St. Mary's Church (Połczyn-Zdrój)

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Marienkirche

The St. Mary's Church (Polish name Kościół pw. Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Marii Panny = Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary ) in Połczyn-Zdrój (Bad Polzin) is a brick building in the Gothic style and dates from the early 14th century. It is in the city center on the market square.

Building description

The Bad Polziner Marienkirche was built in 1343 when German colonists were settled in Polzin. In 1418 a church was mentioned for the first time , and since 1591 the name "Marienkirche" has been known. The Gothic brick building is a single-nave church building, without vaults and with a three-sided choir. In the course of time, the church has not only survived many fires and chaos of war, but has also often taken on a new shape through renovations and extensions. Some of the foundation walls should still be in the current church building.

legend

According to legend, the plague also raged in Polzin in the Middle Ages. A monk born in Polzin tried to fight the deadly disease. Mumbling liturgical prayer formulas, he went from door to door with holy water. A small blue cloud floated in front of him and was moving towards the church. A pillar on the south side was not completely bricked up. The monk sprinkled holy water on this pillar, and after the small blue cloud had settled on the pillar, the craftsmen quickly walled up to the roof of the church. Polzin was now free of the plague, but the monk warned the Polzin against ever destroying the pillar. The police have heeded this warning to this day.

Building history

inner space

The lower part of the west tower rests on field stones with mortar plaster. The main entrance is here. For a long time there was no tower that fell victim to lightning and was only rebuilt in the last decades of the 20th century.

Inside the church, the altar was connected to the pulpit in 1769 in the Lutheran sense of the liturgical connection between “word and sacrament”.

The current shape of the Marienkirche goes back to the time from 1850 to 1860.

After 400 years of worship service in the Lutheran sense, the church was expropriated after 1945 in favor of the Polish Catholic Church . As a result, many changes took place inside the church according to Catholic and Polish customs.

Episcopal tomb

The grave slab of Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen , the last pre-Reformation bishop of Cammin , has been in the church since 1544 and was buried here in a tomb in front of the altar. The cast brass grave slab depicts him in life size with miter, regalia and crosier.

Marienkirche parish

Parish

The Marienkirchengemeinde Bad Polzin belonged to the parish of Belgard in the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania until 1945 . The parish included the city and Hohenwardin with Dewsberg , Brosland , Alt Sanskow , Gauerkow , formerly with Neu Liepenfier , Kavelsberg with Heinrichshöhe , Jagertow and Groß Hammerbach . The daughter communities Buslar and Lutzig were connected .

In 1940 the parish had 10,700 parishioners, 700 of whom lived in the subsidiary parishes. The church patronage was shared by the castle owner and the city council.

Today the Church of St. Mary belongs to the Catholic Church in Poland .

The Protestant Christians in Połczyn-Zdrój are incorporated into the parish of Koszalin (Köslin) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church .

Pastor from the Reformation to 1945

First pastor

  1. (1612): Matthäus Paustin
  2. ?: Jakob Praetorius or Schultze
  3. ?: NN.
  4. 1636–1639: Matthias Gigerus
  5. 1640– ?: Jacob Engelke
  6. (1670): Joachim Engelke (son of 5.)
  7. ?: Joachim title
  8. 1700–1724: Bogislaw Daniel Sporges
  9. 1724–1785: Bogislaw Ernst Sporges (son of 8th)
  10. 1787–1826: Carl Friedrich stairs
  11. 1827–1847: Johann August Ludwig Beitzke
  12. 1849–1870: Julius Kleedehn
  13. 1870–1896: Franz Georg Wandel
  14. 1896–1925: Paul Farne
  15. 1926–1930: Wilhelm Pagenkopf
  16. 1930–1934: Gerhard Scheske
  17. 1935–1945: Hans Paus

Predicants (Rectors)

  1. 1781–1783: Martin Ernst Henke
  2. 1783–1799: Johann Christian Gottlieb Mehring
  3. 1799–1802: Johann Georg Kuschkow
  4. ? –1819: Johann August Ludwig Beitzke
  5. 1820–1827: Karl Thümmel
  6. 1827–1839: Friedrich Wilhelm Kleist
  7. 1839–1849: Julius Kleedehn
  8. 1849–1855: Gustav Ludwig Eduard Noth
  9. 1856–1858: Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Emil Eduard Dürr
  10. 1859–1865: Gustav Johann Julius Lebrecht Schmidt

The rectorate has now been made independent

Deacons

  1. 1865–1873: Gustav Johann Julius Lebrecht Schmidt
  2. 1873–1880: Kark Johann Friedrich Krüger
  3. 1880–1890: Paul Farne
  4. 1891–1904: Johann Theodor Rewald
  5. 1904–1911: Friedrich Daske
  6. 1911–1916: Gustav Trümpelmann
  7. 1917–1938: Ernst Mangelsdorf
  8. 1938-1945: Herbert Rexin

literature

  • Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. 2 vols., Stettin 1903/1912.
  • Belgard County. From the story of a Pomeranian home district. ed. v. Belgard-Schivelbein home district committee, Celle, 1989.
  • Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country. Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 16 ° 5 ′ 36.1 ″  E