Sacred Heart Church (Ełk)
| Sacred Heart Church in Ełk (Kościół Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego w Ełku) Evangelical Parish Church in Lyck |
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 The former Protestant parish church, now the Catholic Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Ełk (Lyck) |
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| Construction year: | 1920-1925 |
| Style elements : | Brick church |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community of Lyck ( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 49 '18.3 " N , 22 ° 20' 50.6" E |
| Address: | ul. Armii Krajowej / ul. Wojska Polskiego Ełk Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic (until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran ) parish church |
| Parish: | ul. Armii Krajowej 2 19-300 Ełk |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
| Website: | nsj.jupe.pl (Polish) |
The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Ełk ( German Lyck ) dates from the beginning of the 1920s and was the Protestant parish church of the East Prussian district town until 1945 . Today it is the second oldest of the eleven Catholic churches in the city in eastern Masuria in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The district town of Ełk is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and can be reached via the national roads DK 16 and DK 65 . The city is also a station on the Giżycko – Białystok and Olsztyn – Ełk lines .
The Sacred Heart Church is located in the western part of the city center on Armii Krajowej Street, at the corner where it joins the Wojska Polskiego Street.
Church building
The first church ever in Lyck was built around 1550 at the instigation of the evangelical bishop of Pomesania Paul Speratus . It burned down in 1651, the successor building during the conquest by the Tatars in 1656. A new church building did not follow until 1688, but in 1837 it was so dilapidated that it had to be demolished.
In the years 1847 to 1850 a neo-Gothic brick church was built , still shaped by the Schinkel School . However was the destruction by the Russian military in the First World War to the victim. Using the remains of this church, a new (the fifth) building was built between 1920 and 1925 - with clear echoes of the architecture of the order .
The three-aisled interior was surrounded by galleries . The ceiling in the middle was arched, flat on the sides. At that time there was a massive star vault in the altar niche . The simple pulpit altar was crowned on the sides by two angel figures. In 1925, the Hanover workshop Furtwängler & Hammer built the organ .
The building got through WWII quite well and was thoroughly renovated in 1956. It had been in use by the Catholic Church since 1945 and redesigned the interior to reflect the changed liturgical use. It is now called Kościół Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego (" Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus ").
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
The Lyck parish was founded in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation found its way here very early, so that in the 1530s two Lutheran clergy were already officiating at the church.
The area around Lyck was mostly Protestant . Only since around 1800 have there been a few Catholics here, initially only members of the garrison , later also Ermländer , who settled here.
In the beginning only Polish preaching was used in the church . It was not until 1584 that the sermon took place in German at the instigation of Bishop Johannes Wigand . After 1815, preaching began in German and then in Masurian.
The parish church in Lyck was the center of the church district of Lyck , to which it belonged until its dissolution in 1945. It was incorporated into the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925, the Lyck parish with its extensive parish had a total of 17,000 parishioners. She was last looked after by three clergymen. Pastoral care in the hospital, old people's home and girls' orphanage and prison was included, as was the care of the garrison.
Due to the flight and expulsion of the local population , after 1945 the evangelical church life came to a standstill. Polish Catholics, who lived in large numbers in Ełk, now celebrated services in the church. It also became their property.
Protestant church members living here now gather in the Baptist Church (in Polish: Kościół Chrześcijan Baptystów ) on the former Steinweg . The small community in Ełk belongs to the parish of Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
In addition to the parish of Lyck, the parish included the following places until 1945:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| * Barannas | Keipern | Barany | * Monczen | Montzen | Mącze | |
| * Bartossen | Bartendorf | Bartosze | Mylucken | Milucken | Miluki | |
| Birkenwalde (forester's house) | Pisanica | * Neuendorf | Nowa Wieś Ełcka | |||
| * Chelchen | Chalice village | Chełchy | Przykopken | ( from 1926) Birkenwalde (village) |
Przykopka | |
| Chroscial |
(from 1933 :) Kreuzfeld |
Chruściele | Sitting rules | Rules Court | Regielnica | |
| * Chrzanowen | Lime kiln | Chrzanowo | Regulator tip | |||
| Dallnitz | Renkussen | Rękusy | ||||
| Elisenthal | Konieczki | Rothof | ||||
| * Gollubia A | Gollen | Golubie | Sareyk | Sareiken | Szarejki | |
| * Large Mrosen 1929–1938 Mrossen |
Schönhorst | Mrozy Wielkie | Sarken | Szarek | ||
| Judzicken | Gutenborn | Judziki | * Schedlisks | Sonnau | Siedliska | |
| Small mroses | Mrozy Małe | * Blessed | Szeligi | |||
| Little Elck Mill | Small mill | Młynek | Sentken | Sędki | ||
| Kozycken |
(from 1935) Selmenthöhe |
Koziki | * Sordache | Sordachy | ||
| Kuszmen | Cushions | Suszcze | Suszczen | Siedelberg | Suszcze | |
| * Lay | Lega | * Sybba | Walden | Szyba | ||
| Malleczewen | Malettes | Maleczewo | Szczudlen |
(from 1936) Georgsfelde |
Szczudly | |
| Mathildenhof | Buniaki | * Thalussen | Talussen | Talusy | ||
| * Moldavia | Hopper | Mołdzie | Wittinnen | Wityny | ||
| Monken | Mąki | Target aces | Zielhausen | Zelasy |
Pastor
Pastors of the Protestant parish church in Lyck were:
- Melchior Kranch, until 1536
- Sebastian Schubert, until 1536
- Nicolaus Papa, from 1536
- Andreas Ostrowski, 1545-1548
- Johann Dunitius, 1549-1566
- Laurentius Besserer, 1560–1565
- Johannes Maletius , until 1567
- Hieronymus Maletius , 1565–1583
- Albrecht Schnopert, 1566–1568
- Stanislaus Welamowsky, 1568–1575
- Matthias Burecko, 1575–1588
- Georg Freytag, 1584–1607
- Johann Boretius, 1589–1602
- Nicolaus Boretius, 1602-1625
- Christoph Chiorecius, 1607–1624
- Christian Petri, 1624-1637
- Johann Boretius, 1625-1650
- Johann Oye, 1638-1657
- Georg Boretius, 1650–1657
- Georg Carönicke, 1657–1665
- Georg Schwindowius, 1657–1705
- Johann Albert Thilo, 1665–1683
- Matthäus Breuer, 1684–1697
- Joachim Columbus, 1697-1710
- Jacob Jack, 1705-1710
- Raphael Skerle, 1710-1717
- Paul Ploen, 1711-1753
- Johann Victor Gregorowius, 1717–1732
- Jacob Cibulowius, 1731-1740
- Theodor Salomon, 1741-1742
- Michael Pisanski, 1742-1759
- Michael Hermann Rostock, 1753–1761
- Christian Swonckowski, 1759-1771
- Friedrich Ludwig Hoffmann, 1761–1762
- Thimotheus Gisewius the Elder Ä., 1762-1786
- Karl Heinrich Breitenberg, 1771–1801
- Thimotheus Gisewius the Elder J., 1787-1817
- Friedrich Thimotheus Krieger, 1820–1837
- Michael Gottfried Gryczewski, 1821-1825
- Johann Christoph Gayk, 1825–1837
- Heinrich Skrodzki, 1837–1849
- Samuel Jablonowski, 1845–1866
- Jacob Preuss, 1850–1872
- Gustav Adolf Hubert, 1866–1868
- Adolf August Wolfram, 1868–1873
- Karl Traugott Remus, 1868–1876
- Reinhold Hermann von Gyzicki, 1872–1889
- Friedrich Wilhelm Off, 1873-1875
- Julius Nieszytka, 1875–1876
- Friedrich Otto Reiss, 1876–1877
- Ludwig Carl Siemienowski, 1877–1899
- Eduard Adolf Paul, 1889–1891
- Ernst Theodor Teschner, 1890–1898
- Theodor Heinrich Adolf Schulz, 1899–1910
- Wilhelm Leo Richard Bury, 1898–1921
- Julius Gustav Solty, 1895–1914
- Georg Paul Brehm, 1911–1935
- Bruno Albert Rathke, 1916–1935
- Wilhelm Leo Richard Bury, 1926–1931
- Gottfried Sallet, 1932–1936
- Bruno Muscheites, 1935–1945
- Ernst Sczepan, 1937–1938
- Rudolf Abramowski, 1939–1945
- Konrad Ludwig Alexander Bojack, 1940–1941
- Kurt Maier, 1942–1945
Catholic
Very few Catholics lived in the Lyck region. In 1845 there were around 100 Catholic church members in the entire parish. But in the following years their number increased and a separate church building became necessary. The neo-Gothic St. Adalbert's Church (in Polish: Kościół św. Wojciecha , today cathedral) was built within the Diocese of Warmia from 1893 to 1895 .
After 1945 more and more Catholic church members settled with the Polish citizens in Lyck and the surrounding area. They took over the previously evangelical church as an additional parish church.
Today there are eleven Roman Catholic churches in the urban area of Ełk. Since 1992, the city has been the seat of the bishopric for the newly established diocese of Ełk with its 21 deaneries and 151 parishes. The parish of the Sacred Heart Church belongs to the deanery Ełk-Matki Bożej Fatimskiej in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Herz-Jesu-Kirche
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 124, figs. 577-579.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, pp. 493-494.
- ↑ a b St. Adalbert Church
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 89–90.
- ^ A b Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ Parafia pw.Najświętszego Serca Jezusowego in the Diocese of Ełk