Evangelical Church (Szczytno)
| Evangelical Church in Szczytno (Kościół ewangelicki w Szczytnie) Evangelical Church in Ortelsburg |
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 The Evangelical Church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) |
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| Construction year: | 1717 to 1719 |
| Builder : | Matz, Königsberg (Prussia) |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Ortelsburg ( church province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 33 '46.2 " N , 20 ° 59' 40.7" E |
| Address: | ul.Warszawska Szczytno Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | ul. Warszawska 1 12-100 Szczytno |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | www.szczytno.luteranie.pl/pl/szczytno.html |
The Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ) is a building from the beginning of the 18th century. It was the parish church of the Protestant parish Ortelsburg in East Prussia until 1945 and is still today for the parish of Szczytno in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Geographical location
The district town of Szczytno is located in the southern center of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship at the intersection of the national roads DK 53 (old German Reichsstraße 134 ), DK 57 ( Reichsstraße 128 ) and DK 58 . The city is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line ( German Allenstein – Lyck ).
The church, visible from afar, with its tower, is located in the city center on the arterial road towards Warsaw (Landesstrasse 57).
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Church building
Building history, description
A church was built in Ortelsburg in the pre-Reformation period. It was a so-called order church from 1483. It was made of wood and burned down during the war with Poland from 1520-1521. It was rebuilt by 1525. In the 17th century the Ortelsburg church fell victim to the flames repeatedly, for example in 1638, 1653, 1669 and 1698: each time the church was rebuilt. The last fire for the time being was in 1714.
On the foundations of the old churches, a new building was erected between 1717 and 1719 by master mason Matz from Königsberg (Prussia) (today Russian: Kaliningrad ), which was inaugurated in 1719. King Friedrich Wilhelm I showed himself to be a patron and donated 10,000 bricks , 20,000 roof tiles , 200 tons of lime, beams and boards. A brick building was built - later plastered - with a massive west tower . The east side closes off a multiple curved arch.
Renovation work was still necessary in the 18th century and again in the first half of the 19th century. Extensive construction work also took place from 1906 to 1907, as part of which a new roof covering was carried out. In the First World War , the building did not suffer too much, and after the Second World War in 1949 only minor repairs were needed.
On October 10, 1970, a fire broke out again in the church. The source of the fire was close to the altar and the organ , which indicated arson. The organ and the roof of the tower burned down completely. The entire church had to be renovated again. It was made in 1972 and 1973. The church was put back into service on April 29, 1973 with a solemn service.
Renovation work was also necessary between 2000 and 2005 and was done inside and outside the church. A thanksgiving service on September 4, 2005 marked the end of this.
In August 2019, the parish in Szczytno celebrated the 300th anniversary of its church in the presence of high-ranking guests from the church, politics and society.
The church interior
The interior of the church has a flat arched wooden ceiling. In the sacristy , a cross vault covers the room. The galleries in the nave rest on wooden pillars.
altar
The carved altar from 1719 probably comes from a workshop in Gdansk . It shows the birth of Christ on the main floor, the crucifixion of Jesus on the upper floor and the ascension of Christ on the top . On the sides there are figures of Mary, Martha, two apostles and angels. Mourning angels are depicted next to the crucifixion image, while the ascension is lined with triumphant angels. The altar as a whole shows late baroque forms .
Oil paintings by unknown masters hang on both sides of the altar . They show the crucifixion or the salvation of the sinking Peter. The last picture bears the year 1890 on the back.
pulpit
A plaque indicates that the pulpit is a foundation of the Ortelsburg district court clerk Christian Fischer and his wife Regina Holzschu . It was made in 1719 and seems to come from the same workshop as the altar.
The pulpit with ornate staircase and sound cover rests on a figure of Moses who carries a tablet with the Ten Commandments . A figure of John the Baptist crowns the sound cover .
organ
In 1862 the church received a new organ . It was made by the Terletzki organ workshop using existing older parts and had two manuals, a pedal and 19 stops. In 1930 it received an electric motor. The entire instrument was destroyed in the fire on October 10, 1970. Only on October 27, 2007 could it replace an instrument brought from Germany. It was a donation from Helmut Tuttas , who also financed the dismantling in Germany and the reconstruction in Szczytno.
Bells
The current three bells were cast by Ulrich & Weule in 1921 . Two earlier bells, which were probably melted down for military purposes during the First World War, recorded the casting years 1819 and 1859. A third bell came from the Ortelsburg castle tower into the church, but it was cast in 1856 by the bell foundry Groß in Königsberg (Prussia) for reasons of sound . In 1876 this measure had to be repeated. This bell was also given for war purposes.
clockwork
There is an old clockwork on the top floor of the tower , but it is no longer in operation. It comes from the tower of the old castle and was installed here in the church tower in 1902 when the tower of the old castle was demolished.
Parish
Church history
The founding date of the church in Ortelsburg is not known. It could be as early as the 13th century. On November 30, 1402, the first officially confirmed church service is said to have been celebrated in the castle chapel. In the years 1485 and / or 1493 a pastor was named in Ortelsburg. The church belonged to the Archipresbyterate Bishop's Castle (now Biskupiec in Polish ).
With the introduction of the Reformation , the first Protestant clergyman began his service in Ortelsburg in 1525 . At that time, the churches Schöndamerau ( Trelkowo in Polish ) and Mensguth ( Dźwierzuty ) had to be supplied.
Ortelsburg was until 1945 the seat of the superintendent district Ortelsburg within the parish of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The parish of the parish in Ortelsburg counted more than 12,000 parishioners in 1925, who lived in more than twenty villages and towns. In the years before 1945 they were cared for by three pastors and auxiliary preachers.
The services in Ortelsburg were held in German, Masurian and Polish until well into the 20th century.
Today Szczytno is again the seat of a parish . The branch church Rańsk ( Rhine wine ) is now assigned to it. It belongs to the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
Until 1945 the parish of Ortelsburg included the villages, towns and places of residence:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Achodden 1938–1945: Neuvölklingen |
Ochódno | (New) Gisöwen | Nowe Gizewo | |
| Eichthal | Dębówko | Ortelsburg | Szczytno | |
| Freudenberg | Radosna Góra | Prussowborrek 1932–1945: Preußenwalde |
Prusowy Borek | |
| * Hamerudau | Rudka | * Roman ancestors | Romany | |
| Johannisthal | Janowo | Reusswalde | Ruski Bór | |
| * Kaspersguth | Kaspry | * Schodmack 1938–1945: Wiesendorf |
Siódmak | |
| Corpels up to 1928: corpels |
Corpse | * Sea of twenty | Sędańsk | |
| * Lehmanen | Lemany | Seaonks | Zielonka | |
| Lentzien | Wólka Szczycieńska | Ulonskofen 1938–1945: Schobendorf |
Piece | |
| Lipnik 1938–1945: Jägerforst |
Lipnik | Waldpusch | Wałpusz | |
| Maldanietz 1938–1945: Maldanen |
Małdaniec | * Throwing reason | Czarkowy Grąd | |
| Mittenwalde | Łęg Leśny | * Zielonken 1912–1938: Seelonken, 1938–1945: Ulrichssee |
Zielonka |
Pastor
As pastor - from 1525 as Protestant pastor - officiated at the church in Ortelsburg / Szczytno:
- Nikolaus von Rzekwuye, 1485–1515
- Albrecht, 1516–1525 (?)
- Stephan, 1525 (?) - 1538
- Stanislaus, 1538-1543
- Nikolaus Glitzner, 1550–1553
- Bartholomäus Lupienski, 1558
- Georg Sonnerus, 1567
- Christoph Lichtenstein, 1674–1627
- Andreas Meier, 1631-1658
- Andreas Bock, 1658–1679
- Christian Böttcher, 1679–1702
- Christian. Alb. Willudowius, 1702-1723
- Georg Lehmann, 1723–1746
- Andreas Konieczka, 1740-1746
- Matthias Rogowski, 1744-1780
- Christian. Friedr. Krupinski, 1780-1815
- Ernst Chr. Fr. Krupinski, 1812–1816
- Paul Sonnenberg, 1816-1819
- Daniel Wlotzka, 1819-1826
- Matth. Gottl. Nikolaiski, 1826-1846
- Johann Jacob Paulini, 1847-1856
- Otto Hartmann Czygan, 1848-1853
- Adam Krolczyk, 1853-1855
- Christian Ludwig Bolle, 1856–1864
- Friedrich Otto Herm. Gerß, 1864-1868
- Karl August Bercio, 1868–1903
- Hermann Michael Zabawa, from 1870
- Franz Julius Thal, 1871–1873
- Moritz Adolf Otterski, 1874–1879
- Hermann Adolf Niklas, 1887–1891
- Hugo Otto Buchholtz, 1892–1895
- Paul Walter O. Brzezinski, 1896–1919
- Alex. Reinh. Th. Klatt, 1902-1903
- Otto Arthur Dignatz, 1903
- Karl Michael O. Mensing, 1903–1923
- Benno Kaless, until 1910
- Otto Jablonski, 1912-1913
- Kurt Stern, 1913–1914
- Fritz Schiweck, 1918
- Johannes Blum, 1919–1931
- Erich Schneider, 1922–1945
- Wilhelm Hugo Kurt Korn, 1923–1930
- Ernst Stern, 1930–1945
- Heinrich Will, 1932–1935
- Albert Koßmann, 1936–1945
- Jerzy Sachs, 1945–1951
- Alfred Jagucki, 1951–1963
- Henryk Ćmok, 1964-1970
- Pawel Kubiczek, 1970-1991
- Alfred Tschirnitz, 1991–2011
- Szymon Czembor, 2012-2013
- Alfred Borski, 2013–2018
- Witold Twardzik, 2018–2019
- Adrian Lazar, since 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c churches in Ortelsburg at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Szczytno
- ↑ a b c d e f Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 129, fig. 603–604
- ↑ a b Agathon Harnoch, history and statistics of the Protestant churches in the provinces of East and West Prussia , Neidenburg, 1890 Text imprint: Szczytno (Szczytno district) at GenWiki
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 105
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Is considered the first official pastor
- ^ Probably the first Protestant pastor in Ortelsburg
- ↑ a b c d e f Superintendent
- ^ Czygan was an honorary citizen of Ortelsburg and a member of the Corps Masovia .