Giżycko Evangelical Parish Church
| Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Giżycko (Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Giżycku) Evangelical parish church in Lötzen |
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 The Evangelical-Augsburg parish church in Giżycko (Lötzen) |
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| Construction year: | 1826-1827 |
| Inauguration: | September 16, 1827 |
| Architect : | ( Karl Friedrich Schinkel ) |
| Style elements : | classicism |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Lötzen ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 2 '8.9 " N , 21 ° 46' 13.9" E |
| Address: | Plac Grunwaldzki Giżycko Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | Pl.Grunwaldzki 6, 11-500 Giżycko |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland / Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | www.gizycko.luteranie.pl/pl |
The Evangelical Parish Church in Giżycko - until 1945 the church of the Protestant parish of Lötzen in East Prussia - is now the parish church of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Geographical location
The city of Giżycko ( German Lötzen ) is located in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The Protestant parish church is on the old Lötzener Markt, today's Plac Grunwaldzki in the southern city center.
Church building
The wooden church built during the Reformation was replaced by a large, massive church in 1633, which burned down in 1686. A new building built in 1709 fell victim to the flames in the town fire in April 1822.
After a collection of donations, the foundation stone of today's church was laid on May 11, 1826 , where a document was deposited with the prayer for protection so that the building would be saved from a similar disaster as that on the night of April 3, 1822 in the next centuries .
In a year and a half a house of worship was built in a classical style, the plans of which were influenced by the Berlin builder and architect Karl Friedrich Schinkel . On September 16, 1827, the inauguration took place with two services, the first in German by pastor loci Michael Gregorovius , the second in Polish by his Polish brother Pawlik .
During the fundamental renovation in 1881, the church was partially changed in a neoclassical style. The building was given an apse , and the interior furnishings were supplemented or changed in their almost completely preserved inventory. In the interior there are galleries that rest on Tuscan columns . Altar and pulpit are designed in the style of the Schinkel period.
The altarpiece of the " Inviting Christ " was created around 1850 in the workshop of the Berlin painter Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt and was renewed in 1880.
The oval baptismal font (around 1750) carried by a putto was originally in the parish church of Pestlin ( Polish: Postolino ) in West Prussia - in today's Pomeranian Voivodeship .
The first organ came from the workshop of master organ builder Johann Rohn in Wormditt (Orneta in Polish), a student of Carl August Buchholz in Berlin. In 1935 the church received a new instrument from the Kemper & Sohn company in Lübeck ; an extensive restoration was carried out in 2011 by the organ builder Andrzej Kowalski .
The clockwork of the tower clock from 1881 was made by the JF Weule company in Bockenem ( Hanover province ).
The church bell originally consisted of three bells .
Parish
Church history
Lötzen was a church village that was probably founded during the time of the order . The Lutheran doctrine held here early feed: already in 1531 was a Lutheran minister in the service, and in the city survey Lötzens 1573 a second parish was established - in the late 19th century is still a Hilfsprediger-, from 1926 a third pastorate.
At first Lötzen belonged to the Angerburg inspection ( Polish : Węgorzewo ), then until 1945 to the parish of Lötzen within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish of Lötzen had 15,000 parishioners who lived in a large parish . The church patronage was incumbent on the king and later on the city's state authorities.
A special pastoral office was set up in 1910 for the Deaconess Mother House Bethanien , which was established at the beginning of the 20th century .
After 1945 the church - in the city now called Giżycko in Polish - remained Protestant in the sponsorship of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . Although flight and expulsion of the local population had robbed the evangelical congregation of almost all members, a congregation with its own pastoral office and an albeit widely scattered parish with the subsidiary communities Pozezdrze (Possessern) , 1938–1945 Großgarten , Węgorzewo (Angerburg) and emerged from small beginnings Wydminy (Widminnen) . The parish of Giżycko has been part of the Masurian diocese (seat in Olsztyn (Allenstein) ) of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church.
Parish locations (until 1945)
The parish of Lötzen, which included the town as well as the rural areas, had more than thirty towns, villages and places to live before 1945:
| Surname | Today's name | Surname | Today's name | |
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| Antonovs | Antonovo |
Klein Wronnen 1938–1945 Kleinwarnau |
Wronka | |
| Beasts | Bystry | Middle Upalten | Upałty | |
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Bogatzko 1938–1945 Rainfeld |
Bogacko | * Pierkunowen 1935–1945 Perkunen |
Pierkunowo | |
| Bogatzkowolla | * Pietzonken 1930–1945 Grünau |
Pieczonki | ||
| * Lazy areas | Fuleda | Poganten | Poganty | |
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Graywen 1938–1945 Graiwen |
Grajwo | rye | Róg Pierkunowski | |
| * Groß Kosuchen 1938–1945 Allenbruch |
Kożuchy Wielkie | Schoenberg | Piękna Góra | |
| * Great Upalten | Upałty | * Schwiddern | Świdry | |
| * Groß Wronnen 1938–1945 Großwarnau |
Wrony | Seefeld | ||
| Grünhof | Gajewo | * Spiergsten 1938–1945 Spirgsten |
Spytkowo | |
| Gutten | Guty |
Spiergsten-Grünwalde 1938–1945 Spirgsten-Grünwalde |
Zielony Gaj | |
| Imionken | Imionki |
Strzelzen 1938–1945 two shooters |
Strzelce | |
| Kallinowen | Kalinowo | * Sulimmen | Sulimy | |
| * Kamionken 1928–1945 Steintal |
Kamionki | Tannenheim | Jegliniec | |
| * Kampen | Cape | * Wilkassen 1938–1945 Wolfsee (village) |
Wilkasy | |
| Little Kosuchen | Kożuchy Małe | Wolfsee (good) | Wilkaski | |
| Little Upalten | Upałty Małe | Woysack | Wojsak |
Pastor (since 1531)
At the parish church in Lötzen resp. Giżycko officiate (s) as Protestant clergy from 1531 until today:
- Petrus NN., 1531-1555
- Matthias Sieboth, 1555–1569
- Albrecht Schnopert, 1569–1574
- Joachim Lempitz, since 1573
- Albert Danowius, 1574-1625
- Caspar Danowius, 1625-1648
- Andreas Lempizt, 1630–1654
- Andreas Wedeke, 1655–1693
- Simon Muscalius, 1670–1676
- Georg Boretius, 1680-1710
- Johann Jacob Graves, 1689–1696
- Raphael Skerle, 1696-1699
- Johann Georg Wagner, 1700–1701
- Daniel Pesarovius, 1701-1710
- Johann Corsepius, 1710-1743
- Georg Christoph Boretius, 1710–1726
- Theodor Salomon, 1726-1731
- Georg Wedecke, 1732–1746
- Andreas Konieczka, 1744-1760
- Melchior Adolf Bannisius, 1746–1751
- Gottfried Kuberski, 1751–1776
- Johann Gisewius, 1760–1773
- Gottfried Eichel, 1773–1793
- Johann Ernst Ulanski, 1776–1777
- Carl Wronowski, 1778-1788
- Christoph Motulla, 1778-1804
- Heinrich Gotthard Raabe, 1794–1801
- Theophil Kendziorra, 1802-1825
- Michael Gregorovius, 1804-1834
- Johann Friedrich Penski, 1825–1831
- Johann August Skrodzki, 1831–1835
- Gottlieb Skupch, 1835–1848
- August Ferdinand Grinda, 1836-1853
- Franz Alexander Kohtz, 1848-1853
- Carl Eduard Cludius, 1853–1861
- Johann Heinrich Schellong, 1853–1876
- Julius Ernst Gayck, 1861–1871
- Hermann Adalbert Braun, 1872–1881
- Johann Julius Gottlieb Rimarski, 1876–1878
- Franz Hermann Vöhnke, 1877–1903
- Drinker, Ernst Otto Robert, 1882–1926
- Rudolf Carl Rausch, 1885
- Eduard Schauke, 1886–1888
- Karl Otto Molter, 1888-1891
- Karl Traugott Remus, 1890–1898
- Karl Gustav Knapp, 1893–1899
- Eduard Schauke, 1899–1925
- Adam Erdmann Max Gerber, from 1901
- Martin Knoppel, 1914-1924
- Horst Schirmacher, 1918–1919
- Robert Assmann, 1925–1945
- Erich Schwarz, 1926
- Ernst Max Franz Thews, 1926–1945
- Wolfgang Toepel, 1926–1929
- Alfred Hüber, 1929–1930
- Kurt Kohn, from 1934
- Waldemar Schibilsky, 1942–1945
- Ernst Ruske, 1944–1945
- Emil Dawid, 1946–1950
- Rudolf Mrowiec, 1950–1954
- Jan Szczech, 1954
- Jan Szarek, 1962–1976
- Janusz Jagucki , 1976-2000
- Daniel Ferek, 2001-2006
- Krystian Borkowski, since 2006
Church records
From the church register documents of the parish of Lötzen (town and country) have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1851-1877 (land only)
- Weddings: 1830 to 1901
- Burials: 1851-1877.
Name registers are also preserved:
- Baptisms 1775 to 1875, 1877 to 1940 (country), 1913 to 1940 (city)
- Weddings: 1775 to 1901 (country), 1776 to 1944 (city)
- Burials 1775 to 1934 (city), 1775 to 1877 (country)
Web links
- woj. warmińsko-mazurskie. (PDF) List of monuments. Narodowy Instytut Dziedzictwa, p. 50 , accessed on January 14, 2020 (Polish, A-897 z December 18, 1991).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f The history of Parafia Giżycko
- ↑ a b c The Protestant parish church in Lötzen
- ↑ a b c d e Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 121, fig. 557, 558.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
- ^ A b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg, 1968, p. 88.
- ↑ The work (also with its own pastor) has been continued since 1945 in the deaconess mother house Bethanien-Lötzen in the Lower Saxon town of Quakenbrück .
- ^ The Protestant parish of Lötzen
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ 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. 80.