Holy Cross Church (Srokowo)
| Holy Cross Church in Srokowo (Kościół Świętego Krzyża w Srokowie) Evangelical Parish Church of Drengfurth |
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 The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Srokowo (Drengfurth) |
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| Construction year: | 1409 |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 12 '53 " N , 21 ° 31' 19" E |
| Address: | ul. Traugutta 2 Srokowo Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul. Piekaska 5, 11-420 Srokowo |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Kętrzyn II (Northeast) |
| Website: | www.parafia-srokowo.pl |
The Holy Cross Church in Srokowo ( German Drengfurth ) is a brick building that was built in 1409. After more than a hundred years of pre-Reformation times, it became the central church of the Protestant parish of Drengfurth in East Prussia from the Reformation until 1945 . Since 1945 it has been the Roman Catholic parish church of Srokowo in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Srokowo is located on the Omet in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The province road 650 runs through the village, which connects Stara Różanka (Alt Rosenthal) not far from the town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ) with Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and Gołdap (Goldap) .
The location of the church is in the northeastern local area on the ulica Traugutta.
Church building
In 1409 a church was built in Drengfurth, which has been preserved to this day as a choir-free, plastered brick building on a field stone foundation . The building with its massive west tower corresponds to Gothic architecture . The hall church was renewed in 1577, presumably increasing the tower. Another renovation took place in 1637, and in 1657, after the Tatar storm, almost a reconstruction took place in which the tower height was reduced to 31 meters. The cross vault in the nave was also replaced by a flat wooden ceiling with pillars, and the interior was given galleries . Three parapet fragments with painted panels are still present. In 1897 a new ceiling was put in place.
The vestibule in the south and the sacristy in the north kept their old cross vaults. The tower was restored in 1708/1709, whereby the buttresses were attached to its base in 1712 by master mason Matz from Königsberg (Prussia) (now Kaliningrad in Russian ). The gable of the vestibule was renewed in 1718. A further renovation of the entire church took place in 1824. In 1897 a new ceiling was put in.
The altar was created in 1824 by the sculptor Wilhelm Biereichel from Rößel ( Reszel in Polish ) - possibly using older parts. The pictures are from Johannes Strunge , also from Rößel. The pulpit was built in 1897, the baptismal chamber from the late 17th century. Furnishing a part sculpture of the Madonna and Child in the sanctuary of about 1,410, also an octagonal baptismal font from brass from 1664. located in the tower hall, a holy water font from granite from the 15th century.
In 1769 the church received an organ . It was the work of the Königsberg organ builder Johann Preuss . At that time the instrument was single-manual and had 13 registers . The prospectus has been preserved to this day. In 1882 a pedal was installed by the master organ builder Max Terletzki from Königsberg. In 1897 a new organ was built by Wilhelm Sauer . The instrument then had two manuals with a pedal in 18 registers.
The church bells were from 1870, 1871 and 1873.
In 1945 the Roman Catholic Church took over the church building, which was then dedicated to the Holy Cross , in exchange of its Drengfurther chapel with the Evangelical Church . In the following years the building was subjected to several restorations and its furnishings were adapted to the changed liturgical customs. The organ was renovated in 1974 and the church roof was renewed in 1975. In the 2000s, several renovations were planned, and in 2008 the organ was revised.
In 2017, the wooden plaque with the names of those who died in the First World War from the Drengfurth Church was found in the attic of the church in Radzieje ( German rose garden ) . She has returned to her usual place.
Church / parish
The founding of the church in Drengfurth took place in the pre-Reformation period. With the Reformation , Lutheran teaching found its way into the small town and its surrounding area on the Omet.
Evangelical
Church history
As early as the 1540s, a Protestant clergyman was officiating at the Drengfurth parish church, supported by a second from 1569 to 1926. The parish was assigned to the Rastenburg inspection , later until 1945 to the church district of the same name in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Before 1945, Drengfurth had a predominantly Protestant population: in 1816 out of 1217 inhabitants, 1211 were Protestant, in 1858 there were 1659 out of 1739 inhabitants, and 1613 out of 1618 in 1925.
The number of parish members in the entire Drengfurth parish was 4650 in 1925. They lived in the city and around 30 villages, towns and places of residence. The church patronage was incumbent on the city council of Drengfurth.
The flight and expulsion of the local population caused the number of Protestant residents to decrease significantly after 1945. It was decided to swap the church buildings between the two denominations. The now responsible parish in Kętrzyn took over the smaller Catholic chapel as a branch church . It is part of the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
The following places belonged to the parish of Drengfurth until 1945:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | ||
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| Bergensee | Pieczarki | Ivenhof | Leśny Rów | North place | Oparczyska | ||
| * Drengfurth , city (with: Drengfurthshof and Waldhaus Drengfurth ) |
Srokovo | Jäglack | Jegławki | * Salzbach | Solanka | ||
| * Drengfurth, suburb | Clipper | Chojnica | Schonthal | Rybakovo | |||
| Owl Court | Sówka | Kollkeim | Kolkiejmy | * Schülzen | Silec | ||
| Friedenthal | Suchodoły | Leitnerswalde | Osikowo | Serwillen | Surwile | ||
| Friedrichsberg | Wilcza Wólka | Louisenhof | Podlasia | Stone , forest | Kamień | ||
| Fürstenau | Leśniewo | * Marienthal | Kosakovo | Terra | Siemkowo | ||
| Fürstenhof | Księży Dwór | Marschallsheide | Marszałki | Waldenthal | Lesieniec | ||
| Fürstenwalde | Kaczory | (Noble) Mühlbach | Młynowo | * Wolf Hagen | Wilczyny | ||
| Hochberg | Wysoka Góra | Nordenhof | Pyszki |
Pastor
The following officiated as Protestant clergy at the church in Drengfurth:
- NN., Until 1545
- Michael Eusebius, 1541-1545
- Johann Kaunitz, 1551
- Andreas Kallamanski, 1561–1568
- Alexander Wüsthaupt, from 1568
- Bartholomäus Cortanus, 1569– ^ 597
- Leonhard Wendt, 1576/1579
- Georg Rasch, 1583–1595
- Philipp Tinctorius, 1595-1615
- NN., 1597
- Caspar Danowius, 1599-1619
- Peter Tinctorius, 1612-1621
- Andreas Gille, 1624
- Andreas Grossmann, 1624
- Peter Prilowius, until 1625
- Johann Bachius, 1625/1629
- Abraham Mansuetus
- Johann Christoph Rehfeld, 1653–1657
- Christoph Bielau, 1659–1672
- Andreas Nockius, from 1661
- Andreas Friederici, 1672–1684
- Matthäus Cörber, from 1685
- Leopold Mrosovius, 1698–1737
- Johann Georg Passarge, 1723–1761
- Thomas Dombrowski, 1736-1737
- Christian Swonckowski, 1738-1743
- Georg Matth. Cucholowius, 1743-1747
- Friedrich Ludwig Boretius, 1749–1754
- Johann Gottfried Krakau, 1754–1787
- Johann Ernst Henne, 1761–1793
- Georg Alb. And. Skopnick, 1788-1791
- Johann Wilhelm Gisevius, 1792–1796
- Theodor Benjamin Schenkel, 1794–1816
- Paul Sonnenberg, 1797–1798
- Johann Friedrich Grawert, 1799–1813
- Friedrich Wilhelm Willimzig, 1814–1817
- Johann Gotthard Mertens, 1816–1830
- Friedrich Otterski, from 1822
- Simon Mäckelburg, from 1830
- Ernst Julius Otterski, 1839–1883
- Wilhelm August Simon, 1856–1867
- Gustav Peter Westphal, 1868–1890
- Rudolf AK Otterski, 1888–1898
- Richard OH Schweitzer, 1890–1895
- Berthold Gustav Schallenberg, 1896–1917
- Albert Jackson, 1899-1911
- Otto Meyhöfer, 1911–1913
- Wilhelm Albert Olschewski, 1913–1920
- Kurt Toball, 1916-1930
- Helmut Lappoehn, 1922–1926
- Johann Albert H. Klein, 1930–1939
- Herbert Braun , 1940–1945
Church records
The parish registers of the Drengfurth parish have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
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To baptize:
- German community:
- City district: 1766–1830, rural district: 1766–1788 and 1815–1830, military area: 1767–1782, entire parish: 1831–1890
- Polish community:
- City district: 1792–1822, rural district: 1792–1821, total parish: 1749–1771, 1822–1890
- German community:
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Weddings:
- German community:
- City district: 1729–1825, rural district: 1765–1825, total parish: 1825–1890
- Polish community:
- City district: 1792–1796, 1804–1822, rural district: 1792–1804, total parish: 1750–1771, 1822–1890
- German community:
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Funerals:
- German community:
- City district: 1737–1808, rural district: 1765–1808, total parish: 1809–1891
- Polish community:
- Total parish: 1750–1890
- German community:
Catholic
Church history
In 1937 the parish of St. Katharina built a chapel in Rastenburg in Drengfurth to relieve the north-east of the extensive parish for worship. The number of members of the parish was small and they had to travel long distances to worship. Until 1945 the Rastenburg parish with the Drengfurther chapel belonged to the dean's office Masuria II, which had its seat in Johannisburg ( Pisz in Polish ) within the then diocese of Warmia .
The resettlement of numerous new citizens, mostly from Poland and the Ukraine, caused the number of Catholics to rise rapidly after 1945 in the place now known as "Srokowo". The chapel became too small and an arrangement was made with the Protestant Church, which transferred its parish church to the Catholic Church. In 1962 the parish "Heiligkreuz" was established in Srokowo, which now belongs to the deanery Kętrzyn II (northeast) in the present Archdiocese of Warmia .
Places of the parish
In addition to the village of Srokowo, the parish of Srokowo includes numerous smaller villages, towns and places of residence:
| Polish name | German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | German name | ||
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| Bajory Małe | Klein Bajohren 1938–1945 Kleinblankenfelde |
Księży Dwór | Fürstenhof | Skandławki | Skandlack | ||
| Bajory Wielkie | Groß Bajohren 1938–1945 Großblankenfelde |
Łęknica | Löcknick | Solanka | Salzbach | ||
| Brzeźnica | Birch field | Leśniewo | Fürstenau | Srokowski Dwór | Drengfurthshof | ||
| Jegławki | Jäglack | Leśny Rów | Ivenhof | Suchodoły | Friedenthal | ||
| Kałki | Six heirs | Lipowo | Surwile | Serwillen | |||
| Karłowo | Karlswalde | Osikowo | Leitnerswalde | Szczeciniak | Stettenbruch | ||
| Kąty | Langeneck | Rydzówka | Rehsau | Wilczyny | Wolf Hagen | ||
| Kolkiejmy | Kollkeim | Silec | Schülzen | Wólka Jankowska | Marienwalde | ||
| Kosakovo | Marienthal | Siniec | Large bluestone 1928–1945 bluestone |
Wysoka Góra | Hochberg |
Pastor
At the Holy Cross Church in Srokowo the clergy officiate:
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References
literature
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Church in Drengfurth at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c d e f g Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, pp. 78–79, Fig. 291
- ↑ a b c d e Catholic Parish Srokowo
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 32–33
- ↑ AA Mützell / L. Krug, New topographical-statistical-geographical dictionary of the Prussian state , Volume 5, Halle 1823, pp. 274-275
- ^ Adolf Schlott, Topographical-statistical overview of the government district of Königsberg , Königsberg 1861, p. 205, item 52
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
- ^ Parish Drengfurth at GenWiki
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ^ Church book archive Drengfurth