Starkenberg Church
The church in Starkenberg dates from the 15th century and until 1945 was the place of worship of the Evangelical community in Starkenberg (today Russian: Krasny Bor) in East Prussia , in today's Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ). Only the boarded tower and some wall fragments remain of the church.
Geographical location
Today's Krasny Bor lies east of the oblast capital Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and southwest of the Rajons capital Gwardeisk (Tapiau) and can be reached from the Russian highway R 508 via Tumanowka (Gauleden) or Prudy (Genslack) in a southerly direction. The nearest train station is Oserki -Nowyje (Groß Lindenau) on the Kaliningrad-Nesterow line (Königsberg-Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Eastern Railway .
Krasny boron is a settlement within the Oserkowskoje selskoje posselenije (Town Oserki United Lindenau ) and was as Stark Mountain to 1945. circuit Wehlau in Region Konigsberg the Prussian province of Prussia . The location of the church ruins is easy to find.
Church building
The Starkenberger Church is a building made of granite boulders with brick corners and without a choir from the 15th century. The tower proposed received a wooden superstructure around 1691.
The interior of the church was covered with a barrel vault. Between 1870 and 1878 galleries and stands were built. In 1699 a carved altar was donated to the church , which is said to have come from the workshop of Johann Christoph Döbel. The pulpit dates from 1874.
The church received an organ in 1868. It was built in the organ building workshop of Johann Rohn in Wormditt (now Polish: Orneta). The ringing consisted of two bells .
The Starkenberg church survived the Second World War unscathed. After the war, the building was repurposed and used as a warehouse . Then it was left to its own devices and the building fell into disrepair. In 1985 the roof collapsed. Today only the boarded-up tower with some remains of the wall reminds of the once very remarkable church building.
Parish
Starkenberg was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. In the Lutheran era, the pastor of the Groß Ottenhagen church (now Russian: Berjosowka ) took care of the Starkenberg church until 1547 . The patronage of the church was incumbent on the landlords of the parish property Linkehnen (Russian: Wessjoly) and Starkenberg - u. a. the von Droste family , which died out in the 19th century and who succeeded the von Knobloch called Droste, later the Kommerzienrat Anders in Rudczanny (1938–1945 Lower Lake, now Polish: Rudiane-Nida) together with nine owners in Starkenberg.
In 1925, the parish Starkenberg had a total of 1,650 parishioners who lived in 17 localities. Until 1945 the parish was incorporated into the church district of Wehlau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
After the war, due to flight and displacement as well as restrictive Soviet church policy, church life in Krasnoborskoye, later: Krasny Bor, came to a standstill.
Today the place is in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Gwardeisk (Tapiau) , which was newly founded in the 1990s . It is a subsidiary of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) and belongs to the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
Before 1945, the parish of Starkenberg also included the parish:
| German name | Russian name | German name | Russian name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Old Zimmau | Cellar mill | |||
| * Bear break | Baidukovo | (Klein) Liedersdorf | ||
| Dam jar | Langhöfel | Gribki | ||
| Elisenau Kr. Friedland | Left tendons | Vessyoly | ||
| * Gauleden | Tumanowka | New zimmau | Dolina | |
| Genslack | Prudy | Oberwalde | Zarechnoye | |
| Hofhaus | Paulinenhof | |||
| Cap germ | Vishnevoye | * Zimmau |
(* = School location)
Pastor
The pastors officiated as Protestant clergy at the Starkenberg Church:
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Church records
The church records of the Starkenberg Church have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1844-1875
- Weddings: 1844 to 1902
- Burials: 1842 to 1887.
There are also lists of names for baptisms (1766 to 1935), weddings (1766 to 1943) and funerals (1766 to 1943).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume II: Portraits of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 84, Fig. 328
- ^ Krasnoborskoje - Starkenberg at ostpreussen.net
- ^ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume III: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 475
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume III (as above)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 138-139
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, page 110
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 37 ' N , 20 ° 57' E