Iwięcino village church
The village and parish church in Iwięcino (German name: Eventin ) is a Gothic brick and stone church from the 14th century.
Geographical location
The church is located on a hill in the middle of the village of Iwięcino . Its tower can be seen from afar above tall trees. The place is on the - also called "coastal road" - voivodship road 203 , which connects Koszalin ( Köslin ), Darłowo ( Rügenwalde ) and Ustka ( Stolpmünde ). The district town of Koszalin is 18 kilometers away. There is a rail connection via Skibno station ( Schübben-Zanow ) on the Stargard Szczeciński – Gdańsk railway line, seven kilometers away .
Building / history
Building description
The church has a west tower 32 meters high (up to 1945 it was 44 meters). Two rows of blinds of unequal height, the top of which almost touches the tower hood, structure the tower. Above it rises a square, high helmet, the four corners of which continue those of the tower massif.
The tower with the arched main portal with circular aperture is built "against the storm". The “crooked” tower dome is also supported in the framework towards the west. For many centuries the church tower was a navigation mark for the coastal ships on the Baltic Sea and for the fishermen in the nearby Baltic Sea villages when they returned from their catch.
When the village was still called Geventhin , the church was laid out by Cistercian monks from the Buckow monastery . According to village tradition, the clay for the stones should come from the Mühlenpaulwiese . They are said to have been shaped and fired there. The stones for the church came from See Buckow (now Polish: Bukowo Morskie ), Wusseken ( Osieki ) and Zuchen ( Sucha Koszalińska ). The mortar consists of shell limestone and coarse, washed sand and was so hard that you could hardly scrape off a crumb. The oak logs come from the Krakow ( Stary Kraków ) forest.
The church building stands on a foundation made of large boulders . The base is so deep and strong that the masonry shows no cracks. A total of 126 monasteries contributed money and natural resources to the construction of the church. As a sign of this, they each donated a smooth field stone on one side that was inserted into the masonry. The last of these stones are under the tower hatches.
Interior
The interior of the church is supported by a flat beamed ceiling with an oversized painting of the “ Last Judgment ” from 1697.
In the choir, the renaissance altar from 1622 rises in two storeys to the ceiling. The large middle field shows Christ crucified between his mother Mary and his favorite disciple John , above each an angel . Two Corinthian columns support the upper floor. The altar cheeks are formed by ornaments of the cartilage style .
The pulpit and the font also date from the 17th century. The baptismal font was created at the time when the traditional kettle shape was abandoned and the cup shape was adopted.
Worth mentioning are the two tin candlesticks that were shot through by Russians during the Seven Years' War because gold or silver was suspected. However, the soldiers left them standing.
A crucifix and a wall cupboard for the Communion utensils from the late Gothic period as well as two old altar ceilings, of which there is a beautiful embroidery depicting the fall of man , are valuable from the art history .
The old confessional from the pre-Reformation period served the teachers from the parish towns of Beelkow (now Polish: Bielkowo) and Wandhagen (Wierciszewo) as a reserved pew until 1945 . At that time there were special benches for the mayors and church councils and also a special seating arrangement for the villages belonging to the parish, both in the nave and in the galleries.
In 1880 a comprehensive renovation of the church took place, during which the already mentioned ceiling painting was exposed again. On this occasion, the Szczecin church painter Vögler is said to have added the mayor Collatz as a devil out of annoyance ...
organ
The organ on the choir opposite the altar dates from 1908.
Bells
In the two world wars of the 20th century, two bells were delivered and melted down for ammunition purposes. Only the smallest remained. It was cast in 1417 and is said to come from a chapel on the Fuchsberg , of which only the foundations can be seen.
In Eventin there was still the custom of beers until 1945 : at 4 p.m. before public holidays the bells were struck in three rhythmic pulses for a quarter of an hour each. The clappers were tied to a line and moved with both hands and one foot.
Churchyard
The churchyard around the church is surrounded by a large stone wall, some of which are up to 1.50 meters high. Originally only one gate led through the wall, which was called the Eventiner Gate . Later, the Wandhäger Tor and the Beelkower Tor were also built in with a Liikhüske in order to take account of all the parish church play villages who buried their dead here. The Eventiner gate was a simple wooden portal that was used at funerals by Eventiner parishioners for whom the funeral service was already held in the house. For deceased community members from Wandhagen and Beelkow, the funeral ceremonies took place under the respective gate, which was therefore a little more extensive. It was only later that all the funeral services were held in the church. The gate inscription of the Beelkower Gate reads: Tu, mors, eris eborta coeli (= you, death, will be the gate to heaven ), and the wall hanger gate reads: Enter its gates with thanks . The inscription in the Eventiner Gate has become illegible.
In 1902 a new cemetery was created.
Parish
Parish
Until 1945 the population of Eventin was almost without exception Protestant denomination. At that time Eventin formed an independent parish with the towns of Beelkow (now in Polish: Bielkowo) and Wandhagen (Wierciszewo) , which had existed in Pomerania since the Reformation in 1535. It belonged to the church district Rügenwalde in the church province of Pomerania of the church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1939, the pastor looked after a total of 1,403 parishioners from the Eventin parish seat.
Today the inhabitants of Iwięcino are predominantly Roman Catholic . In 1946 the church was given to the Catholic Church in Poland . It is now called the Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland . It is a branch church of the Dobiesław Parish ( Abtshagen ).
Pastor of the church 1545–1945
- Johannes Becker, 1545–1589
- Georg Müller, 1589-1614
- Christian Müller (son of 2nd), 1614–1630
- Petrus Betichus (Betcke), 1631–1656
- Johann Zeidler, 1656–1673
- Lukas Vanselow, 1674–1677
- Jakob Malichius, 1679–1718
- Nikolaus Ernst Witte, 1719–1738
- Christian Misch, 1738–1759
- Johann Friedrich Behmer, 1760–1766
- Christian Friedrich Misch (son of 9th), 1766–1774
- Friedrich Schmidt, 1775-1804
- Georg Peter Gieseler, 1806–1814
- Johann Heinrich Blume, 1814–1836
- Friedrich Wilhelm Mevius, 1837–1881
- Karl Ernst August Kühl, 1881–1899
- Christoph Splittgerber, 1899–1927
- Karl Krüger, 1928–1929
- Kurt Koschnik, 1930–1940
- Heinz Puttkamer, 1940–1945
The Polish pastor Piotr Pedejko served from 1947 to 1974. Tadeusz Gorla has been in office since 2002. Until 1945 the clergy lived in the vicarage next to the Eventiner church. The Catholic clergy today no longer live in Iwięcino , but in the rectory in Dobiesław .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Road map of Western Pomerania: Köslin - Stolp - Danzig ; 9th edition, Höfer Verlag, Dietzenbach 2005, ISBN 978-3-931103-14-9 .
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.
- Heinrich Schulz: Pomeranian village churches east of the Oder. A book of memories . Beck et al., Herfort, 1963.
- 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 .
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 46.1 ″ N , 16 ° 16 ′ 33.9 ″ E