Marienkirche (Orzysz)

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Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Oszysz
(Kościół Matki Bożej Skaplerznej w Orzyszu)
Arys Evangelical Church
The former Protestant parish church and now the Catholic St. Mary's Church in Orzysz (Arys)

The former Protestant parish church and now the Catholic St. Mary's Church in Orzysz (Arys)

Construction year: 1st half of the 16th century
Style elements : Field stone church
Client: Evangelical Church Community Arys
( Church Province East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 53 ° 48 '35 "  N , 21 ° 56' 48"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '35 "  N , 21 ° 56' 48"  E
Address: ul. Giżycka 1
Orzysz
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: ul. Giżycka 1a
12-250 Orzysz
Diocese : Ełk

The Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Orzysz ( German  Arys ) is a building from the first half of the 16th century. Until 1945 it was the Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Arys (Masuria) and is now one of the two Roman Catholic parish churches in the city of Orzysz in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

The city of Orzysz is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship at the intersection of the two Polish highways 16 and 63 and is a train station on the Czerwonka – Ełk ( German  Rothfließ – Lyck ) railway line, which is no longer regularly used . The district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) is 18 kilometers to the south-west.

The church is located on Giżycka Street and Wojska Polskiego Street in the city center.

Church building

The church was built after the secularization of the Duchy of Prussia before 1530. It is a plastered field stone building with a five-part east gable. The superstructure and the tower date from the 17th century. Damage from the town fire of 1826 was repaired from 1832 to 1872 and the church was painted inside. The interior with its side galleries and stands has a flat wooden ceiling. It was repainted in 1937/38. The altar from the middle of the 17th century was combined with the pulpit from 1596 in 1766 . The organ was built in 1757 and rebuilt in 1875. The peal consisted of three bells from the casting years 1603, 1648 and 1746. The latter is no longer there. The church has been in Roman Catholic ownership since 1945 and is now one of the two parish churches in Orzysz, dedicated to the Mother of God on Mount Carmel . The old equipment was removed between 1961 and 1976 and replaced by a modern design.

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

The founding of the church in Arys goes back to pre-Reformation times. Lutheran clergy began their service here as early as the 1530s . The Masurian language was used for preaching until 1702, but services in this dialect were still held in the 20th century.

Until 1715 the church in Arys belonged to the Inspection Lyck ( Polish Ełk ), then until 1945 to the church district Johannisburg (Polish Pisz ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 a census found 6,760 parishioners. They lived in a large parish encompassing several places . The state authorities were responsible for church patronage .

Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the existence of the Protestant parish in the town now called Orzysz. Today only a few Protestant church members live here. They keep to the parish in Pisz in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

Before 1945, the Protestant parish of Arys included 22 towns, villages and residential areas in addition to the parish:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945
Polish name Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945
Polish name
* Braunshof * Oszywilken Wolfsheide Oszczywilki
Buwełno Vorwerk Ublick Buwełno * Pianks Altwolfsdorf Pianki
* Czarnen Herzogsdorf Czarne Rzesniken Nickelsberg, forestry Rzęśniki
Gronden Establish Grądy Scheelshof Działy Orzyskie
Groß Schweykowen Scharnhorst Szwejkowo Stotzken Stoczki
* Gurra Guarantees Góra * Strike nods (from 1930)
Schützenau
Strzelniki
Janowen Sucha mill
Chimney stalls Erlichshausen Kamieńskie Buzz Sumki
Means Schweykowen Schweiken Szwejkówko * Sight Ublik
Mykossen Arenswalde Mikosze * Wiersbinnen Stollendorf Wierzbiny
Odoyen Nickelsberg Odoje Wolfsnest, forest Koźle-Leśniczówka

Pastor (until 1945)

Interior of the church
Info box on the history of the Church

Until 1945, Arys served as pastors at the Protestant church:

  • Matthias N., 1544
  • Agatheus von Thein, 1565
  • Sigismund Glinski, 1566-1573
  • Jacob Trentowius, until 1603
  • Andreas Hoynowius, from 1601
  • Paul Aretius, from 1620
  • Bartholomäus Sadowius, until 1625
  • N. Gritzau
  • Paul Cibrowius, 1625-1530
  • Abraham Ferrarius, 1630-1668
  • Christian. Wannovius, until 1648
  • Michael Gorlovius, 1653-1657
  • Christian Oberhüber, 1657–1674
  • Johann Ferrarius, 1668–1689
  • Friedrich Zielenski, 1674–1689
  • Georg Boretius, 1689–1693
  • Andreas Wedeck, 1690-1704
  • Matthias Boretius, 1693-1710
  • Michael Gregorowius, 1704-1710
  • Johann Chr. Wannovius, 1710–1767
  • Michael Lupochowius, 1711-1730
  • Johann Christ. Gutzeit, 1731–1739
  • Albert Czwalina, 1739-1763
  • Michael Schemien, 1764–1789
  • Johann Christ. Schultz (e), 1767-1785
  • Matthias Willamowski, 1789-1832
  • Daniel Labusch, 1790–1792
  • Wilhelm Jackstein, 1792–1844
  • Carl Heinrich Schrage, 1832–1838
  • Christian Ferdinand Haeber, 1838–1846
  • Franz Robert Floeß, 1842–1845
  • Vincentius von Balitzki, 1844–1846
  • Michael Mendrzyck, 1846-1858
  • Karl Schellong, 1846–1868
  • Leopold Czypulowski, 1858–1882
  • Carl Emil Wiski, 1868–1873
  • Karl Gettkandt, 1874–1884
  • Karl August Bogdan, 1885–1887
  • Ernst August Heinrich Sack, 1887–1910
  • Fr. Joh. Anton von Popowski, 1889–1898
  • Ludwig Wilh. Paul Rosenow, 1898-1909
  • Gottfried Bienko, 1910–1917
  • Friedrich Karl Mitzka, 1910–1924
  • Max Mehlfeld, 1921–1928
  • Georg Friedrich Foltin, 1925–1933
  • Hermann Ippig, from 1931
  • Gerhard Woytewitz. 1933-1945
  • Manfred Wilde von Wildemann, 1934

Church records

Numerous of the church book documents of the Protestant Church Arys have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive (EZA) in Berlin-Kreuzberg and at the German Central Agency for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :

  • EZA:
Baptisms: 1700 to 1735, 1747 to 1944
Weddings: 1744 to 1910, 1915 to 1944
Burials: 1711 to 1714, 1744 to 1884, 1915 to 1944
  • DZfG:
Baptisms: 1700-1735, 1711-1766
Weddings: 1711 to 1744
Burials: 1721-1738, 1843-1858.

Roman Catholic

In the city of Arys resp. Orzysz has had a Roman Catholic church since 1913 , today's Herz-Jesu-Kirche ( Polish Kościół Najświętszego Serca Pana Jezusa , German "Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus"). While only 50 Catholics lived in the city in 1925, the church was at the same time the center of worship for widely scattered parishes . It belonged to the deanery of Masuria II with its official seat in Johannisburg in the then diocese of Warmia .

The settlement of new Polish citizens brought Orzysz Catholic residents in large numbers after 1945, who now also claimed the previously Evangelical Church as their place of worship. Since 1958 there are two parishes in the city of Orzysz , both of which belong to the deanery Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) in the diocese of Ełk in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche (Orzysz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Vol. 2: Images of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 118–119, fig. 544.
  2. a b c churches in Arys (ostpreussen.net)
  3. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
  4. ^ A b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 17-18.
  5. Story of Orzysz - Arys (ostpreussen.net)
  6. The * indicates a school location
  7. ^ A b Member of the Masovia Corps
  8. Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I The eastern church provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, pp. 21-22.
  9. Parafia MB Szkaplerznej in Orzysz, Diocese of Ełk  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / diecezjaelk.pl