Chwalęcin (Orneta)
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| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Warmia-Masuria | ||
| Powiat : | Lidzbarsk Warmiński | ||
| Gmina : | Orneta | ||
| Geographic location : | 54 ° 10 ' N , 20 ° 1' E | ||
| Residents : | 90 | ||
Chwalęcin ( German Stegmannsdorf ) is a village in the town-and-country municipality Orneta (Wormditt) in the powiat Lidzbark Warmiński (Heilsberg) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Chwalęcin is located in northeastern Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , about 10 kilometers northwest of the municipality's capital Orneta .
history
In 1349 the village was founded by the Warmia cathedral chapter. Until the Second Peace of Thorn in 1466, Stegmannsdorf belonged to Prussia. From 1466 to 1772 the village belonged to Poland-Lithuania . After the first partition of Poland in 1772, the place came back under Prussian rule and from 1818 belonged to the Heilsberg district and from 1819 to the Braunsberg district in East Prussia . In 1900, 251 people lived in Stegmannsdorf. After the occupation by the Red Army in 1945, Stegmannsdorf was placed under Polish administration together with the southern half of East Prussia . The place received the Polish form of the name Chwalęcin , the native German population was expelled and Polish immigrants replaced them.
church
A special attraction is the listed Holy Cross Church , the youngest of the eight baroque pilgrimage churches with ambulatory in Warmia . A chapel was built in Stegmannsdorf as early as 1570. In the second half of the 17th century this chapel was in poor condition and should be renewed, but this did not materialize because of the politically uncertain situation and the Great Northern War that followed. After the Great Plague , it was decided to replace the chapel with a church. Construction began in 1718 according to plans by the Wormditter master builder Johann Christoph Reimers. On June 13, 1728, the church was consecrated by Bishop Jan Krzysztof Szembek. The west gable and vestibule were not completed until 1858. The flat-roofed handling of the four corner chapels was completed in 1836, the north-western chapel in 1822. The current furnishings date from the 18th century and are in the Baroque style, only the facade dates from the classicism period .
Web links
- Article on the Church of the Recreation of the Holy Cross , Masuria Tourism
Individual evidence
- ↑ Municipal directory Germany 1900 , accessed on May 18, 2017
- ↑ Municipal directory of the Braunsberg district 1900 , accessed on May 18, 2017
- ↑ Chwalęcin, The Unknown Place of Pilgrimage in Warmia, website for the place in the Warmia-Masurian Journal of November 6, 2014; accessed on August 31, 2016
- ↑ Chwalęcin: Sanktuarium Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego (Polish), accessed on May 18, 2017
- ^ Authority record of the pilgrimage church at the German National Library