Evangelical Church (Dźwierzuty)
| Evangelical Church in Dźwierzuty (Kościół Ewangelicki w Dźwierzutach) Evangelical Parish Church of Mensguth |
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 Evangelical Lutheran Church Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) |
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| Construction year: | around 1695 (14th century) |
| Style elements : | Late Gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Mensguth |
| Location: | 53 ° 42 '16.7 " N , 20 ° 57' 14" E |
| Address: | ul.Pasymska 22 Dźwierzuty Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran branch church |
| Parish: | ul.Jedności Słowańskiej 3 12-130 Pasym |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | diec.mazurska.luteranie.pl/pasym/ |
The Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Dźwierzuty ( German Mensguth ) is a building that dates back to the 14th century in its foundation walls and was rebuilt around 1695 in the late Gothic style. The church has been a Protestant place of worship since the Reformation .
Geographical location
Dźwierzuty is located in the southern center of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 15 kilometers north of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg in German ). State road 57 runs through the village and crosses the voivodeship in a north-south direction. The nearest train station is Szczytno on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line.
The church stands a little higher and is surrounded by trees and the old cemetery north of ul. Pasymska.
Church building
For the year 1391 an unknown pastor Herder is attested in Mensguth , so that a church already existed here in the first half of the 14th century. In 1691 or 1693 it suffered very serious damage in a fire and was rebuilt in its original form by 1696, with the preserved foundation walls being included. The substance of the tower dates back to before the church fire. It is a four-story brick building with curved gables , the wooden upper part of which was later walled up.
The nave of the church is a plastered field stone building with a three-sided choir . The east side and the small vestibule to the south have baroque gables. The sacristy is on the north side .
The church is a hall building . A flat wooden ceiling covers the interior, which has galleries on three sides .
The altar was made in 1599 by the Dutchman Hans van der Heide . In the center there is a carved crucifixion group , with the figures of Mary and John being more recent. Biblical representations were painted on the altar wings. Portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon and of the Last Supper can be seen in the base of the altarpiece .
The baroque pulpit dates from 1675. There are painted figures of the four evangelists on it .
The church has an octagonal font from the 19th century.
The front of the organ on the west gallery was built in the middle of the 18th century, the organ with pedal and 18 stops from 1818. The ringing consisted of two bells that were cast in 1778 and 1794.
The interior windows are covered with stained glass . They were donated by parishioners in 1936.
In the church there is a wooden commemorative plaque from 1870/71 as well as an old memorial plaque presumably for those who participated in the Napoleonic War , as well as remnants of a wall painting for fallen soldiers of the First World War , although only a few of the original 70 names can be identified.
One of the altar devices is a communion chalice , which has a special story. The church member Gottliebe Liba donated it in 1897 . He was lost in the turmoil of World War II . Random internet research revealed that this goblet, which can be identified by an engraving , was auctioned for 774 euros at an action house in Cologne . Several congregations and the leadership of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (EKiR) then organized the repurchase and reprocessing of the chalice. On August 18, 2019, the President of the EKiR Manfred Rekowski brought it to Dźwierzuty and handed it over to the community.
Old graveyard
At the church there is the Protestant cemetery with several grave sites from the time before 1945. This cemetery is one of the best preserved Protestant cemeteries in Masuria .
Parish
Church history
The church in Mensguth already existed in the pre-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , Lutheran preachers began their service here . Until June 1531, they held services every 14 days in the Wildenheim branch church. In that year Wildenheim became a parish of Mensguth. There is no trace of the church in Wildenheim.
Until 1945 Mensguth belonged to the superintendent district Passenheim ( Polish: Pasym ) of the parish of Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The parish had a total of 3,600 church members in 1925, the extensive in 20 cities parish lived.
After 1945 the church remained a Protestant place of worship. Today, like the church in Jedwabno ( Gedwangen in German ), it is a branch church of the Pasym parish in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . The number of church members is about one hundred.
Parish locations (until 1945)
Before 1945 the parish of Mensguth included the following villages, towns and places of residence:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| * Anhaltsberg | Łysa Góra | Mirau | Mirowo | |
| Augusthof | Augustowo | Moritzruhe | Budy | |
| Charlotte | Pfandberg | |||
| Friedrikenberg | Byki | * Rummy A 1938–1945: Rummau Ost |
Rumy | |
| * Geislingen | Gisiel | Rummy B 1938–1945: Rummau West |
Rumy | |
| Julienfelde | Julianowo | * Samples | Sąpłaty | |
| Little Leydt | Schönhöfchen | |||
| * Painting gulls | Małszewko | Schubertsgut | ||
| * Mensguth (village), also: Mensguth (Vorwerk) |
Dźwierzuty Dźwierzutki |
* Sczepanken 1938–1945: Stauchwitz |
Szczepankowo | |
| Little rent | Mycielin | * Heraldic village | Łupowo |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors at the church in Mensguth officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945:
- Sigismund Dimersky, until 1625
- Bernhard Pileschewius, 1618–1675
- Albert Pileschewius, from 1670
- Laurentius Gregorowius, 1678–1729
- Johann Gregorowius, 1710–1763
- Johann Samuel Gregorowius, 1762–1778
- Johann Christoph Sommer, 1778–1797
- Andreas Viktor Hensel, 1797–1814
- Johann Salomo Getzuhn, from 1814
- Julius E. Kiehl, until 1859
- Friedrich Wilhelm Brachvogel, from 1871
- Jacob Preuss, 1872–1884
- Gustav Adolf Henke, 1885–1896
- Georg Paul Brehm, 1896
- Chr. O. Alfred Danielowski, 1896–1929, Superintendent since 1916
- Eugen Drwenski, 1930–1945
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Agathon Harnoch, Chronicle and Statistics of the Protestant Churches in the Provinces of East and West Prussia , Neidenburg 1890, at: Mensguth (Ortelsburg district) at GenWiki
- ↑ a b c d e f Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, pp. 130–131, Fig. 615, 616
- ↑ a b c d e Dźwierzuty - Mensguth at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Fallen memorials - Mensguth
- ↑ Praeses Rekowski brings the Lord's Supper back to Masuria - NRZ, August 16, 2019
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
- ↑ Pasym Parish
- ↑ A * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 95
- ↑ a b c member of the Corps Masovia
- ^ Danielowski was a member of the Corps Baltia Königsberg .