Church of the Shakuhnen
| Schakuhnen Church (Schakendorf Church, Eastern Pr.) Кирха Шакунена |
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| Construction year: | 1745 tower: 1855/56 |
| Style elements : | Field stone construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Schakuhnen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Tower height: |
31 m |
| Location: | 55 ° 11 '55 " N , 21 ° 27' 36" E |
| Location: |
Levobereschnoe Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church was demolished in 1952/53 |
The church in Schakuhnen ( Russian Кирха Шакунена , the place was called Schakendorf (Ostpr.) Between 1938 and 1946) was a simple field stone building built in 1745 . Until 1945 it was a place of worship for the residents in the parish of the former East Prussian and now Levobereschnoje place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Levobereschnoje is northeast of the Russian regional road R 513 Sowetsk - Myssowka (Tilsit – Karkeln) and can be reached via a spur road that branches off eight kilometers west of Jasnoje (Kaukehmen , Kuckerneese 1938 to 1946 ) . There is no longer a train connection.
Church building
The first church was built in Schakuhnen in 1697. At first it only consisted of a wooden chapel . In 1745 the new church was built - as a simple stone church . A tower with a height of 31 meters was not added until 1855/56.
Inside the church, the altar and pulpit were connected to one another in a simple design. Galleries were installed on the side walls . The hexagonal font with stucco reliefs depicting scenes from the life of Jesus (1630/40) was remarkable.
In 1803 the church received an organ . The ringing consisted of two bells cast in 1702 and 1855, respectively.
In 1929 the church received a major renovation.
The church survived the Second World War , but was torn down by the Soviet military in 1952/53 in order to obtain stones for road construction.
Parish
A parish of Protestant denomination was founded in Schakuhnen in 1675. Until 1711 it belonged to the Ruß Church as a branch parish (the place is now called in Lithuanian: Rusnė ). Then it became independent with its own pastoral office and - until 1855 - with the branch church Karkeln (today Russian: Myssowka ). Originally, Schakuhnen belonged to the Memel Inspection (today: Klaipėda in Lithuanian) and was most recently incorporated into the Niederung (Elchneiderung) church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
In 1925 the parish of Schakuhnen had 3,200 parishioners who lived in 27 towns and villages.
Escape and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War as well as the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union brought church life to a standstill in the place now known as Levobereschnoje.
Since the 1990s the village has been in the catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (the city was called Heinrichswalde until 1945 ) in the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
For parish Saddle Kuhnen (1938: parish Schakendorf) belonged to 1945 next to the vicarage still 26 places, small villages 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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| Abhorrent | Nausseden | Small dunes | Privalovka | |||
| * Ackmenishks | sand dunes | Djunnoje | Perkuhnen | Perekrjostnoye | ||
| Building | Summer farms | Oboyan | * Rewellen | Zelentsovka | ||
| Girgsden | Lebedjanskoye | Schillgallen | High dunes | Barchany | ||
| Ibenhorst, head forester's office | Pyatichatka | Tailor end | ||||
| Jäkischken | Obvodnoye | Horse riding | ||||
| Jodischken | Jodingen | Orlovka | * Spitting | Stucco | Jasnopoljanka | |
| Jodraggen | Staldszen from 1936: Staldschen |
Dimitrowo | ||||
| Sicknesses | Schorningen | The waves | Tewellen | |||
| Kerschkallen, forestry | Topolewo | Tirkseln | Kleeburg | |||
| Feast | Novosyolki | Tumstallis | ||||
| Lebbeden | Friedeberg (East Pr.) | Valtinkratsch | Valtinhof | Cheryomukhovo | ||
| Luttken | Moskovskoye | * Wieszeiten 1938–38: Wiescheiten |
Small summer farms | Moskovskoye |
Pastor (1711–1945)
During the years of independence of the Schakuhnen parish, Protestant clergymen worked here:
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Church records
Film versions of the church registers of the Schakuhnen Church have been preserved and are kept in the Saxon State Archives in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1702 to 1761, 1764 to 1874
- Weddings: 1687 to 1763, 1766 to 1874
- Burials: 1696 to 1710, 1736 to 1748, 1755 to 1761, and 1766 to 1874.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parish Schakendorf at the Elchniederung district community
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 94, Fig. 387
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 483
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 132-133
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