Evangelical Church (Opaleniec)
| Evangelical Church in Opaleniecu (Kościół ewangelicki w Opalencu) Evangelical Church Opalenietz / Evangelical Church Flammberg |
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 The still preserved tower portal of the Protestant church Opaleniec (Opalenietz / Flammberg) |
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| Construction year: | 1877 to 1878 |
| Inauguration: | December 3, 1878 |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic brick building |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Opalenietz ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 17 '21.3 " N , 20 ° 54' 45.6" E |
| Location: |
Opaleniec Mazovia , Poland |
| Purpose: | Until 1945: Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Local community: | Not available anymore. The church building no longer exists |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland |
The Evangelical Church in Opaleniec ( German Opalenietz , 1904 to 1945 Flammberg ) was a building from the end of the 19th century. Until 1945 it was the central church for the parishes of Opalenietz and Flammberg in East Prussia . Today only the remains of the wall of the tower portal in the village now called Opaleniec in the Polish Masovian Voivodeship are preserved.
Geographical location
Opaleniec, the former border village to Poland , is located in the north of the Masovian Voivodeship , four kilometers north of the town of Chorzele . Landesstraße 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) runs through the village . There is no connection to rail traffic .
The location of the church is in the northern part of the village east of the main road.
Church building
The former Opalenietz was called a church village in 1579 . The wooden church , which was replaced by a brick building several decades later, is believed to date from the end of the 16th century : on December 3, 1878, the new church was consecrated after several months of construction.
It is a red brick building in Gothic style with an apse and a massive high tower. The interior was slightly arched and its furnishings were simple but tasteful. The altarpiece showed Christ blessing.
The church had an organ with ten stops. The church bell consisted of three bells . They had to be delivered for ammunition purposes in the First World War . A steel bell peal served as a replacement after the war .
Tall trees surrounded the church building. Some soldiers and civilians who had died during the First World War were buried within this grove.
The church did not survive the Second World War . Today only the remains of the wall of the former tower portal can be found here.
Parish
Church history
A Protestant church in Opalenietz was founded in the 16th century. Until 1893 the village was connected to the church of Willenberg ( Wielbark in Polish ) through a parish office, but in the beginning it probably also had its own preachers. From the second half of the 19th century, catechists were employed here to preach on Sundays. When the third parish office was established in Willenberg in 1893, the parish seat was relocated to Opalenietz, the first holder of which - Pastor Dopatka - had been assistant preacher here since 1892 .
Until 1925, the services were held in Masurian . Clergymen who did not speak this language were obliged to be able to hold at least Masurian reading services within one year. Until then, this was the task of the school teachers. Later, in the village, called Flammberg from 1904, church services were celebrated in German every 14 days - until 1933, when the Masurian language was banned.
Originally the church in Flammberg was a royal patronage . After the First World War, church patronage was incumbent on the state authorities. In 1925 the parish of Flammberg had 1900 members.
The church Opalenietz was initially integrated into the inspection Neidenburg ( Polish: Nidzica ), until 1945 the church Flammberg belonged to the superintendent district Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the parish of Ortelsburg within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Today Opaleniec is in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , but the Evangelical inhabitants now belong to the church in Szczytno due to the lack of their own church . There is still a Roman Catholic parish in Opaleniec .
Parish places
Until 1945, in addition to the parish itself, four villages - all of which were school locations - belonged to the Opalenietz / Flammberg parish :
| German name | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| Baranowen | New flow | Baranowo |
| Czenczel |
(since 1928 :) Rodefeld |
Śięciel |
| Montwitz | Mącice | |
| Wyseggen | Grasslands | Wyżegi |
Pastor
At the Protestant church Opalenietz resp. Before 1893, the pastors in Willenberg served Flammberg . From 1893 the clergy of Willenberg's third parish office had their seat in Opalenietz / Flammberg:
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Evangelical cemetery
Opposite the rectory at the school garden was the old, around 300 m² large evangelical cemetery, which still exists today - a little neglected. He was subordinate to the Evangelical Church. The municipal cemetery, which was opened at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Century was created, was located outside the village on the road to Willenberg (Wielbark).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dietrich Lange, Geographical Location Register East Prussia (2005): Flammberg
- ^ The village of Opalenietz / Flammberg near the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , The Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 128
- ↑ a b c d Agathon Harnoch, Chronicle and Statistics of the Protestant Churches in the Provinces of East and West Prussia, Neidenburg 1890 , found in Flammberg (Ortelsburg district) at GenWiki
- ↑ Historical photo of the church from the time before 1940 in the Ostpreussen picture archive
- ↑ a b c History of Opalenietz / Flammberg in the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ a b Historical photo of the rectory in Flammberg, which is still well preserved today
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 105, 150–151
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 495
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 1, Göttingen 1968, pp. 439 and 544
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller mentions the pastor Johann Psurski in his pastor's book (p. 105, Opaliewitz) for the period from 1599 onwards