Juditten Church
The Church of Juditten is a house of God in Juditten, a former western suburb of Königsberg ( now part Mendelejewo ) in Zentralrajon from Kaliningrad (Königsberg ( Prussia) ).
Church building
The Church of Juditten one of the oldest churches of Samland. It was built as a fortified church in 1288, although it was already at that time used as a pilgrimage church. The choir was originally flat roofed in 1330 with the nave with a vaulted stone. The construction phases are clearly visible through the material: The base is made of brick, which then closes up with half-timbered; the west gable is brick with natural stone. The detached bell tower in 1820 joined by the barrel-vaulted vestibule cross the nave. The church houses the family tomb of Roeder and the grave of John of Lehwaldt. 1700 Johann Christoph Gottsched was born in the rectory.
The church survived the Second World War virtually unscathed. Then she was left to decay until the 1970s. In the 1960s, the roof collapsed, and later part of the walls.
Early 1980, the building of the Russian Orthodox Church was to decide which restored it to 1990. Already on October 6, 1985, the Church as been re-consecrated first Christian church in the Soviet era in Kaliningrad after St. Nicholas of Myra and is now called St. Nicholas' Church (Russian Свято - Никольская церковь / Swjato - Nikolskaja Tserkov ). 1988 was held the first service in honor of the 1000th anniversary of the Baptism of Rus. The church is the main church of the same convent of the eparchies and Kaliningrad Baltiysk the Russian Orthodox Church, next to tourist attraction.
Parish
A church congregation in Juditten already existed in pre-Reformation period. The Reformation held here early collection. Back then, Juditten for inspection Schaaken (Russian: Schemtschuschnoje ), until 1945 the place was then incorporated into the parish of Königsberg Land II ( area north of the Pregel ) within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union. Since 1928, the store was Metgethen community (now Russian: Possjolok imeni Alexandra Kosmodemjanskowo ), which was managed by the incumbent of the second pastorate of Juditten.
In the early 1980s summarized in Mendelejewo the Russian Orthodox Church after 1990 foot and formed a separate municipality within the Diocese of Kaliningrad and Baltijsk (until 2009: Diocese of Smolensk and Kaliningrad ).
In the area Mendelejewos living evangelical church members are assigned today the Church of the Resurrection in Kaliningrad (Königsberg ). It belongs to the provost of Kaliningrad in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of European Russia.
Parish places (until 1945)
To the church of Juditten belonged before 1945 next to the vicarage for 30 parish locations:
Pastor ( 1945 )
From the Reformation until 1945 officiated at the Church of Juditten 29 Protestant clergymen:
- John Cramer, to 1533
- Johann NN. , To 1534
- Wenceslaus Jencker until 1535
- Paul Cosninck until 1554
- Michael Schönwaldt, 1570
- Urban Meyer, 1574-1619
- Rüdiger Jacob, 1612-1620
- Joachim Neresius, 1620
- Heinrich holder man, from 1621
- Jacob Stanislai, 1630-1638
- Johann Settegast, 1638-1643
- Christopher Rhode, 1643-1663
- Simon Böhm, 1663-1682
- Christoph Schultz, 1682-1692
- John Lemcke, 1692-1697
- Christoph Gottsched, 1697-1715
- Johann Meyer, 1715-1737
- Johann Gottlieb Sier, 1738-1749
- Georg Wilhelm Augar, 1750-1798
- Theodor Stein, 1798-1810
- Dietrich Gottfried Niedt, 1810
- Wilhelm Theodor A. G. Buchholz, 1842-1848
- Ernst Ludwig Storch, 1848-1872
- Louis Frederick William Tackmann, 1872-1893
- Louis Richard Otto Fünfstück, 1893-1924
- Gerhard Lawin, 1924-1945
- Horst Voßköhler, 1938-1939
- Albert Podschun, 1940-1945
- Kurt Flack, 1945
Church records
From the parish register documents of the Church of Juditten have been preserved and are now kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin- Kreuzberg:
- Baptisms: 1681-1800, gazetteers: 1727-1825 and 1831-1913
- Weddings: no
- Burials: 1768-1877, lists of names: 1768-1893
Photo Gallery
Church of Juditten
The Church of Juditten
Nikolai Church Kaliningrad Mendelejewo 2004