Church of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd (Kociołek Szlachecki)

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Church of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd in Kocioł Szlachecki
(Kościół Matki Bożej Gietrzwałdzkiej w Kociołku Szlacheckim)
Church of Noble Kessel
The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Kociołek Szlachecki / Adlig Kessel

The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Kociołek Szlachecki / Adlig Kessel
Construction year: 1904-1906
Inauguration: March 1, 1906
Style elements : Brick gothic
Client: Evangelical parish of Adlig Kessel
( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 53 ° 43 '31.9 "  N , 21 ° 50' 33.2"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '31.9 "  N , 21 ° 50' 33.2"  E
Address: 12
Kociołek Szlachecki
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1977 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: Kociołek Szlachecki 12a
Diocese : Ełk

The Church of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd in Kociołek Szlachecki (German Noble Kessel ) is one of the 14 anniversary churches that were built around the turn of the 20th century to commemorate the coronation of the Elector of Brandenburg as King in Prussia in Königsberg in 1701. Until 1977 it was a Protestant church and until 1945 parish church of the East Prussian parish Adlig Kessel. Since 1987 it has been the worship center of the Catholic parish Kociołek Szlachecki in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Kociołek Szlachecki is located in the Eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The church is located in the northwest of the village on the eastern side of the Polish highway 63 .

The entrance portal of the church

Church building

The foundation stone of the in memory of the royal coronation of Frederick III. The Jubilee Church in Adlig Kessel, built by Brandenburg in 1701 in Königsberg (Prussia) (Russian Kaliningrad) , was laid on September 11, 1904. After a year and a half of construction, it was inaugurated on March 1, 1906. It is a building based on medieval forms with a side aisle and a sideways tower on a field stone foundation and a straight end to the chancel.

The interior with a side gallery is simple. A flat wooden ceiling covers the room painted by Karl Busch from Berlin . There is a cross vault in the altar niche . The altar consists of a solid base on which a wooden crucifix rises. The pulpit is made of wood. The organ was built by master organ builder Bruno Göbel from Königsberg (Prussia) . The ringing consists of two bells .

Until 1977 the church was a Protestant house of worship, most recently owned by the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . Between 1978 and 1987 it underwent a thorough renovation until it became a Catholic parish church in 1987, which now bears the name of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd.

Parishes

Evangelical

Church history

The Protestant parish was founded in Adlig Kessel in 1895 and was assigned to the Johannisburg parish until 1945 . The parish with its - in 1925 - 2,793 parishioners belonged to the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . It was patronized and there was municipal elections. Church life collapsed in 1945 due to the flight and displacement of the local population . The few Protestant residents living here today orientate themselves towards the parish in the district town of Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish places

In addition to the vicarage belonged until 1945 to the parish nobleman boiler:

Surname Polish name Surname Polish name
Bilitzen *
1938–1945 Waldenfried 		Bielice Quicka * Kwik
Big mines Szczechy Wielkie Rostken * Rostki
Hedwigshof Sachasch Zacharz
Small mines Szczechy Małe Sdorren *
1938–1945 Dorren 		Zdory
Lischijami
1938–1945 Dismantling Dorren 		Lisie Jamy Spirdingswerder Szeroki Ostrów
Lissuhnen *
1938–1945 Lissuhnen 		Łysonie Trzonken *
1938–1945 Mövenau 		Trzonki
To sip Nipy Wiska
Mushrooms * Pilchy Wolka (forest)

Pastor

Info box of the parish

Protestant clergy at the Adlig Kessel church:

  • Friedrich Karl Mitzka, 1896–1908
  • Emil Salewski, 1909–1915
  • Gottfried Salett, 1916–1932
  • Helmut Hildebrandt , 1932–1939
  • Horst Kopania, 1939-1945

Catholic

Before 1945 there were very few Catholic church members in the Adlig Kessels region, but their number rose sharply as a result of the war, when numerous new Polish citizens - almost without exception of Catholic denomination - settled in Kociołek Szlachecki. Until 1945 the Catholic residents felt they belonged to the parish church in Johannisburg in the dean's office Masuria II - with its seat in Johannisburg - within the diocese of Warmia , but a separate parish was formed in Kociołek Szlachecki, which was part of the dean's office in Pisz in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church Poland was assigned. The branch churches in Karwik and Rostki (Rostken) were added to the parish .

Web links

Commons : Church of Our Lady of Gietrzwałd in Kociołek Szlachecki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2, Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 118, Fig. 537-538
  2. ↑ Floor plan of the Adlig Kessel church
  3. ↑ a b Parafia Kociołek Szlachecki
  4. ↑ Gietrzwałd ( German  Dietrichswalde ) is a small village and today a place of pilgrimage not far from the city of Olsztyn (Allenstein)
  5. ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 490
  6. ↑ The * indicates a school location
  7. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 14