Chistye Prudy, Kaliningrad Oblast
Chistye Prudy (Russian Чистые Пруды; translated " Clean Ponds ", Old Prussian Tolmingkaims, German Tollmingkehmen to 1938 or 1938 to 1946 Toll Mingen, Lithuanian Tolminkiemis ) is a village with 700 inhabitants in the Kaliningrad oblast and selskoje since 2009 eponymous administrative headquarters of Tschistoprudnenskoje posselenije ( rural community ).
- 3.1 Church building
- 3.2 Protestant church
- 3.3 pastor from 1589 to 1945
- 3.4 Russian Orthodox Church
- 4.1 associated with the place
- 5.1 Notes and references
- 5.2 Literature
- 5.3 External links
Geographical location
The place is located northwest of the Romincka Forest near the border with Lithuania and Poland. The Old Prussian name describes the location of the place, far away - the water - the village. To the north-eastern neighboring Ilyinskoye ( Kassuben ) there are nine, to the south Krasnolessje ( Rominten ) seven kilometers.
Until 1945, here the junction of railways from Gumbinnen (now Gusev ) was to Goldap and Angerburg Węgorzewo after Stallupönen ( Nesterov ). All routes except the after Nesterov have now been dismantled.
History
According to tradition, a man named Tolmein or Talmin founded the " waterfront village ", as its founding year is the year 1539. The place belonged to the district Goldap, meanwhile 1818-1841 Stallupönen to the district, in the district of the Prussian province of East Prussia Gumbinnen. In the church and official village lived 1910 318 inhabitants, in 1933 there were 437 and in 1939 395
By 2009, said since 1946 Chistye Prudy place the center of the Tschistoprudnenski was soviet ( village soviet ), and today it is the seat of the Tschistoprudenskoje selskoje posselenije (Town ) in Rajon Nesterov in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast.
District Tollmingkehmen (Toll Mingen )
From 1874 to 1945 Tollmingkehmen was named after the administrative center of an office district, the on March 18, 1874 were 14 rural communities or estate districts:
On July 25, 1939, the District Tollmingkehmen - like a year previously the Office Village - renamed " District Toll Mingen ". It included as of 1 January 1945 the ten municipalities: Deeden, Grimbach, green hills, Motzken, Neumagdeburg, north field, Pfalzrode (now Karpinskoje ), Roden Home ( Wetrjak ) Great Mingen ( Chistye Prudy ) and Wittig yards ( Dubova Roscha ), of which today only five more than in Russia " settlements" ( possjolok ) mentioned place exist.
Tschistoprudnenski soviet
By 2009 Chistye Prudy central place of Tschistoprudnenski was soviet with 24 surrounding settlements:
Tschistoprudnenskoje selskoje posselenije
Since an administrative reform in the Kaliningrad region 2008/2009 is Chistye Prudy eponymous city and administrative center of the rural community Tschistoprudnenskoje selskoje posselenije, which lies in the southwest of Rajon Nesterov. It includes 19 settlements:
Church
Church building
The Protestant Church of Tollmingkehmen was built in 1589 and renovated in 1682. In 1759 was a new successor of boulders and bricks. Until 1856 services were held here in Lithuanian, then in German.
In the 1950s, the church that had survived World War II unscathed, was destroyed by fire. It is the only church in the entire area, which was after the destruction and decay during the Soviet era ( 1971-1979 ) rebuilt. This was achieved through an initiative of the Lithuanian SSR, because Tollmingkehmen was the site of action of Christian Donalitius, a pioneer of Lithuanian literature, which had its beginnings in Prussian Lithuania Minor. The church is now a museum for the priest and writers. The services are held in a rented room now.
Evangelical Church of St.
Once the inspection Insterburg (now Russian: Tschernjachowsk ) belonging, was the parish inhabited by a predominantly Protestant population Tollmingkehmen before 1945 in the parish of Goldap (Polish today: Gołdap ) incorporated and belonged to the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. In 1944 the parish included 23 municipalities with about 4200 parishioners.
During the period of socialism in the Soviet Union, church life collapsed. Only in the 1990s was a almost exclusively composed of German-Russians small Protestant group which forms a separate municipality within the provost Kaliningrad in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia today. The competent parish is the. At the Salzburg church in Gusev ( Gumbinnen ), where two priests are active
Pastor 1589-1945
Between 1589 and 1945, officiating in Tollmigkehmen / Toll Mingen 24 Protestant clergymen:
- David Marcianus, from 1589
- Gottfried Bierfreund
- Johann Rehsa, 1600-1621
- Severin Wirczinsius, 1621-1633
- Solomon Wirczinsius, 1633-1667
- Jacob Neukirche, 1658-1668
- Johann Sperber, 1668-1696
- Benjamin Mühlpfordt, 1696-1705
- Henry Behrendt, 1705-1709
- Falck Johann Friedrich, 1709-1710
- Gabriel Engel, 1710
- Johann Jacob Pauli, 1711-1715
- Christoph Geystadt, 1715-1725
- Franc. Albert Beilstein, 1725-1739
- Johann Friedrich von Essen, 1740-1743
- Christian Donalitius, 1743-1780
- Friedrich Daniel Wermke, 1780-1788
- Johann Ephraim Janson, 1789
- Christian Benedict Lovin, 1789-1818
- Johann Bernhard wax, 1818-1819
- Friedrich Monich, 1819-1849
- Carl Leopold M. Knobbe, 1849-1886
- C. W. Hugo Freyberg, 1886-1916
- Emil Moysich, 1916-1945
Russian Orthodox Church
Most of today's inhabitants of the region are today, where denominational, members of the Russian Orthodox Church. Chistye Prudy is located on the territory of the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk.
Personality of the place
Associated with the place
- Christian Donalitius (1714-1780), since 1743 pastor, poet and writer died in Lithuanian in Tollmingkehmen and here on February 18, 1780