Plibischken Church
The Plibishken Church ( Russian Кирха Плибишена ) is a square building made of field stones and bricks and was built in 1773. Until 1945, the building was a Protestant church for the East Prussian church Plibischken , today Gluschkowo in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast .
Geographical location
Today's Gluschkowo is located on the northern bank of the Pregel (Russian: Pregolja) northeast of the former district town of Znamensk and west of the current Rajons capital Chernyakhovsk . A side road leads through the village that leads from Sirenjewka near Meschduretschje to the A 216 highway , now also European route 77, not far from Kudrjawzewo (Kuglacken) . The nearest train station is Pushkarjowo (Pushdorf) on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line .
Church building
The Plibischker Church was built in 1773 and was based on a previous building that was mentioned in a document as early as 1451. The building is a square made of field stones and bricks with a massive tower topped with a lantern . The interior of the church had a flat ceiling. The benches were fully aligned with the pulpit altar. In 1783 the church received an organ. The ringing consisted of two bells that were formerly housed in a separate bell cage.
It was necessary to rebuild the church in 1773 after the church burned down in 1757 when East Prussia was conquered by the Russian army during the Seven Years' War . The Russian Field Marshal Count Apraxin had released Plibischken for sacking.
Plibischken was also sacked in 1807 when the French marched into East Prussia. Here, however, it was very difficult to prevent the church from being destroyed.
The church survived the Second World War unscathed. In 1950, however, the cross with the ball fell from the church tower roof. Due to the lack of restoration work, entire parts of the tower had to be demolished in 1960. The church building was used for other purposes and converted into a community house with a stage and billiard room. Asbestos cement panels now form the cover of the building now known as Dom Kultury (“ House of Culture ”).
Parish
Plibischken is said to have been the only Prussian church village in East Prussia, and there may even have been a monastery here. There are indications that the old rectory was supposed to have been a converted monastery building with four corner towers. But this house burned down between 1647 and 1686. The Lutheran doctrine found its way into the pre-Reformation church village relatively early, and a Protestant preacher was named as early as 1528. In the 16th century, because of the influx of many Lithuanians in Plibischken, services were also held in Lithuanian . Until 1945 the parish was assigned to the church district of Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia, part of the church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had more than 2,000 parishioners who lived in 19 different parish places.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population as well as the restrictive religious policy in the time of the Soviet Union , after 1945 church life came to a standstill in what was then called Gluschkowo.
It was not until the 1990s that political developments allowed a new Evangelical Lutheran congregation to be founded in the nearby village of Talpaki (Taplacken) , in whose catchment area the town is now located. Talpaki is a branch of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the parish, the parish of Plibischken included 18 larger and smaller localities (* = school locations):
| Surname | Russian name |
|---|---|
| * Old Ilischken | Divnoye |
| Bee mountain | |
| * Great Ponnau | Krasnooktjabrskoye |
| Hunter's jug | |
| Jakobsdorf | Yakovlevo |
| Julienfelde | |
| Kallehnen | Ryabinovoye |
| Kekorischken , 1938–1946: Auerbach | Okunjowo |
| Klein Ponnau | |
| Kuglacken | Kudrjawzewo |
| Nassenreuter | |
| New Ilischken | Bobruiskoje |
| * Pelkenink | Kabanowo |
| Ramten | |
| * Töltenink | Rostovskoye |
| Wangeninken, 1938–1946: Wangeningen | |
| Warnien | Sobolewo |
| Warnienhof | Belinskoye |
Pastor
August Harner was a precentor at the Pliblischken Church. He died as a pastor in Dawillen . 21 Protestant clergy were in office in Plibischken from the Reformation until 1945:
- Alexius Mönch, 1528/1529
- Franciscus Krause, until 1571
- Samuel Sperber, 1571–1607
- Jacob Malichius, 1607–1647
- Johann Martin Wiedemann, 1641–1688
- Erhard Wiedemann, 1674-1718
- Johann Hassenstein, 1705–1715
- Georg Abraham Baltzer, 1715–1719
- Johann Hassenstein, 1720–1743
- Johann Friedrich von Essen, 1743–1780
- Johann Friedrich Haack, 1780–1804
- Siegfried Ostermeyer, 1805–1821
- Friedrich Wilhelm Arnoldt, from 1822
- Franz Otto Leopold Unruh, 1855–1880
- Heinrich List, 1880–1898
- Ms. Martin Traugott Herrmann, 1897–1899
- Richard Alfred Rose, 1898–1921
- Bernhard Gensch, 1922–1932
- Waldemar Jobs, from 1933
- Kurt Schlösser, 1937–1939
- Erich Woronowicz, 1938–1945
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ N , 21 ° 25 ′ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, pages 83-84, Fig. 322
- ↑ Picture gallery of the village and church of Plibischkens from the time before 1945
- ↑ Picture of the Plibischken Church from 2006 on flickr.com
- ↑ Gluschkowo - Plibischken at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Кирха Плибишеңа - Plibishken Church at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012)
- ↑ Gluschkowo - Plibischken at ostpreussen.net (as above)
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 475
- ↑ 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. (Russian German)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, as above, Vol. III, p. 475
- ↑ a b Harner († 1890) and Unruh († 1880) were members of the Corps Littuania .
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 112
