Christ the Savior Church (Wydminy)

Christ the Savior Church in Wydminy (Kościół Chrystusa Zbawiciela w Wydminach) Church of Widminnen
The once Protestant, now Roman Catholic parish church in Wydminy (Widminnen)
Construction year:	1701
Style elements :	Feldsteinkirche (plastered)
Client:	Evangelical Church Community Widminnen ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	53 ° 58 '57 "  N , 22 ° 1' 55.1"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 58 '57 "  N , 22 ° 1' 55.1"  E
Address:	ul. Grunwaldzka Wydminy Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish:	ul.Grunwaldzka 41 11-510 Wydminy
Diocese :	Ełk

The Christ the Redeemer Church in Wydminy ( German  Widminnen ) is a building rebuilt in 1701 with foundations from the 16th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish of Widminnen; today it is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Wydminy is located in the eastern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. The voivodship road DW 655 and the railway line Głomno – Białystok run through the village .

The location of the church is on the north-eastern main thoroughfare ( ext . 655) , here called ulica Grunwaldzka , or on its feeder roads to Lake Widminner ( Jezioro Widmińskie in Polish ).

Church building

In the middle of the 16th century, Widminnen received a Protestant church. It burned down in the town fire in 1572. The successor building was badly damaged in another fire in 1656. The church was rebuilt in 1701 using old masonry. A plastered field stone building with a three-sided choir and three-storey west tower with attached southern porch was built.

The inner door of the vestibule had hinged leaves with a lock marked “FC III 1700”. Above the church portal was a marble plaque with the engraving: Fridericus Rex Prussiae. Fridericus Wilhelmus von Lesgewang Capitaenus. Johannes Stobaeus Pastor. Aedificata anno 1701 .

In 1867 the church was extensively renovated. Since then, the ceiling of the interior has been a self- supporting hanging structure . The altar and pulpit were made in 1719; they are not made up and come from the same workshop. The chandeliers and a baptismal angel date from the 19th century .

The organ was a work of the 19th century. The church bell originally consisted of three bells .

The church building was restored in 1925 after being damaged in the First World War and survived the Second World War without any problems. After more than two hundred years, it was expropriated as a Protestant church in 1946 and taken over by the Roman Catholic Church . In the 1960s, the building was again thoroughly renovated and redesigned for different liturgical purposes. Today it is a Roman Catholic parish church with the name “Kościół Chrystusa Zbawiciela” (Christ the Savior Church).

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

In 1558 Widminnen became a parish with the establishment of a Protestant parish and the subsequent construction of a church . A large parish was assigned to him. Up to the beginning of the 19th century two clergymen officiated here at the same time, and between 1900 and 1913 the pastor was assigned an assistant preacher. The church patronage was incumbent on the state authorities. The number of parish members in 1925 was 5200. Until 1945, the parish of Widminnen belonged to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .

The flight and expulsion of the local population temporarily put an end to the life of the parish. Since the previously Protestant church is now a Catholic church, the few Protestant parishioners now own a small church building at ul. Grundwaldzka. As a subsidiary church of the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria, it is subordinate to the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

By 1945, the Widminnen parish included 20 villages, localities and residential areas:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
* Czarnowken	Grundensee	Czarnówka		Nienstedten		Rydze
Czybulken	Richtenfeld	Cybulki		Paulinenhof		Wólka Cybulska
Ernstfelde		Ernstowo		* Radii	Royal flow	Radzie
Painted beams		Gębałki		* Schemions	(from 1928) Bergwalde	Siemionki
* Great Gablick		Gawliki Wielkie		Scheuba		Siejba
island		Wyspa		Schrader value		Dudka
June	Kleinbalzhöfen	June		Soloists		Sołtyski
Little Gablick		Gawliki Małe		* Sucholasken	(from 1935) Rauschenwalde	Sucholaski
Königgrätz		Grodziec		* Wensowken	Großbalzhöfen	Wężówka
* Masuchovks	(from 1936) Rodental (East Pr.)	Mazuchówka		Dedication		Wydminy

Pastor (until 1945)

From 1558 to 1945 officiated at the church Widminnen as Protestant clergy:

Samuel Barowski, 1558 Johann Dunitius, from 1566 Samuel Dunitius the Elder Ä., 1579-1604 Christoph Breuer, 1594-1625 Caspar Wissowatti, until 1625 Jacob Breuer Samuel Dunitius the Elder J., 1625 Christoph Gadzali Martin Strugul, 1643-1684 Martin Madeicka, 1657-1662 Andreas Strugul, 1681-1684 Johann Stobäus, 1663–1702 Andreas Strugul, 1684-1705 Johann Schrödter, 1703–1707 Daniel Lepach, 1705-1710 Raphael Gregorowius, 1707-1732 Christoph Strugul, 1710-1720 Martin Gisewius, 1721–1753 Solomon Lascowius, 1735-1742 Gottfried Döring, 1742

Samuel Ogronglowius, 1743–1753 Tobias Knobbe, 1753–1758 Joseph Gisewius, 1753-1808 Friedrich Ludwig Hoffmann, 1758–1761 Gottfried W. Jerzembski, 1761-1780 Daniel Radke, 1780–1788 Theophil Kendziorra, 1787-1802 Johann Friedrich Bruno, 1802-1814 Johann Salkowski, 1810-1811 Christian Sadowski, 1812-1813 Karl Heinrich Gregorovius, 1813–1831 Benjamin Szczesny, 1831–1871 Theophil C. Tribukait, 1871-1877 Kurt Rudloff, 1900-1903 Martin Adolf Lux, 1903–1907 Emil Salewski, 1907–1909 Karl Emil Wiski, 1878–1910 Wilhelm GS Gemmel, 1910 Emil Richard Jencio, 1910-1935 Rudolf Mantze, 1935–1945

Roman Catholic

Until 1945 the few Catholic parishioners were parish in the parish in Lötzen . She belonged to the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the diocese of Warmia . Today the once Protestant church is the Catholic worship center. The parish belongs to the deanery św. Krzystofa Giżycko in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The branch churches in Gawliki Wielkie (Groß Gablick) and Sołtmany (Soltmahnen) are assigned .

Web links

Commons : Christ the Savior Church in Wydminy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

literature

• M. Meyhöfer: The district of Lötzen . Wuerzburg 1961.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 2, Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 122–123, figs. 559–561.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Wydminy - Widminnen
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia . Volume 3, Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 . Hamburg 1968, p. 149.
5. ^ Parafia Giżycko
6. ↑ The * marks a school location.
7. ↑ Parafia Wydminy ( Memento of the original from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.