Holy Cross Church (Szestno)
| Holy Cross Church in Szestno (Kościół Świętego Krzyża w Szestnie) Church of Seehesten |
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 The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Szestno (Seehesten) |
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| Construction year: | 1619-1639 |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Seehesten, Church Province East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union |
| Location: | 53 ° 55 '21.3 " N , 21 ° 18' 22.1" E |
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Szestno Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic, formerly Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 50, 11-700 Szestno |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia |
The Church of the Holy Cross in Szestno was built in the first half of the 17th century using parts of an earlier building. Until the 1980s, it was the central church of the East Prussian Protestant parish of Seehesten . Today it is the Catholic parish church of the Szestno parish in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Szestno is located six kilometers north of the district town of Mrągowo ( German Sensburg ) in the middle of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The provincial road 591 runs through the village , which leads from Mrągowo to Michałkowo (Langmichels) not far from the Polish-Russian border.
The church stands in the center of the village east of the main road near the cemetery.
Church building
In the middle of the 15th century, a church was built in Seehesten for the first time - a late Gothic three-aisled brick church. After a fire in 1618 severely damaged the church, it was rebuilt between 1619 and 1639 using parts of the old church made of bricks and field stones as a plastered building without side aisles. A tower stood on the west side, granite in the basement and brick on the three floors above . The church was given a vestibule on the north side.
Wall paintings in the tower vestibule and paintings on the coffered ceiling above the nave date from the 1630s . During major renovations in the church from 1937 to 1939 and 1940 to 1942, the paintings on the ceiling were destroyed and then redesigned. Stalls, stands and choirs from the 17th century were extensively restored at that time.
The altar of the church dates from 1647 and was a donation by Fabian von Lehndorff (1593–1650). On the main floor it shows Mary with the baby Jesus between the apostles Peter and Paul , on the upper floor the crucifixion of Jesus and as a crown the blessing Savior. In the predella there was a painted representation of the Lord's Supper .
The pulpit with pulpit lid and painted stair stringers comes from the altar carver's workshop . In the 1980s it was moved from its place on the south side of the nave to the chancel.
Remains of the baptismal chamber from 1642 are still preserved.
The organ was built in 1805, the old bells were cast in 1862.
The church's furnishings include two man's chairs from 1647 and 1649 as well as two flags for the dead made of painted copper sheet, on each of which the deceased is depicted: Johann von Sternberg († 1686) and Just Bernhard von Wilmsdorf († 1711). On a grave slab of Fabian von Lehndorff († 1650) Landsknechte are shown wearing helmets and armor, as they were customary in the Thirty Years War .
Until the 1980s, the church was the Protestant house of worship for the Seehesten parish. Today it serves the Roman Catholic parish of Szestno as a parish church and bears the name " Holy Cross Church " ( Polish Kościół Świętego Krzyża ).
Church / parish
Evangelical
Church history
The founding of the church in Seehesten goes back to the year 1401. The pre-Reformation period lasted until 1525. After that, Lutheran teaching was introduced here, with clergy of the Reformation serving here very early on . The time also Sehesten called "royal spots" belonged for many years to inspect Rastenburg ( Polish Kętrzyn ) and up to 1,945 church Sensburg in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Protestant Church of the Old Prussian Union . A large parish was assigned to the parish , into which the parish of Bosemb (1938 to 1945 Bussen , in Polish Boże ) was taken over in 1822 . In 1925, Seehesten and Bosemb had a total of 3,300 parishioners, who were responsible for two clergymen until 1873 and later only one.
Flight and expulsion of the local population impaired the life of the Protestant parish in Seehesten. The mostly Catholic new citizens of Szestno took over the church in 1989 as their parish church. The Protestant church members living here today belong to the St. Trinity Church Mrągowo in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
For parish Seehesten belonged to 1945 next to the vicarage twenty villages, towns and residential places:
| Surname | Polish name | Surname | Polish name | |
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| Berghof | Biestrzykowo | Marienhof | Brodzikowo | |
| * Bosemb 1938-1945 buses |
Boże | New Reuschendorf | Nowa Ruska Wieś | |
| * Bosembwolka 1938–1945 Dreißighuben |
Boża Wólka | Paulinenhof | Pawłowięta | |
| Friedrichsberg | Witomin | * Pfaffendorf | Popowo Salęckie | |
| * Grunau | Gronowo | * Reuschendorf | Ruska Wieś | |
| Heinrichssorge | Gniewkowo | * Rudwangen | Rydwągi | |
| * Kerstinowen 1938–1945 Kersten |
Kiersztanowo | Black Forest | Czerniak | |
| Klein Reuschendorf | Ruska Wieś Mała | Waldhausen | Boże Małe | |
| Small rest | Sobięcin | * Weissenburg | Wyszembork | |
| * Langenbrück | Lembruk |
Wymisly 1938–1945 Katzenbuckel |
Wymysły |
Pastor
Until 1873, two clergymen held office at the Seehesten church at the same time. Then another pastor did the job:
- Stentzel N., 1525-1529
- Stephan Paldroff, 1555
- Albert Rembowius, 1567/1579
- NN., 1575
- Jacob Hintzke, 1590-1626
- Johann Gottfried Bernhardi, 1635
- Michael Boretius, from 1665
- Michael Puritius, 1668
- Christoph Cobrowius, from 1676
- Gottfried Fröhlich, 1698–1704
- Johann Schröter, 1705–1730
- Stephanus Neumann, from 1712
- Christian Wolenski, 1717-1725
- Christoph Büschtus, 1725–1764
- Christian W. Büttner, 1730-1752
- Christoph Pawlick, 1752-1800
- Michael Heinrich Cwalina, 1764
- Bernhard Flöß, 1765–1770
- Johann Christoph Sommer, 1770–1778
- Samuel Skups, 1778–1798
- Andreas Leopold Pawlik, from 1797
- Michael Spekowius, 1799-1809
- Sigismund Krupinski, 1809-1812
- Andreas Wlotzka, 1815-1832
- Johann Ludwig Glodkowski, 1832–1845
- Jacob Schiwek, 1841-1845
- Johann Ludwig Glodkowski, from 1845
- Ad. Heinrich Julius Radefeldt, from 1846
- Friedrich Gottowy, 1848–1873
- Friedrich Adalbert von Szczepanski, 1865–1883
- Ernst Otto Casper, 1884–1901
- Robert A. Assmann, 1901-1902
- August Rudolf Walter Dziobeck, 1903–1912
- Max Myska, 1912-1935
- Fritz Saska, 1935-1941
- Hermann Paulokat, 1942–1945
Church records
From the parish register documents of the parish of Seehesten are preserved and are kept at the German Central Agency for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1649-1828
- Weddings: 1687 to 1705 and 1731 to 1772
- Burials: 1667 to 1668, 1687 to 1705, and 1731 to 1837.
Catholic
Before 1945 there were few Catholics in the Seehesten area. They belonged to the parish of St. Adalbert in Sensburg (Polish Mrągowo ) in the deanery Masuria II (official seat: Johannisburg (Polish Pisz )), after 1939 to the deanery Bischofsburg (Biskupiec) in the then diocese of Warmia .
After 1945 numerous new Polish citizens settled here, almost all of whom were Catholic. On July 1, 1989, Szestno was re-consecrated as a Catholic parish and the previously evangelical church as the “Holy Cross Church”. The parish of Szestno, to which the Boże branch also belongs, is assigned to the dean's office Mrągowo I in the present Archdiocese of Warmia in the Polish Catholic Church .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Church and Gut Seehesten
- ↑ a b c d e f Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 139, figs. 677–680.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3: Documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 501.
- ↑ a b c Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 126.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Gottowy (1810-1891) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
- ^ Church book holdings in the Sensburg district at GenWiki
- ^ Parafia Szestno in the Archdiocese of Warmia