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Lutheran church
Lutheran church
Lutheran church in Anenii-Noi
Lutheran church 1929 year
LocationAnenii-Noi
CountryMoldova
History
StatusClosed
Associated peopleGrigory Shushpanov
Architecture
ClosedMay 2003 year

Lutheran church – Catolic church built in 1929 on the territiry of a German colony called Novaya Nikolaevca(Anenii Noi now).  The main builder of the church was Grigory Shushlanov, in addiction to the construction of the building, was the engineer of other buildings in settlement that remained to nowadays.

History edit

In «Monitorul Official al Regatul Romaniei» No. 220 (07.10.1925), by royal Decree of 09.25.1925, a new administrative-territorial division of Romania was published, the renaming of settlements (a huge number of settlements were renamed in Bessarabia), as a result of which Novaya Nikolaevca was called Anenii Noi.

Initially, the territory of Novaya Nikolaevka was not inhabited and a swampy area formed due to floods of nearby river – Byk. And just in 1889, several families of German colonists bought about 1,700 acres of land and, settling down, began the construction of Novaya Nikolaevka.

The church was located on the main street of the settlement and was the only building surrounded by a stone fence.

In 1940, the Germans allowed Christians who did not have their own church to live and hold Orthodox services there. After the war , the building housed a school, then a cultural center, and  a cinema, which existed until 1991. The building currently houses a store «Bomba»

People edit

  • Grigory Shushpanov is a church builder and resident of Anenii-Noi.
  • Wilhelm Mayer was a pastor of the Catholic Church until the outbreak of World War II.

Interesting Facts edit

When the building was dismantled for reconstruction, representatives of the Shutgar Center of the Bessarabian Germans asked to remove the mortgage capsule from the location they indicated, but the new owners did not cooperate.  According to the Germans, the capsule is a tin box containing a list of donors for the temple, a newspaper of that time about the Church, several coins and a letter to descendants.  All this is now filled with a one and a half meter layer of concrete.[1]

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  1. ^ The materials are taken from the personal archive of Vasily Senkovsky, the head of the Asociația Obștească “August”