Żukowo village church

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The village church in the Polish Żukowo (German Suckow ) is a late-Gothic , brick and field stone building with a three-sided choir and a massive west tower.

Geographical location

Żukowo is a village southeast of Sławno (Schlawe) , which lies on the border between the West Pomeranian and Pomeranian Voivodeships (formerly the district border Schlawe and Rummelsburg ). A side road branches off from voivodship road 205 in Pomiłowo (Marienthal) , two kilometers south of Sławno, and leads via Gwiazdowo (Quäsdow) to Żukowo. The nearest train station is Korzybie (Zollbrück), seven kilometers away, at the intersection of the state railway lines No. 212 ( Lipusz (Lippusch) - Bytów (Bütow) - Korzybie), No. 405 ( Piła (Schneidemühl) - Szczecinek (Neustettin) - Miastko (Rummelsburg) (Pomerania)) - Słupsk (Stolp) - Ustka (Stolpmünde) ) and No. 418 ( Darłowo (Rügenwalde) - Sławno - Korzybie).

Building description / history

The church of Żukowo is visible from afar on the Kirchberg, surrounded by old deciduous trees and the old cemetery. The mighty tower is probably the oldest part of the church. Like the nave, it is covered with shingles, with two overlapping hoods at the top.

The castle captain von Krangen (Krąg) Adam von Podewils (1617–1696), his wife Klara von Zitzewitz -Varzin (1612–1704) and their son, the Hanoverian Colonel Ernst Bogislav von Podewils (1651–1718) renovated the church around 1700 and equipped. During this time, the patronage choir was added to the south side .

The organ gallery with its remarkable carving and a lavishly designed organ front bears the coat of arms of the aforementioned Ernst Bogislaw von Podewils and his wife, née von Dewitz, with the year 1703. The flat wooden ceiling is richly ornamented.

In 1714 a storm swept the top and the cross from the tower and was replaced. One of the two bells dates from 1599, the other is even older.

Interior

The carved altar dates from 1686. Above the predella with the Last Supper is the framed central field with a group of Christ crucified . Left and right altar cheeks with noble coats of arms can be seen, and on the smaller upper floor a painting with the Entombment and the Triumphant Christ .

A simple gallery has moved in behind the altar - a sign that the choir is not only reserved for the clergy, but is also available to the community.

A late Gothic carved altar with Mary and the child has been preserved from the old church . The sermon pulpit is 15 years younger than the altar. The fields of the stringer and the pulpit are decorated with figures. Several epitaphs , with pictures and inscriptions, recall those of Podewil's family members as donors of the furnishings, which also include a larger-than-life wooden crucifix, several pairs of candlesticks and goblets.

In 1930 the interior of the Suckow village church was renovated at great expense.

Parish / Parish

Parish

The Suckower church was for the municipalities to 1945, the parish Suckow , Jannewitz (Janiewiece) Lantow (Łętowo) and Quäsdow (Gwiazdowo) (each with Nebensorten) comprehensive evangelical parish Suckow in Kirchenkreis Schlawe the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Prussian Union of churches . In 1940 there were 2,127 parishioners. Before 1945, the vast majority of the residents in the parish were of Protestant denomination. The Catholic minority visited the parish church of St. Antonius in Schlawe, which was newly built in 1928.

After 1945 the situation was reversed: since then, predominantly Roman Catholic parishioners have lived here , who commissioned the church in Żukowo on April 7, 1946 and consecrated it to the Transfiguration of the Lord (kościół Przemienienia Pánskiego) . Until 1957 it was a branch church of the St. Antonius parish in Schlawe, until a separate parish (parafia) was established in Żukowo on July 2, 1957 . Today it belongs to the deanery Sławno in the diocese of Köslin-Kolberg of the Catholic Church in Poland . 1677 parishioners belong to it. The few Protestant inhabitants are assigned to the parish Koszalin (Köslin) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Pastor

Protestant clergymen held office in Suckow until 1945, and since then (after a transition period of 12 years) Catholic officials:

  1. Gregorius, approx. 1546–1564
  2. Titus Götzke, 1564–1573
  3. Martin Grüneberg, 1579–1590
  4. Andreas Stöckmann, 1590–1599
  5. Gabriel Thamme, 1599–?
  6. Paul Thamme (son of 5th),? –1668
  7. Nikolaus Pohlemann, 1668–1695
  8. Jakob Christian Strenge, 1696–1719
  9. Michael Meyer, 1720-1759
  10. Jakob Gottlieb Meyer, 1759–1793
  11. Kaspar Friedrich Weber, 1794–1827
  12. Heinrich Neumann, 1827–1864
  13. Johannes Richard Baltzer, 1864–1890
  14. Otto Müller, 1891–1928
  15. Erich Mett, 1928–1945
  16. Maciej Małecki, 1957-1960
  17. Józef Dulak, 1960–1971
  18. Mieczysław Gruchała, 1971–1985
  19. Stanisław Pecnik, 1985-1993
  20. Ryszard Szczygiel, 1993-2003
  21. Wiktor Pośnik, since 2003

literature

  • Heinrich Schulz: Pomeranian village churches east of the Oder. Herford 1963
  • Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 2, Stettin 1912
  • Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book. Husum 1988/1989

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Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 20.6 ″  N , 16 ° 47 ′ 42.6 ″  E