Cerkiew sw. Michała Archanioła (Turzańsk)

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View of church and tower (2011)

The Cerkiew św. Michała Archanioła ( Archangel Michael Church , Ukrainian Церква святої Параскеви ) is a wooden church in Turzańsk in the Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland . The church is part of the cross-border UNESCO - World Heritage " wooden churches in the Carpathian region " and is the Archangel Michael consecrated. It was a Greek Catholic church and has been used by the Polish Orthodox Church since 1963 .

The building is “a testimony to the high architectural and religious culture of the Lemken and their cultural peculiarity. The building complex is a dominant feature that is harmoniously integrated into the surroundings. "

location

The structure of the church and the free-standing bell tower is located in the western part of the village, on the slope of a hill that slopes down to the through road and a stream. The buildings are surrounded by a wreath of trees and a partially destroyed stone wall. The church is oriented to the east. There are still a few tombstones left inside the wall. There is a newer cemetery in the village.

history

The church was built from 1801 to 1803 and in 1836 an anteroom and a second sacristy were added. In the years 1898 and 1913 the building was renovated, the shingle roofs replaced with sheet metal and the windows enlarged.

Turzańsk was still inhabited by Ruthenians in 1900 . Of the 674 inhabitants, 659 were Greek Catholics, 657 were Ruthenian-speaking and 11 were Jews. The Lemken were expelled to the western parts of Poland in June 1947 as part of the Vistula campaign . It then served the Roman Catholic community until 1961 .

The church has been used by the Orthodox community in the Sanok deanery of the Przemyśl - Gorlice diocese since 1963 . In the 1980s, 1990s and after 2000 the church was extensively renovated. She went in 2009 in the possession of the Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church over (Polski Autokefaliczny Kościół Prawosławny).

The entire complex was included in the tentative list of world cultural heritage in 2010 with seven other wooden churches in the Eastern Churches in the Subcarpathian region and in Lesser Poland . The enrollment took place on June 21, 2013 together with eight other objects from Ukraine.

Furnishing

The wooden church is part of the building type of Lemke country (Łemkowszczyzna) . It consists of cut logs that are laid horizontally. The building is clad with boards. The roofs and domes are protected by a sheet metal roof. The cornices are created twice with eaves on the roof and above the windows. The church is designed in three parts, five domes rise above the choir , the wider and square nave, the women's gallery with anteroom and the two sacristies. The three main domes have double bulbs and indicated lanterns . All domes have wrought iron crosses .

The window openings are rectangular and have a segment arch at the top. The sacristies each have a small octagonal window. The iconostasis is located between the nave and the choir . The interior is covered with wall paintings from 1898 that cover an older layer of paint. The iconostasis and side altars date from the first quarter of the 19th century. The icons also date from 1898.

The free-standing bell tower is square and also made of wood. It is divided into three floors and also carries a double onion with an indicated lantern and cross. The structure tapers towards the top. The individual floors are separated by profiled cornices with flat eaves roofs. The tower is boarded like the church. Small sound openings have been cut into the cladding on the two upper floors. The oldest surviving tombstones date from the 1830s.

See also

Web links

Commons : Cerkiew św. Michała Archanioła  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c d e f zabytek.pl: ZespÓł cerkwi greckokatolickiej pw.Michała Archanioła Turzańsk. (Polish, accessed July 31, 2020)
  2. ↑ a b c zabytek.pl: Cerkiew pw. Św. Michała Archanioła Turzańsk. (Polish, accessed July 31, 2020)
  3. ↑ Ludwig Patryn (Ed.): Community encyclopedia of the kingdoms and countries represented in the Reichsrat, edited on the basis of the results of the census of December 31, 1900, XII. Galicia . Vienna 1907 ( online ).
  4. ↑ According whc.unesco.org: Wooden Tserkvas of the Carpathian region in Poland and Ukraine. (English, accessed on July 14, 2020)
  5. ↑ According to the Polish Monument Institute, the northeastern Lemkenland (seen from Poland), according to the World Heritage Organization, the western Lemkenland (seen including the Ukraine).

Coordinates: 49 ° 22 ′ 9.1 ″  N , 22 ° 7 ′ 44 ″  E