Church of Szillen
| Church of Szillen (Church of Schillen) Кирха Жиллена |
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 Church ruins (2017) |
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| Construction year: | 1701, 1819/1827 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Szillen ( church province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Tower height: |
44 meters |
| Location: | 54 ° 54 '15.7 " N , 21 ° 55' 46.3" E |
| Location: |
Schilino Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. Only the ruins remain of the church building |
The Szillen Church ( Russian Кирха Жиллена , the place was called between 1936 and 1946: Schillen) is a plastered brick building that was rebuilt in 1819 (the tower: 1827) after the building collapsed except for the choir room in 1818 has been. Until 1945 it was a Protestant house of worship for the residents of the former East Prussian parish of what is now called Schilino in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Königsberg region (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Schilino is located 15 kilometers south of the district town of Neman (Ragnit) and is a train station on the currently inoperative railway line Chernyakhovsk – Sovetsk (Insterburg – Tilsit) . The village is the intersection of five different streets, which it directly with Neman (Ragnit), Lunino (Lengwethen, 1938 to 1946 Hohensalzburg), Nowokolchosnoje (Sandlauken, 1938 to 1946 Sandfelde), Obrutschewo (Groß Wingsnupönen, 1938 to 1946 Großwingen), Bolschakowo ( Groß Skaisgirren, 1938 to 1946 Kreuzingen) and Uljanowo (Kraupischken, 1938 to 1946 Breitenstein) .
The church ruins are located in the town north of the road 27K-186 to Luinino.
Church building
A first church was built in Szillen for the foundation of the parish in 1629. It was a half-timbered building , but collapsed in 1698.
In 1701 a new church was built, made of field stones and bricks with a 44 meter high tower. The church had a polygonal choir closure. The Prussian King Friedrich I , who had just been crowned in Königsberg , also appeared at the inauguration. An inscription on the church reported this:
“God preserves the first king and this new house of God.
May he only bring us grace and blessings until the last day.
Prussia's King Friedrich I built this place of worship.
This is his first house when you see him first. "
However, this church was destroyed by a hurricane in 1818 except for the chancel . A year later the nave had already been rebuilt and the tower was completed in 1827.
The ceiling of the interior of the church was vaulted in the middle, on the sides above the galleries it was flat. The altar and pulpit date from around 1720 and were combined to form the pulpit altar in 1820. Both were richly decorated. The confessional came from the same year and school . In 1832 the church received an organ that was completely renovated in 1910. The ringing consisted of two bells .
The church survived the world wars unscathed. After 1945, however, it served as a warehouse for grain. The tower helmet was removed in 1965. Due to inadequate building maintenance, the building began to deteriorate so that the former church could no longer be used as a granary in 1983. In the same year the building burned down and the roof collapsed. Today there is only a ruin with parts of the wall from the tower, nave and choir.
Parish
The Szillen parish was founded in 1629 and was the third oldest parish in the Tilsit-Ragnit parish, which existed until 1945 , after Tilsit and Kraupischken ( called Breitenstein from 1938 to 1946 ). This was part of the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Own pastors officiated at the Szillen church from the beginning. The church patronage was royal or state. In 1925 the parish had 7,500 parishioners who lived in over 50 towns, villages and places.
Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Schilino came to a standstill after 1945.
Today the place is in the extensive catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen, 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) in the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
In the parish of Szillen - besides the parish - 54 villages and smaller localities were parish:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| * Tapping | Ansten | * Nurnischken | Dreisiedel | Pokrovskoye | ||
| Aschmoweitkuhnen | from 1933: Achtfelde |
* East Wethen | Ostfelde | |||
| Babillen | Billen | Bobry | Paballen | Throw | Vishnevoye | |
| Bebruwethen | Shiver | Padaggen | Brandenhof | Lasarewo, then: Bobry |
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| Blindfolds | Willow Flow | Pakullen | Fuchshausen | |||
| Boyken | Boizowo, then: Pokrovskoye |
Papu rails | Buschdorf | |||
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Bruiszen , 1936–1938: Bruischen |
Lindenbruch | Pushkino | Petratschen | Petersmoor | Tushinskoye | |
| * Czibirben | Pears | Pushkino | Poszunen, 1936–1938: Podschuhnen |
Eichenheim | ||
| Stretching | stretch | Vishnevoye | Booze | Bruchfelde | Prudovka | |
| Duden | Kruchinino | Rablauken | Rabenhof | |||
| Falkenstein, Forst | Rethenay | Rethen | ||||
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Gaidszen , 1936–1938: Gaidschen |
Throttle rupture | Watutino | * Rudder covers | Rudakovo | ||
| Smack | * Sacks | |||||
| Grüneberg, Forst | * Schleckaiten | lick | Torfyanovka | |||
| Gurbischken | Nettelhorst | Gorbunowo | Schunwill | Argenau | Jurjewo, then: Fadejewo |
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| Hirschberg, Forst | Swirl rails | Mühlenhöh | Bobry | |||
| Ilauszen, 1936–1938: Ihlauschen |
Raised bogs | * Skrebudicken | Finkental | Minino | ||
| Hunter's jug | Markovskoye | Sommerau | Sagorskoye | |||
| Iodine dressing | Black earth | Polewoje | Thoruns | |||
| Jurken | Schubino | Usseinen | Larischhofen | |||
| Kart fenceingken | Spruce forest | Roschtschino | Uszberszen, 1936–1938: Uschberschen |
Birch willow | Fyodorovo | |
| Child | * Uszelxnen 1936–1938: Uschelxnen |
Alder break | Vishnevoye | |||
| Crabs | Eichbaum | Pokrovskoye | * Uszlauszen | Eichenhorst | ||
| Kropien, from 1928: Usseinen |
Larischhofen | Wilkawischken | Game enclosures | Kovalyovo | ||
| Lepaloths | Siebenkirchberg | Okhotnichye | Wilkerischken | Wilkenau | ||
| Measure will | Aksakovo | Winger groups | Bruchhof | Wolkolamskoye | ||
| * Norwilkischken | Argenflur | Stanovoye | Wittgirren-Stannen | Stannen | Shustovo |
Pastor
Between 1629 and 1945, twenty clergymen officiated as evangelical pastors at the Szillen church:
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Church records
Of the church books of the parish Szillen have survived and are in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg kept:
- Baptisms: 1687 to 1707 and 1751 to 1805
- Weddings: 1752 to 1793
- Burials: 1794-1819.
In addition, the following church records are kept in the Olsztyn State Archives:
- Baptism Register: 1883–1902
- Register of the dead: 1800-1893
The following church book is in the Lithuanian Academy Library in Vilnius:
- List of births 1850–1935
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 133-134.
- Kühnast: News on property, livestock, population and public taxes of the localities in Lithuania according to official sources . Volume 2, Gumbinnen 1863, pp. 419-437.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have been confessed to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 133-134.
- ↑ a b c Schilino - Szillen / Schillen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches, Göttingen, 1968, p. 112, Fig. 495/500.
- ↑ Кирха Жиллена - The Church of Szillen at prussia39.ru (with photos of the church ruins from 2012)
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia, Volume 3: Documents, Göttingen, 1968, p. 488.
- ↑ 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 * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945, Hamburg, 1968, page 131.
- ↑ 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, Berlin, 1992³, p. 110.
- ^ Erwin Spehr: Church registers and other civil status documents from East and West Prussia in archives outside Germany. In: Old Prussian Gender Studies New Series. Volume 34 (2004), page 308.
- ^ Lutz FW Wenau: East Prussian archives in the Lithuanian Academy Library in Vilnius. In: Sources, materials and collections for old Prussian family research (QMS) No. 10, Hamburg 2004, self-published by the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia VFFOW
