St. Trinity Church (Mrągowo)

St. Trinity Church in Mrągowo (Kościół św. Trójcy w Mrągrowie) Evangelical Parish Church in Sensburg
The St. Trinity Church / Evangelical Parish Church in Mrągowo / Sensburg
Construction year:	1734 tower: 1705
Inauguration:	1734
Style elements :	Feldsteinkirche (plastered)
Client:	Evangelical parish of Sensburg ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	53 ° 52 '15 "  N , 21 ° 18' 18"  O Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '15 "  N , 21 ° 18' 18"  E
Address:	ul.Koscielna Mrągowo Warmian-Masurian , Poland
Purpose:	Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church
Parish:	Parafia Ewangelicko Augsburska ul.Koscielna 2 11-700 Mrągowo
Regional Church :	Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland / Diocese of Masuria
Website:	www.diec.mazurska.luteranie.pl/pl/default.html

The St. Trinity Church in Mrągowo ( German  Sensburg ) is a building from the first half of the 18th century. It is one of the few churches in Poland that remained Protestant in the period after 1945 .

The massive four-story church tower

Geographical location

The former East Prussian Sensburg and now Polish Mrągowo is located in Masuria in the eastern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship at the intersection of the Polish state roads DK 16 (former German Reichsstraße 127 ) and DK 59 ( Reichsstraße 140 ) and the voivodship roads DW 591 and DW 600 . A train connection no longer exists.

The St. Trinitatis Church is located in the eastern city center near Lake Lap ( Jezioro Czos in Polish ).

Church building

As a successor to a church building from 1409, the current plastered field stone building was erected in Sensburg in 1734 as the " Evangelical Parish Church " (that was the official name until 1945) - as an extension to the four-story west tower from 1705 . The tower was once adorned with a weather vane with the Sensburg coat of arms and the year 1705.

The interior of the church had three aisles. The central part was vaulted and there were flat ceilings over the side galleries . The altar with the reproduction of the picture The Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci and the pulpit were works of the 19th century, while the font and the crucifix were from the 17th century. Above the main entrance was to be read: Enter joyfully into God's gate with thanks , and this house is built in God's true honor, so let us increase such a price in our time .

The organ , built in 1760, was repaired in 1836 by master organ builder Johann Scherweit from Königsberg (Prussia) . The church bell consisted of two bells .

In 1822 the church survived the great city fire without damage. In 1885 the apse was added to the building.

An arson destroyed the church in 1945, which was rebuilt in 1961 in the same shape, but lower and shorter. The interior was renewed and is now modern, simple and pragmatic.

Parish

The church seen from the Jan Paweł II park

Already in the pre-Reformation period around 1400 there was a parish in Sensburg. Lutheran preaching was started here early after the Reformation entered East Prussia . Originally assigned to the Rastenburg inspection (in Polish: Kętrzyn ), the parish was incorporated into the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . Here two pastors did their service at the same time in the extensive parish of town and country with 10,000 parishioners in 1925 with the special tasks of hospital and prison chaplaincy and - from 1899 - the care of a garrison .

As a result of the war, Sensburg came to Poland in 1945. Although the flight and expulsion of the local population had significantly decimated the number of Protestant parishioners, a new evangelical parish was able to establish itself in the town now called Mrągowo , to which the old parish church was entitled as a place of worship. It became the property of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland and was named St. Trinity Church (Polish: Kościół św. Trójcy). It is again a parish church, to which the two subsidiary communities Nawiady (Aweyden) and Użranki (Königshöhe , Uszranken until 1881 ) are assigned. In the parish, which belongs to the diocese of Masuria , only one clergyman is still serving.

Parish locations (until 1945)

The parish Sensburg existed until 1945 from the two parishes town and country:

Sensburg City:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Bronikowen	Council reason	Bronikowo		Sensburg (city)		Mrągowo
Marienthal				City forest
Nicutovs	Niekuten	Nikutovo		Sternfelde		Gwiazdowo
Upper Mühlenthal		Młynowo		Sternwalde		Lasowiec
Porembe		Poręby		Timnik Forest	(after 1898 :) Ratswalde	Tymnikowo
Porembischken	Four winches	Porebiska		Troscziksberg (1936–1938) Troszigsberg	(1938–1945) Trotsigsberg	Troszczykowo

Sensburg-Land:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
* Old Bagnowen	Old yards	Bagienice		* Mertinsdorf		Marcinkowo
Bagnow Forest	Gut Althöfen	Bagnowski Dwór		* Muntowen	Muntau	Muntowo
Bagnowenwolka	(from 1929) Tiefendorf	Wolka Bagnowska		New Bagnowen	Borkenau	Nowe Bagienice
Wavering	(from 1930) Rotenfelde	Czerwonki		Petersberg		Piotrówka
* Grabowen	Grabenhof	Grabowo		* Polschendorf	(from 1928) Stangenwalde	Polska Wieś
* Jakobsdorf		Jakubowo		Proberg		Nowy Probark
* Karwen		Karwie		Probergswerder		Żabieniec
* Klein Bagnowen	(from 1929) Bruchwalde	Bagienice Małe		Schniodowen	Schniedau	Śniadowo
* Krummendorf		Krzywe		* Wiersbau	Lures	Wierzbowo

Pastor

Protestant clergy at the parish church in Sensburg:

• NN., 1550
• NN., Until 1552
• NN., From 1552
• Melchior turner, until 1573
• Sigismund Glinski, from 1573
• Johann Schenckenberg, until 1588
• Christoph Pambius, 1588–1592
• Johann Feuerstein, from 1593
• Albrecht Dorsch, 1607
• Matthias Libinski, 1610-1616
• Johann Frigidus, until 1625
• Johann Metner, from 1626
• Heinrich Cruse, 1626-1635
• Georg Sannius, until 1650
• Johann Faber
• Andreas Pirowius, 1658–1693
• Albert Porritius, until 1668
• Andreas Hamilton, 1668-1669
• Johann Heeder, from 1669
• Johann Jerzembski, 1691–1728
• Christian Heeder, until 1708
• Michael Heeder, 1708-1752
• Johann Friedrich Jerzembski, 1729–1761
• Georg Andreas Cwalina, 1752–1758
• Wilhelm Swonckowski, 1758–1779
• Christoph Nadrowski, 1761–1782
• Jacob von Lenski, 1779–1784
• Johann Theodor Stern, 1782–1808
• Gottlieb B. Schimanowski, 1784–1794
• Ernst Christian Boretius, 1794–1818
• Ernst Gotthold Wendland, 1808–1840
• Martin Friedrich Sczesny, 1819-1826
• Adam Emanuel Sadowski, 1826-1827
• Heinrich Leopold Czygan, 1828–1852
• Johann Heinrich Schellong, 1840–1853
• Julius Robert Stiller, 1853-1867
• Heinrich Rudolf Hensel, 1853–1870
• Friedrich Otto H. Gerß, 1868–1894
• Franz Borchert, 1870–1873
• Julius Pilchowski, 1874–1876
• Johann Leopold Hugo Alexander, 1884–1886
• Leo Wilhelm Richard Bury, 1886–1888
• Karl G. Franz Rothe, 1889–1925
• Johann Julius G. Rimarski , 1895-1925
• Gustav Herm. Const. Hotop, from 1901
• Gotthard Meyberg, 1925–1928
• Otto Karl Matern, 1925–1945
• Hermann Blankerts, 1929–1933
• Ernst Szepan, 1933–1937
• Günter Baumgart, 1938–1945

In 2016, Pastor Piotr Mendroch officiated at the Church of St. Trinity.

Church records

From the parish register documents of the parish of Sensburg have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

• To baptize:

- City: 1659 to 1944, Country: 1659 to 1944

• Weddings:

- City: 1766 to 1944, Country: 1766 to 1944

• Funerals:

- City: 1682 to 1944, Country: 1682 to 1944

There are also lists of names of the baptized, married and buried as well as a list of pastors and deacons from 1550 to 1836 and chronical records.

literature

• F. Bredenberg: The district of Sensburg. Würzburg 1960.

Web links

Commons : St. Trinity Lutheran Church in Mrągowo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Churches in Sensburg
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 140, fig. 675.
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 501.
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 127.
5. ↑ The * indicates a school location.
6. ↑ ^{a b c} member of the Corps Masovia
7. ↑ 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. 107-108; also: Corrections and additions to this, Berlin 2001, p. 10.