Salzburg Church
The Salzburg Church ( Russian Зальцбургская кирха ) is located in the Russian city of Gussew (Gumbinnen) in the former East Prussia and today 's Kaliningrad Oblast . It was originally used by Salzburg exiles . Until 1945 it belonged to the church district Gumbinnen within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today she is a member of the Kaliningrad provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia (ELKER) in the Association of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Central Asia (ELKRAS).
| Salzburg church in Gussew / Gumbinnen |
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 The Salzburg Church in Gussew in 2013 |
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| Construction year: | 1839-1840 |
| Inauguration: | October 15, 1840 Rededication: October 31, 1995 |
| Builder : | Karl Friedrich Schinkel |
| Style elements : | Brick construction , classicist hall church |
| Client: | Evangelical church community Gumbinnen of the Church of the Old Prussian Union , Church Province of East Prussia |
| Location: | 54 ° 35 '12.6 " N , 22 ° 11' 42.2" E |
| Address: | uliza Mendelejewa Gusew Kaliningrad , Russia |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Gussew |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia , Provosty Kaliningrad |
history
Between 1731 and 1735 around 20,000 Protestants had to leave the prince-archbishopric of Salzburg under Leopold Anton von Firmian as so-called exiles . Since the Peace of Augsburg, the ruling prince-archbishop had the right to prescribe his denomination as universally valid in his domain . The Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm I issued an " immigration patent " on February 2, 1732 , so that around 16,000 Salzburg residents could settle in East Prussia, with a focus on Gumbinnen. Around 1740 the "Salzburg Hospital" was founded in Gumbinnen, and in 1752 the first "Salzburg Church" was built. In 1838 it was dilapidated and was demolished. In 1840 the successor building was built, one of the last buildings by the Prussian master builder Karl Friedrich Schinkel . In 1931 the church was extensively renovated. Until 1945 it was a branch church of the Old Town Church , which - oriented towards Lutheranism - existed alongside the Reformed New Town Church .
In January 1945 the church was badly damaged by the effects of the war and lost its tower. From then on the church was used as a shed for road construction. In 1995, the Salzburg church was the only church in Gussew to be completely rebuilt and inaugurated on Reformation Day (October 31). Since then it has served the Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Russian Germans in the region as a community center.
Location, architecture and equipment
The church is located in Mendeleev Street, northwest of the Gusev train station in the city center. The nave lies in a west-northwest-east-southeast direction. The simple church building is a normal Schinkel church . It is a predominantly classical hall church with three large arched windows in the form of pillar arcades on each of the long sides . The exterior paint is yellow. The tower adjoins the hall to the west. It has a square floor plan and smaller arched windows. The tower roof is a bent tent roof with a cross at the top. The entrance to the church is through the tower. In the white-painted interior there is a gallery that served as an organ gallery until 1945.
organ
Until 1945 there was an organ in the gallery. In 2010 the Salzburg church received a small, used organ from the Protestant parish in Berlin-Johannisthal . This is located at ground level in the nave. The instrument with five registers , which are divided between a manual and a pedal , was built in 1990 by the Potsdam company Alexander Schuke Orgelbau as their Opus 569 .
Parish
Gusew is the official seat of the clergy in one of the three regions in the provost of Kaliningrad, from where twelve other parishes are looked after. Pastors have worked at the Salzburg church between 1733 and 1823 and since 1996. From 1823 to 1945 the clergy of the city church took care of the supply; after 1945 all church life was forbidden during the time of the Soviet Union .
Pastor of the Salzburg Church
- Friedrich Wilhelm Haack, 1733
- Wilhelm Ludwig Geisler, 1734–1736
- Gottfried Baltzer, 1740–1743
- Johann Ludwig Reidnitz, 1743–1746
- Friedrich Pastenaci, 1746–1763
- Gottlieb Westphal, 1763-1770
- Christian Reimer, 1770-1799
- Johann Jacob Contag, 1799-1817
- Georg Gottlieb Wilhelm Wegner, 1817–1823
- Gerald Kotsch, 1994–1995
- Heye Osterwald, 1996-2002
- Ingo Rockmann, 2002-2004
- Werner Lanz, 2004-2005
- Elisabeth Lanz, 2004-2005
- Dietrich Brauer , 2005–2010
- Tatjana Petrenko, 2005–2010
- Tatjana Wagner, since 2010
- Wladimir Wagner (preacher), since 2010
Institutions of the "Salzburg"
The Diakoniezentrum "Haus Salzburg" has stood next to the church since 1998 . Among other things, pupils from a nearby village school regularly receive lunch there. Alexander Michel, a Volga German, has been the head of the facility since 1998. The “Salzburg Institution” is also located in Gussew. In Bielefeld , the senior citizens' home “Wohnstift Salzburg” is operated as a successor to the “Salzburger Anstalt” in Gumbinnen. The “Stiftung Salzburger Anstalten”, which is also based in Bielefeld, maintains the connections to Gussew. In 1911 the “Salzburg Association” was founded in Gumbinnen, which is supposed to promote the cohesion of the former “Salzburgers” to this day.
Web links
- Website of the "Salzburg"
- Website of the Provosty of Kaliningrad with a report on the new organ ( Memento from April 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (archive version)
Individual evidence
- ↑ On the trail of the "small" Johannisthal organ ( memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Evangelical Church Community Johannisthal, archiv.ev-kirche.johannisthal.de, accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Kaliningrad Provostry with a report on the new organ ( Memento of March 14, 2011 in the Internet Archive ), propstei-kaliningrad.info, accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ^ Website of the Schuke company, op.569 ( memento of April 23, 2004 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 10, 2018.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Volume 1: The parishes and their positions (= special publications of the Association for Family Research in East and West Prussia. Volume 11, 1, ISSN 0505-2734 ). Association for Family Research in Eastern and Western Europe eV, Hamburg 1968.
- ^ Website of the "Salzburger" , accessed on March 26, 2011