Christ the King's Church (Radzieje)
| Church of Christ the King in Radzieje (Kościół pw. Chrystusa Króla w Radziejach) Church of the Rose Garden |
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 The Christ the King's Church in Radzieje (rose garden) |
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| Construction year: | 1826-1827 |
| Inauguration: | August 5, 1827 |
| Style elements : | Octagon |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in Rosengarten ( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Space: | 450 people |
| Tower height: |
25 m |
| Location: | 54 ° 7 '41.6 " N , 21 ° 35' 3.8" E |
| Address: | ul. Węgorzewska Radzieje Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran , since 1945: Roman Catholic parish church |
| Parish: | ul.Węgorzewska 17, 11-600 Radzieje |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
| Website: | www.diecezjaelk.pl/parafie/htm?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=2&sobi2Id=101 |
The church in Radzieje is an octagonal plastered building with turrets from the early 19th century, which until 1945 was a Protestant church for the parish of the East Prussian village called Rosengarten at the time and is now a Catholic parish church .
Geographical location
Today's Radzieje is located in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship west of Lake Dobskie ( Jezioro Dobskie in Polish ) on a side road that joins the DW 650 voivodship road near Przystań ( Pristanien , 1938–1945 Passdorf ) via Kamionek Wielki (Steinort brickworks) with Nowa Różanka ( Neu Rosenthal) connects.
The church is on the south side of “ul. Węgorzewska “main thoroughfare.
Church building
In the hand festival over Rosengarten of 1437 St. Nikolaus is named as the patron saint of the Rosengarten Church - a sign that a church already stood here or was under construction. In 1574, when the Pomesan bishop Georg von Venediger made a visitation here, this church was already so dilapidated that it was decided to build a new one. This did not happen until a hundred years later, when Count Gerhard Ahasverus von Lehndorff began to have the completely dilapidated church rebuilt in 1673. In recognition of his services to the Church of the victims who receives Elector the church patronage on Rosengarten under 4 November 1683rd
This 1673 church was 78 feet long and 43 feet wide and had a clapboard blunt tower with three bells hanging from it. In addition to the sacristy , a choir and a church hall were added. In the latter a gilded angel held a silver baptismal font on which the Lehndorff-Wallenrodt coat of arms could be seen. Instead of an organ there was a positive with six registers . There was an hourglass on the pulpit .
In 1812 the church was supposed to be rebuilt, but armed conflicts during this time delayed the project. In 1822 the church was so dilapidated that a new building was inevitable. King Friedrich Wilhelm III. approved 1000 thalers for this, and the art-loving future King Friedrich Wilhelm IV determined the basic architectural features with the shape of an octagon . The building material was supplied by the patron Karl Friedrich von Lehndorff . Construction began in 1826. On August 5th, 1827, the Angerburg superintendent Samuel Neumann inaugurated the new church.
The result was an octagonal, plastered building with a flat tent roof and a wooden lantern . Arched windows let the light fall into the interior of the church, in which the gallery construction fits in appropriately. A wooden ceiling covered the entire interior.
In 1884 the church was one of Paul Mehl man -made chandeliers made of gold bronze, and in the same year found restoration works in the church instead of u. a. the two silver altar candlesticks were newly silver-plated. In 1886 the pulpit received two spherical lamps from E. A. Beyer from Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn in Polish ), and another spherical lamp was intended for the organ . A year later ten wall lights were installed in the church.
Of the bells , which in a separate belfry rang on the south side of the church, two had to be delivered as war material in the 1917th Only the bell, cast in 1727, remained in its original place. The large organ pipes were also confiscated for war purposes.
On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the church in 1927, the church was renovated by the Königsberg painter Richard Pfeiffer and his son using valuable carvings, including a crucifix from the 17th century from the earlier church, as well as a baptismal angel from around 1680 / 1690 as well as a carved angel with a column of torture , probably from the main altar of the earlier church from the years 1620/1630. The organ was also rebuilt and the church received two new bells to replace the ones delivered in 1917.
But these two bells shouldn't be allowed to stay long. On March 2, 1942, they rang for the last time before they were confiscated to be melted down for ammunition purposes.
The church survived the Second World War almost unscathed. It was expropriated and given to the Catholic diocese of Warmia . It took it into service as the Christ the King 's Church and prepared it for the Roman Catholic liturgy.
Parish
As with the neighboring church in Engelstein ( Polish: Węgielsztyn ), the establishment of the Rosengarten parish coincided with the establishment of the village. Lutheran clergy have been active here since the Reformation . Rosengarten was connected to the neighboring church village of Doben ( Polish: Doba ) under a rectory, which had its seat in Rosengarten. In the first few years, Doben was still part of the Rastenburg inspection and was provided by a catechist , after which, like Rosengarten before, it was incorporated into the Angerburg parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , and both remained assigned to him until 1945 .
In 1925, the Rosengarten district had 2,900 parishioners, to whom 250 parishioners of the Doben district came for pastoral care. The church patronage was held by the Counts of Lehndorff in Steinort Castle in Groß Steinort (Sztynort in Polish).
Flight and expulsion of the local population in connection with the war let church life die in the place now called Radzieje . Soon, however, Polish settlers, predominantly Roman Catholic, came here, settled here and brought church life back to life. The parish is part of the Deanery Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
The few Protestant church members living here orientate themselves towards the parish in Węgorzewo , a branch church of the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) and towards the parish church in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) , both located in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The former cemetery with its war graves from the First World War still reminds of the time of the Protestant church in Rosengarten .
Ev. Parish Rosengarten
Until 1945 the parish of Rosengarten (excluding the district of Doben) included 20 villages, localities and residential areas:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Noble Masehnen | Mażany | Center | Tarławecki Róg | |
| Amalienruh | * Pilwe | Pilva | ||
| Georgenau | Jerzykowo | rose Garden | Radzieje | |
| Semolina | Gryzławki | Rosenhof | Róże | |
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Groß Steinort from 1928 Steinort |
Sztynort | * Stawisken 1938–1945 ponds |
Stawiska | |
| Klein Steinort | Sztynort Mały | * Stobbing | Pniewo | |
| Kittlitz | Kietlice | Southern place | Zacisz | |
| * Köllmisch mass tendons | Mażany | * Taberlack | Tarlawki | |
| Labab | Łabapa | Wittfong (island) | Kurka | |
| Langbrück | Dłużec | Steinort brickworks | Kamionek Wielki |
Catholic Parish Radzieje
After Radzieje there are 14 villages or localities:
| Polish name | German name | Polish name | German name | |
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| Dłużec | Langbrück | Radzieje | rose Garden | |
| Jerzykowo | Georgenau | Róże | Rosenhof | |
| Kamionek Wielki | Steinort brickworks | Stawiska | Stawisken 1938–1945: Ponds |
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| Łabapa | Labab | Suchodoły | Friedental | |
| Mażany | Mass tendons | Sztynort | Steinort until 1928: Groß Steinort |
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| Pilva | Mushroom | Sztynort Mały | Klein Steinort | |
| Pniewo | Stumble | Tarlawki | Taberlack |
Pastor (until 1945)
The following were in office as Protestant clergy at the Rosengarten Church until 1945:
- Jacob Dologowius, 1576/1582
- Georg Platanus, from 1588
- Michael Brodinus, 1644-1660
- Peter Brodinus, 1655-1658
- Albert Bartholomäus Cibulka, from 1658
- Georg Andersohn, 1682–1706
- Friedrich Cibrovius, 1707–1758
- Jacob Kaminski, 1740-1745
- Johann Albrecht Praetorius, 1749–1771
- Paul Solomon Gregorowius, 1771–1783
- Christian Friedrich Aegidi, 1784–1799
- Daniel Friedrich Aegidi, 1799-1826
- Gotthilf Lebrecht Motullo, from 1828
- Christian Ludwig Bolle, 1842–1857
- Karl Johann Borkowski, 1857–1877
- Ernst Theodor Teschner, 1878–1883
- Otto Emil Richard Ziegler, 1883–1889
- Friedrich Ludwig Johannes Wolter, 1889–1899
- Otto Junkuhn, 1899–1910
- Ernst Hecht, 1911–1915
- Richard Drost, 1916-1945
Church records
The church records of the Rosengarten / Doben rectory have been preserved - some with name registers - and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1700-1944
- Weddings: 1700 to 1944
- Funeral: 1710 to 1944.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Hermann Adalbert Braun, Johann Carl Borkowski u. a .: Chronicle of the church in Rosengarten
- ↑ a b Radzieje - rose garden
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Images of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 89, figs. 359–361.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477.
- ↑ a b c Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 122.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ a b Borkowski (1822–1877) and Junkuhn (1869–1910) were members of the Corps Masovia .
- ↑ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, pp. 102-103.