Wedereitischken Church
| Wedereitischken Church (Sandkirchen Church) Кирха Ведерайтишкена Swjato- Vwedenskaja -Kirche Кирха Свято-Введенская |
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| Construction year: | 1906 to 1907 Basic repairs: 2006 to 2008 |
| Inauguration: | December 22, 1907 (Protestant) July 20, 2008 (Orth.) |
| Style elements : | Brick church , neo-Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Wedereitischken ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 58 '53.2 " N , 22 ° 17' 46.5" E |
| Location: |
Timofejewo Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: |
Evangelical Lutheran , since 2008: Orthodox parish church |
| Local community: | Timofeyevo Orthodox Community |
| Diocese : |
Kaliningrad and Baltiysk Diocese , Russian Orthodox Church |
The Wedereitischken Church ( Russian Кирха Ведерайтишкена , the place was called between 1938 and 1946: Sandkirchen) was until 1945 a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish of what is now Timofejewo in the Kaliningrad Oblast in Russia . The church has been a Russian Orthodox place of worship since 2008 .
Geographical location
Timofejewo is 22 kilometers southeast of the city of Sovetsk (Tilsit) on the left bank of the Scheschuppe (1938 to 1945: East River). From the Russian regional road R 508 (27A-27) near Petropawlowskoje (Eggleningken , 1938 to 1946 Lindengarten) a side road (27K-140) leads north to Liwenskoje (Galbrasten , 1938 to 1946 Dreifurt) , which runs through Timofejewo. There is no train connection.
The church is located within the village west of the main road to Livenskoye.
Church building
The history of the Wedereitischken church begins at the beginning of the 20th century. Before the church was built, the altar and baptismal font stood in the school building that served as an emergency church . In 1906 the foundation stone was laid for the church. On the 4th Sunday of Advent (December 22nd) 1907 it was handed over to its destination.
The church is an exposed brick building with a west gable and a pointed tower as well as a just closed choir with echoes of the architecture of the religious era . It was equipped with an altar , pulpit and baptismal font . Empress Auguste Viktoria , the wife of Kaiser Wilhelm II, is said to have given the church a silver-bound Bible .
The church had an organ from the beginning . Their ringing consisted of initially two, later three bells . One of them was delivered to be melted down during World War I , but was then replaced again.
The church survived the Second World War unscathed, but was misused in the following years and served as a horse stable, granary and building material store after it was completely gutted. The main portal to the tower was expanded and represented a square breach. The lack of maintenance of the building ultimately led to the roof collapsing.
In 2005 the former Protestant church was handed over to the Russian Orthodox Church . After years of loving restoration and refurbishment of the building in the Orthodox style (installation of an iconostasis ), the Svyato-Vwedenskaja-Kirche (“ Mariä-Tempelgang-Kirche ”, also: “Mariä-Sacrifice-Church”) was called on July 20, 2008 inaugurated by Archbishop Kyrill I , then Metropolitan of Smolensk and Kaliningrad , then Patriarch of Moscow and Russia .
Parish
Wedereitischken, at that time an inconspicuous place at the Scheschuppe, was chosen as a church village in 1902 due to its central location . Two years later it also became a parish after 1901, however, auxiliary preachers had been looking after the "pastoral care district" Wedereitischken. The associated parish was created by separating from the Church of Budwethen (Altenkirch), the Church of Lasdehnen (Haselberg) and the Church of Wischwill . The new church location saved the parishioners long distances and detours to the church services.
A total of 16 villages, localities and residential areas belonged to the parish , which in 1925 included 2,800 parishioners. In the parish area, through which the Scheschuppe (east river) meandered with many windings over a length of twelve kilometers, partly through the middle, partly as a western and northern boundary, the population was almost 100% Protestant. The parish was patroness . Until 1945 it belonged to the diocese of Ragnit in the church district of Tilsit-Ragnit within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Escape and expulsion of the local population as a result of the Second World War and the anti-church policy of the Soviet Union brought church life in Timofejewo to a standstill.
Only at the beginning of the 21st century did Orthodox Christians gain a foothold here, to whom the Protestant parish church was transferred. Sabrodino (Lesgewangminnen , 1938 to 1946 Lesgewangen) is the closest parish for Protestant church members . It belongs to the Kaliningrad (Königsberg) provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish locations (until 1945)
The Protestant parish Wedereitischken (Sandkirchen) existed between 1902 and 1945 with its 16 locations:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Russian name | |
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| Alt Krauleidszen 1936–38: Alt Krauleidschen |
Hohenflur (East Pr.) | Khvorostyanka | Little shit | Small birch grove | Alexeyevka | |
| Aszen 1936–46: Ashes |
Khvorostyanka | Klein Rudminnen | Petty dogs | Abramovo | ||
| Dannenberg | Talniki | Klein Schillehlen | Small clods | Kalacheva | ||
| * Dickschen | Lindbach | Abramovo | King's Grace II | Bobrowo | ||
| * Galbrasten | Dreifurt | Livenskoye | Micetons | Micheln | Talniki | |
| Big shit |
since 1936: Birkenhain (Ostpr.) |
Sadowo |
New Krauleidszen 1936–38: New Krauleidschen |
Collecting furnace | Timofeeva | |
| * Great Rudminnen | Wietzheim | Bobrowo | Wedereitischken | Sandkirchen | Timofeeva | |
| * Groß Schillehlen | Large clods | Petropavlovskoye | * Weeders |
Pastor (until 1945)
Five evangelical clergy were in office at the Wedereitischken church until 1945:
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Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Кирха Ведерайтишкена - The Wedereitischken Church at prussia39.ru (with photos from 2012)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 112, Fig. 501
- ↑ a b Timofejewo - Wedereitischken / Sandkirchen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b A.P. Bachtin, Churches of East Prussia. Old and new photos. Information on history , in the series: Sights in the Kaliningrad Region, A 87, Kaliningrad (Baltpromo Verlag), 2013, pp. 68–69
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 489
- ↑ Edeltraut Zenke, The Parish of Sandkirchen (Wedereitischken) ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 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.
- ↑ Walter Broszeit, from the parish of Sandkirchen (Wedereitischken) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 147
- ↑ Pastor Obereigner moved to Pogegen as superintendent and was general superintendent for the Memel region from 1933 to 1945
