Wargen Church
The church in Wargen was built in the middle of the 14th century and was one of the stately country churches of the Samland in East Prussia . From the Reformation to 1945 it was a Protestant church, of which today - near the settlement Kotelnikowo in the Russian Oblast Kaliningrad ( Koenigsberg region (Prussia) ) - only a mound of remains of foundations and rubble can be seen.
Geographical location
The former East Prussian village of Wargen with its imposing parish church was located on a promontory that protrudes into today's Schkolny Prud (Wargen church pond ). The distance to today's settlement Kotelnikowo is only a few hundred meters in a south-westerly direction. Kotelnikowo can be reached on a land route that branches off the side road from Kaliningrad (Königsberg) to Ljublino (Seerappen) in a northerly direction and leads to Druschnoje (Mednicken) . Druzhnoye is the nearest train station on the Kaliningrad – Svetlogorsk (Koenigsberg – Rauschen) line , the former Samland Railway .
Church building
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The church in Wargen was a clearly structured, plastered brick building with a polygonal choir closure and a tower from the middle of the 14th century. Parts of the building - the choir and the sacristy - are said to have emerged from an old castle chapel, and parts of the castle that were torn down could also have been used as materials for church construction.
The church interior looked remarkably elongated. This impression was reinforced by the height of the walls and the narrow high windows. Galleries were not drawn in until 1841. During restoration work, the remains of wall paintings could be exposed.
A triumphal arch group and a figure of the Archangel Michael , originally part of the pulpit or the altar , came from the end of the period of the order .
According to Anton Ulbrich and Thieme-Becker , the altarpiece was also created in 1672 by the sculptor Johannes Pfeffer . The altar from 1672 was restored in 1876. His main picture showed the crucifixion of Jesus .
According to Anton Ulbrich and Thieme-Becker , the pulpit dates from 1668 and, like the altar, is said to have been made in Johannes Pfeffer's workshop .
The baptismal bowl from 1721 was shaped like a shell.
In 1824 an organ was built. The three bells were from the years 1655, 1780 and 1794. The last restoration of the church took place in the years 1933 to 1937.
In the choir of the church hung a copper mourning flag, which was dedicated to the memory of the Prussian Major General Christoph Albrecht von Kanitz , who came from Mednicken near Wargen and bore the following inscription: "My soul in God's hand, my blood to the fatherland, my heart to the husband, my ashes the Warg Valley. "
At first it seemed as if the church would survive World War II unscathed. But in the fighting that took place in 1945, the village of Wargen and with it the church were razed to the ground.
Parish
Wargen was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period and the Reformation found its way here early : in 1530, the Samland bishop Georg von Polenz , who converted to Lutheran teaching, came to visit Wargen. Even in 1823 belonged Wargen for inspection Schaaken (now Russian: Schemtschuschnoje ), then to 1945 the Church District Fischhausen (Primorsk) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches . In 1925, the census showed 5,400 parishioners in the parish of Wargen. From the 1920s they were looked after by two clergymen, one of whom lived in Tannenwalde . There in the up-and-coming suburban settlement a separate church was built in 1929 and the place was declared an independent parish on April 1, 1930, which then belonged to the parish of Königsberg -Stadt, but remained parochial connected with Wargen.
With the end of the Second World War and the destruction of the village, church life in Wargen also came to an end.
Today 15 people live in the northeastern town of Kotelnikowo. The place is now in the catchment area of the resurrection parish in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) , which was newly established in the 1990s, in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish places
Before 1945 almost 50 villages belonged to the parish of the parish church in Wargen:
| German name | Russian name | German name | Russian name | German name | Russian name | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amalienhof | Big mix | Svobodnoye | Rosignaiten | Otkossowo | |||
| Slagging | Alexeyevka | Cat look | Saggehnen | ||||
| Backelfeld | Kuznetskoye | Mix small | Schorsch tendons | Malinovka | |||
| * Bärwalde | Vessyolovka | Kornites | Ljublino | Cattle | Ljublino | ||
| Bar back | Land germ | Controversy | Chkalovsk | ||||
| Bar nods | Laser germ | Fir jug | |||||
| Bras nod | Volozhino | Lehndorf | * Tannenwalde (until 1930) |
Chkalovsk | |||
| Bow rails | * Nod | Druzhnoye | Taukitten | ||||
| Dammhof | Mill field | Potion joke | Sapadnoye | ||||
| Dam jar | Upper alkenes | Morosowka | Trenk | Vyazovka | |||
| * Basset germ | Pavlinino | Parschwitz | Waldhausen | Perelesky | |||
| * Elchdorf , until 1906: Pojerstieten |
Kulikowo | Preyl | (Under) alkenes | Morosowka | |||
| Emilienhof | Prowehren | Chkalovsk | * Wargs | Kotelnikowo | |||
| Fuchsberg | Kholmogorovka | Quandits | Sinyavino | War glide | Bugrowo | ||
| Gallhöfe | Rablacken | * Welcome | Kolossovka | ||||
| * Goldsmiths | Dimitrowo | Regitten | Target seed | Petrowo | |||
| Greibau | Rye tendons |
Note: * = school locations
Pastor
From the Reformation until 1945, a total of 30 clergymen officiated as Protestant pastors at the Wargen Church :
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume II: Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 37, figs. 61 to 64.
- ↑ Patrick Plew: The churches in Samland: Wargen.
- ^ The church in Wargen at ostpreussen.net.
- ^ Anton Ulbrich: History of sculpture in East Prussia from the end of the 16th century to around 1870. 2 volumes, Königsberg 1926–1929, p. 252 f.
- ^ A b Anton Ulbrich : Pfeffer, Johann . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 26 : Olivier – Pieris . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1932, p. 526 .
- ^ Anton Ulbrich: History of sculpture in East Prussia from the end of the 16th century to around 1870. 2 volumes, Königsberg 1926–1929, p. 251 f.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume I, Göttingen 1968, p. 45.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume III: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 381.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume III: Documents. P. 455.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 146.
Coordinates: 54 ° 45 ′ 41 ″ N , 20 ° 20 ′ 44 ″ E