Dobiesław village church

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The village church Dobiesław (German place name: Abtshagen, district Schlawe / Pommern ) is a mighty building made of brick and field stones and dates from the 14th century.

Geographical location

The village and parish church in Dobiesław is at the southern end, the so-called " church end ", of the elongated street village. The place can be reached via the Pękanino ( Panknin ) junction on state road No. 6 (European road No. 28) between Koszalin ( Köslin ) and Sławno ( Schlawe ) in a northerly direction in seven kilometers. The railway station is Wiekowo ( Alt Wieck ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line .

Before 1945 Dobiesław belonged as Abtshagen to the Eventin (Iwięcino) office in the Schlawe i. Pom. in the administrative district of Köslin . Today Dobiesław is part of the Gmina Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) in the Powiat Sławieński of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship (until 1998 Köslin Voivodeship ).

Church building

Patronage

If you look at the old entries of the place with the field name “St. Annenland ”, then the Abtshagen church was originally consecrated to St. Anna , the grandmother of Jesus on the mother's side. The memory of the name, however, is not confirmed today.

Rather, the church has had an official name since 1946: Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa .

Building

The church, which is now considered a place of worship in the area, impresses with the mighty building. The strong west tower is striking, as are the extensions on the north and south sides of the nave. Field stones are inserted into the brickwork up to a great height. The style elements suggest that the church was built in the late Gothic period, with the tower being the oldest part of the building.

On the west side of the tower there is a terracotta human head above a round arch panel of the portal , and above it a crouching figure and a face can be seen in the masonry. It is assumed that the representation of so-called building sacrifices , which the ancient pagan deities and the devil were supposed to ward off.

Interior

The interior of the Abtshagen village and parish church is kept simple. A flat, wooden barrel ceiling covers it. The altar with a depiction of the Last Supper and a crucifix , made in 1645 and renovated in 1853, is no longer there. The preacher's stalls are a renaissance work from around 1650.

On the occasion of a church visitation , a choir window was donated in 1656, which contained 15 glass paintings with coats of arms and figurative representations. They document the persons responsible for church affairs in that year, each assigned to a biblical figure.

According to an inscription from 1784, the gallery was built by Johann Conradt Schlicht.

A 2.80 meter high cheek piece, carved from oak, was considered a special work of art. In the upper part a dragon is shown holding a shield with the Pomeranian griffin . In the lower area a large figure of St. George could be seen, together with a smaller, crowned and praying female figure . This work was considered a 15th century work.

A simple epitaph can be seen in the church , which shows a portrait of the pastor Martin Pantenius (1687 to 1719 in Abtshagen). A picture of Luther had the inscription Joachim Brockwedel and was reminiscent of another Abtshagen clergyman who served in Abtshagen from 1642 to 1662.

Churchyard

The old churchyard surrounded the church and is still preserved today as a green area. The holy water from granite , which was formerly at the entrance is used again today in the Church.

The new cemetery at the eastern end of the village is still used as a burial place today.

Parish

Parish Abtshagen

The Abtshagen church was not only a village church until 1945, but also a parish church for the Abtshagen parish , in which the population was almost without exception Protestant . It was not only a place of worship for the inhabitants of Abtshagen, but also for the parishioners of the villages Alt Wieck (now Polish: Wiekowo) and (Neu-) Wieck (Wiekowice), who were parish in the parish.

Until 1580 the parishioners from Pirbstow (Przystawy) also visited the Abtshagen church before they were re-parish to See Buckow (Bukowo Morskie) and two hundred years later they even built their own church. Instead, the parishioners from Karnkewitz (Karnieszewice) and Seehof (Plonka) came to the parish in 1580 , and were later given their own church and thus the status of an independent subsidiary parish.

The parish Abtshagen belonged to the church district Rügenwalde (Darłowo) of the church province Pomerania in the church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1939 there were a total of 1,800 parishioners.

With Laurentius Lemcke , the first clergyman after the Reformation in Pomerania in 1535, who was probably a former monk of the Cistercian monastery Buckow , the church became a Lutheran place of worship and remained so until after 1945 it was transferred to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The Protestant church members are looked after today by the responsible parish office in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

The Abtshagen church registers began as early as 1565 and - thanks to good management - were a valuable local chronicle. Church records that still exist with baptisms, weddings and burials from the years 1858 to 1874 are now kept at the registry office in Koszalin ( Köslin ).

There was also a biography of Adam Ewald Brates in the Abtshagen parish archives , who was pastor in Abtshagen from 1762 to 1786 and who created an art historical treasure trove. It is not known where this is today.

Today Dobiesław Church is again a parish church. On September 1, 1946, it was consecrated as the Church of Our Lady of Czestochowa . The now Roman Catholic parish also includes the branch church in Iwięcino ( Eventin ), as well as the towns of Bielkowo ( Beelkow ), Rzepkowo ( Repkow ), Wiekowo ( Alt Wieck ), Wiekowice ( (Neu-) Wieck ) and Wierciszewo ( Wandhagen ). The current clergyman has been Tadeusz Gorla since 2002.

Pastor of the church 1535–1945

  1. Laurentius Lemcke, before 1565
  2. Michael Runge, after 1565–1602
  3. Heinrich Böckenhusen, 1604–1637
  4. David Hoffmann, 1637-1641
  5. Joachim Brockwedel, 1642–1662
  6. Bogislaw Ernst Sporges, 1663–1686
  7. Martin Pantenius, 1687–1719
  8. Friedrich Ephraim Behmer, 1719–1744
  9. Daniel Kniephoff, 1745-1756
  10. Gottfried Tietz, 1756–1761
  11. Adam Ewald Brates, 1762–1786
  12. Joachim Gottfried Backe, 1787–1833
  13. Adolph Leonhard Friedrich Jobst Siedler, 1835–1837
  14. Ernst Heinrich Haese, 1837–1870
  15. Ludwig Alexander Weise, 1870–1888
  16. Johann Karl Hermann Theodor Laasch, 1890–1911
  17. Emil Reetz, 1911-1930
  18. Friedrich Jahn, 1930–1945

literature

  • Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Bechtermünz, Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .
  • Hans Moderow , Ernst Müller: The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Edited due to the Steinbrück'schen Ms. . Part 2: Ernst Müller: The administrative district of Köslin . Sannier, Stettin 1912.
  • Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . Volume 2: The cities and rural communities . Husum-Druck- und Verlags-Gesellschaft, Husum 1989, ISBN 3-88042-337-7 .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 3 ″  N , 16 ° 21 ′ 9 ″  E