Seckenburg Church
| Seckenburg Church (Groß Kryszahnen Church) Кирха Гросс Кришцанена |
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| Construction year: | 1890-1891 |
| Inauguration: | December 16, 1891 |
| Style elements : | Brick building |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Seckenburg ( church province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 3 '52 " N , 21 ° 22' 51" E |
| Address: | ul.Sovetskaja 40 Sapovednoje Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. The church ruins are no longer in church property. |
The church Seckenburg (before 1924 also "Church Groß Kryszahnen") was from 1891 to 1945 Protestant church for the parish of the former East Prussian and now Sapovednoje named place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Sapovednoje is located 19 kilometers northwest of the district town of Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) and can be reached via Dublinino (Doblienen) via a side road that branches off the Russian trunk road R 513 at Timirjasewo (Neukirch) . A rail connection has not existed since the small railway line Brittanien – Seckenburg of the Niederungsbahn (Elchniederungsbahn) was decommissioned.
The externally repaired ruin of the Seckenburg Church is located north of the thoroughfare (ul. Sowetskaja), south of the Gilge (Russian: Matrossowka) and east of the Nemoninki Canal (formerly the Wiepe river ).
Church building
The church - an exposed brick building from 1890/91 was inaugurated on December 16, 1891. In 1896 the half-retracted square and massive tower was completed. The church had a simple interior. The pulpit altar was raised a little. In the background of the pulpit was the middle of three glass picture windows . The organ from 1894 was the work of the Königsberg organ builder Max Terletzki . In 1898 the tower got a clock. The ringing consisted of two bells.
The church came through the Second World War unscathed . Then it was misappropriated and used as a warehouse . Although a gate opening for vehicles was created in the west and the windows were walled up, the building, the interior of which was lost, was still in relatively good condition in 1990. Strong signs of decay have been visible since 2006 at the latest, but the first repair work on the ruined building was carried out in the 2010s. Re-use as a house of worship is currently not possible and remains questionable for the future.
Parish
A separate Protestant parish was founded in what was then Groß Kryszahnen in 1890. Until then, the village and its neighboring villages were assigned to the church Alt Lappienen (1938 to 1946: Rauterskirch, today in Russian: Bolschije Bereschki). As early as 1888, a clergyman of his own served here. At that time, services were also celebrated here, which took place in the inn.
The Seckenburg parish was without patronage . In 1925 it included 4,678 parishioners who lived in more than 20 parish towns . The parish that belonged to the parish Niederung (Elchniederung) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union existed until 1945 . The last official service in the Seckenburg church took place on October 29, 1944 with the local pastor Albert Daase. Pastor Otto Kybelka from Memel (now Lithuanian: Klaipėda) held sporadic services for the remaining residents in 1945 and 1946.
Because of the flight and displacement of the local population, church life in Seckenburg came to a standstill. Today Sapowednoje is located in the catchment area of the newly formed Evangelical Lutheran parish in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) . It is the parish of the church region of the same name in the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In 1890 the villages and places to live south of Alt Lappienen were separated from the Alt Lappienen church and incorporated into the newly built parish of the Seckenburg church:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Alt Seckenburg | Kuwschinowo | Meyruhnen, Forst | Quednau, district forester | |||
| Tree pitcher | Packieser | |||||
| Bönkenwiese | Kustowo | Pakuss | Kussenberg | Sirokoje | ||
| Budehlischk framing from 1926: Grünwiese |
Seljony Dol | Polenzhof | Porechye | |||
| Elbing's colony | Bolshaya Nemoninka | Switch | Switch | Kolzowka | ||
| Ginkel remedy | Prodolnoye | Spectators | Altengilge | Sennoje | ||
| Groß Kryszahnen, from 1924: Seckenburg |
Sapovednoye | Smalupp, Forst | Brandenburg Kr. Lowland |
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| Iodine gall | Grunhausen | Lugowoje | Siberia, forest | |||
| Chestnuts, village | Tawell | |||||
| Klein Friedrichsgraben | Malaja Nemoninka | Tawellningken, village | Taw wave break | Bisserowo | ||
| Small crypt teeth | Tawellningken, Forst | |||||
| Labegraschen | Small switch | Tawellningken, Chief Forester | ||||
| Marienbruch, Forst, from 1931: Kastaunen, Forst |
Warsze, from 1936: Warsche |
Kirillovo |
Pastor
Between 1888 and 1945 ministered at the Seckenburg church:
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Individual evidence
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 94, figs. 389 and 390.
- ↑ Historical view of the village with the Seckenburg church
- ↑ Sapowednoje - Groß Kryszahnen / Seckenburg at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ The ruins of the Seckenburg church in 2009 (1)
- ↑ The ruins of the Seckenburg church in 2009 (2)
- ↑ Кирха Гросс Кришцанена - The church Groß Kryszahnen (Seckenburg) with historical photo and photos of the church ruins from 2012
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 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.
- ↑ The parish of Seckenburg in the Elchniederung district community
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 126
