Pokraken Church

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Pokraken Church
(Church Weidenau (Ostpr.))
Кирха Покракена
Construction year: 1894 to 1896
Style elements : neo-Romanesque forms
Client: Evangelical parish in Pokraken
( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 55 ° 6 '57 "  N , 21 ° 41' 35"  E Coordinates: 55 ° 6 '57 "  N , 21 ° 41' 35"  E
Location: Leninskoye
Kaliningrad , Russia
Purpose: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Local community: Not available anymore.
The church ruins are no longer in church property

The church in Pokraken (the place was called "Weidenau (Ostpr.)" Between 1938 and 1946) was a building erected in the 1890s and until 1945 a Protestant church for the parish of the former East Prussian town, which has been called Leninskoje since 1946 and in the oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg Region (Prussia) ) is located in Russia .

Geographical location

Today's Leninskoje is eight kilometers northwest of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) on the river Große Else (Russian: Nemoninka). The place can be reached via side streets from Schtscheglowka ( (Great) Brittania ) or from Oktjabrskoje (Alt Weynothen , 1938 to 1946 Weinoten) . Shcheglowka is the nearest train station and is on the Kaliningrad – Sovetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .

Church building

The church in Pokraken was built between 1894 and 1896. It is a building with neo-Romanesque shapes ( round arch style ) with a pointed, square tower. Inside the altar was raised in the choir room , to the right of it - still in the parish area - the pulpit was attached. The organ was the work of the master organ builder August Terletzki from Elbing (now in Polish: Elbląg).

Today only a ruin remains of the church . The tower with a roof and the unprotected wall remains of the nave are present . The structure preserved in this way is a listed building by the Russian authorities.

Parish

A parish was founded in Pokraken in 1891. Until then, the village and the surrounding villages belonged to the parish of the Neukirch Church (today in Russian: Timirjasewo). A clergyman was employed here as early as 1890. In 1925 the parish numbered 1,800 parishioners who lived in 19 villages and places. Until 1945, the parish called “Church Weidenau (Ostpr.)” Between 1938 and 1945 belonged to the diocese of Tilsit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Because of the flight and expulsion of the local population and the religion-negative politics of the Soviet Union , church life in Pokraken resp. Weidenau to a standstill.

Church members living here today live in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) , which was newly established in the 1990s . It is also the parish of the church region of the same name within the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .

Parish places

In addition to the vicarage Pokraken (Weidenau) belonged to 1945 to the parish :

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946		 Russian name Surname Change name from
1938 to 1946		 Russian name
Noble Klubinn
from 1923: Klubinn		 Gracefulness Karassyovo Jedwilleiten New lock
Noble Pokraken Noble Grieteinen Vinogradovka Motzwethen Motzfelde Ostrovnoye
Old Buttischken Altbuttenhagen Naudwarrischken,
from 1931: Naudwarischken		 Adelshof Chistopolye
Old Jägerischken,
from 1930: Jägerischken		 Jägershof Pereprawa New Buttischken Neubuttenhagen
At the Kurwe New Jägerischken Neujägershof
Grace Arrogance New Weynothen Prussia Court It's OK
Campinischken,
from 1928: Schanzenkrug		 Palin grouse Newcomers Rzhevskoye
Grietischken Grieteinen Losnjaki Urban sites Urbanshof Poimy
Jaglien meadows Canal meadows Uszkurwe,
from 1936: Uschkurwe		 Kurwe Pljoss

Pastor

Between 1890 and 1945 served as Protestant pastors at the Pokraken church:

  • Benjamin Karl Redmer, 1890–1905
  • Konrad Oloff, 1905-1915
  • Johannes Tennigkeit, 1916–1920
  • Wilhelm Eugen Wilde, 1920–1922
  • Walter Kowalewski, 1922–1925
  • Siegfried Küchler, 1925–1927
  • (longer vacancy)
  • Max Reich, 1937–1944
  • Alfred Hermann, until 1944

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 114, Fig. 506–507
  2. ↑ Historical photo of the Pokraken church (Weidenau)
  3. ↑ Photo of the church ruins in 2008
  4. ↑ Кирха Поракена The Pokraken Church at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012)
  5. ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 488
  6. ^ Siegfried Dietrich, The parish Weidenau (Pokraken) . In: The parishes of Neukirch and Weidenau - Elchniederung district , ed. from the Kreisgemeinschaft Elchniederung e. V.
  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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.propstei-kaliningrad.info
  8. ^ Parish Pokraken at genealogy.net
  9. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 113