Kaliningrad Provostry

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The Evangelical Lutheran Propstei Kaliningrad is one of twelve church districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER) in the network of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (ELKRAS). It has its seat in Kaliningrad (formerly Königsberg (Prussia) ).

Geographical location

The provost of Kaliningrad is located in the former Northeast Prussia in what is now Kaliningrad Oblast in the federal district of Northwestern Russia of the Russian Federation . It covers the entire oblast area.

history

Until 1945 what was then Königsberg (Prussia) was the seat of the consistory of the church province of East Prussia, which encompassed all of East Prussia, of the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union . With the beginning of the Soviet administration and the flight and expulsion of the local population living here, church life almost completely came to a standstill.

It was only after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990/91 that some of the Germans who remained here, as well as the first Germans from Russia, gathered for regular, albeit improvised, church services, including in the regional hospital and the “Pobeda” cinema. More and more parishioners came, who came as refugees and resettlers from Kazakhstan , Kyrgyzstan , Uzbekistan , Moldova , the Volga , the Urals , Siberia and others. They had maintained a modest parish life in their surroundings in secret and at great risk and found here - initially unstructured - as parishes in Kaliningrad and in various cities and villages in the oblast.

With the support of the Gustav-Adolf-Werk in Saxony , the North Elbian Church , the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the Community of Evangelical East Prussia (GEO) as well as numerous church congregations and financial individual sponsors, a structured community development with today eight pastors with officials was achieved Russia and Germany. The services are mostly bilingual, but increasingly in Russian.

structure

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Kaliningrad Oblast has around 1,000 parishioners in 38 parishes. They are looked after by four pastors and one provost, whose parishes correspond to the three church regions:

Provost

In addition to the pastoral activity of the holder of the office, the provost office is connected with the spiritual leadership of the parishes in the provost area. The official seat is the parish center of the Church of the Resurrection in Prospekt Mira 101 in Kaliningrad.

Public officials

Previous incumbents were:

  • Kurt Beyer, 1992-1996
  • Peter Wittenburg, 1996–1998
  • Erhard Wolfram, 1999–2002
  • Heye Osterwald, 2002-2008
  • Jochen Löber, 2008–2011
  • Thomas Vieweg, 2012–2013
  • Maria Goloschapowa, 2013–2015
  • Igor Ronge, since 2015

Provost church

The Provost Church: Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad

The Provost Church is the newly built Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad between 1996 and 1999 , which with its 450 seats is also the parish church for the Kaliningrad church members. The city approved part of the former Luisenfriedhof as building site. The construction was largely financed by the Evangelical Church of the Union , the successor organization to the former Church of the Old Prussian Union , with strong support from the Gustav-Adolf-Werk and numerous individual donors, especially from Germany.

Diaconal institutions

The Provosty of Kaliningrad is responsible for two social-diaconal institutions:

  • House Salzburg: Diakoniezentrum in Gussew ( Gumbinnen )
  • Carl-Blum-Haus: Nursing home in Sadoroschje (until 1938 Mallenuppen , 1938–1946 Gembern ) near Osjorsk ( Darkehmen , 1938–1946 Angerapp )

Parishes

Individual communities exist in the following cities and villages (with the previous names ):

literature

  • Joachim Willems: Lutherans and Lutheran Congregations in Russia. An Empirical Study of Religion in the Post-Soviet Context. Martin-Luther-Verlag, Erlangen 2005, ISBN 3-87513-142-8 (Hamburg, University, evang. Theol. Dissertation, 2003).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kaliningrad domicile from June 16, 2013. - Maria Goloschapowa was introduced to her office on June 9, 2013. She is the first female and also the first Russian incumbent. So far she was pastor in Chernyakhovsk
  2. ↑ Lutheran Service , Volume 51, 2015, Issue 4, p. 23