was founded in Niebudszen in 1615, and in 1621 its own parish was established. In 1701 the church came under royal patronage , which was later perceived by the manor owners in the parish of Rohrfeld (Russian: Redki Bor, no longer existent). The parish belonged to 34 localities, in which in 1925 a total of 4,958 parishioners of Lutheran confession lived. Reformed church members living here belonged to the New Town Church in Gumbinnen (Gussew).

The parish of Niebudszen (Niebudschen or Herzogskirch) belonged to the Gumbinnen parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . The flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union caused church life to collapse in what is now called Krasnogorskoye.

Today the place is in the catchment area of ​​the newly established Evangelical Lutheran parish of the Salzburg Church in Gussew , which is the parish seat and whose territory covers the entire east of the Kaliningrad Oblast. It is part of the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish places

Before 1945, the parish of the Niebudszen Church comprised 34 towns and places:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1946	Russian name
Silver coupons	Kahlheim	Serpukhovo		Lenglauken	Pommerfelde	Afanassjewo
* Antszirgessern 1936–38: Antszirgessern	Lake meadow	Likhachovo		Martian	Martinshof	Baikalskoye, now: Krasnogorskoye
Balloons	Riedwiese	Sosnovka		Ming voices	Angerfelde	Kirovo
Bersteningken	Berstenau	Alyabyevo		Mittenwalde (forest)
* Blecken		Judino		* Niebudszen 1936–38: Niebudschen	Herzogskirch	Krasnogorskoye
* Brakupones	Rosslinde	Kubanowka		* Packall niches	Bergendorf (East Pr.)	Suworowo, now: Jasnoye Pole
Bumble		Ilyino		Rohrfeld		Redki Bor
Choir stalls		Gorbachovo		* Rudstannen	Steffensfelde
Big cannabis	Stone rest	Ochakovo		Samoles	Frocks
* Guddatschen	Kleehagen			Skardupönen	Matzrode	Kharitonovka
Johannisthal		Ivanovka		Scribble	Buchenrode
Karlswalde		Bryantsevo		* Jump		Tamanskoye
* Carrots		Sosnovka		Tzullkinnen	Steffenshöfchen
Little cannabis	Small leaks	Sewerny		* Wannagupchen	Hawk pig	Nowy me
Corels				Warkallen	Roloffseck	Dvinskoye
Krausenwalde		Jasnoe Pole		Warnehlen	Haselhof
* Cowls		Ekaterinovka		Whatever	Roseneck	Studjonowka

Pastor

Until 1945 there were Protestant clergymen at the Niebudszen church:

• Andreas Krause, 1621–1655
• Valentin Nicolai, 1643-1647
• Simon Stabbert, 1647-1648
• Theophilus Schultz, 1648-1650
• Johann Klein, 1650-1652
• Caspar Pörner, 1653
• Johann Vorhoff, 1653–1654
• Johann Kersten, 1655
• Johann Wilhelm Lüdemann, 1655–1661
• Ernst Ditzel, 1661–1664
• Matthäus Praetorius , 1664–1685
• Martin Poll, 1685-1695
• Ernst Mühlpfordt, 1695–1726
• Johann Schultz, 1707–1709
• Johann Christoph Hucke, 1709–1710
• Sigismund Liebe, 1711-1725
• Melchior F. von der Schleuse, 1725–1733
• Gottfried Zippel, 1733–1751
• Salomon Korella, 1751-1767
• Christian Gottfried Zippel, 1767–1815
• Justus Andreas Zippel, 1806–1828
• August Gotthilf Krause, 1828–1855
• Wilhelm Justus Andreas Zippel, 1855–1856
• Johann Gottfried Hermann Zippel, 1855–1867
• Louis Otto Arthur Moeller, 1868–1909
• Paul Hermann David Koehler, 1909–1935
• Johannes Timm, 1936–1939
• Alfons Neumann, 1939–1945

Church records

Church records of the Niebudszen Church that are still in existence are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :

• Baptisms: 1695 to 1790, 1797 to 1811, 1874
• Weddings: 1695 to 1819, 1874
• Burials: 1695 to 1811, 1874.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Кирха Нибудшена - The Niebudszen Church in 2013
2. ↑ ^{a b} Krasnogorskoje - Niebudszen / Herzogskirch
3. ↑ ^{a b} The church of Herzogskirch (Niebudszen)
4. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1989, p. 98, figs. 409-410
5. ↑ Photo of the church ruins from 2011
6. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 480
7. ↑ 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. 
8. ↑ The * indicates a school location
9. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 103
10. ↑ ^{a b c} H. Zippel († 1867), Moeller († 1922) and Koehler († 1935) were members of the Corps Littuania .