Trappönen Church
| Trappönen Church (Kirche Trappen) |
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|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1904 to 1905 |
| Inauguration: | November 1905 |
| Style elements : | Brick construction , neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Trappönen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 2 '58.4 " N , 22 ° 23' 23" E |
| Location: |
Nemanskoye Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church no longer stands. |
The church in Trappönen (the place was called Trappen between 1938 and 1946) was an exposed brick building with a tower that was erected at the beginning of the 20th century . Until 1945 it was a Protestant place of worship for the population in the parish of the former East Prussian and now Nemanskoje place in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg area (Prussia) ).
Geographical location
Today's Nemanskoje is located on the southern bank of the Memel on a side road (27K-112 or 27K-321) that connects Lesnoje (Groß Lenkeningken , 1938 to 1946 Großlenkenau) with Pogranitschny (Schillehnen , 1938 to 1946 Waldheide) . There is no train connection.
In the place of the former church there is now an administration building in the immediate vicinity of the former rectory that is still preserved today .
Church building
Just one year after the Trappönen parish was founded, the newly built church was consecrated in November 1905. It was a gift of grace from Kaiser Wilhelm II. In the usual east-west orientation, the church building was erected in the neo-Gothic style as an unplastered brick structure, whereby religious architecture was recognizable in the construction .
The tower built in front in the west had a gable roof . The nave was entered through a vestibule on a wide corridor leading to the altar in the eastern apse .
The plastered interior was provided with a semicircular vaulted ceiling and two strong beams ran from wall to wall. Two neo-Gothic brass chandeliers hung from the richly painted ceiling . The nave and the chancel were separated by a painted triumphal arch . In the rectangular chancel there was a wooden altar with a top and a three-meter tall crucifix . The pulpit stood to the right of the altar, the baptismal font to the left . Behind the altar was a large pointed arch window with the depictions of the crucifixion of Jesus and the resurrection of Jesus Christ .
The organ came from the time the church was built. The ringing consisted of three bells , one of which had to be turned off during the First World War . During renovation work carried out in 1934, the two iron stoves were replaced by warm air heating .
The church was destroyed in the Second World War . Remaining remains were removed after 1945 and used as building material. An administration building now stands on the site of the church.
Parish
For the parish places of the Evangelical Church Wischwill , which were on the south side of the Memel, there was an extremely difficult connection to the parish church on the north bank in spring and autumn. That was the reason to separate them from Wischwill (the place is called today in Lithuanian: Viešvilė) and to merge them into a new parish with the parish of Trappönen . This is how the parish of Trappönen was created (1938 to 1946: Trappen), supplemented by two places from the parish of the Lasdehnen church (the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Haselberg, today in Russian: Krasnosnamensk).
It was founded on October 1, 1904, after assistant preachers had been employed here since 1899. After the new church was completed in 1905, the building of the rectory could also be completed in 1908 . The building is still unchanged today, apart from the re-covering of the roof with asbestos-cement tiles . A museum for Russian and German contemporary history was built in the old rectory.
The parish, comprising ten localities or residential places, was part of the parish Ragnit (today in Russian: Neman), last until 1945 assigned to the diocese of Ragnit in the parish of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The parish had no patronage and in 1925 had a total of 2,200 parish members.
Flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the Second World War and the restrictive religious policy of the Soviet Union made church life in Nemanskoye impossible after 1945. Today the place is located in the extensive catchment area of the newly established Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) , which belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
The parish of the Trappönen Church consisted of ten localities or residential areas:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name |
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| * Alt Lubönen | Friedenswalde | Osjornoje |
| Böttchershof | Nemanskoye | |
| * Budupönen-Uthelen |
since 1931: Hartigsberg |
Dolzhanskoye |
| * Galwoszen 1936–1938: Galwoschen |
Sand forest | |
| Cunts | Kleinhartigsberg | |
| New Lubönen | Memelwalde | Zelenodolye |
| Schacken | Verkhovoye | |
| Trapponen , village | Bustards, village | Nemanskoye |
| Trappönen , Forst | Bustards, forest | Nemanskoye |
| Drifting gear until 1907: Lenken throats |
Float |
Pastor
In the four decades of the Parish Trappönen's existence, the clergy served as Protestant pastors (until 1904: assistant preacher):
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References
- ↑ a b c Trappönen - Kirchdorf am Memelstrom (GenWiki)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 112–113, Fig. 571
- ↑ Historical picture of the Trappöner Church (photo taken around 1932)
- ↑ Nemanskoje - Trappönen / Trappen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Parish Trappen (Trappönen) (Tilsit-Ragnit district community) ( Memento of the original of August 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 144
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 489
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
