Ponarther Church

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Ponarther Church

The Ponarther Church was built between 1896 and 1897 as a Protestant church of the then still independent parish of Ponarth .

history

The brewery owner Eduard Schifferdecker and other landowners were the financiers for the construction . The brick building in neo-Gothic style was inaugurated on July 23, 1897. In 1905 Ponarth became a district of Königsberg in the Prussian province of East Prussia , today's Kaliningrad in the Russian Oblast of Kaliningrad .

The right of patronage was initially held by the founder, Schifferdecker, who was buried in the Schifferdecker family crypt in the church in 1915. From 1939 to 1945 Helmut Hildebrandt was pastor at the Ponarther Church.

In World War II, the were spire and the northern gable easily damaged. After the war ended, the church was used for church services for the Germans who remained. The Kaliningraders used the church first as a warehouse and later as a gym. In the early 1980s, the roof tiles were replaced by cement panels. Since 2002 the building has been used again as a sacred building by a Russian Orthodox community .

literature

  • Robert Albinus: Königsberg Lexicon. City and surroundings. Special edition. Flechsig, Würzburg 2002, ISBN 3-88189-441-1 .
  • Richard Armstedt: History of the royal capital and residence city of Königsberg in Prussia. Reprint of the original edition, Stuttgart 1899.
  • Fritz Gause : The history of the city of Königsberg in Prussia. 3 volumes, Cologne 1996, ISBN 3-412-08896-X .
  • Jürgen Manthey : Königsberg. History of a world citizenship republic. Hanser 2005, ISBN 3-44620619-1 .
  • Gunnar Strunz: Discover Königsberg. Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-89794-071-X .
  • Baldur Köster: Königsberg. Architecture from the German era. Husum Druck, 2000, ISBN 3-88042-923-5 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Messner: Two Mosbach honorary citizens . In: Unser Land , Heidelberg 1994, pp. 120/121.
  2. ↑ Hans Huchzermeyer , contributions to the life and work of the church musician Ernst Maschke (1867-1940) and the history of the church music institutes in Königsberg / Prussia (1824-1945) , Paderborn: Univ.-Diss., 2012, p. 101.

Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 52 "  N , 20 ° 28 ′ 51.2"  E