Evangelical Church (Mikołajki)

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Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Mikołajki
(Kościół Ewangelicko-Augsburski w Mikołajkach)
Evangelical Parish Church Nikolaiken
The Evangelical Church in Mikołajki (Nikolaiken)

The Evangelical Church in Mikołajki (Nikolaiken)

Construction year: 1840-1842
Inauguration: November 1842
Architect : Schinkel School
Style elements : Neo-Romanesque hall building in round arch style
Client: Evangelical Church Community Nikolaiken
( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 53 ° 48 '13.2 "  N , 21 ° 34' 12.1"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '13.2 "  N , 21 ° 34' 12.1"  E
Address: Plac Kościelny
Mikołajki
Warmian-Masurian , Poland
Purpose: Evangelical Lutheran parish church
Parish: Plac Kościelny 5
11-730 Mikołajki
Regional Church : Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland
( Diocese of Masuria )
Website: www.luteranie.pl/mikolajki

The Evangelical Augsburg Church in Mikołajki is a building from the middle of the 19th century. Until 1945 the church was the parish church for the Protestant parish in Nikolaiken in East Prussia . Today it is the worship center of the Mikołajki parish in the Polish diocese of Mazury .

Geographical location

Mikołajki is located in the middle of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , about 20 kilometers southeast of the district town of Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ) in the Masurian Lake District . The Polish state road 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ) runs through the city , on the north side of which is the church in the center.

View into the chancel of the church
View to the organ gallery

Church building

Already in 1522 there was a church (probably dedicated to the Holy Trinity) in Nikolaiken, around 1535 it was mentioned. It burned down during the Tatar invasion in 1656. The successor building was a half-timbered church. In 1768 the organ builder Johann Christoph Ungefug from the East Prussian Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) built the organ on the west gallery .

In 1839 the church had become so dilapidated that it had to be demolished. In 1840 the foundation stone for a new church was laid, and in the years up to 1842 a neo-Romanesque hall was built in the arched style . It was a massive three-aisled building based on a design by the Schinkel School . The inauguration took place in November 1842 . The tower was only built in 1880.

The interior of the church has a coffered barrel vault in its central nave . The sides above the galleries are flat, they have classicist style features. Altar and pulpit are arranged one above the other as a pulpit wall. Above the pulpit wall is a painting by Pfeiffer from Königsberg (Prussia) with symbolic representations of prayers under the cross from 1934. The church ringing originally consisted of two bells .

On the east wall of the church are portraits of the pastors Albert Pomian Pesarovius († 1696) and Andreas Kowalewski († 1725).

The statue of Christ in front of the church is from more recently. It is a foundation of Franciszek Czudek , who was pastor at the church from 1995 to 2007. On the lower plinth, biblical words from Jesus are inscribed on a bronze plaque as on two pages of a book:

Bronze plaque on the base of the statue of Christ

1. Gospel of Matthew 11:28: Come to me, all of you who are troublesome and burdened; I want to refresh you ;

2. Gospel of John 14.1: Do not be alarmed! Believe in God and believe in me .

Parish

Church history

A church already existed in Nikolaiken in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation gained a foothold here relatively early. From the beginning of the 17th century, two evangelical pastors served here at the same time. The parish of Nikolaiken belonged to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 it counted 5021 parishioners who lived in a large parish . The patronage used to be royal, in the end it was the responsibility of the state authorities.

Today the parish ( Polish Parafia ) Mikołajki is incorporated into the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . Associated with it is the branch church in Ukta (Alt Ukta) .

The talks that led to the founding of the Confessing Church in East Prussia took place in the rectory in Nikolaiken . Paul Czekay was the pastor at the time .

On November 25, 2017, the diocesan synod meeting in Mikołajki elected Pastor Paweł home from Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) as bishop of the diocese of Mazury. In the church in Mikołajki he was introduced to his office on February 17, 2018 by the leading bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland, Jerzy Samiec .

Parish places

In the parish of Nikolaiken, more than twenty villages, localities and residential areas were parish up to 1945:

Surname Changed name from
1938 to 1945
Polish
name
Surname Changed name from
1938 to 1945
Polish
name
Bartlowo Barbels Barlewo Lucknainen Łuknajno
Diebowen Dommelhof Dybowo Nightingale height
Cans Dosie New damage Nowe Sady
Heydebruch Bagienko Neuwalde Wioska
* Isnothen Iznota * Prawdowen (from 1929 :)
Wahrendorf
Pravdowo
Julienthal Lelek * Damage Stare Sady
Karlshorst Pszczółki Schöneberg Stawek
Clone Dwarf farms clone * Selbongen Zełwągi
Kulinowen Forest rest Kulinowo * Talten Tałty
Lissuhnen Lisunie * Wosnitzen Julienhöfen Woźnice
* Lubiev Green break Lubiewo Zymowo (from 1929 :)
Winterau
Cimowo

Pastor

At the Protestant parish church in Nikolaiken and Mikołajki officiated - at times together - as clergy:

  • Jacob Willamowius, from 1572
  • Jacob Mieskowski, until 1625
  • Nicolaus Cichowius, until 1625
  • Albert Pomian Pesavorius, 1625–1696
  • Gregor Grigowius, until 1657
  • Christian Grogowius, 1657-1667
  • Johannes C. Podbiercki, 1660–1669
  • Johannes Carolus, 1668
  • Johann Pomian Pesavorius, 1669–1685
  • Jacob Moncowius, 1685-1690
  • Christian Alexius, 1690-1710
  • Andreas Kowalewski, 1693-1725
  • Georg Christoph Madeicka, 1710–1728
  • Jacob Nicolowius, 1726-1728
  • Carl Friedrich Freymann, 1728–1749
  • Martin Ambrosius, 1728–1757
  • Gottfried Richter, 1749–1757
  • Georg Wilhelm Jerzembski, 1755–1807
  • Johann Friedrich Fleischer, 1757–1783
  • Johann Theodor Stern, 1776–1782
  • Johann Friedrich Gizycki, 1783–1809
  • Johann Rutkowski, 1805-1817
  • Heinrich Gotthard Raabe, 1810–1829
  • Michael Spekovius, 1817-1824
  • Carl August Maletius, 1824-1832
  • Gottlieb Skupch, 1829–1835
  • Heinrich Ludwig Taurek, 1832–1844
  • Johann Carl Brzoska, 1835–1861
  • Julius Carl H. Stechern, 1845–1859
  • Otto Czygan , 1859-1888
  • Johann Zbrzesny, 1861–1888
  • Karl Georg FB Rothe, 1888–1889
  • Ernst Otto Robert Trinker, 1889–1898
  • Gustav Eberhardt, 1890–1895
  • Karl Alwin E. Grundies, 1895-1910
  • Karl Traugott Remus, 1898–1899
  • Robert Karl J. Radtcke, from 1899
  • Max Zacharias Ebel, 1900
  • Hermann Carl Otto Baatz, 1901–1926
  • Heinrich JF Schibalski, 1903–1904
  • Paul Otto Adolf Erwin, 1910–1913
  • Gerhard Woytewitz, 1924–1928
  • Otto Kowalzick, 1927–1933
  • Hans Jacobsen, 1929-1933
  • Paul Czekay, 1933-1945
  • Gerhard Modersitzki, from 1939
  • Heinz Bachler, 1943–1945
  • Władysław Pilch-Pilchowski, 1946–1985
  • Franciszek Czudek, 1995-2007
  • Bogusław Juroszek, since 2008

Church records

Franciszek Czudek, 1995–2007 pastor in Mikołajki

From the church register documents of Nikolaiken from the time before 1945 are preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

  • Baptisms: 1693-1722, 1727-1944
  • Weddings: 1757 to 1784, 1789 to 1816, 1828 to 1944
  • Burials: 1765-1944.

There are also numerous lists of names for the official acts.

For the period after 1945, the parish registers are kept and kept in the rectory in Mikołajki.

Web links

Commons : Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Mikołajki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Nikolaiken at GenWiki
  2. a b building in Nikolaiken at ostpreussen.net
  3. a b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 139, figs. 673–674.
  4. The churches of Hoverbeck and Peitschendorf. In : kreis-sensburg.de. Retrieved February 26, 2019 .
  5. German translation: Luther Bible 2017
  6. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 501.
  7. a b Friedwald Möller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 103.
  8. ^ Regina Rüter-Czekay: Paul Czekay - last German pastor in Nikolaiken. In: Masurische Storchenpost , June 2012, p. 31.
  9. ^ Website of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland (Polish)
  10. The * indicates a school location.
  11. a b c member of the Corps Masovia
  12. 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, pp. 88-89; as well as: corrections and additions , Berlin 2001, p. 7.