Becoming a Church
| Verdainės bažnyčia (Church of Becoming) |
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 The Church of Werden (before 1945) |
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| Construction year: | 1847 |
| Style elements : | Brick building with gable turret |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Werden ( church province East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 20 '10 " N , 21 ° 31' 1" E |
| Location: |
Verdainė Klaipėda , Lithuania |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The building no longer serves church purposes |
The Verdainė Church (Eng. 'Church Become ') was a brick building with a small gable tower built in 1847 in today's village of Verdainė ( Šilutė Rajongemeinde ), Klaipėda District , Lithuania . Verdainė (Eng. 'To become') used to be a place in East Prussia . Until 1945 the church was the Protestant house of worship for the residents in the parish .
Geographical location
Today's Verdainė is located one kilometer east of the former district town of Šilutė (Heydekrug) on the Lithuanian national road KK 141 , which leads from Klaipėda (Memel) to Kaunas . The nearest train station is Šilutė on the - currently not in operation - railway line Sowetsk – Klaipėda (Tilsit – Memel) .
Church building
The brick building with a small gable tower, built in 1847, was on the main thoroughfare and looked inconspicuous in its shape. Inside was the church in three ships divided and covered with a painted flat ceiling. There were galleries on three walls .
The neo-Gothic altarpiece showed "Christ blesses bread and wine" in the main picture. The pulpit was on the left in the front chancel .
Above the sanctuary was an inscription with the biblical words: See, I can be seen with you every day until the end of the world , as well as pictures of the two reformers Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon .
The church bell consisted of two bells that were housed in a special bell house.
The building, which was only insignificantly damaged during the war, was converted into a factory hall during the Soviet era and no longer used for worship purposes.
Parish
There was already a church in Werden in the Middle Ages, where evangelical clergy have been attested since 1588. A Protestant parish in Werden was officially founded in 1621. From 1888, the owner of the second pastor's office was responsible for the district of the Heydekrug church, which was built later (today: Šilutė in Lithuanian). In 1913 the Heydekrug church became independent, and it was not until 1939 that both churches were reunited.
Until 1945 the Werden church - in 1925 it had 5,700 parish members - belonged to the Heydekrug church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Between 1920 and 1939 it was part of the separate Synodal Association of the Memelland .
The Protestant church members living today in the area of the former parish Werden now belong to the congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Šilutė within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania .
Parish places
Before 1945, the Werden church had a parish with 24 towns and villages, as well as living spaces:
| Surname | Change name from 1939 to 1945 |
Lithuanian name | Surname | Change name from 1939 to 1945 |
Lithuanian name | |
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| * Bruiss-Pakull | Rumšai | Masks | Dimensions | Mažiai | ||
| * Gaidellen | Gaideliai | Matzos | Macikai | |||
| * Large grave groups | Grabupai | * Metterquets | Metirkviečiai | |||
| * Hermann caves | Urbiškai, now: Armalėnai |
Minneiken (proportionately) | Mineikiai | |||
| Jonaten | Jonaičciai | Mussaten | Musaičiai | |||
| Kallningken | Kalininkai | Oszkarten, forestry | Osskarten, forestry | Ožkarčiai, girninkija | ||
| Kallwellischken | Kalveliškiai | * Pagrien | Pagryniai | |||
| Kirlicken | Kirlikai | Ruboken | Rubokai | |||
| Small grave groups | Grabupėliai | * Rudien | Rudynai | |||
| Kolletzischken | Kolleschen | Kulėšai | Schillmeyszen | Schillmeyßen | Šilmeižiai | |
| * Laudsets | Laudschen | Laučiai | * Will | Verdainė | ||
| Liekertischken | Lykertiškai | * Willeiken | Vileikai |
Pastor
The pastors officiated at the church as Protestant clergy:
- Lazarus Sengstock, 1588–1595
- Peter Golcowius, 1596–1598
- Benedict Furmann, until 1598
- Johann Höpfner, 1604–1616
- Andreas Groß, 1616–1620
- Johann Cynthius, 1620-1642
- Wilhelm Martini, 1642-1670
- Michael Olderus (Olderogge), 1671–1679
- Martin Martini, 1679-1688
- Daniel Werner, 1688-1700
- Michael Gurski, 1700-1710
- Martin Förstenau, 1711–1712
- Johann Christian Lüneburg, 1712–1722
- Fabian Kalau, 1723-1747
- Georg Gottfried Lohrer, 1747–1758
- Johann Friedrich Wengrovius,
1760–1769 - Johann Christoph Tarrach, 1769–1778
- Gottfried Tiedtke, 1778–1791
- Christian Bartholomäus Voss, 1791–1813
- Daniel Otto Settegast, 1814–1817
- David Jonathan Naugardt, 1818–1831
- August Ferdinand Steinberg, 1830-1859
- Hermann Rudolph Groß, 1859–1860
- Waldemar Hoffheinz , 1862–1876
- Friedrich Wilhelm H. Oloff, 1877–1890
- Johann Theodor Fisch, 1888
- Heinrich Endrulat, 1889–1890
- Otto Wilhelm Fr. Petrenz, 1890-1893
- Theodor Gustav Struck, 1893–1904
- Leopold Gustav Eugen Lotto, 1893–1896
- Hugo August Waldemar Reidys, 1895–1896
- Alfred Dümke, 1897–1899
- Emil Albert Dalista, from 1899
- Konrad Oloff, 1900-1905
- Viktor Lukanov, from 1902
- Louis Arno Thiel, 1904–1909
- Friedrich Hein, 1905
- Karl Ernst Garmeister, 1905–1911
- Robert Jopp, 1909-1936
- Ludwig Fr. Theodor Eicke, 1911–1913
- Valentin Gailus, 1915-1921
- Heinrich Dauskardt, 1936–1937
- Ernst Bruno Ribbat, 1937–1945
Web link
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, pp. 100–101, figs. 435–437
- ↑ Become at wiki-de
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 511
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 148–149
- ↑ a b c d Groß († 1875), Hoffheinz († 1897), Struck († 1945) and Lukanow († 1941) were members of the Corps Littuania .