Evangelical Church of Klášter nad Dědinou

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View from Klášter nad Dědinou to the church
Southeast view
House of the dead in the cemetery

The Evangelical Church in Klášter nad Dědinou , a district of the Ledce municipality in Eastern Bohemia , is a parish church of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brothers (ČCE) in the Czech Republic. The cultural monument was built in 1785 as the Church of Tolerance of the Evangelical Church HB in Austria .

location

The church, surrounded by a cemetery, is located 300 meters north of the village of Klášter nad Dědinou on the way to Městec .

history

The recatholization of the subjects of the Opočno domain, which began during the Thirty Years' War , was not very successful. A large part of the population in the area between Třebechovice and Opočno remained non-Catholic and met in secret places for worship. On September 16, 1732, seven peasants from Jeníkovice presented themselves to Rudolf von Colloredo at Opočno Castle on behalf of non-Catholics with a request to practice their religion freely and asked for their services to be held in the church of Vysoký Újezd . Colloredo saw this as a dangerous riot and ordered soldiers from the Königsegg regiment and a dragoons company from Königgrätz to the villages around Třebechovice together with the Jesuit priest Fiom. 171 Protestants were arrested within three days. In 1740 the exile Jan Liberda preached in the woods. In the following years Liberda, who had meanwhile been appointed inspector of the Bohemian parishes in Silesia by King Friedrich II , traveled incognito several times as medicus Johann Frey and, together with the Prussian generals in Königgrätz, prepared the organized emigration of the Bohemian non-Catholics Silesia before. In 1742, numerous families from the area emigrated to Münsterberg .

After Emperor Joseph II had issued the tolerance patent in October 1781 , a Reformed community was formed in Klášter on September 27, 1782 . In the same year 319 families signed the establishment of the independent parish of the Church of the Lamb in front of the Opočno office ; the minimum number of 100 families required for the formation of a parish was thus clearly exceeded. In May 1783 the community received its first full-time preacher, the Hungarian Matouš Bacsa. The services initially took place in a farm and in summer in its garden. In 1785 the farmer Václav Větvička gave the community a piece of land to build a church and a cemetery. The foundation stone for the church was laid after Easter, and it was consecrated on October 16, 1785. In the same year the parish became part of the newly formed Evangelical Superintendent of HB Bohemia . In 1786 an evangelical school started teaching on the farm of the farmer Větvička, and it received its own schoolhouse in 1791. The rectory was built in 1787.

The congregation of Kloster was one of the largest evangelical reformed parishes in Bohemia. The parish of the pastorate initially extended from Braunau to Choceň and from Königgrätz to the Silesian border. In 1836, it included 2,870 believers, including all Protestant inhabitants of the rule Opotschno further 251 Protestants in the towns of Biel sealed and Chwogenetz (rule Pardubice ) Bohuslawitz , Černčitz , Lhota, Slawietin and games (rule Neustadt ), Borohradek (Good Borohrádek) Zbielow and Zdiar ( Reichenau rule ), Hodietschin ( Nedělischt manor ), Josephstadt and Libnikowitz ( Smiřitz manor ), Kosteletz and Lhota (Kosteletz manor), Tinischt and Woleschnitz ( Častolowitz manor ) as well as all 64 Protestants from the Nachod manor who belong to the branch office in Machau were assigned.

From 1843 to 1889 Jan Veselý was pastor in the monastery. In 1855 the community received permission to add a church tower. The funds for the renovation were provided by the community, Franz von Colloredo approved the logging for the tower and the new church roof in his forests.

Through the formation of new pastorates, etc. a. in Choceň (1862), Semonice (1867), Kostelec nad Orlicí , Bohuslavice nad Metují , the Sprengel monastery was significantly reduced in size. In 1871 the preaching station in Třebechovice was elevated to a pastorate, in 1885 the preaching station in Hronov was separated from Klášter. The preaching station Běleč nad Orlicí was assigned to the pastorate Třebechovice as a branch parish in 1876. Further preaching stations were set up in Trnov (1875–1995), Ostašovice , Křivice (1890), Dobruška (1900), Bolehošť (1902), Opočno (1951), Králova Lhota (1980) and Mokré .

From 1889 to 1928 Oskar Opočenský worked as a pastor in Klášter, then until 1957 his son Bohumír Opočenský. With the merger of the Reformed and Lutheran churches, the parish of Klášter became part of the Evangelical Church of the Bohemian Brethren in December 1918 .

The preaching station Rychnov nad Kněžnou was assigned to the pastorate Kostelec nad Orlicí after the Second World War , the preaching station Opočno 1953 to the pastorate Bohuslavice nad Metují . In Dobruška , the community acquired the former synagogue in the 1950s and converted it into a preaching station by 1954.

During communist rule, the congregation lost numerous parishioners to pressure and harassment, and others stopped their activities and withdrew. The hoped-for return of these people to the faith after the Velvet Revolution did not materialize. In 2006 the municipality sold the Dobruška synagogue to the city, which turned it into a museum. Since the dissolution of the pastorate Bohuslavice, the Opočno preaching station has belonged again to the pastorate Klášter nad Dědinou since 2008.

The Evangelical Parish of Klášter nad Dědinou has about 370 parishioners today. Services are only held in the church during the summer and on public holidays; in the winter months they take place in the prayer room. The parish has three preaching stations in Bolehošť , Dobruška and Opočno; services are no longer held in Bolehošť.

Building

The church, built in Empire style with a clapboard roof within six months in 1785 , had no tower. In 1855 the church was rebuilt in neo-Renaissance style and the tower was added to the west side of the nave.

In 1894 the confirmation hall was built. In 1900 the church received three new bells. On December 1, 1900, the first organ was consecrated . During the two world wars, two of the church bells were requisitioned and melted down. In 1958 the church area with the church, the house of the dead and the cemetery wall was placed under monument protection.

In 2009 the church tower was renovated, the church roof was repaired and the organ was overhauled; the renovation of the nave was completed in 2012.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical Church Klášter nad Dědinou  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wenzeslaus Blanitzky: History of etablirten in Silesia Hussites , Konigsberg 1763, pp 301-303
  2. ^ Johann Gottfried Sommer , Franz Xaver Maximilian Zippe: The Kingdom of Böhmen. Statistically and topographically presented, vol. 4 Königgrätzer Kreis , Prague 1836, p. 368
  3. ↑ aréal kostela Českobratrské církve evangelické  in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).
  4. ↑ kostel Českobratrské církve evangelické ÚSKP 22390 / 6-2322 in the monument catalog pamatkovykatalog.cz (Czech).

Coordinates: 50 ° 14 ′ 19.3 ″  N , 16 ° 2 ′ 19.4 ″  E