Rautenberg Church (East Prussia)
| Rautenberg Church Кирха Раутенберга |
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| Construction year: | 1867 to 1876 |
| Inauguration: | 1876 |
| Style elements : | Round arch style |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Friedrichswalde (later: Rautenberg) ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 500 people |
| Location: | 54 ° 51 '33.5 " N , 22 ° 17' 5.7" E |
| Location: |
Uzlovoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church building has been razed to the ground |
The church in Rautenberg ( Russian Кирха Раутенберга ) in the former East Prussia was a building from the beginning of the second half of the 19th century and built in the arched style. Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the residents in the parish of what is now called Uslowoje in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Uslowoje is located in the southwest of the Krasnosnamensk Rajon ( Lasdehnen district , 1938 to 1946 Haselberg ) on a side road (27K-186), the Lunino (Lengwethen , 1938 to 1946 Hohensalzburg) on the Russian trunk road A 198 (former German Reichsstrasse 132 ) Wesnowo (Kussen) connects to the regional road R 508 . There is no train connection.
The location of the church can no longer be made out since the last remnants of the ruins were torn down and removed.
Church building
In 1853, the use of a provisional church began in Rautenberg, for which a building on the land of the landlord Liebe was used. It was not until 1867 that a separate church was built, which was inaugurated in 1876. This was built on the foundation walls of a horse stable owned by the landlord Hofer from Groß Skaisgirren (1938 to 1946: Großschirren, Russian: Dunaiskoje, now: Sorokino).
The structure was a simple, rectangular building in the arched style with plastered brickwork . A small gable tower served as a support for a bell.
The interior was flat and had side galleries . There was room for 500 people. The pulpit and the altar were arranged one above the other and made simple. The church bell consisted of only one bell .
In the two world wars, the church was only marginally affected. After 1945, however, it was used as a warehouse for other purposes and fell into disrepair. In 1998 there were still ruins of the building, but these were demolished and removed. Today nothing reminds of the former parish church in Rautenberg.
Parish
Before 1945 the population in the area around Rautenberg was almost without exception Protestant. The late founding of a parish led to the fact that in 1853 an initially provisional parish was founded, which from 1866 was called "Kirchspiel Friedrichswalde".
This parish was created by re-parishes of places from the already existing parishes of the Budwethen churches (1938 to 1946: Altenkirch, today Russian: Malomoschaiskoje), Kraupischken (1938 to 1946: Breitenstein, Russian: Uljanowo) and Kussen (Russian: Wesnowo). The later parish Rautenberg initially belonged to the parish of Ragnit (Russian: Neman), then until 1945 to the Ragnit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925, the parish counted a total of 4,000 parishioners in a census, who lived in almost 40 places, towns and places of residence.
As a result of the Second World War with the flight and expulsion of the local population and the subsequent ban on all church activities in the Soviet Union , the parish of Rautenberg went out. It was not until the 1990s that Protestant parishes were formed again in the Kaliningrad Oblast, which had belonged to Russia since 1991/92. The closest to Uslowoje is the one in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).
Parish places
The parish of the Rautenberger Church included 38 villages, localities and residential areas, which were both in the Ragnit district (from 1922: Tilsit-Ragnit district ) and in the Pillkallen district (from 1939: Schloßberg (East Pr.)):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Alt Moritzlauken | Alt Moritzfelde | Korchagino | Green mug | Bolchowo | ||
| Old stonups | Altstonen | Grünwalde | ||||
| Old winger groups | Turns | Dunaiskoje | Iwenberg | |||
| Old Wischteggen | Pastures | (Large) Kamanten | Kamanten | Uzlovoye | ||
| Antagmine caves | Kernwalde | Karalkehmen | Karlen | Kashtanovka | ||
| Bear catching (part of Rautenberg) |
Kurganskoje | Small iodine tones | Minor care | Sumarokovo | ||
| Baltruschatschen | Balzerhöfen | Yakovlevo | Small meschkuppen | Bärenbach | Kuprino | |
| Barachelen | Fallow field | Uzlovoye | Small Skaisgirren | Lichtenrode | ||
| Birkenfelde | Kuttkuhnen | Kuttenhof | ||||
| Bluementhal | Lugowoje | Laugall | Kleehausen | Mostovoye | ||
| Brödlauken | Bröden | Melnichnoye | Lindenthal | |||
| Czuppen | Dandruff | Dunaiskoje | New Moritzlauken | Moritzfelde | ||
| Droszwalde 1936–37: Droschwalde from 1937: Drozwalde |
Darwino | New winger groups |
from 1928: Neuweide |
Djatlowo | ||
| Friedrichswalde | New Wischteggen | Henndorf | Privolnoye | |||
| Girrehlischken | Drozwalde | Darwino | Orupönen | Grünrode | Sinyavino | |
| Groß Baltruschehlen, from 1935: Grüneichen |
Rautenberg | Uzlovoye | ||||
| Big Jodupönen | Schwarzfelde | Tracking | Ritterswalde | |||
| Big Skaisgirren | Main harnesses | Dunaiskoje, now: Sorokino |
Uszgirren from 1930: Waldenau |
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| Green fields | Welnabalis | Hunter field |
Pastor
Between 1853 and 1945 nine evangelical clergy officiated in the parish of Friedrichswalde and Rautenberg:
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References
Web links
- Uslowoje - Rautenberg
- Werner Metschulat, The church village of Rautenberg
- Кирха Раутенберга - The Rautenberg Church (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 2, Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 112, fig. 498
- ^ Image of the Rautenberg Church in the 1930s
- ↑ Picture of the ruins of the church around 1993
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 3, Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 488
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 119
