Lithuanian Church (Tilsit)
| Lithuanian Church (Country Church ) in Tilsit (Sovetsk) |
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|---|---|
| Construction year: | 1757 |
| Architect : | Karl Ludwig Bergius |
| Style elements : | Oval church |
| Client: | Parish of the Protestant Lithuanian Church in Tilsit ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 55 ° 4 '48 " N , 21 ° 54' 0" E |
| Location: |
Sovetsk Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church was demolished in 1951/52. |
The Lithuanian Church (also country church ) was a Protestant church in the East Prussian city of Tilsit (today Russian: Sowetsk). It was built in 1757 with an oval floor plan and crowned with a tower. Until 1945 it served the Lithuanians in Tilsit and more than 30 parishes on both sides of the Memel for religious services .
location
The old cultural center of Prussian Lithuania is today in the north of the Kaliningrad Oblast . The Memel (Russian Neman ) forms the border to Lithuania . The Russian highways A 198 and A 216 meet here. The Kaliningrad railway ends in Sovetsk . The church stood in the southeastern old town north of the Schlossmühlenteich.
building
Before a church for the Lithuanian population was built in Tilsit, the services are said to have been held from a “ sermon chair ”. The then built Litthauische Kirche was a half-timbered building without a tower or bells. It was also used by the German population during the new construction of the German Church (1598 to 1612). After several repairs in the 17th and early 18th centuries, the church building had to be demolished because it was in disrepair.
The old church was replaced in 1757 by a new building designed by the master builder Karl Ludwig Bergius . The new church had an oval floor plan and a tower-like roof turret. Inside , Tuscan pillars on pedestals supported the wooden barrel vault . The aisles were flat covered.
A simple pulpit altar stood on the east wall of the church . He was included in the column architecture. In the years 1853 and 1927 extensive restoration work took place in and around the church.
The organ from the Sauer workshop in Frankfurt (Oder) was inaugurated on September 9, 1860.
In 1818 the church received two bells from the Königsberg foundry Corpinus . In 1892 a bell jumped and was cast in 1893 by Reschke in Rastenburg (now in Polish: Kętrzyn). The other bell was later replaced by a casting from the Schilling Bell Foundry in Apolda .
The church building survived the conquest of Tilsit in 1945 without damage. It burned down in a fire (probably caused by children) and was demolished in 1951/52.
Parish
A Lithuanian parish was established in Tilsit during the time of Duke Albrecht , who was very committed to the Lithuanian ethnic group. It was "separated" from the German Church on July 29, 1686 . Both churches existed side by side and before 1945 belonged to the Tilsit diocese in the Tilsit-Ragnit church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . While the German Church had a total of 45,000 parishioners in 1925 (urban area and outskirts), the Lithuanian Church had 8,800 parishioners in the same year (urban area and surrounding area on both sides of the Memel). Two pastors did their service at the Lithuanian Church.
As a result of the flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe in 1945–1950 and the restrictive church policy of the Soviet Union , church life in Sovetsk collapsed. Today the city is located in the catchment area of an Evangelical Lutheran congregation in Slavsk (Heinrichswalde) that was newly established in the 1990s and belongs to the provost of Kaliningrad (Königsberg) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia .
Parish locations (Tilsit-Land)
The Lithuanian Church, also known as the country church, included parishioners from the city of Tilsit as well as parishioners in the surrounding towns, villages and places of residence:
| Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Today's name |
Today's state |
Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1946 |
Today's name | Today's state |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bartukaites | Bartenhöh | Barsukovka | Russia | * Pamlettes | Barsukovka | Russia | ||
| * Bendiglauken | Bendigsfelde | (Russia) | Pellehnen | Peleniai | Lithuania | |||
| Berneiten | Riedenhof | (Russia) | But against | Pagėgiai | Lithuania | |||
| Budeningken | Budingen | Budyonovskoye | Russia | * Prussellen | Prūseliai | Lithuania | ||
| Camp | Kampinė | Lithuania | Raukothienen | Rocket | (Russia) | |||
| * Dwischaken | Pond location | (Russia) | Schakeningken | Šakininkai | Lithuania | |||
| * Eromeiten | Ehrenfelde | Zlatoustye | Russia | Schilleningken | Hegehof | Zalessye | Russia | |
| * Big chat warrants | Plaušvariai | Lithuania | * Schillgallen-Heydebruch | (Russia) | ||||
| Jaegenberg | Jėgininkai | Lithuania | * Splinters | (Russia) | ||||
| Bullshit | Kaschen | Kosyrjewo | Russia | * Stolbeck | (Russia) | |||
| * Kallwen | (Russia) | Suitcases | Sutkaičiai | Lithuania | ||||
| * Cold corners | Yelnya | Russia | Tracking | Hochau (East Pr.) | (Russia) | |||
| * Mapping | Kartingen | Kulikowo | Russia | Uszpelken | Užpelkiai | Lithuania | ||
| Little chat warren | Plaušvarėliai | Lithuania | * Uszpirden | Ušpirdžiai | Lithuania | |||
| * Las stretching | Lazdėnai | Lithuania | * (Alt) wine notes | Wine notes | Oktyabrskoye | Russia | ||
| Dairy stall | Jovarynė | Lithuania | Wing | Vingis | Lithuania | |||
| * Nausseden | Nausėdai | Lithuania | Wittschen | Vyčiai | Lithuania |
Pastor
From the Reformation to 1945, a total of 35 Protestant clergymen officiated at the Lithuanian Church in Tilsit and were thus the pastors of the Tilsit-Land parish :
- Johann Carbo, 1553-1576
- Zacharias Blothno d. Ä., 1576-1602
- Ambrosius Hartwich, 1602-1614
- Zacharias Blothno d. J., 1614-1629
- Georg Praetorius, 1629–1637
- Daniel Klein, 1637-1666
- Michael Engel the Elder, 1666–1687
- Michael Engel d. J., 1677-1707
- G. Erhard Rosochatius, 1706–1709
- Johann Schultz, 1710
- Reinhard Rosenberg, 1710-1726
- Job Naunien, 1726-1730
- Johann Christian Schwartz, 1730–1758
- Reinhold Ortlieb, 1758–1766
- Wilhelm Regge, 1767–1790
- Johann Jakob Preuss, 1784–1800
- Christoph Frölich, 1800–1807
- Gottfried Samuel Morgen, 1807–1820
- Friedrich Gottl. Hassenstein, 1820-1830
- Johann Erhard Atzpodien, 1831–1846
- Carl Wilhelm Otto Glogau, 1846–1875
- Adolf Küsel, 1865-1891
- Waldemar Hoffheinz, 1876–1890
- Otto Stein, 1891–1924
- Siegfried Dembowski, 1891–1895
- Hugo August Waldemar Reidys, 1895
- Johannes Kurt (Hans) Kalanke, 1896-1897
- Hans Otto Max Brunau, 1897
- Paul Barth, 1897–1905
- Hans Bartschat, 1905–1915
- Johannes Todtenhaupt, 1915–1937
- Franz Adomat, 1925–1945
- Heinz Zimmer, 1936
- Ernst Knopf, 1936–1937
- Kurt Melzer, 1937–1945
Church records
The church registers of the Lithuanian Church have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1723-1818 and 1828-1866
- Weddings: 1791–1883
- Burials: 1766–1876
- Communicants: 1673-1683 and 1732-1740.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Lithuanian Church at GenWiki (with a historical photo of the church)
- ↑ a b The Protestant churches in the Tilsit district at the Tilsit-Ragnit district community ( Memento of the original from January 9, 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. (also with photo)
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Images of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 114, fig. 512, 513.
- ^ Churches in Tilsit at ostpreussen.net
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 489.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 142.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Hoffheinz († 1897) was a member of the Corps Littuania .
- ↑ Kalanke († 1924) was a member of the Corps Baltia Königsberg .
- ↑ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, pp. 111-113.
