St. John's Church (Kętrzyn)
| Evangelical Church of St. John in Kętrzyn (Kościół ewangelicko-Augsburski św. Jana w Kętrzynie) Polish Church in Rastenburg |
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 The Evangelical Church of St. Johannes in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) |
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| Construction year: | 1480/1546/1691/1817 |
| Style elements : | plastered brick building |
| Location: | 54 ° 4 '27.2 " N , 21 ° 22' 25" E |
| Address: | ul. Zjazdowa Kętrzyn Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Parish: | ul.Zjazdowa 15, 11-400 Kętrzyn |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland / Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | ketrzyn.luteranie.pl/?lang=de |
The Church of St. John in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) is an unadorned church building without a tower. Until 1945 it served the Protestant population as a place of worship as the Polish Church . Today it is a parish church in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland.
location
Kętrzyn is located in the northwest of the Masurian Lake District in the north-east of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The church is located southeast of St. George's Church on ulica Zjazdowa, not far from the Guber river and the train station.
building
The former cemetery in Rastenburg was given a small chapel in a half-timbered extension of a building on the old churchyard wall in 1480 . The Rastenburg School, founded in 1545, was housed here with its principal. This German and Polish language Latin school was created on the initiative of the Grand Master of the Teutonic Order , Albrecht von Prussia .
In order to realize this, the building was raised by an upper floor in 1546 and extended up to the city wall in 1565. Renovated in 1630 and expanded again in 1691, restoration took place between 1750 and 1770 and a complete reconstruction in 1817. A simple church building without a tower was created.
A whitewashed barrel vault covers the inner church space, which is provided with galleries . The altar and pulpit from 1691 are noteworthy. This is where the gothic Savior of the Cross from the 16th century, which used to hang in St. George's Church, is now housed, although it is only rated as a mediocre work of art.
Since 2004 there has been an organ on the gallery , which previously had its place in the church in Bezławki ( German Bäslack ). It was restored primarily from donations.
In contrast to the neighboring St. George's Church, the building for the Protestant community in Kętrzyn was preserved today. Now no longer called the “Polish Church” (in contrast to the “German City Church” of St. George), it bears the name of John the Baptist .
local community
Church history
Rastenburg was already a church in the pre-Reformation period. The Lutheran teaching moved into East Prussia soon after the Reformation . Two clergymen were serving here simultaneously; the (1st) pastor was responsible for the German-speaking church members in the Georgskirche and the deacon (2nd pastor) for the Polish-speaking members of the "Polish Church". Both churches were in the immediate vicinity.
Until 1945, a large parish belonged to the Protestant church in Rastenburg . The parish, in which additional assistant preachers were appointed from 1888 and then a third pastor from 1912, had a total of 17,982 parishioners in 1925. The city was also the seat of a church district within the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The flight and expulsion of Germans from Central and Eastern Europe from 1945 to 1950 almost extinguished the church life of the Protestant community in the city and its surroundings, now known as "Kętrzyn". Only a few Protestant church members remained, who now came together to form a new congregation with the - even a few - Polish new citizens of Protestant denomination. The former "Polish Church" was transferred to her; A priest of his own took up his duties here and to this day supplies a spacious district with four branch communities in Barciany (Barten) , Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) , Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) and Srokowo (Drengfurth) .
The parish of Kętrzyn belongs to the diocese of Mazury (seat: Olsztyn (Allenstein) , since 2018, the beginning of the term of office of Bishop Paweł home , in Kętrzyn) in the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Pastor
Pastors have been active at the "Polish Church" in Rastenburg and at the Johanneskirche in Kętrzyn:
- Appolinaris Pfluger, 1531-1538
- Georg Blumenstein, 1545
- Peter Lypcke, 1550-1561
- Albert Dannowski, from 1563
- Albrecht d'Olive, from 1568
- Johann Misloncki, 1579–1580
- Michael Wissowatti, until 1581
- Jacob Hintze, 1581-1590
- Michael Pormann, 1590–1597
- Jacob Feldner, 1597-1603
- Urban Sommer, 1603–1621
- Andreas Gille, 1621-1628
- Johann Stiebnerus, 1628–1657
- Leonard Nordhoff, 1658-1678
- Christoph Fröhlich, 1678–1695
- Christoph Heilbrunner, 1691–1697
- Gottfried Fröhlich, 1694–1698
- Wilhelm Andersohn, 1699–1704
- Johann Christian Cretius, 1704–1710
- Thomas Hacob Rynckowski, 1710-1724
- Johann Georg Pratius, 1724–1732
- Johann Bannasch, 1732–1766
- Daniel Krzossa, 1763–1782
- Johann Christoph Wolf, 1771–1772
- Johann Emanuel Volmer, 1774–1781
- Johann Friedrich Nippa, 1782–1800
- Carl Wenzek, 1800-1811
- Michael Borowski, 1811-1832
- Johannes Albert Dreschhoff, 1833–1879
- Franz Szczybalski, 1880–1889
- Rudolf Albrecht Chr. Meyer, 1889–1919
- Willy Penski, 1919-1927
- Hans Georg Borchert, 1927–1934
- Walter Vonthein, 1934–1938
- Karl Sedlag, 1938–1945
- Emil Dawid, 1945–1952
- Karol Napierski, 1950
- Paweł Bakałarz, 1953–1984
- Rudolf Bażanowski , 1978–1997
- Cezary Królewicz
- Sławomir Fonfara, 1991–1995
- Paweł home , since 1995
Church records
From the church register documents of the "Polish Church" from the time before 1945 have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1680-1707, 1729-1841
- Weddings: 1679–1732, 1764–1765, 1824–1841
- Burials: 1670-1944
- Confirmations: 1879–1932.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Historia Parafii w zarysie
- ↑ Polish Church, Synagogue and St. Catherine's Church
- ^ Edith Kaes, in: Heimatbrief Rastenburg , 2007, p. 415.
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 474.
- ↑ a b c Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 117–119.
- ↑ Duchowni kętrzyńskiej parafii
- ^ Association for family research in East and West Prussia: The "intermediate manuscript" for the Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book, Vol. 2: Daase-Gyzicki. Based on the Friedwald Moeller collections, edited by Walther Müller-Dultz, Reinhold Heling and Wilhelm Kranz. Hamburg 2013, p. 399.
- ↑ Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ 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. 97-99.