Parish of Almenhausen / Abschwangen

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The parish Almenhausen / Abschwangen was a double parish , it was briefly incorporated in the Friedland district and from 1819 in the Preußisch Eylau district in East Prussia . The main church was Almenhausen , where the pastor lived. The villages of Blankenau, Bönkeim, Grünbaum and Mostitte, as well as several farms, estates and farms were subordinate to this.

Almenhausen has been renamed the Russian Kaschtanowo since 1946 , the side church of Abschwangen in Tischino . The former parish is now largely part of the Bagrationovsk Raion (only Kashtanovo (Almenhausen) belongs to the Pravdinsk Raion ) in the Kaliningrad Oblast of the Russian Federation . It is located about 17 km west of the city of Prawdinsk (German: Friedland in Ostpreußen ), on the former Chaussee (today's Russian trunk road A 196 , former German Reichsstrasse 131 ) from Friedland to Königsberg, just a few kilometers north of today's Polish-Russian border.

Parishes

General

The parishes and their parish locations, which are connected under a parish in Almenhausen, belonged to the parish of Preußisch Eylau (today Russian: Bagrationowsk) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Church in Swinging

The church in Abschwangen was built soon after the village was founded and belonged to the Pr.Eylau archipelago. After the founding of the Augustinian Hermit Monastery of Patollen ( Gr. Waldeck ) in 1400, the church Abschwangen as well as the one in Almenhausen was looked after by his monks, which even Pope Alexander III. (1492-1503) confirmed. The greatest consequence of the Reformation for Abschwangen was that it came to Almenhausen in 1525. The pastor, who also lived in Almenhausen, only came 'to visit' after Abschwangen. The parish widow's house had therefore been sold by the church and the parish hooves leased out early on. The church building was a simple field stone building from the 15th century with brick surrounds. A retracted choir was built in front of the east side of the nave, and the vaulted sacristy with a flat ceiling on the north side. The wooden tower built on the west side was built in 1858. Simple buttresses were added to the outer walls; the ogival entrance was on the south side. The interior of the church was furnished at the beginning of the 18th century. Instead of the painted wooden barrel ceiling, a trapezoidal ceiling was drawn in. The galleries were given rustic painted fillings. The richly carved altar was created in 1701 in the workshop of the Königsberg sculptor Isaak Riga and was not decorated until 1728. The pulpit also belonged to the beginning of the 18th century. Adam Gottlob Casparini built a new organ with ten stops on one manual in 1749/1750 . In 1787 Johann Preuss repaired the organ. In 1913 this instrument was replaced by a new build by Bruno Goebel, which he built as his Opus 311 with 12 registers on two manuals and pedal using pneumatic action .

Church in Almenhausen

Around 1865 the church received an organ with 14 registers on a manual and pedal, which Johann Josua Mosengel had built in 1711 for the church in Uderwangen . Renkewitz suspects that the organ went down in the chaos of war in 1944/1945, the church is now only preserved as a ruin.

Pastor (1525–1945)

From the time of the Reformation to the end of the Second World War , there were Protestant clergymen in Almenhausen and Abschwangen (parish seat in Almenhausen):

  • Donatus Lubani, 1528
  • Antonius Trogus, 1561
  • Alexius N., 1582
  • Georg Hintz, from 1585
  • Jacob Nilsonius, until 1651
  • Thomas Davidsohn, 1651–1686
  • Friedrich Ganderus, 1687–1693
  • Christian Reinholtz, 1693-1710
  • Christian Bobindius, 1711-1736
  • Bernhard Wolters, 1737–1747
  • Ernst Ludwig Sier, 1747–1769
  • Ludwig Franck, 1769–1777
  • Johann Fr. Schleswich, 1778–1796
  • Johann Gottlieb Zielinski, from 1796
  • Franz Eduard Graemer, 1841–1891
  • Karl Richard Grabowski, 1891–1927
  • Walter Sgaga, 1926–1945

Parishes

  • Almenhausen with the districts of Freudenthal, Neu-Waldeck , Neu-Waldeck station
  • Abswangen with the districts Abschwangen-Waldhaus and Neu-Abschwangen
  • Blankenau with the districts of Oberblankenau, Olk, Wesselsbruch
  • Bönkeim with the districts Bönkeim-Waldhaus, Johannisberg , Wisdehnen
  • Grünbaum with the districts of Elchwalde, Kämmersbruch, Klein Haferbeck, Randenau
  • Mostitten with the districts Groß and Klein Waldeck , Konitten, Neu-Waldecker Waldhaus, Plenitten, Ranglack

Todays situation

The parish has not existed since 1945. Today the former parish locations are in the catchment area of ​​the Evangelical Lutheran parishes in Gwardeiskoje (Mühlhausen) and Domnowo (Domnau) , both of which are branches of the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg) in the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER).

literature

  • Horst Schulz: The towns and communities of the Preußisch Eylau district. Published by the district community Preußisch Eylau in the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen eV district community Pr. Eylau, Verden Aller 1990.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-921140-80-2 , pp. 362-3365.
  2. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-921140-80-2 , p. 170
  3. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, page 15
  4. ↑ Grabowski (1863-1942) was a member of the Corps Masovia . In 1914 he buried the parishioners who were shot by the Russians on the church wall.
  5. ↑ Ev.-luth. 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.propstei-kaliningrad.info