Evangelical Church Pasym
| Evangelical Church in Pasym (Kościół ewangelicko-augsburski w Pasymiu) Evangelical Church in Passenheim |
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 The Protestant parish church in Pasym / Passenheim |
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| Construction year: | Late 15th century |
| Style elements : | Choirless brick building on a field stone base |
| Location: | 53 ° 39 '6.8 " N , 20 ° 47' 22.7" E |
| Address: | ul.Jedności Słowiańskiej Pasym Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | ul.Jedności Słowiańskiej 3 12-130 Pasym |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | pasym-parafia.pl |
The Evangelical Church Pasym in the Polish town of Pasym ( German Passenheim ) dates from the 14th century and is the oldest surviving church of the Teutonic Order . The parish of Pasym belongs to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
history
The foundation stone for a church was probably laid around 1350, but the building was only completed in 1391. The church was probably dedicated to St. Barbara and goes back to the Teutonic Order .
The current building, however, dates from the last quarter of the 15th century. The tower, the sacristy and the vestibule were built in the first quarter of the 16th century. The church Passenheim belonged to the Archipresbyterate Bischofsburg (Polish Biskupiec ).
In 1525, the Passheim pastors committed to the Lutheran Reformation - the church became Protestant .
In a major fire in Passenheim in 1583, the church, nine houses and the Ordensburg were spared. It remained unscathed even when the Tatars invaded the city on December 19, 1657 because of a wall picture. The pastor at that time was Andreas Hartknoch, the father of the historian Christoph Hartknoch .
When the city fire on June 23, 1751, the spire of the church was badly damaged. The repair turned out to be complicated because, in addition to the destroyed tower roof, other rotten wooden parts also had to be replaced. The tower was reduced by one floor and received its curved helmet in 1770, which it still wears today. The interior of the nave was redesigned. The process dragged on from 1753 to 1772 due to a lack of money. A sketch from June 2, 1763 shows the new roof shape and the interior of the church. According to Agathon Harnoch, the repair was carried out between 1765 and 1775.
After the Second World War, the southern part of East Prussia and thus Passenheim fell to Poland. The largely Protestant population had fled or been expelled and the new Polish residents were mostly Catholic, so that most of the Protestant church buildings were taken over by the Catholic Church. In Pasym, however, the original situation was preserved and the small evangelical community was able to keep its historic church.
In the 1990s the church roof was repaired and the interior was restored. In 1991 many Germans and Poles met for the 600th anniversary of the church. From 2009 to 2016 the entire external facade was restored, the roof tiles were replaced and a lightning protection system was installed. The work was completed in time for the 625th anniversary of the church in 2016.
Church building
Building description
The church is a wider without choir landscaped brick building on a field stone base . The tower consists of three floors and has a curved, dome - shaped clapboard roof and a funnel-like top. The sacristy has a beautiful star vault. The vestibule was rebuilt after 1750 and received an inner door with a carving from 1773.
inner space
Furnishing
The central nave has a wooden barrel vault, the sides are flat covered. In the sacristy you can still see the massive vault that originally existed in the central nave.
The church houses a Mannerist altar from 1673 with a depiction of the Holy Trinity by C. Helmke from 1713. There are also three grave slabs from the 17th century and a larger than life crucifix from the 15th century, which is located on the north Gallery column stands.
The baroque pulpit, decorated with stucco feet and angel heads, dates from 1680. Remnants of the Gothic pews have been preserved.
The font has a chalice shape with masks and fittings from the early 17th century.
In the middle of the church hangs a deer chandelier from 1608, which reminds of a cholera epidemic . On the occasion of the 600th anniversary, citizens of the German community of Bassenheim , the partner community of Pasym, gave the church a chandelier with the inscription "From citizens of the community of Bassenheim", which now hangs in the nave in front of the chancel. Former residents of Passenheim donated ten wall sconces. On August 6th and 7th the 625th anniversary of the church was celebrated in Pasym.
The church in Pasym also has some bibliophile treasures: a Bible from 1708 published in Nuremberg , a Danzig Bible from 1726 in Polish, a Bible published in Lüneburg in 1650 and a Bible from 1756.
Memorial plaques
Blackboards in the church bear the names of those who took part in the war in 1813/1815, those who fell in the wars of 1866 and 1870/71 and finally the soldiers and civilians who died in the First World War.
organ
The organ with the baroque organ front dates from 1705 and was made by Johann Josua Mosengel . It originally had 13 voices and twelve registers . A new organ was installed in 1902 by master organ builder Carl Novak ( Königsberg (Prussia) ); the instrument now had 20 voices. In 1998 the Zych workshop ( Wołomin , Masovian Voivodeship ) installed a new organ with a mechanical action and 23 stops behind the old prospectus . The baroque organ front was restored in 1744. The organ is used for concerts such as the Pasymskie Koncerty Muzyki Organowej i Kameralnej concerts of organ and chamber music .
Disposition
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Peal
The church had eight bells . They come from the years 1774, 1785 and 1845.
Parish
Church history
In the course of the Reformation - around 1525 - the church, which was founded in the pre-Reformation period, became Protestant. Since then, two clergymen have served here simultaneously. The Protestant parish belonged to the old Prussian church province of East Prussia until 1945 and was incorporated into the parish of Ortelsburg . This was spatially and numerically one of the largest in East Prussia. Therefore, on January 1, 1916, a division was made: 26,900 parishioners and ten pastors were assigned to the newly established superintendent district of Passenheim, and 36,380 parishioners and eleven pastors to the superintendent district of Ortelsburg within the parish of Ortelsburg.
In 1925 the parish of Passenheim with its almost 30 villages had 5200 parishioners.
Flight and expulsion of the local population between 1944 and 1950 were a bloodletting for the Protestant community in the city then called Pasym. The number of Catholics had risen rapidly due to new settlers, while the Protestant community had hardly any members. Nevertheless, this parish was one of the few parishes in East Prussia that were allowed to keep their church and did not have to leave it to the Catholic Church. Today's Evangelical Lutheran parish in Pasym, with around 200 members, belongs to the Masurian diocese in the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . Affiliated to the parish of Pasym are the two branch churches in Dźwierzuty (Mensguth) and Jedwabno (1938 to 1945 Gedwangen ).
Parish locations (until 1945)
28 places belonged to the evangelical parish Passenheim:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Davidshof | Jęcznik | * Michelsdorf | Michałki | |
| * Freythen 1938–1945 Freithen |
Siedliska | Milucken | Miłuki | |
| Friederikenhain | Jagielki | * Nareythes | Narajty | |
| Friedrichsberg | Kroninek | Ottilienhof | Otoles | |
| * Gilgenau | Elganowo | Passenheim | Pasym | |
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Gonschorowen 1938–1945 Lichtenstein |
Gąsiorowo |
Saborowen 1938–1945 Heideberg |
Zaborowo | |
| * Grams | Grom | Scharnowen 1938–1945 Fischerhof |
Sarnówko | |
| * Great intoxication | Rusek Wielki | * Scheufelsdorf | Tylkowo | |
| Hanau | Długipole | Schobensee | Sasek | |
| Little intoxication | Rusek Mały | * Schützendorf | Dybowo | |
| * Klein Ruttken 1938–1945 small rods |
Rutki | Sonnenberg | Słonecznik | |
| * Crooked foot | Krzywonoga | Tannenhof | Jeglijak | |
| * Kukukswalde | Grzegrzółki | Valhalla | Kiepunki | |
| * Lehlesken | Leleszki | * Waplitz | Waplewo |
Pastor
At the Protestant Church in Passenheim, from the Reformation officiated as clergy:
- Martin N.,
- Andreas Samuel , 1547–1549
- Nicolaus Glitzner, until 1550
- Urban Hermann, 1553
- Martin Stoltzer, 1567/1579
- Nicolaus Orlowius, 1579–1594
- Kersten
- Georg Bernhardi, until 1594
- Jonas Grube, 1594
- Thomas Marcus, until 1603
- Zacharias Otto, 1603-1625
- Johann Schnitzenbäumer, 1626–1649
- Paul von Prostcka, 1634/1635
- Andreas Hartknoch, 1644–1657
- Michael Ludowici, 1660
- Christoph Metner, 1661–1675
- Johann Stephani a Silnice Latzanowski, 1668–1669
- Michel Lichotus d. Ä., Until 1670
- Andreas Nowack, 1670–1686
- Michael Speckius, from 1675
- Christoph Eichel, 1686/1718
- Johann Jakob Nowak, 1710–1738
- Christian. Aem. Holdschuh, 1717-1718
- Michael Lichotius the Elder J., 1718-1760
- Erdmann Liebbruder, 1728–1729
- Johann Wolenski, 1729-1734
- Jacob Hampe, 1734-1738
- Johann Fr. Sczepanski, 1738-1753
- Matthias Lehmann, 1753–1783
- Daniel Corsepius, 1760-1798
- Johann Jacob Edel, 1784–1795
- Andreas Viktor Hensel, 1795–1797
- Friedrich Fabian S. Kiehl, 1798–1800
- Paul Sonnenberg, 1798-1816
- Gottlieb Briese, 1801–1814
- Friedrich Daniel Leipolz, 1814–1850
- Ernst Chr. F. Krupinski, 1816–1845
- Paul Wilhelm von Malotka, 1840–1883
- Friedrich Reinh. Schwill, 1850-1853
- Gotlieb Maroska, 1853–1869
- Friedrich JF Skierlo, 1869-1883
- Paul Franz Karl Moewes, 1883-1892
- Ludwig AE Borkowski, 1885–1898
- Johann Hermann Jungius, 1892–1913
- Karl Michael G. Mensing, 1898-1903
- Otto Friedrich Burdach, 1903–1907
- Louis Wosien, 1907–1914
- Ernst Link, 1914–1916
- Edwin Ernst Albert, 1914–1929
- Johannes Rohde, 1921–1923
- Walter Küppers, 1925–1929
- Richard Schwarz, 1929-1939
- Max Danowski, 1934-1936
- Eugen Weber, from 1936
- Ernst Burdach , 1938–1945
- Walter W. Schwichtenberg, 1939–1941
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- Witold Twardzik, 2016/2020
literature
- The churches of the Ortelsburg district
- Marc Patrik Plessa: Passenheim city fires 1746 and 1751. In: Old Prussian Gender Studies, New Series, Volume 36, 2006, pp. 305-310.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Passenheim: Evangelical parish church and other buildings at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 131, fig. 617–623
- ↑ a b c The Evangelical Church in Passenheim in the Warmia-Masuria Journal (accessed on May 17, 2020)
- ↑ Denkmalprojekt.org
- ↑ See organy.art.pl; down. on October 8, 2008 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Information on the organ ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Polish)
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, pp. 107-108
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 1, Göttingen 1968, p. 390
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
Web links
Historical photos of the city and churches in Passenheim: