Evangelical-Augsburg Chapel (Sterławki Wielkie)
| Evangelical-Augsburg Chapel in Sterławki Wielkie (Kaplica Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Sterławkach Wielkich) |
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| Construction year: | not known |
| Style elements : | former residential building |
| Location: | 54 ° 0 '43 " N , 21 ° 34' 54.7" E |
| Address: | House number 48 Sterławki Wielkie Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran branch church |
| Parish: | ul.Partyzantów 6 11-520 Ryn |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland / Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | diec.mazurska.luteranie.pl/pl/default.html |
The Evangelical Lutheran (Augsburg) Chapel in Sterławki Wielkie ( German United Stürlack ) is the church one of the two branch communities of the parish ( Polish parafia ) in Ryn (Rhein) . It belongs to the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Geographical location
Sterławki Wielkie is located in the north-east of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and is a train station on the Głomno – Białystok railway line . Voiwodschaftsstraße 592 (former German Reichsstraße 135 ) runs through the village, which is where Voiwodschaftsstraße 642 meets. To the south-east of this stands the current Roman Catholic parish church of the Divine Providence , and not far from it - on the road to the cemetery - is the Protestant chapel .
Chapel building
In 1590 - a few years after the introduction of Lutheran teaching in East Prussia - a church was built in what was then Groß Stürlack , which replaced the chapel from 1490, dedicated to John the Baptist , and which was elevated to a Protestant parish church in 1598 . At the beginning of the 19th century, the church had to be demolished because it was in disrepair
and a new parish church was built in 1832 in the form of a hall church with a tower in front of it in 1884 and an attached apse .
Until 1945 this church was the central Protestant church for the parish of Groß Stürlack . It was given to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland in the same year .
The Protestant community members organized a former residential building, which was equipped with a church hall and thus converted into a chapel . The small hall is kept simple. The center of the worship service is a simple altar table with a Bible and crucifix , above on the wall the inscription Jezus Chrystus Wezoraj i dzis Tenże i na wieki ("Jesus Christ, yesterday and today, and the same in eternity" - Heb . 13: 8). The chancel is also characterized by a pulpit and a baptismal font .
Parish
Church history
The Protestant parish in Groß Stürlack existed until 1945. In 1598 it was founded and separated from the parish church of Schwarzstein ( Czerniki in Polish ). At that time still belonging to the Rastenburg (Polish: Kętrzyn) inspection , Groß Stürlack came to the Angerburg (Węgorzewo) inspection in 1725 , then to the Lötzen (Giżycko) church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
In the census in 1925, 2,133 parishioners were registered in the parish of Groß Stürlack who lived in a parish comprising several villages, localities and residential areas - including four school locations . The pastor's office in Groß Stürlack was continuously occupied by an official from 1600 to 1945.
The flight and expulsion of the local population, mostly of Protestant denominations, almost completely withered church life. Polish settlers, most of whom belonged to the Catholic denomination, then settled in the place now called Sterławki Wielkie. They established a parish with the previously evangelical church as a catholic church. Since then, the few evangelical church members take advantage of a residential building with church hall as a chapel, and the place was - as Koczarki (Kotzargen , 1929-1945 Eichhöhe) - filial community a now in Ryn (Rhein) local parish . It is part of the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish of Stürlack (until 1945)
The parish of Stürlack belonged to eight villages, places and residential areas until 1945:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Adlig Stürlack | Sterławki Szlacheckie | * Small Stürlack | Sterławki Małe | |
| Augusthoff | Jaguszewo | * Kronau | Kronowo | |
| * Groß Stürlack | Sterławki Wielkie | * Mertenheim | Martiany | |
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Grzybowen 1929-1945: Birkensee |
Grzybowo | Silberberg | Srebrna Góra |
Pastor
At the Protestant parish church in Groß Stürlack officiated as pastors until 1945:
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Clergymen in office today in Sterławki Wielkie have their parish seat in Ryn.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Parafia Ryn
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 121, fig. 555.
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 140.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location