St. John the Baptist (Pisz)
| Church of St. John the Baptist in Pisz (Kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela w Piszu) Evangelical Church of Johannisburg |
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.JPG) The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Pisz (Johannisburg) |
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| Construction year: | 1843, tower: 1739 |
| Style elements : | Saalbau , half-timbered church |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Johannisburg ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Tower height: |
35 m |
| Location: | 53 ° 37 '47.9 " N , 21 ° 48' 25.8" E |
| Address: | ul.Tadeusza Kościuszki Pisz Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul. Armii Krajowej 2, 12-200 Pisz |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The church of St. John the Baptist in Pisz ( German Johannisburg ) dates from the middle of the 19th century and was once the largest half-timbered church in Masuria . Until 1945 it was the parish church for the Protestant parish Johannisburg in East Prussia and has since been the central church of the Roman Catholic parish of Pisz in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Pisz is located in the southeast of the Warmia and Mazury south of Spirdingsees ( Polish Jezioro Śniardwy ) at the crossing point of the Polish state roads 58 and 63 . Pisz is also a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) railway .
The church is in the center of the town on the north side of Tadeusza Kościuszki Street.
Church building
Nothing is known about the oldest church building , which dates back to the time of the order - except that around 1500 a Polish nobleman stole a bell from the church, which his widow gave back in 1502.
On November 21, 1694, a church that was probably built after the introduction of the Reformation burned down . A new building was built until 1696. In 1695 a large one was cast from three melted down bells. In 1713 the floor and the choirs were finished.
In the years 1737 to 1739 the church received a tower . It is the massive building that still exists and is 35 meters high, at the top of which a clock was placed in 1748.
On October 28, 1838, the church had to be closed because of dilapidation . The service was relocated to an emergency church , which was in Turosülen (1938–1945 Mittenheide , Turośl in Polish ).
In 1843 the newly built and still existing church could finally be handed over to its purpose. It is a simple hall structure of truss ; the tower of the previous church stands in front.
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The interior of the church has a flat wooden ceiling painted with coffered and side galleries . The richly decorated altar was taken from the previous church. The figure-rich baroque pulpit from 1701 is carved from the octagon and is carried by Moses and John the Baptist . A baptism angel from 1704 is attributed to Isaac Riga's workshop, and two Last Supper angels were created in the early 18th century.
Two candlesticks date from 1820, they were probably made from Königsberg cast iron. The silver chalice of the Lord's Supper showed the engraved image of the pastor Hieronymus Maletius with his wife and son, who stayed alive during the plague in Johannisburg and donated the chalice out of gratitude.
The organ of the church was made in 1801 by the Königsberg organ builder Max Terletzki . At the consecration of the church, the ringing consisted of two, today three bells .
In 1933 the church was completely renovated. The cost was 33,000 marks.
The church has been a Catholic church since 1945 and has been redesigned accordingly for the changed liturgical purposes. The parish church was dedicated to the patron saint of the city, John the Baptist .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
Johannispurgk was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period , probably when the Teutonic Order was founded . The Reformation took hold here very early, and until 1945 two or three clergymen worked here at the same time. Until 1715 the parish of Johannisburg belonged to the Inspection Lyck ( Polish Ełk ). Later and until 1945, the city itself became the center of a church district within the church province of East Prussia in the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish had a total of 12,105 parish members, more than half of whom lived in the places of the extensive parish.
After 1945, the evacuation and expulsion of the local population caused the life of the Protestant community in Pisz to collapse. The few Protestant church members living here today find a new home in the parish that has been re-established. It has a new parish house with the font from the church Alt Ukta and has its seat at ul. Ingnacego Daszyńskiego 12A and belongs to the diocese of Masuria (seat: Olsztyn (Allenstein) ) of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . In Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) , Ełk (Lyck) and Wejsuny (Weissuhnen) exist subsidiary communities .
Parish places
By 1945 almost fifty towns, villages and places to live were parish in the Protestant parish of Johannisburg:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | |
| Noble Borken | Borki | Little Wiartel | Wiartel Mały | |||
| * Baby grilles | Babrosty | Kobussen | Vorwerk Maldaneien | |||
| Birch break | Białobrzegi | Kruppa | Geyersmühle | |||
| * Breitenheide | Szeroki Bór | Kullik , head forester's office and forester's office | Kulik | |||
| Browarnik | Henkelswalde | Browarnik | * Magnifying glass | Łupki | ||
| * Faulbruch | Imionek | Maldaneyen | Maldaneien | Maldanine | ||
| Faulbruchswerder | Czarny Róg | Masts | Maszty | |||
| Grodzia |
(from 1933) Vogelsang |
Grodzie | * Middle Pogobia | Central Pogau | Pogobie Średnie | |
| * Large boiler | Kocioł | * Niedzwedzen |
(from 1924) Reinersdorf |
Niedźwiedzie | ||
| * Gutten J | Stare Guty | Pieczisko |
(from 1935) Waldofen |
Pieczysko | ||
| Hahnebruch | Short bagno | * Rybittwen | Ribitten | Rybitwy | ||
| * Behind Lippa | Behind Oppendorf | Lipa Tylna | Samordey , forest | Samordy | Zamordeje | |
| * Behind Pogobia |
(from 1933) Deer forest |
Pogobie Tylne | * Sawadden | Ottenberge | Zawady | |
| Jablon | Wasserborn | Jabłoń | * Schiast | Schast | Szast | |
| Janina |
(from 1931) Hirscheck |
Janina | * Snop | Waiting village | Snopki | |
| * Jaschkowen | Reiherswalde | Jaśkowo | * Sowirog | Loterswalde | Sowiróg | |
| * Jeglinnen | Wagenau | Jeglin | Sparken | Szparki | ||
| Yegodnen | Balkfelde | Jagodne | Front Pogobia | Vorderpogau | Pogubie przednie | |
| Yegodschin | Waldeslust | Jegodzin | * Wiartel | Wiartel | ||
| * Johannisburg | Pisz | * Wiesenheim until 1904: Pietrzyken |
Pietrzyki | |||
| Johannishöhe | * Wilken | Wilkenhof | Wilki | |||
| * Kallenzinnen | Dreifelde | Kałęczyn | Wolf break | Wilcze Bagno | ||
| Karwik | Karwik | Wolka | ||||
| Kerchek | Hazel heather | Kierzek | Wonglik | Balzershausen | Wąglik |
Pastor
From the time of the Reformation until 1945 the pastors officiated at the Protestant Church in Johannisburg as Protestant clergy:
- Bernhard N., until 1533
- Martin N., from 1533
- Johann Kapkowski, 1542
- NN., 1550
- Martin Glossa, 1547-1564
- Thomas Oningius, from 1564
- Sebastian Czechanski, 1565
- Johann Meyer, until 1588
- Johann Cretius
- Nicolaus Orlowius, 1592–1627
- Thomas Pilchowski, 1599/1605
- Christoph Oberhüber, 1617–1626
- Georg Gregorowius, 1628–1670
- Christoph Orlowius, 1628–1670
- Georg Czierniewski, 1648–1657
- Albrecht Hoffmann called Baginski, 1658–1690
- Johann Gregorovius, 1672–1692
- Paul Roscius, 1684
- Simon Hoffmann called Baginski, 1690–1710
- Hieronymus Maletius, 1692–1700
- Georg Ambrosius, 1698–1710
- Wilhelm Tyßka, 1710-1725
- Fabian Kowalewski, 1711-1720
- Christian Werner, 1720-1721
- Christoph Pisanski, 1722–1757
- Johann Friedrich Boretius, 1726–1735
- Gottfried Schwenkner, 1735–1741
- Theodor Salomon, 1742-1756
- Gottfried Richter, 1757–1781
- Johann Schultz, 1757–1769
- Matthias Boretius, 1769–1791
- Thimotheus Gisevius, 1781–1787
- Michel Schulz, 1787–1833
- Jacob Hambruch, 1791-1800
- Paul Samuel Paulini, 1800–1836
- Gottfried Schulz, 1818–1820
- Wilhelm Schulz, 1823–1838
- Johann Franz Ed. Thiesen, 1838-1851
- Samuel Rudolf Ebel, 1852–1866
- Eduard Friedrich Moldehnke, 1866–1869
- Robert Stiller, 1867–1888
- Ernst Otto Casper, 1869–1884
- Johann Julius G. Rimarski , 1885–1886
- Johann Hermann Bolz, 1885–1886
- Gustav Johannes Willamowski, 1885–1887
- August Louis Johann Sakowsky, 1888
- Friedrich Julius Leopold Skierlo, 1888–1916
- Gottlieb Heichrich August Rothe, 1889–1907
- Moritz Em. Paul Gielke, 1891–1895
- Carl Hartmann, from 1899
- Paul Hensel , 1907-1929
- Otto Eichel, 1911–1929
- Carl Rosenhan, 1919–1931
- Enst Link, 1929-1945
- Waldemar Ambrosy, 1931-1945
- Albert Droysen, 1933–1945
Church records
The parish church records have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1696 to 1710, 1721 to 1814, city: 1815 to 1849, country: 1766 to 1851
- Weddings: 1730 to 1764, 1766 to 1875
- Burials: 1711 to 1721, 1736 to 1766, city: 1847 to 1857, country: 1858 to 1874
- Communicants: 1801 to 1808.
Roman Catholic
The number of Catholic church members in the city of Johannisburg before 1945 was manageable: 117 in 1890 and 287 in 1925. Since 1869 the city has had its own parish , the area of which encompassed the entire Johannisburg district. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the Deanery Masuria II in the Diocese of Warmia , whose official seat was also in Johannisburg.
The number of Catholics took a tremendous increase after 1945. Numerous Polish new settlers settled in the city of Pisz and the surrounding area; almost without exception they were of the Catholic denomination. The previously evangelical church became their parish church; Today there are four Catholic churches in Pisz, three of which were built in the 1990s. Pisz is now the seat of the eleven parishes of the Pisz deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
literature
- Max Krause: Johannisburg's church and its works of art. In: Our home 15, 1933, p. 27.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f The church in Johannisburg with family research Sczuka
- ↑ a b Church of St. Johannes in Johannisburg at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c d Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 120, fig. 552–554.
- ^ Catholic parish (Parafia) in Pisz
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 59–60.
- ^ Evangelical parish in Pisz
- ↑ Ukta - Ukta
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ a b c member of the Corps Masovia
- ↑ Johannisburg at wiki-de
- ^ Michael Rademacher: German administrative history from the unification of the empire in 1871 to the reunification in 1990. District Johannisburg (Polish Pisz). (Online material for the dissertation, Osnabrück 2006).