Szirgupönen Church
| Church of Szirgupönen / Schirgupönen (Church of Amtshagen) |
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| Construction year: | 1725 |
| Inauguration: | January 1, 1926 |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Szirgupönen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 35 '32.1 " N , 22 ° 21' 52.6" E |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. There are only a few remnants of the church left |
The church in Szirgupönen (the place was called 1936 to 1938: Schirgupönen, 1938 to 1946: Amtshagen, after 1945 in Russian: Dalneje) was a building erected in 1725 and later renovated several times, which the population of the Szirgupönen parish until 1945 considered Protestant House of God served.
Geographical location
The place, which belonged to the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ) and was named Dalneje after 1945, was eleven kilometers southeast of the city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) on the south bank of the Pissa , then called Roßbach , and was abandoned in 1970. The barely recognizable location can be reached via a land route south of Diwnoje (station settlement Bahnhof Trakehnen - the station is now called “Diwnoje Nowoje” and is located on the Kaliningrad – Nesterow railway line (Königsberg – Stallupönen / Ebenrode) , a section of the former Prussian Ostbahn ) - branches off the main road 27K-182 in a westerly direction.
The former location of the church is now very difficult to make out.
Church building
It was King Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia who had a Protestant church built in Szirgupönen in 1725 at his own expense. On January 1, 1726, the inauguration could take place.
On May 23, 1785, lightning struck the church, which burned the nave and tower down to the foundation walls. In 1788 the reconstruction of the church was completed. On January 17, 1818, a severe storm caused great damage to the church. The repair work was repeatedly followed by necessary restoration work on the building in 1828, 1850, 1858 and 1873.
During the First World War , German artillery set fire to the church on January 23, 1915. It was not until June 17, 1925 (exactly 200 years after the first church was built) that the newly built church was consecrated again. The church was rebuilt on the old foundations. The church interior with its drawn-in galleries was vaulted, the pulpit altar wall on the east side was pulled forward so that a sacristy and a baptistery could be set up in the adjoining rooms on both sides . The altar table was kept simple. A copy of the Entombment of Christ by Filippo Lippi hung above him .
During the Second World War , the place suffered severe damage. Due to the lack of prospects, the village was abandoned and its houses including the church were destroyed in the 1970s.
Parish
When the church was built in 1725, the Protestant parish of Szirgupönen was also founded. Until January 1, 1824 it belonged to the Stallupönen inspection (Russian: Nesterow) and was only then incorporated into the church district Gumbinnen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
On May 27, 1787, a comprehensive visitation of the parish took place , including all schools in the parish. In the year of the re-consecration of the war-torn church in 1925, the parish in Szirgupön had 3,800 parishioners who lived in more than 20 villages, towns and places of residence. The last General Church visit took place on May 10, 1930.
The flight and expulsion of the local population as well as the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union after 1945 made church life impossible. The village deteriorated so much that it was given up and is now considered to be no longer existing.
Parish places
For parish Szirgupönen (. Resp Schirgupönen or office Hagen) belonged before 1945 next to the vicarage 24 cities, towns and residential places:
| Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Alt Grünwalde | Komorovo | * Mattischkehmen | Sovkhoznoye | |||
| Eye-popping | High flow | Kalininskoye | New care | Kubanskoye | ||
| Eysseln | Kubanskoye | * Pabbling | Severskoye, later: Lomowo |
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| Big Baitschen | Podgorovka | Pack dimming | ||||
| Grünhaus | Seljonoje | * Purr | Lomowo | |||
| Guddin | Rudbardßen | Rotweiler | ||||
| Jodszlauken | * Schorschienen | Moosgrund | Gavrilovo | |||
| Iodine tones | Willow ground | Schröterlauken | Schrötersheim | Oneschskoje, now: Podgorowka |
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| Jonasthal | Okhtinskoye | * Sodine caves | Jägerfreude (East Pr.) | Kowrowo | ||
| Karszamup | Green flow | Smetanino | Trakehnen, train station | Divnoye | ||
| Small bait | Lyublimowka, now: Podgorowka |
* Tublauken | Schweizersfelde | Rabotkino, now: Lomowo |
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| Lasdinehlen | Good Altkrug | Be |
Pastor
Between 1725 and 1945, 15 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Szirgupönen Church:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Dalneje - Schirgupönen / Amtshagen (with current landscape photos )
- ↑ Amtshagen (Szirgupönen)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 97
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 480
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 131