CHURCH INSTITUTION AS A TOOL FOR COORDINATION SPIRITUAL LIFE OF GERMAN SETTLERS FROM BASARABIA (1814 -1875)

Ion GUMENÂI Universitatea de Stat din Moldova

Abstract

The material presented from general to particular and basing on documentary sources and historiography analysis attempts an analysis of what it meant the institution of the Protestant church in the life of the German community. Firstly, it is pointed out that given the structure of the religious communities of the ethno German Lutheran Church institution and the role granted to this religion practically could not miss in the life of the German population. Furthermore due to the legal framework analyzed in the article, which was created in the Russian Empire for the evolution of German communities, the Church involved itself in what meant to be the administrative and educational fields, actually constituting the center around which evolved this segment and of course the unequivocally and moral and cultural development. Keywords: Bessarabia, Evangelical-Lutheran Church, German colonies, Russian Empire.