Stoczek Monastery
The Stoczek Monastery (until 1945: Springborn Monastery ) is located north of the small village of Stoczek ( Springborn ) in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship in the Lidzbarski powiat in northern Poland. It is a place of pilgrimage to Mary, the village has 330 inhabitants.
history
By the beginning of the 17th century at the latest there was a Lady Chapel near Springborn with a statue of the Virgin Mary, which was visited by pilgrims. Bishop Szyszkowski had a stone round church built on the site of the chapel between 1639 and 1641 as a votive offering after the end of the first Polish-Swedish war. The church was handed over to the Bernardines from Wartenburg . Initially, the friars lived in wooden buildings until Bishop Jan Wydżga donated the stone monastery buildings in 1666 .
Under Bishop Załuski, work began in 1708 to create a cloister with four corner chapels around the church , based on the model of Heiligelinde . The construction was completed under Bishop Teodor Andrzej Potocki . During his tenure, the monastery was also expanded, which adjoins the cloister in the east as a four-wing complex with an inner courtyard. In 1716 the church was consecrated "Maria, the Queen of Peace" ( Regina Pacis ) by Bishop Potocki . The place of pilgrimage experienced its heyday in the 1740s and 1750s, when it almost equaled Heiligelinde in popularity.
After the secularization of the order in Prussia, the state church and monastery took over (the last friar died in 1826). During the tenure of Bishop Andreas Stanislaus von Hatten (1838–1841), however, the church and monastery were returned to the Diocese of Warmia . In 1870, Bishop Philipp Krementz handed the monastery over to Lazarists from the Rhineland. As a result of the Kulturkampf , these had to withdraw three years later. In 1909 the monastery tracts were increased by one floor, in 1913 the monastery received an extension on the garden side. In 1926 the facility was handed over to the Franciscans.
The Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński , was interned by the communists in the monastery from October 1953 to October 1954 . He lived in rooms on the first floor of the monastery and was accompanied by a priest and a nun. After Radio Free Europe made the primate's stay public, he was taken to Prudnik in Upper Silesia.
The church was given the rank of Basilica minor in 1987 by Pope John Paul II .
Church interior
The Basilica of the Visitation of the Virgin Mary is dedicated to Maria Regina Pacis (Queen of Peace). The main altar from 1713 is by Christoph Peucker . As a miraculous image, it contains a copy of St. Luke's Virgin, which is originally kept in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome. The silver frame of the miraculous image dates from 1687. The left side altar is St. Anna herself the third consecrated, the right one to St. Francis. Also worthy of note is a picture of Antonius with a silver border, an Italian work from 1695, as well as the wrought-iron pulpit, which was made by a Gutstatt blacksmith in 1738 .
In the cloister and in the chapels there are remains of frescoes attributed to the painter Matthias Johann Meyer . The Stucco Stucco Stations of the Cross were made by the sculptor Christoph Perwanger , who was also active in Heiligelinde. The corner chapels are dedicated to St. Kajethan of Thjene, St. Valentin and St. Johann Nepomuk consecrated, the fourth is a Holy Cross chapel.
literature
- Zimmermann: The Springborn monastery near Heilsberg in Warmia. In: Prussian provincial sheets . Volume 25, Königsberg 1841, pp. 90-93.
- A. Boenigk: Springborn Abbey. In: Zeitschrift für die Geschichte und Altertumskunde Ermlands (ZGAE), Volume 20, Pages 228 to 335, Braunsberg 1919.
Web links
- Stoczek Monastery (Polish, English, German)
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 30 ″ N , 20 ° 43 ′ 35 ″ E