Evangelical parish church Rhine
| Evangelical Parish Church of the Rhine Evangelical-Augsburg Chapel in Ryn (Kaplica Ewangelicko-Augsburska w Rynie) |
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 Rhine Church |
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| Construction year: | 1602-1604 |
| Inauguration: | 1604 |
| Client: | Evangelical parish in the Rhine ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 56 '17.5 " N , 21 ° 32' 29.9" E |
| Address: | ul. Partyzantów 5 Ryn Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | ul.Partyzantów 6, 11-520 Ryn |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland / Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | www.luteranie.pl/parafia/ryn.html |
The Evangelical Parish Church in Rhine was a building erected in the early 17th century and a Protestant place of worship for the parish belonging to the East Prussian Rhine (now Ryn in Polish ) . The church burned down in 1940; it was replaced by a chapel in the immediate vicinity.
Geographical location
Ryn is located on the Jezioro Ryńskie ( German Rheinscher See ) in Masuria between the two district towns of Giżycko (Lötzen) and Mrągowo (Sensburg) . The church stood on the western national road 59 (former German Reichsstraße 140 ) - former Sensburger Straße, today's ul. Partyzantów - in the place of today's inn "Pod Kasztanami" (house number 5). The chapel (house number 1) is not far away today.
Church building and chapel
In the years 1602 to 1604 the Protestant parish church was built on the site of an earlier building in the Rhine . In the middle of the 19th century, a renovation was necessary, which took place between 1871 and 1876 and gave the building a neo-Gothic shape. It was also given a high tower .
Most of the old equipment was removed at that time. Only remnants of the old stalls as well as the pulpit and individual figures of the altarpiece have been preserved. A confessional also came from the old church.
The altarpiece, in front of which a crucifix stood on the altar table, showed the "risen Christ".
The church bell consisted of three bells .
On December 1, 1940 - the 1st Advent - the church burned down. There was no reconstruction.
For their services, the Protestant parish used their parish hall, later also the chapel in the castle and the cemetery chapel, which is not far from the former parish church. Ultimately, it was possible to acquire a simple single-family house, which turns a converted church hall - completely furnished in wood - into a Protestant (parish) chapel in Ryn.
Parish
A Protestant parish was founded in the Rhine in 1528. It initially belonged to the Rastenburg Inspection ( Polish: Kętrzyn ), but was then assigned to the parish of Lötzen ( Polish: Giżycko ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The parish of Rhine belonged to him until 1945.
Initially only one pastor officiated in the extensive parish, and from 1566 a second one was placed at his side. With the opening of a penal institution , a pastor's office was also set up here for prison chaplaincy . It was occupied until 1903.
Both Polish and German parishioners belonged to the Rhine parish. Services in Polish were held here at the beginning of the 18th century.
In 1925 the Rhine parish had 6000 parishioners who lived in 28 villages, localities and places of residence. The church patronage was incumbent on the state authorities.
Due to the flight and displacement of the local population , the life of the Protestant community in the Rhine almost came to a standstill. There is a mass grave in the cemetery (in Polish: cmentarz ) , in which the 24 citizens of Rheine, who were shot by Soviet soldiers on January 28, 1945, could also be buried. On June 26, 2011, a memorial stone was unveiled here with the inscription Gravesite of Victims of War and Violence. January 1945 . The memorial speech was given by the former Protestant pastor Fryderyk Tegler in the presence of Polish state and church representatives.
In the post-war years, however, a parish that belonged to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland gathered again in the city now called "Ryn" . As before the Rhine, Ryn remained the parish seat. Now the two subsidiary communities Sterławki Wielkie (Groß Stürlack) and Koczarki (Kotzargen , 1929 to 1945 Eichhöhe) belong to it.
Parish locations (until 1945)
Up to 1945, a total of 28 villages, localities and residential areas belonged to the Rhein parish:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| Bartlickshof | Bartlikowo | * Orlen | Arlen | Orło | ||
| Lead yard | Raczkowo | Reichenhof | Mleczkowo | |||
| Glombowen | Leithof | Głąbowo | * Rhine | Ryn | ||
| * Gneiss | Knis | Rheinsfelde | Ryńskie Pole | |||
| Great notists | Notyst Wielkie | Rheinshof | Ryński Dwór | |||
| Grünwalde | Zielony Lasek | Romminnek | ||||
| Hermanawolla |
(from 1929) Hermannshorst |
Hermanowa Wola | * Number of beets | Rybical | ||
| * Jesziorken |
(from 1928) Prussia Castle |
Jeziorko | * Scopping | Reichenstein | Scop | |
| Justusberg | Siejkowo | * Scorupci |
(from 1927) Schalensee |
Skorupki | ||
| Little Rhine | Ryn Mały | * Slabowing |
(from 1928) Langenwiese |
Słabowo | ||
| * Krzy creams |
(from 1927) Steinwalde |
Krzyżany | * Cables | Tro | ||
| * Lawken | Lukewarm | Ławki | Waldhof | Canki | ||
| * Mrowken |
(from 1929) New forest |
Mrówki | * Weydicken | Weidicken | Wejdyki | |
| Lower notists | Riot | Sądry |
Pastor
From 1566 two, from 1853 to 1903 three pastors were active in the Rhine. Since 1945 the pastor's position has only been filled once again:
- Martinus NN., 1535
- Leonhard Langhammer, 1541–1564
- NN., From 1565
- Johann Pawlowski, 1566–1591
- Martin Biezensis, 1566–1592
- Albert Gosch, 1592–1602
- Christoph Pambius, 1592-1625
- Johann Bergius, 1602–1623
- Ludwich Nise, 1624-1625
- Johann Stübner, 1625–1628
- Johann Oberhüber, 1626–1642
- Adam Langius, 1628-1657
- Jacob Pentecovius, 1643-1656
- Matthias Boretius, 1656–1657
- Johann von Sehren, 1658–1668
- Christoph Gadzali, 1658–1689
- Jacob Brunack, 1668-1699
- Georg Cibrowius, 1689–1703
- Christoph Grabowius, 1700–1721
- Johann August Cucholowius, 1703–1718
- Carl Friedrich Freymann, 1718–1728
- Jacob Glotckowius, 1721-1765
- Michael Wannowius, 1728-1753
- Michael Wannowius, 1739-1753
- Johann Friedrich Szepanski, 1753–1773
- Andreas Theophilus Gisewius, 1763–1788
- Johann Gisewius, 1773–1799
- Jacob Hambruch, 1788-1791
- Karl Heinrich Gregorovius, 1792–1808
- Johann Gottlieb Masuch, 1798–1836
- Johann Friedrich Hecht, 1809–1811
- Andreas Wilhelm Friczewski, 1811-1819
- Andreas Gottlieb Paulini, 1819–1826
- Karl Gustav Willamowski, 1827–1829
- Karl Leopold Weber, 1830–1836
- Johann Christoph Gayk, 1837–1838
- Vincentz von Balitzki, 1837–1844
- Siegismund Friedrich Pianka, 1839–1857
- Robert Flöß, 1845-1852
- Samuel Rudolf Ebel, 1851–1852
- Rudolf Traugott Plinzner, 1852–1861
- Carl Friedrich Nadolny, until 1866
- Friedrich Otto Hermann Gerß, 1858–1864
- Johann Friedrich Anders, 1858–1876
- Friedrich Wilhelm A. von Popowski, 1862–1871
- Oskar Heinrich A. von Hermann, 1864–1874
- August Grzybowski, 1871–1874
- Johann Friedrich L. Mittwede, 1874–1885
- Johann Heinrich Schultz, 1875–1882
- Carl Edfuard Cludius, 1876–1889
- Friedrich Julius Gauda, 1882–1884
- Ferdinand Otto P. Elmenthaler, 1885-1889
- Max Zacharias Ebel, 1885-1893
- Hermann Arthur Rogalsky, 1888–1894
- Albert Sapatka, 1889–1909
- Karl Wilhelm Otto Henkel, 1893–1912
- Otto John, 1895-1903
- Otto Julius Reichmann, 1909–1922
- Ernst Kolodzieyczyk, 1915-1932
- Max Kuehnert, 1923–1926
- Erich Schwarz, 1926–1930
- Johannes Kalef, 1931
- Kurt Schalaster, 1932–1935
- Alfred Dukowski, 1935–1945
- Gerhard Canvas, 1943–1945
- Maksymilian Cybulla
- Eugieniusz Sauter
- Antoni Komendera
- Paweł Kubiczek, 1959–1970
- Fryderyk Tegler, 1970–1975
- Janusz Jagucki (Giżycko), 1976–1986
- Erwin Jurczok, 1986–1998
- Jan Neumann, since 1998
literature
- Daniel Heinrich Arnoldt : Brief messages from all preachers who have admitted to the Lutheran churches in East Prussia since the Reformation . Königsberg 1777, pp. 300-306.
- Albert Sapatka: Chronicle of the Protestant parish Rhine in East Prussia for the 300th anniversary of the church 1604–1904. Koenigsberg 1904.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ At the place of the church there is the inn "Pod Kasztanami" today
- ^ A b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Images of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 122, fig. 565, 566.
- ^ Castle and church in the Rhine
- ↑ a b Historia Parafii w Rynie
- ↑ Pictures of the chapel in Ryn and the branch chapels
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
- ↑ a b c d Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 120–121. - Moeller mentions 1531 as the year of foundation.
- ↑ a b Location of Ryn - Rhine and history
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ^ A b Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ Landowner in Russia