Evangelical Church (Sorkwity)
| Evangelical Church in Sorkwity (Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Sorkwitach) Evangelical Church in Sorquitten |
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.jpg) The Evangelical Church in Sorkwity (Sorquitten) |
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| Construction year: | East part: between 1593 and 1607 West part: 1698/1699 Tower: 1701–1721 |
| Style elements : | Baroque stone building |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Sorquitten ( Church Province East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 50 '46 " N , 21 ° 8' 35" E |
| Address: | ul. Plażowa 1 Sorkwity Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | ul.Plażowa 3, 11-731 Sorkwity |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
The Evangelical Augsburg Church in Sorkwity is a building from the 16th and 17th centuries. To this day it is a Protestant church building that served as a parish church in the former East Prussian parish of Sorquitten and is now the main place of worship for the parish of Sorkwity in the Polish diocese of Masuria .
Geographical location
The Masurian village Sorkwity is the seat of a rural community and is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship - in the middle between the Jezioro Lampackie ( German Sorquitter See , Lampatzki-See ) and the Jezioro Gielądzkie ( German Gehlandsee ) in the Masurian Lake District . The district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ) is nine kilometers to the east. State road 16 (former German state road 127 ) runs through Sorkwity , from which ul. Plażowa branches off in a northerly direction, on the west side of which the church is located.
Church building
A church in Sorquitten was mentioned as early as 1470. It was a thatched half-timbered church . It was razed in 1600 and by a stone church replaced: a choir loose plastered building whose eastern part of 1593-1607 and its western part was built in 1689/99.
The west tower with faced brick masonry was built between 1701 and 1721. It has a tent roof with a weather vane from 1777 - to commemorate the renovation work in 1776/77. Back then, the ailing upper section had to be removed by 35 feet. It was then prepared as it is today.
The church interior was given a barrel vault in the central nave and flat wooden ceilings on the sides; the semicircular windows were also used. Since then, the appearance of the church has remained unchanged.
The interior of the church was carefully restored in the 1930s, and between 1935 and 1944 it was painted, new roof tiles and new gutters were installed, and the doors and arched windows were renewed. In the years after 1945 the church was restored several times, most recently in 2010 and 2012.
The interior of the church essentially bears the signature of Isaak Riga . It is considered "a gem of rural church art". The pulpit from 1694, redesigned by Riga, is decorated with figures in peasant costume, as is the floating baptismal angel from 1701, donated by Georg Dietrich von der Groeben , as well as the upper floor and the veil of the altar.
The altar in the style of late Renaissance wooden added Friedrich Pfeffer from Königsberg (Prussia) in 1715 from an old, of Christoph Billich and Martin Lange together carved altar. The year 1642 is noted in the upper part. In the predella on the altar table, the Last Supper of Jesus with his disciples is depicted, the central part shows the Golgotha scene . Here, however, characteristic features of Sorquits can also be found: for example fishermen and farmers as well as the manor house (before the renovation in 1855/56) or the cartridge on both sides with Moses and his brother Aaron . In the altarpiece there is a relief with the entombment of Jesus , next to it the figures of the evangelists Mark and Luke . This part was restored in 1941. Under the altar is a crypt with coffins, rediscovered in 1936.
The interior also includes a confessional from 1701, made by Johann Schwarz from Grünwalde. In 1715 it was decorated with column snails and an ionic crown, above the lamb as a symbol of sacrifice. The patronage stalls were built around 1615/17 in the late Renaissance style. The side walls and the baroque crown were created by the sculptor Reh . You can see the coats of arms of the landowning families in the cartouches. A larger-than-life Baroque crucifix on the wall opposite the entrance dates from 1710 , which was made by the Sorquitter pastor Johann Riedel - brother of the sculptor Georg Riedel , who created the organ prospectus. The crucifix was partially destroyed in 1945. It is a so-called plague cross, which is reminiscent of the devastating plague that raged in the parish of Sorquitten in 1709 and 1710.
A ceiling painting is striking : it shows the Ascension of Christ , whereby only the abdomen of the ascending Christ with his legs can be seen, while the upper body is already hidden by the ceiling.
The organ dates from 1874; it is the work of the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer from Frankfurt (Oder) . It had to be revised in 2010 and 2013, which the W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) took over. Its sound is shaped by the romanticism of the 19th century. Georg Riedel (1676–1738) created the organ prospectus in 1701. The church bell consisted of three bells that were cast in Bochum in 1874 . One of them donated Baroness Ulrike von Mirbach .
After 1945, the interior was supplemented with items from the decaying Evangelical Church of Kobułty ( Kobulten in German ).
Parish
Church history
A church was founded in Sorquitten in 1470. Lutheran teaching took hold here in the early 16th century. Initially, the parish belonged to the Rastenburg inspection (in Polish: Kętrzyn ), then until 1945 to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925, more than 3000 parishioners lived in the extensive parish of Sorquitten. The church patronage was incumbent on the respective manor owners in Sorquitten.
The life of the evangelical parish in Sorkwity has suffered greatly due to the flight and displacement of the local population . Among the growing Catholic population, which was establishing a new parish here, an evangelical congregation, albeit a small one, prevailed. She owns the old church, which is now again a parish church for a very large catchment area, in which there are also three subsidiary churches : the churches in Biskupiec Reszelski (German Bishop's Castle ), in Rasząg ( Raschung ) and in Rybno ( Ribben ). The revived church in Warpuny (Warpuhnen) has also been looked after since 2016 . The parish belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
For parish Sorquitten included, in 1945, the cities, towns and residential places:
| Surname | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| * Allmoyen | Jełmuń | Little Kamionks | Rogettes | Kamionka Mała | ||
| * Alt Gehland | Stary Gieląd | Small Kosarken |
(from 1930) Lindenhof (from 1938) Zweilinden |
Kozarek Mały | ||
| Chabrim | Plażowa | Lasken | Młynik | |||
| Charlotte | Szarłaty | Millucken | Miłuki | |||
| Choszewen | Hohensee | Choszczewo | * Neberg | Nibork | ||
| Domp | Kleinsteinfelde | Dąb | Foggy | Słomowo | ||
| Glodowen | Głodowo | New Gehland | Nowy Gieląd | |||
| * Great Kamionks |
(from 1929) Großsteinfelde |
Kamionka Wielka | Pierwoy | Pierwój | ||
| Gross Kosarken-Dönhoffstädt | Köhlersgut | Kozarek Wielki | * Pustnick | Pustniki | ||
| Great Kosarken-Wehlack | Koehlerhof | Kozarek Mały | Rodowen |
(from 1928) Heinrichsdorf, dismantling |
Rodowo | |
| * Large trunk | Stama | Saluting | Załuki | |||
| * Heinrichshöfen | Jędrychowo | Steinhof | Kamionka | |||
| Janowen |
(from 1928) Heinrichsdorf |
Janowo | Thiergarten | Zwierzyniec | ||
| Joachimowen | Joachimshuben | Joachimowo | (New) Willamowen | |||
| Johannisthal | Janiszewo | |||||
| Small Gehland | Gieląd Mały |
Pastor
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Already in the pre-Reformation period - in 1494 - a pastor was mentioned in Sorquitten. As evangelical clergymen served at the Sorquitter Church:
- Matthias Wannowius, 1547–1589
- Salomon Wannowius, until 1587
- Gregorius Petri, 1589-1629
- Michael Wannowius, 1626-1665
- Michael Saphran, 1665-1703
- Johann Riedel, 1703–1737
- Friedrich Krüger, 1737–1743
- Johann Friedrich Goerke, 1743–1758
- Wilhelm Jackstein, 1759–1771
- Christoph Abr. Sinagowitz, 1771-1796
- Joseph Wilhelm Gisewius, 1796–1834
- Ed. Georg Viktor Schlick, 1835–1863
- Willibald RE Schlickert, 1864-1896
- Leopold Emil Schröder, 1896–1910
- Paulus Rémus, 1910–1923
- Johannes Rohde, 1923–1930
- Ernst Schwartz, 1934–1945
- Alfred Jagucki, 1945–1952
- Wilhelm Firla, 1952–1980
- Marian Bienioszek, 1980-1984
- Krzysztof Mutschmann, since 1984
partnership
On the church grounds - now separated from the parish cemetery, which is also used for Polish burials - there is a large granite stone with a bronze plaque. It was erected in 2013 and bears the inscription In memoriam Pastor Hans Mohn . Mohn was a pastor on Sylt from 1978 to 1989 , from where he strongly advocated a partnership with the former Sorquitten in 1986. This partnership still exists today and is very actively perceived with the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Norddörfer / Sylt.
A sculpture created by Christel Lechner has been in front of the Friesenkapelle in Wenningstedt-Braderup on Sylt since June 24, 2018 . The work is entitled Blick nach Sorquitten and is a reminder of the close friendship between the German-Polish partners.
References
literature
- Friedrich-W. von Oppeln-Bronikowski: Sorquits in Masuria / East Prussia. Berlin 2016.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Church in Sorquitten (revised by F.-W. von Oppeln-Bronikowski, September 29, 2009) at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 140, fig. 681, 682.
- ↑ a b Sorkwity in Masuria. Village church and castle (Sorquitten)
- ↑ Number of works: 212
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 500.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 129–130.
- ↑ Kerstin Harms, The Church of Warpuhnen , said to be dead, is alive and has awakened from its slumber at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Diecezja Mazurska
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.