Obehlischken Church
The church in Obehlischken ( Russian Кирха Обелишкена ) - from 1938 to 1946 the place was called Schulzenhof - is a neo-Romanesque brick church from the end of the 19th century and until 1945 was a Protestant place of worship for the residents in the parish of what is now Selenzowo in the former East Prussia . Today only the outer walls of the church building remain.
Geographical location
Selenzowo is located 15 kilometers southwest of the city of Chernyakhovsk (Insterburg) and belongs to the Swobodnenskoje selskoje posselenije (rural municipality Swoboda (Jänischken , 1938–1946 Jänichen) ) in the Chernyakhovsk district (district Insterburg ) in the Russian oblast of Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region ). A side road runs through the place, which leads from Podgornoje (Wiepeningken , 1928-1946 Staatshausen) on the Russian trunk road A 229 to Swoboda (Jänischken , 1938-1946 Jänichen) on the trunk road A 197 . The next train station is Pastuchowo (Waldhausen) on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) .
The location of the church is in the triangle of roads or country lanes to Podgornoje, Ugrjumowo (Matheningken , 1938–1946 Mattenau) or to the local office of the former Saubucht forestry office (no longer existing today).
Church building
In 1846 the construction of a provisional church began in Obehlischken, which was consecrated on December 2nd (1st Advent) 1855 after almost ten years of construction. It was a half-timbered building that was added to the school building as an extension so that both rooms could be enlarged. In the gable there was openwork painted woodwork with three pointed arched windows as a light source for the chancel . The vaulted ceiling was painted and there were galleries on three sides . The octagonal pulpit rested on a pillar on the side of the altar.
On May 25, 1888, the foundation stone was laid for the construction of a new church. The building was built by master bricklayer Fritz Bludau from Insterburg (today Russian: Tschernjachowsk). It was a spacious red brick building with a stately tower, which was inaugurated on October 11, 1889. In 1904 the church received an organ .
The church came relatively unscathed by the two wars in the 20th century. As early as 1945, however, the building was misappropriated and served as a potato store, the bells and the organ were on the street. The altar and pews were set up in a nearby garden, where they were used for celebrations. In 1946 these last pieces of equipment were burned. Today only the outer walls of the nave and the tower, the roof of which has collapsed, remain. The church ruin is under state protection, maintenance measures are not yet recognizable on the building, which is now affected by vandalism.
Parish
Obehlischken has only been a Protestant church village since 1846 . However, it took ten years to complete an interim church. Until then, church services were celebrated in the school. At that time a parish was established here, whose parish arose from places that previously belonged to the Norkitten Church (today Russian: Meschduretschje) or to the Didlacken Church (1938–1946: Dittlacken, now Russian: Telmanowo). The parish of Obehlischken was incorporated into the church district Insterburg (Tschernjachowsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , to which it belonged until 1945. In 1925 the parish Obehlischken had 2000 parishioners who lived in 19 places.
The flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union brought church life in Selentsowo to a standstill after 1945.
In the 1990s, new Evangelical Lutheran parishes emerged in the Kaliningrad Oblast , including the one in Chernyakhovsk, the closest to Zelentsovo. A parish seat for the church region of Chernyakhovsk was established there, which is assigned to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (with its seat in Moscow ).
Parish places
The manageable large parish of the church Obehlischken (Schulzenhof) belonged until 1945 - in addition to the parish - 18 localities (* = school location):
| German name | Change name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | German name | Change name 1938–1946 |
Russian name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Ackmenishks | Sittenfelde | Udarnoye | Cherry country, forest | ||||
| Birkenwalde, forest | Klein Wittgirren | Kleinwittgern | |||||
| Oak forest, forest | Buddy | Maloje Selentsowo | |||||
| Eszeratschen 1936–1938: Escheratschen |
Ash slope | Losovoye | * Matheningken | Mattenau | Ugryumovo | ||
| * Friedensfelde | Novel groups | Roups | Sawino | ||||
| Görschenwalde, Forst | Clean bay, forest | ||||||
| Great Wittgirren |
since 1928: Mittenwalde |
Rodnikowo | Schernupchen | Cherry country | |||
| Hunting lodge, forest | * Ski lunatics | Barn place | Penki | ||||
| Chestnuts | Wittgirren | Wittgern | Belomorskoye |
Only four of the 19 places in the parish still exist today: Penki, Rodnikowo, Selenzowo and Ugrjumowo.
Pastor
At the church in Obehlischken (Schulzenhof) nine Lutheran clergy officiated between 1846 and 1945:
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References
Web link
Individual evidence
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 103
- ^ Obehlischken at GenWiki
- ↑ Picture of the church ruins in 2010 (1)
- ↑ Picture of the church ruins in 2020 (2)
- ↑ Кирха Обелишкена - Obehlischken Church - with pictures from 2010/11
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 482
- ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Provosty Kaliningrad ( 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. (Russian German)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, Volume 3 (as above)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 104
Coordinates: 54 ° 35 ′ 3.5 ″ N , 21 ° 36 ′ 11.1 ″ E