Pillkallen Church

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Church Pillkallen
(Church Schloßberg)
Construction year: 1756–1758
tower: 1910
Inauguration: 1758
Style elements : three-aisled stone church
Client: Evangelical parish in Pillkallen
( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 54 ° 46 '13.8 "  N , 22 ° 30' 17.2"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 46 '13.8 "  N , 22 ° 30' 17.2"  E
Location: Dobrowolsk
Kaliningrad , Russia
Purpose: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Local community: Not available anymore.
The church no longer exists. In their place there is a war memorial

The (town) church in Pillkallen (the place was called "Schloßberg" between 1938 and 1946) was a building erected in the middle of the 18th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the population in the parish of what is now called Dobrowolsk , once an East Prussian town in what is now the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ).

The church no longer exists today.

Geographical location

Today's Dobrowolsk - until 1945 the capital of the Pillkallen district - is located in the east of Kaliningrad Oblast on the three regional roads that connect the place with Krasnosnamensk (Lasdehnen , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg) and Gussew (Gumbinnen) ( R 508 / 27A-027), connect with the former local office Kutusowo (Schirwindt) on the border to Lithuania ( R 509 / 27A-013) and with Nesterow (Stallupönen , 1938 to 1946 Ebenrode) ( R 510 / 27A-012). The Sowetsk – Nesterow railway line , on which the town is located, has not been in operation since the first few years after the war, as have the Pillkaller Kleinbahn lines .

The former location of the Pillkaller Church is in the center of the village on the market square where there is now a Russian monument.

Church building

There was a first church building in Pillkallen as early as 1559. A confessional with grating, which was still preserved until 1945 and was considered to be the earliest surviving Protestant confessional in East Prussia, came from that year . It was a work by Abraham Döring. This first simple half-timbered church was burned down in 1644 when Sweden and Poland moved through, but it was rebuilt by 1650. In the period that followed, this church suffered more and more structural damage, so that demolition was inevitable.

In the years 1756 to 1758, a plastered field stone building with a sacristy in the east and a semicircular window in the east gable in the upper choir was built as a successor . It was not until 1910 that the tower was erected with a pointed roof.

The interior of the church had three aisles , only the central nave was vaulted. On the south, west and north sides were galleries confiscated. The interior decoration included valuable wood carvings that still came from the previous church. The altar from 1649 and the pulpit from the 17th century were combined to form the pulpit altar after 1758 . The baptismal chamber and a (second) confessional were built around 1650. The altarpieces contained mainly pieces from the 17th and 18th centuries.

When the church was being rebuilt for the construction of the tower, an organ was purchased in 1910 . One of the bells that Jacob Hessing cast in Königsberg (Prussia) in 1706 was able to survive the Second World War in the Hamburg bell cemetery. It bears the inscription Gloria in excelsis deo - Glory to God on high and now rings in the Martin Luther Church in Bad Orb in the Spessart . There it sounds together with a bell from the same date of origin, which comes from the church in Reichenstein (now Polish: Złoty Stok) in Silesia .

Russian monument at the former location of the Pillkaller Church

German pioneers blew up the church tower in 1944 to make orientation difficult for the approaching Red Army troops . The church, which was also badly affected by the war, was demolished after 1945. The baptismal font from 1651 has been preserved and found its place at the former location of the church. In the former Memeler Straße not far from the former train station there is still a stone slab from the church with the inscription Jesus Christ, yesterday and today, and the same for eternity . Otherwise nothing is reminiscent of the venerable church, which is now occupied by a Russian monument.

Parish

The Evangelical Lutheran parish in Pillkallen (there was also an Evangelical Reformed parish here until 1818 ) was founded shortly after the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia . In 1559 the village of Kirchdorf, to which a large parish was attached. While the church in Pillkallen also belonged to the Ragnit parish around 1785 , it was then integrated into the Pillkallen parish (Schloßberg) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . The steadily growing congregation in the town, which was elevated to town status in 1726, was initially assigned a pastor, from 1763 a second and from 1884 an assistant preacher. In 1925 the parish numbered 10,012 parishioners who lived in 32 parish towns.

The flight and expulsion of the local population, as well as the subsequent restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union, brought church life to a standstill in what has since been called Dobrowolsk .

Today it is in the catchment area of ​​the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Babuschkino (Groß Degesen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish places

Until 1945 the parish of Pillkallen (Schloßberg) had 32 towns, villages and places to live:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946
Russian
name
Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946
Russian name
Greaves Gribanowo Pillkallen Schlossberg Dobrovolsk
* Groß Rudszen
1936–38: Groß Rudschen
Mill height Poltavskoye Push women Limit height
* Large Tullen Reinkenwalde Tushino Salten Losovoye
Yutschen Willow break Velikolukskoye Flocks Flocks Shchedrino
Kallnehlischken Ebenhausen (East Pr.) Izmailovo Sharkabude Friedfelde (East Pr.)
* Karczarningken from 1929:
Blumenfeld
Shelesno-dorozhnye * Swarms Swarms
Courses Settler fields Novoselovo Standing tables Stand up
* Courses Arkhangelskoye * Szameitkehmen
1936–38: Schameitkehmen
Linden house Bolotnikowo
Tabs * Treczaken Treufelde
Praise Praise Uszballen
1936–38: Uschballen
Calibration break Luzhskoye
New Rudszen
1936–38: New Rudschen
Poltavskoye * Uszpiaunehlen
1936–46: Uschpiaunehlen
Foal Valley Novouralsk
Ossienes Ossen * Uszpiaunen
1936–38: Uschpiaunen
Gravel village Nikitovka
Paslopes * Uszrudszen
1936–38: Uschrudschen
Valley meadows Shatilovo
Petereitheles Schleswighöfen Lukaschowka * Werskepchen Black meadows
* Petereitschen Petershausen Weszkallen
1936–38: Weschkallen
Forsthusen Grusdjewo
Petzingken Hainort Pskovskoye Wiltauten Schatzhagen

Pastor

At the Pillkaller Church officiated as Protestant pastors until 1945:

  • Georg Musa, from 1582
  • Nicolaus Musa, 1614/1630
  • Johann Lassenius, 1643/1651
  • Simon Stabbert, from 1648
  • Ludwig Schleswich, from 1662
  • Elias Boltz, 1678–1695
  • Georg Siegmundt, 1695
  • Christoph Sperber, 1695-1710
  • Georg Christoph Müllner, 1710–1725
  • Sigismund Liebe, 1725–1729
  • Friedrich Preuss, 1729–1733
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Haack, 1733–1754
  • Georg Wilhelm Gazali, 1755–1756
  • Theodor Gabriel Mielke, 1755–1762
  • Gottfried Schlemüller, 1763–1779
  • Reinhard Theodor Friederici, 1763–1766
  • Georg Adam Voigt, 1766–1779
  • Johann Samuel Hart, 1779–1796
  • Gottfried Stephan Rückward, 1797–1810
  • Johann Friedrich Pusch, 1800–1801
  • Christian Wanner, 1802-1804
  • Samuel Friedrich Wigandt, 1804–1811
  • Leopold Wermbter, 1811-1825
  • Christian Wilhelm Trosien, 1812–1817
  • Christian David Möhring, 1819–1832
  • Johann Chr. Krause, 1825–1857
  • Eduard Dodillet, 1832-1839
  • Gustav Adolf Leopold Hecht, 1839–1847
  • Karl Ludwig Holder, 1847–1861
  • David Peteaux, 1857-1861
  • Eduard Dodillet, 1861–1876
  • Otto Reichel, 1862–1870
  • Eduard Th. Heinrich Küsel, 1871–1875
  • Gustav Otto Viktor Schulz, 1876–1884
  • Cölestin Gotthold Ebel, 1877-1891
  • Hermann Adolf Grunau, 1884–1885
  • Leberecht Richard Schwede, 1884–1888
  • August Wilhelm EP Vangehr, 1888-1893
  • Robert Eugen Zilius, 1893–1908
  • Franz Karl Hugo Gregor, 1893–1903
  • Alexander Zimmermann, 1902–1911
  • Karl Kohn, 1903–1911
  • Erich Thiel, 1909–1945
  • Wilhelm Gottl. AS Gemmel, 1910
  • Ernst Garmeister, 1911–1922
  • Paul Rohrmoser, 1922–1924
  • Walter Kowalewski, 1925–1928
  • Walter Horn, 1928–1945
  • Willi Dobinski, 1942–1943
  • Gustav Geduhn, until 1945
  • NN. Kloevekorn, until 1945

References

  1. Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 110, figs. 486–488
  2. a b c The Pillkaller Church
  3. Historical photo of the church in front of the tower in 1910
  4. Historical photo of the church with tower after 1910
  5. Pillkallen at GenWiki
  6. a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 485
  7. a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 110–111
  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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.propstei-kaliningrad.info
  9. A * indicates a school location
  10. ^ A b c Member of the Corps Littuania