Trinity Church (Stare Juchy)
Trinity Church in Stare Juchy (Kościół Trójcy Przenajświętszej w Starych Juchach) Church in Jucha (Fließdorf) |
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The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Stare Juchy (Jucha / Fließdorf) |
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Construction year: | 1585 |
Style elements : | Boulder and brick construction |
Client: | Evangelical Church Community Jucha ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
Location: | 53 ° 55 '21 .3 " N , 22 ° 10' 28.3" E |
Address: | ul. Ełcka Stare Juchy Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
Parish: | ul.Ełcka 16, 19-330 Stare Juchy |
Diocese : | Ełk |
The Trinity Church in Stare Juchy ( Polish: Kościół pw. Trójcy Przenajświętszej w Starych Juchach , literally: "Church of the Most Holy Trinity") is a building from the second half of the 16th century. Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church for the East Prussian parish of Jucha (from 1938 Fließdorf) and is now the worship center of the parish Stare Juchy in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Stare Juchy is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the western edge of the Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) and can be reached from the Polish state road 65 (formerly German Reichsstraße 132 ) at Straduny ( German Stradaunen ) via a side road. Stare Juchy is also a station on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .
The church stands in the eastern southern part (before 1945 New Jucha called) of Stare Juchy far from the main road to Elk (Lyck) .
Church building
The then Juchen , later Neu Jucha , received its first church in 1487 at the instigation of the Brandenburg Commandery ( Uschakowo in Russian ). The building was small and made of wood. Soon the church was noticeably too small and it was decided - in order to resist the pagan customs of the Sudau descendants - to build a new church.
It was built as a boulder and brick building, later plastered, and was completed in 1585. The staggered east gable and the front west tower with its octagonal tip were striking. The tower had three floors and its appearance was based on the style of the fortified churches of the order . On the upper floor, the old parishioners used to keep their empty coffins - as is customary elsewhere - until the time they were needed. A southern vestibule was added to the new church in 1586.
The three-aisled interior of the church had a barrel vault in the middle and the ceiling was flat on the sides. The altar - once praised as one of the most beautiful in Southeast Prussia - originated from the old church , made by the Italian Girardi and donated by Baron von Podewils in 1501 and transferred to the new church in 1591. On the main floor of the altar was a picture of a crucifixion group . The pulpit from around 1574 had a sound cover from the beginning of the 17th century. A deer antler chandelier hung in the tower hall .
The organ was manufactured by Johann Christoph Ungefug in the Königsberg organ building workshop in 1772 and electrified in 1929. The church peal consisted of two bells , one of which was cast in 1669.
The barrel vault was redesigned inside by the painter Garell from Königsberg. While working on the roof structure, old silver coins were found that may have been hidden there during the time of the Tatar invasion .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
The parish of Jucha (until 1929 also parish Neu Jucha , from 1938 called parish Fließdorf ) already existed in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation soon took hold here, and as early as the mid-16th century, two Lutheran clergy were serving here together. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it counted 5,028 parishioners who lived in 20 parish towns.
The flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in 1945. Today almost no Protestant residents live in Stare Juchy. For them, the parish in Ełk ( German Lyck ) is a point of reference. It is a subsidiary of the parish ( Polish Parafia ) Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
The evangelical parish (Neu) Jucha and Fließdorf included twenty villages, localities and residential areas:
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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Noble Jucha |
(from 1929) Yeah |
Lashmiads 1936–1938 Lashmiads |
Lashing forging | Łaśmiady | ||
Old yeah |
(from 1929) Yeah |
* Lysken | Pisces | Liski | ||
* Old Krzywen |
(from 1936) Alt Kriewen |
Starlings Krzywe | * New yeah |
(from 1929 :) Jucha |
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Ballamutowen |
(from 1934) Giersfelde |
Bałamutowo | Olschöwen | Frauenflies | Olszewo | |
* Gorlen | Aulacken | Gorło | Orzechowen |
(from 1924) Nussberg |
Orzechowo | |
* Gorlowks | Gorlau | Gorłówko | Panistrugga |
(from 1927) Herrnbach |
Panistruga | |
* Jesziorowsken |
(from 1926) Seedorf |
Jeziorowskie | Plowczen | Plötzendorf | Płowce | |
Yeah | Fliessdorf | Stare Juchy | * Sawadden | Auglitten | Zawady Ełckie | |
* Kaltken | Kalthagen | Kałtki | Schönfelde | Skopnik | ||
* Little Krzywen |
(from 1929) Grünsee |
Nowe Krzywe | * Szczeczynowen |
(from 1925) Steinberg |
Szczecinowo |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors officiated at the church in Jucha as evangelical clergy:
- Johann Niciconius, until 1572
- N. Niciconius
- NN., 1579
- Hieronymus Pogorzelski, 1584
- Nicolaus Belitza, 1593-1625
- Jacob Zielinski, 1623-1625
- Jacob Prostka, from 1625
- Johann Columbus, 1640/1657
- Caspar Madeicka, 1657-1679
- Michael Mittelpfort, 1658–1666
- Stan. Bystram de Radlin, 1667-1676
- Matthäus Cucholowius, 1676–1715
- Gregorius Flöß, 1679–1710
- Celestine Martin Cucholowius, 1715-1721
- Johann Cibulcowius, 1721
- Martin Westerholz, 1721–1757
- Christoph Jeglinski
- Georg Radtcke, 1730–1737
- Paul Gregorowius, 1738-1743
- Bernhard Lange, 1743–1757
- Johann Joachim Schmidt, 1751–1754
- Jacob Matiszki, 1755-1757
- Johann Bernhard Lange, 1757–1801
- Johann Sabotka, 1757-1793
- Gottlieb Stern, 1786–1787
- Johann Benjamin Lange, from 1789
- Johann Thomas Skrodzki, 1794–1800
- Albert Leopold Pianka, 1825–1857
- Emil Stern, 1857–1876
- Johann Friedrich Moritz Gawlik, 1877–1897
- Georg Paul Brehm, 1897
- Emil Wilhelm Vogelreuter, 1898
- Franz Eduard Fr. Kahnert, 1898–1908
- Hermann Adolf Niklas, 1908–1921
- Ernst Stern, 1921–1930
- Eduard August Maaß, 1931–1945
- Reinhold Freiberg, 1940-1941
Church records
Some of the parish registers of the parish of Jucha and Fließdorf have survived and are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1790-1818
- Burials: 1798-1818.
Roman Catholic
Church history
Before 1945 only a few Roman Catholic church members lived in the Jucha (Fließdorf) region . They belonged to the parish church of St. Adalbert in Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) in the deanery Masuria II with seat in Johannisburg (Pisz) in the diocese of Warmia . After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled in Stare Juchy, most of whom were Roman Catholic. This is how a new Catholic parish came into being, the center of which was the former Protestant church. It was now named "Most Holy Trinity".
The associated parish (Polish Parafia ) includes twelve parish places in addition to the parish and is incorporated into the Deanery Ełk – Święty Rodziny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The branch church in Gorłówko (Gorlowken , 1938–1945 Gorlau) is also looked after from Stare Juchy .
Parish places
In addition to the parish itself, the parish of Stare Juchy includes:
Surname |
German name / change name |
Surname |
German name / change name |
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Bałamutowo | Ballamutowen / Giersfelde | Liski | Lysken / Lisken | |
Dobra Wola | Dobrowolla / Willenheim | Olszewo | Olschöwen / Frauenfließ | |
Gorło | Gorlen / Aulacken | Orzechowo | Orzechowen / Nussberg | |
Gorłówko | Gorlowken / Gorlau | Panistruga | Panistrugga / Herrnbach | |
Jeziorowskie | Jesziorowsken / Seedorf | Szczecinowo | Szczeczinowen / Steinberg | |
Kałtki | Kaltken / Kalthagen | Zawady Ełckie | Sawadden / Auglitten |
References
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d The church in Jucha
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 124, fig. 572–574.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 101-102.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ a b c Parafia Stare Juchy