Evangelical Church (Wielbark)
| Evangelical Church in Wielbark (Kościół ewangelicki w Wielbarku) Evangelical Church in Willenberg (Masuria) |
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 View of the Evangelical Church in Wielbark / Willenberg |
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| Construction year: | 1825 to 1827 |
| Inauguration: | September 27, 1827 |
| Builder : | Schimmelpfennig |
| Architect : | ( Karl Friedrich Schinkel ) |
| Style elements : | Neo-Romanesque brick building |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Willenberg ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 23 '56.4 " N , 20 ° 56' 43.4" E |
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Wielbark Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | (until 1945 :) Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | currently not in church use |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
The former Evangelical Church in Wielbark ( German Willenberg ) is a building from the first half of the 19th century. It is a former church that was the worship center of the Protestant parish in the East Prussian Willenberg (Masuria) until 1945 , after which it became the property of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and is now an unused building in the town of Wielbark , which is in need of repair in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The city of Wielbark is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , twenty kilometers south of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ). Landesstraße 57 (former German Reichsstraße 128 ) runs through the village . There is currently no train connection.
The church is in the city center, east of the main street.
Church building
There was probably a Protestant church in the Masurian Willenberg as early as 1557. At that time the place was already called a church village . However, the building at that time fell victim to the Tatar invasion in 1656/57. In 1721 a wooden church was built in its place . For structural reasons, it was demolished in 1819, and the building that still exists today was built between 1825 and 1827 based on a design by the Karl Friedrich Schinkel School. On September 27, 1827 it was handed over to its intended use.
The church in Wielbark is a plastered brick building with a square tower. Outwardly, the building is characterized by its simplicity in form and detail. The tower is covered with a tent roof on which there was a forged eagle from the old church on a copper sphere. Until 1911 he was the heraldic animal of the city of Willenberg. There is a gable roof on the nave .
The interior, which is uniform in the classicist style, has flat roofs and lateral galleries resting on columns , which allow bright light to enter through two rows of windows. The windows are closed with arches .
The wooden baroque pulpit was originally located to the left of the altar. This as well as a baptismal font and numerous other pieces of equipment in the style of the imperial era were attributed to the sculptor Wilhelm Biereichel ( Rößel , Polish Reszel ). The church was also decorated with a baroque sculpture of a baptismal angel from around 1720.
The church received an organ in 1827 as the work of the Berlin organ builder Carl August Buchholz . It had 35 registers.
The church bell consisted of two bells. On July 15, 1922, new bells were inaugurated as replacements for those delivered during the First World War .
During the First World War the church served as a hospital . After the Second World War it was set up as a cultural center.
The house of God has not been used as such for many years. For some time now one has been undertaking gradual repair and maintenance work. In 2009, for example, extensive security measures were carried out on the tower at risk of collapse. Future use is currently being discussed.
Parish
Church history
A parish was founded in Willenberg in the pre-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , it became Protestant . Until 1945 it was integrated into the superintendent district Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the parish of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia in the church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish of Willenberg had more than 7050 parishioners. From 1853 the parish had two pastoral offices , a third was established from 1893 with its seat in Flammberg (until 1904 Opalenietz , Polish Opaleniec ).
A Roman Catholic parish has also existed in Willenberg since 1888 .
The flight and expulsion of the local population, mostly of Protestant denominations, put an end to the life of the Protestant community in Wielbark after 1945. The church has been left to its own devices for a long time, and maintenance and repair work has only been in place since the 2000s. Protestant residents living in and around Wielbark today belong to the community in Szczytno within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
For parish Willenberg belonged to 1945, the city of Willenberg and several villages, towns and residential places:
Pastor (until 1945)
At the Evangelical Church in Willenberg officiated as clergy until 1945:
- Bartholomäus Kulwitz, 1598
- Johann Lishler, from 1603
- Albert Stawinski, until 1650
- Andreas Bock
- Georg Otter, 1651–1656
- N. Blennau
- Christoph Senftenberg, 1687/1698
- Jacob Jeglinski, 1701
- Johann Stigallus, 1701–1708
- Erhard Wilde, 1708–1723
- Samuel Rogatzki, 1723-1737
- Jacob Hampe, 1738–1755
- Georg Biehan, 1755–1796
- Samuel Ferdinand Schulz, 1791–1796
- Jacob Drwenski, 1796-1822
- Johann Henrich Nadrowski, 1818-1820
- Friedrich Wilhelm Traugott Frenzel, 1821–1860
- August Wilhelm Czygan, 1853–1874
- Gustav Adolf Majewski, 1860–1866
- Carl Friedrich Nadolny, 1866–1876
- Johann Julius G. Romarski, 1874–1875
- Karl Adolf Schrage, 1875–1883
- Gustav Adolf Stange, 1876–1883
- Gustav Friedrich Bercio, 1880
- Adolf LHC Fr. Korella, 1883-1886
- Friedrich Julius Gauda, 1884–1911
- Rudolf Leopold Kopkow, 1887–1888
- Albert Lange, 1887–1911
- Karl Leopold Czypulowski, 1891
- ° Franz Karl Dopatka, 1892–1907
- Ernst Büchler, 1895–1899
- Ferdinand Baginski, from 1900
- Rudolf Wisniewski, 1900–1910
- ° Richard Fischer, 1908–1920
- Paul Ewert, 1910
- Georg Friedrich Foltin, 1911–1914
- Gustav Adolf Stange, 1911–1915
- Ernst Kolodzeyczyk, 1912-1913
- Walther Wittkowski, 1914–1915
- Joseph Rosenberg, 1916–1922
- Paul Terpitz, 1919–1920
- Max Schmidt, 1918
- ° Otto Nikutowski, 1920
- Friedrich Bolz, 1921
- Helmut Lappoehn, 1921
- ° Otto Rehfeld, 1921–1923
- Johannes Worm, 1922–1926
- Karl Ernst Czygan, 1923–1934
- ° Oskar Gaidies, 1923-1945
- Johannes Wenzel, 1927–1934
- Eduard Gustav Grüner, 1928
- Hugo Schmalenbach, 1932–1945
- Ewald Weidekamm, 1935–1945
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Amtshaus, Kirchen (in Willenberg) at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c d e Kościół ewangelicki w Wielbarku in Leksykon Kultury Warmii i Mazur
- ↑ a b c d Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, pp. 129–130, figs. 605–607
- ↑ Wielbark: Dawny kościół ewangelicki mojemazury.pl at
- ↑ 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, pp. 150–151
- ^ Parafia Wielbark in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ ° = Parish office in Opaleniec / Flammberg