Svetlogorsk Church

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Svetlogorsk Church

The Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov (Russian Храм Преподобного Серафима Саровского) is a Russian Orthodox church in Svetlogorsk in Russia 's Kaliningrad Oblast . It was built in 1907 as a Protestant church in Rauschen in East Prussia.

history

Rauschen originally belonged to the church of St. Lawrence , which was about three kilometers away. In 1903 a separate Protestant parish was founded, also because of the increasing tourism in the place. The services initially took place in the Kurhaus. The entrepreneur August Honig from Königsberg bought the building site for a church and donated it to the community. The designs were created by the architects Otto Walter Kuckuck and Ernst (?) Wichmann from Königsberg, accompanied by the Eschner government building officer. The interior design was done by the painter and sculptor Adolf Hering from Rauschen. The church was consecrated on July 7, 1907.

In 1929 her own parish was established. This belonged to the parish of Fischhausen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Six places belonged to the parish, including Georgenwalde. Werner Matz (1903–1985) had been pastor since 1931, who had been assistant pastor in Rauschen since 1927. In 1935 Herbert Steinbach supported him. The parish had around 3000 members at that time, plus numerous summer guests.

The church was not damaged in 1945 and was used as a gym for the next few decades. In 1992 the building was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church and consecrated on August 1st with the name of St. Seraphim of Sarov . It belongs to the diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltiysk and is the seat of an archdeacon . In 2007 the building was classified as an object of regional cultural importance (No. 132) by the local authorities.

In Svetlogorsk there is another Orthodox Church of the Icon of Our Lady “Joy of All Sufferers” , which was built in 1994 in memory of the 1972 plane crash. The nearest Protestant parishes are in Zelenogradsk (Cranz) and Kaliningrad (Koenigsberg) in the Kaliningrad Provostry .

Architecture and interior design

church

The church stands on a hill near the Baltic Sea, a little away from the center of the village in uliza Bacha 14. It is a short and wide building designed in the neo-Gothic style with elements of modernity . The choir has a flat roof. The tower is on the northwest corner, in the north there is an entrance hall with a stair tower.

The historic interior includes a carved altar with a depiction of the crucifixion of Jesus , a carved pulpit , both by Adolf Hering, and a small organ . The altarpiece may have been preserved.

Today's interior design is an Orthodox iconostasis and other items that are adapted to the character of the building. The room is kept in light colors.

Church registers until 1945

The church records of the parish noise survived the war and are in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg kept:

  • Baptisms from 1928 to 1944 (with name register)
  • Weddings from 1929 to 1944 (with name register)
  • Funerals from 1929 to 1944 (with name register)
  • Confirmations from 1941 to 1944.

In addition, a list of those who fell from 1941 to 1942 has been preserved.

literature

  • Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968. p. 36.

Web links

Commons : Svetlogorsk Church  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 119.
  2. Jump up ↑ Church of St. Seraphim of Sarov. life globe, accessed January 30, 2020 (Russian, with photos of the outside and inside).
  3. ^ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin. Part I: The eastern church provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3rd edition, Berlin 1992, p. 100

Coordinates: 54 ° 56 ′ 26.8 "  N , 20 ° 9 ′ 45.7"  E