Skaisgirren Church
| Evangelical Church Skaisgirren (Evangelical Church Kreuzingen) Лютеранская кирха Гросс Скайсгиррена |
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 Skaisgirren church (Kreuzingen) with entrance portal to the churchyard |
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| Construction year: | 1772/73 |
| Style elements : | Field stone church |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Skaisgirren in Groß Skaisgirren ( church province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 500 people |
| Location: | 54 ° 52 '36.1 " N , 21 ° 38' 58.5" E |
| Address: | ul.Gagarina Bolshakowo Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | The church is now owned by the Russian Orthodox Church |
The Skaisgirren Church (located in Groß Skaisgirren, 1938 to 1946: Kreuzingen) is a field stone building from the 18th century and until 1945 was a Protestant parish church for the extensive parish of what is now called Bolshakowo in the former East Prussia and today 's Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area ( Prussia) ) in Russia .
location
Today's Bolshakovo is located 86 km northeast of the city of Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) at the intersection of the Russian highways A 190 (former German Reichsstraße 126 ), A 197 ( Reichsstraße 137 ) and A 216 ( Reichsstraße 138 , now also Europastraße 77 ). The place is a train station on the Kaliningrad – Sowetsk railway line (Königsberg – Tilsit) .
The church is located southeast of the train station on uliza Gagarina (formerly the main street ) opposite the war memorial .
Church building
Since 1693 there was a church in Groß Skaisgirren. Then a new one was built, which was a rectangular field stone building . It was built in 1772 and 1773. In 1807, the church building served Napoleon's soldiers as a horse stable and carriage shed, he himself lodged in the rectory. On January 17, 1818, the towering church tower was damaged by a hurricane . An emergency roof was installed on the tower, which had been dismantled to the masonry. Three decades later, a roof turret was built . In 1853 a major renovation of the church was due.
The interior of the church was flat and had two side galleries . Altar and pulpit were connected to one another. On the wall to the left and right of the pulpit altar were two oil paintings from 1911 that showed the crucifixion of Jesus and his resurrection .
The organ came from the time the church was founded. The ringing consisted of two bells .
The building remained undamaged during World War II . The parts of the tower above the nave were demolished and the windows temporarily walled up. The church was used for a purpose other than a cultural center, then also as a department store and finally as a cinema and stage hall. The sacristy and the vestibule were recently fundamentally destroyed and only the tower ruins were reminiscent of the former church for a long time. In the meantime the Orthodox Church has taken over the once dilapidated building and completely renovated it. The tower also got a new hood.
On the south side of the church there is still the once neat and nowadays rather out of place cemetery portal, not far from the former funeral hall, which served as a snack bar for a long time, but is now also being reconstructed. The renovation work was not yet completed in summer 2018.
Parish
A Protestant parish was founded in Groß Skaisgirren in 1693. The church patronage was state. For the growing congregation, the incumbent pastor was assigned an assistant preacher from 1847 , and in 1895 a second pastor's office was established. Until 1945, the Skaisgirren parish , which in 1925 had 9,091 parishioners in more than 40 towns and villages, belonged to the Niederung parish (Elchniederung) within 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 war and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Bolshakovo came to a standstill.
It was not until the 1990s that an Evangelical Lutheran congregation was formed again. It is a branch congregation within the church region of the Salzburg Church in Gussew (Gumbinnen) within the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
A total of 42 places and settlements belonged to the extensive parish of the Skaisgirren church until 1945 :
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Basznitzkallen 1936–1938: Baschnitzkallen |
Steep mountain | Kletellen | Georgenheide | Uroshainoje | ||
| Berkeln | Buddy | Fighting | ||||
| Bersteningken | Eckwalde | Lankeningken | Altmühle | |||
| Borstehlischken | Bristle thorns | Lepienen | Gerhardsheim | |||
| Demmen | Humiliation | Privolnoye | Song pages | Gerhardsweide | Okhotnoye | |
| Endrejen | Ossafelde | Pobedino | Maco beans |
1938: Crossings 1938–1946: Mill Cross |
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| Finkenhof | Margins | Sadorozhnoye | ||||
| Gerhardwalde | Obschruten | Gerhardgrund | ||||
| Gobes | Nagornoje | Oschweningken | Breitenhof | |||
| Big Asznaggern |
from 1936: Grenzberg |
Pridorozhnye | Osseningken | from 1931: Grünau | Ossinovka | |
| Large giro counters | Waiting yards | Ossupönen | ||||
| Big Skaisgirren | Kreuzingen | Bolshakovo | Parvishken | Parwen | Peski | |
| Big wobble | Kleingrenzberg | Petschkehmen | ||||
| Big Wixwen | Multiple bridges | Pobedino | Sheaths | Fir height | ||
| Gründann | Schudlidimmen | Schulzenwiese | Novostroyevskoye | |||
| Grünhof tilts | Voucher | Fir height | ||||
| Jagsten | Poddubye | Wegnerminnen | Wegnersdorf | |||
| Kischen | Vishnyaki | Grazing | Gerhardshöfen | Kamyshevka | ||
| Small giro tables | Gronwalde | Krasnosnamenskoje | Wilhelmsbruch | |||
| Klein Ischdaggen | Georgenforst | Wilhelmsheide | ||||
| Small Skaisgirren | Kleinkreuzingen | Radischewo | Wirblauken | Rutenfelde |
Pastor
At the Skaisgirren church between 1693 and 1945 served as Protestant clergy:
- Matthäus Wilhelm Meissner, 1693–1708
- Adam Fr. Schimmelpfennig, 1708–1740
- Johann Philipp Wilde, 1741–1776
- Heinrich Gottlieb Schultz, 1776–1788
- Albrecht Fr. ridingbach, 1788–1797
- Friedrich Ernst Mikisch, 1797–1807
- Johann Gottlieb Marks, 1807-1819
- Friedrich Leopold Hahn, 1819–1840
- Friedrich Wilhelm Lucks, 1840–1884
- Karl Eduard Strohmann, 1847–1853
- Robert Fr. Th. Boettcher, 1854
- Johann Anton Max Heck, 1857-1859
- Gustav Albert (?) Hubert, 1859–1862
- Gottfried Hermann Marold, 1885–1892
- Hermann Cölestin G. Ebel, 1888–1890
- Georg Richard E. Woede, 1890-1892
- Eduard Otto David Koehler, 1892-1893
- Ernst Rudolf Max Wohlfromm, 1893–1906
- Paul Stanislaus Siegel, 1894–1896
- Rudolf Franz Th. Glogau, 1895–1909
- Karl Eduard Rebschies, 1907–1919
- Karl Wessolleck, 1909–1937
- Gustav Müller, 1919–1933
- Erich Klinger, 1933–1943
- Horst Lekszas, 1937-1940
- Heinz Neuhof, 1939
- Kurt Streetz, until 1940
- Heinz Neubert, 1940–1945
- Gerhard Schultz, 1943–1945
literature
- Paul Lemke, The establishment of the Skaisgirren parish , in: Der Ostpreuße. Heimat-Jahrbuch for the Niederung district 1936, pp. 52–55.
- Paul Lemke: Original condition and first settlement of the Skaisgirren parish (1570–1670) . Tilsit 1934.
Individual evidence
- ^ Parish of Kreuzigen near Elchniederung district community
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Vol. 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1948, p. 93, Fig. 379 and 380
- ↑ a b Bolschakowo - Groß Skaisgirren / Kreuzingen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Лютеранская кирха Гросс Скайсгиррена - The church Groß Skaisgirren at prussia39.ru (with photos of the tower 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. (Russian German)
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 128
- ↑ Straw man († 1893) was a member of the Corps Littuania
- ↑ Boettcher (1824-1882) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
