Sussemilken Church
| Church Sussemilken (Church Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.)) |
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| Construction year: | 1905/06 |
| Inauguration: | August 9, 1906 |
| Style elements : | Wood paneling |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Sussemilken in Alt Sussemilken, ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 56 '7.9 " N , 21 ° 21' 34.5" E |
| Location: |
Tarasovka Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | unavailable. The church was demolished in the 1960s |
The Sussemilken church in Alt Sussemilken (the place was called "Friedrichsrode (Ostpr.)" Between 1938 and 1946) was a wood-clad building with a wooden-paneled tower from the beginning of the 20th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the parish of the place called Tarassowka after 1945 and now no longer existent in the former Labiau district in East Prussia - in what is now the Polessk Rajon ( Labiau district ) in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( Königsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
The village of Tarasovka, which was abandoned in the 1960s, is located in the area of today's rural community Golowkino (Nemonien , 1938 to 1946 Elchwerder) in the east of the Curonian Lagoon on the west bank of the Timber Canal (now Russian: Golowkinski kanal). It is 18 kilometers to the southwest to the former and present district town of Polessk (Labiau) . The local office can be reached on the road coming from the southeast. At the end of this path, the location of the church is directly south at the intersection. Only the remaining foundations are visible.
Church building
The Sussemilken church was a jubilee church . The foundation stone was laid on May 28, 1905, and after a construction period of just over a year, the inauguration ceremony took place on August 9, 1906.
The church was a wood-clad building with a narrower choir to the east. The west tower, which was also clad in wood, looked very massive. In the interior of the church with its painted walls there were two side galleries and an organ gallery. The pulpit and the baptismal font were made of wood.
The organ came from the workshop of the Königsberg organ builder Bruno Goebel . The ringing consisted of two bells .
The church remained intact during World War II . Afterwards it was used by others or remained unused. When the local kolkhoz ceased operations in the 1960s and its building was demolished, the church was also leveled in order to obtain building material. Only the foundation and the base remained. At that time there was practically no house in the village.
Parish
The parish Sussemilken with its seat in Alt Sussemilken was founded in 1903, separating it from the Mehlauken church (1938 to 1946: Liebenfelde, today in Russian: Salessje). She was patronized . In 1925 the parish had 2,300 parishioners who lived in nine towns or villages and places of residence in the parish . Until 1945 the parish belonged to the church district Labiau in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Due to flight and displacement , church life in the area around Alt Sussemilken came to a standstill and could not be revived due to the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union . Today the town of Tarasovka would be in the catchment area of the Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Golowkino (Nemonien , 1938 to 1946 Elchwerder) , a subsidiary of the Kaliningrad Resurrection Church in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of the church Sussemilken belonged to nine places or localities (* = school location) before 1945:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| * Old sweet milk | Friedrichsrode (East Pr.) | Tarasovka | Laukwargen, Forst | Franzrode, Forst | ||
| Eversdorf | Tarasovka | * New sweet milk | New Friedrichsrode | Tarasovka | ||
| Pile path | Lensoje | * Wilhelmsrode | Klimovka | |||
| * Franzrode | Losovaya | Wilhelmswerder | Prirechnoye | |||
| * Karlsrode | Naberezhnye |
Pastor
During the time of the existence of the parish of the Sussemilken Church, nine assistant preachers or pastors officiated here:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Patrick Plew, The churches in Samland / Church Sussemilken
- ^ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, page 58
- ↑ The reason for the anniversary cannot be determined
- ↑ Tarassokwa - Sussemilken / Friedrichsrode at ostpreussen.net (with historical photo of the church)
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, page 465
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 130
