Popelken Church
| Popelken Church (Markthausen Church) Кирха Попелькена |
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| Construction year: | 1768/1769, tower: 1901 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Popelken ( church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 48 '2.6 " N , 21 ° 34' 57.7" E |
| Location: |
Vysokoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. The church has been destroyed except for the tower ruins and is used by others |
The church in Popelken , built in 1768/1769 (the East Prussian place was called Markthausen between 1938 and 1946), was until 1945 a Protestant place of worship for the parish residents of what is now Vysokoye in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ). The ruins of the tower and part of the western outer wall have been preserved.
Geographical location
Today's Vysokoye is located 32 kilometers southeast of the former district town of Polessk (Labiau) and 28 kilometers southwest of the new district capital Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) on a side road that branches off from the Russian trunk road A 216 (former German Reichsstrasse 138 , now also Europastrasse 77 ) and over Gremjatschje (Groß Berschkallen , 1938 to 1946 Birken) and Dowatorowka (Leipeningken , 1938 to 1946 Georgental) to Majowka (Georgenburg) north of Tschernjachowsk (Insterburg) . The nearest train station is Zalessye -Nowoje (Mehlauken , 1938-1946 love field) on the railway line Kaliningrad-Sovetsk (Kaliningrad-Tilsit) .
The tower ruin is at the north-western entrance to the village south of the main road.
Church building
There is evidence of a church in Popelken as early as 1640. It was replaced by a successor building in 1768/69. It was a plastered rectangular brick building . Due to the dilapidation, the attached roof turret had to be demolished, and a west tower was added in 1901.
The pulpit altar was a work of the 19th century with the inclusion of a figure of Moses from 1680, who probably formerly served as the pulpit bearer. Noteworthy were a baptismal angel from 1720 and the silver altarpieces from the 17th century.
The organ was the work of the organ builder August Terletzki from Elbing (now Polish: Elbląg). The two bells were from 1818.
Parish
The parish in Popelken was founded in 1626 and received its own pastorate in the same year. A second pastorate was added in 1900. Until 1841, the Popelken Church was also responsible for the locations of the then founded parish of the Mehlauken Church (1938 to 1946: Liebenfelde, today in Russian: Salessje).
In the census of 1925, there were 6,800 parishioners living in the area of the Popelken parish in 47 places in the extensive parish. Until 1945 it belonged to the parish of Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the Second World War and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union , church life in what was then called Vysokoye collapsed.
In the 1990s, new Evangelical Lutheran congregations were formed in what is now Kaliningrad Oblast , including the Vysokoye closest to Bolshakowo (Groß Skaisgirren , Kreuzingen from 1938 to 1946 ) . It is a branch congregation in the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) in the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In addition to the vicarage Popelken among the existing and 1945 parish 46 cities, towns and residential places:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Alt Domharthenen | Domhardtfelde | Obscherninken | Dachsfelde | |||
| Auxkallen |
from 1936: Ackerhof |
Packalwen | Berghöfe | |||
| Beszarwen, 1938–1938: Beszarwen |
Scharhöfen | Paggarszwienen, 1936-1938: Paggarschwienen |
Krauseneck | |||
| Bielauken | Bielken | Pan eyes | Habichtswalde | |||
| Bit tendons | Biehnendorf | Jagodnoye | Paring | Pairing | ||
| Please call | Bitterfelde | Dalneje | Paschwentschen | Wittenrode | Dalneje | |
| Budwallen | Budewald | Patilszen, 1936–1938: Patilschen |
Kunzenrode | Oruscheinoje | ||
| Danielshöfen | Platitudes | Wide hallway | Iskrowo | |||
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Eszerningken , 1936–1938: Escherningken |
Good flowing | Krasnaya Dubrawa | Plompen | Heiligenfliess | ||
| Florlauken | Fields of flowers | Rogainen | Hornfelde | Sujewka | ||
| Friedrichswalde | Novaya Shizn | Rosenberg | ||||
| Groß Ischdaggen | Rodenwalde (East Pr.) | Rudflorlauken | Kleinbulmenfelde | |||
| Groß Kallkeninken | Groß Kalkfelde | Rudlauken b. Mehlauken | Goebelshof | |||
| Kallweninken | Hill place | Schwirgslauken | Herzfelde (East Pr.) | Zarechye | ||
| Small tree | Serpentines | Beer village | ||||
| Klein Kallkeninken | Kleinkalkfelde | Luschki | Skieslauken | Mörnersfelde | Oruscheinoje | |
| Klewienen | Seegershöfen | Tension rules | Dubrovka | |||
| Korehlen | Sovetskoye | Szallgirren, 1936–1938: Schallgirren |
Schliebenwalde | |||
| Lank links | Langenheim | Treinlauken | Kreuzberg | |||
| Lauszen, 1936–1938: Listening |
Waste yards | Uszkampen, 1936–1938: Uschkampen |
Kleinmarkthausen | |||
| Mehlathal | Love yard | Zarya | Wartenburg | |||
| Mehlavischken | Place of love | Wilkowischken | Wolfshof | |||
| New Domharthenen | Kleindomhardtfelde | Novaya Shizn | Wittgirren | Weißenbruch |
Pastor
From 1626 to 1945 there were 22 Protestant pastors at the Popelken church:
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Pastor Schimmelpfennig
Pastor Adam Friedrich Schimmelpfennig (1699–1763) served at the church between 1740 and 1763 . He composed religious songs and was the author of profane Lithuanian literature in Lithuania Minor . When the first Lithuanian hymnbook appeared in 1732 , it already contained 51 songs by Schimmelpfennig. Between 1738 and 1748 he took over the editing of another hymn book and finally published a second Lithuanian songbook in 1750. Schimmelpfennig also published the second complete edition of the Lithuanian Bible and in 1756 translated Johann Arndt's main work " Vom True Christianity ".
References
- ↑ Кирха Попелькена - Высокое The Popelken Church in Vysokoye at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012)
- ↑ Current photo of the tower ruin at flickr.com
- ↑ Patrick Plew, The churches in the Labiau district: Popelken (Markthausen)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 61, Fig. 194
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 465
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 113
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Wyssokoje - Popelken / Markthausen at ostpreussen.net
