Marggrabowa Evangelical Church

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Evangelical Church in Marggrabowa
(Oletzko) / Treuburg
Construction year: 17th century / 2. half
Style elements : Brick church
Client: Evangelical parish in Marggrabowa
( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 54 ° 2 '19.6 "  N , 22 ° 30' 19.2"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '19.6 "  N , 22 ° 30' 19.2"  E
Location: Olecko
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Local community: Not available anymore. The church is destroyed in the war. A new - Catholic - church was built at its location

The Evangelical Church in Marggrabowa was a plastered brick building from the 17th century and until its destruction in the Second World War it was an evangelical church for the church members living in the parish of Marggrabowa ( Polish Olecko , colloquially also: Oletzko , 1928–1945 Treuburg ).

Geographical location

The district town known today as Olecko is located in the east of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the national road DK 65 (former German Reichsstraße 132 ), which runs through northeastern Poland from the Russian to the Belarusian border over a length of more than 200 kilometers.

The location of the church was on the former market square , not far from today's Plac Wolności, at the exact spot where a newly built Catholic church, consecrated in 1987, stands.

Church building

In 1552 two incumbent clergymen were named in Marggrabowa, so there was reason to believe that a church already existed at that time. In 1646, the tower was given a new top, the construction of which - as the files indicate - the governor Siegfried von Wallenrodt had financially supported. When the Tartars invaded in 1656, the church burned down, but was rebuilt as soon as possible.

The church was a plastered brick building with a three-sided end. The west tower was in front. In 1901 the building was completely renovated. a. the nave was extended.

The interior of the church had a flat wooden ceiling. The altarpiece from 1702 , which was slightly damaged during the renovation in 1901, was a rich carving from the workshop of Joh. Chr. Döbel , with a crucifixion group in the main end. The crucifix on the south wall was also assessed as a work by Döbel . The pulpit was built in 1692. Its staircase showed the coat of arms of the von Lesgewang family , whose son Friedrich Wilhelm was the governor of Marggrabowa from 1688 to 1695.

The 17th century organ was rebuilt in 1850. The church bell consisted of three bells cast in 1776, 1807 and 1839.

The Marggrabowa Church included a gold-plated silver chalice from 1859 and a silver tray that was created in 1825 by Johann Christian Thun in Königsberg (Prussia) . Both are now kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg . A baptismal font that was in use from 1700 to 1900 was also rediscovered.

Parish

Only a few years after the Lutheran Reformation was introduced in East Prussia , a Protestant parish was founded in Marggrabowa in 1560 . Their church patronage was state; in 1925 it counted 10,000 parishioners who lived in a spacious parish comprising 16 places . From the beginning, two clergymen served at the Evangelical Church in Marggrabowa, and after 1862 they were temporarily supplemented by an assistant preacher.

The parish Marggrabowa belonged to the parish of Oletzko / Treuburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . Flight and expulsion of the local population in the context of war brought church life in Marggrabowa to a standstill. Only a few Protestant church members live in the city, which is characterized by its Catholic population. You visit the places of worship in Gołdap (Goldap) or Ełk (Lyck) within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish places

Before 1945, 16 places belonged to the parish of the Evangelical Church of Marggrabowa:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name
Babken Lay source Babki Oleckie Lengowen Lengau Łęgowo
Dopken Markgrafsfelde Dobki Marggrabowa (Oletzko) (from 1928)
Treuburg		 Olecko
Dullen Duły Moosznen
1936–1938 Mooschnen 		Mosques Możne
Gollubia Kalkhof Golubki Olschöwen (from 1933)
Erlental		 Olszewo
Gordeyken Gordeiken Gordejki Prostkergut Imionki
Jaschken Jesken Jaśki Rosochatzken (from 1927)
Albrechtsfelde		 Rosochackie
Krupinnen Krupine Stobbenorth (from 1928)
Stobbenort		 Pieńki
Kukowen Reinkental Kukowo Sea tendrils Sedranki

Pastor

At the church in Marggrabowa officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945:

  • Laurentius Prostcka, 1552–1587
  • Johann Schenckenberg, 1588–1589
  • Johann Kupzau, 1589–1625
  • Leonhard Choinovius, until 1594
  • Solomon Wannowius, 1593-1607
  • Paul Metellus, 1607-1631
  • N. Borcik, 1609-1625
  • Andreas Maeyer, from 1625
  • Joachim Lossau, 1631–1636
  • Christoph Breuer, 1636–1655
  • Daniel Schulz, 1636–1657
  • Matthias Zielinski, 1657–1683
  • St. de Poniatowa-Poniatowski, 1658–1663
  • Martin Strugul, 1663
  • Georg Möller, 1663–1687
  • Georg Abramowitz, 1684–1702
  • Christoph Cibrowius, 1687–1702
  • Matthias Damanius Bielski, 1703
  • Gottfried Reimer, 1703–1710
  • Georg Mieczkowski, 1703-1710
  • Albert Stosnowius, 1710-1731
  • Michael Parschau, 1711-1725
  • Bernhard Barth. Olschewius, 1725-1733
  • Samuel Hoffmann, 1726–1754
  • Johann Christian Funck, 1733–1742
  • Johann Schultz, 1742–1757
  • Michael Horn. 1755-1769
  • Daniel Aegidii, 1757-1779
  • Christoph Karl Kempen, 1769–1784
  • Christian Jerosch, 1781–1786
  • Christian Albrecht Orlowius, 1784–1816
  • Friedrich Simon Szczepanski, 1784–1822
  • Carl Gottlieb Skrzeczka, 1811-1819
  • Karl Adam Rohmann, 1817–1822
  • August Friedrich Cygan, 1820–1837
  • Heinrich Friedrich Gizycki, 1822–1824
  • Johann Carl Brzoska, 1824–1835
  • Johann August Skrodzki, 1835–1840
  • Ernst August Stern, 1837–1865
  • Martin Friedrich Szczesny, 1841–1847
  • Julius Robert Stiller, 1846-1853
  • Alexander Kohtz, 1853-1885
  • Adolf Eduard Rudloff, 1862–1864
  • Johann C. Hermann Gawlick, 1865–1868
  • Louis Schellong, 1869-1897
  • Franz Albert Rauch, 1885–1895
  • Paul Hermann Rudolf Link, 1895–1897
  • Leo Wilhelm Richard Bury, 1896–1898
  • Ernst Theodor Teschner, 1898–1921
  • Ernst Wilhelm Vogelreuter, 1898–1934
  • Hermann Rudolf Niklas, 1921–1930
  • Ernst Willamowski, 1930–1940
  • Kurt Wiele, from 1934
  • Friedrich Kwiatkowski, 1939–1940
  • Horst Markowski, 1940–1945
  • Johannes Perle, 1943–1945

Church records

From the parish register records of the parish Marggrabowa have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

  • To baptize
    • City: 1684–1754, 1775–1781, 1783–1928
    • Country: 1684–1754, 1775–1930
  • Weddings:
    • City: 1800-1804, 1806-1905
    • Country: 1800-1804, 1806-1905
  • Funerals:
    • City: 1774–1886, 1889–1891
    • Country: 1774-1922
  • Confirmations:
    • City: 1924-1934
    • Country: 1924-1934

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 91.
  2. ↑ a b c Churches in Treuburg
  3. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 116, fig. 526, 527.
  4. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 484.
  5. ^ All places, except Prostkergut and Stobbenorth, were school locations
  6. ↑ a b c member of the Corps Masovia
  7. ↑ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, p. 82.