Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Ukta)
| Church of Exaltation of the Cross in Ukta (Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego) Church of Old Ukta |
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 The once Protestant and now Catholic church in Ukta / Alt Ukta |
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| Construction year: | 1863-1864 |
| Inauguration: | 4th September 1864 |
| Builder : | Johann Groß / August Stüler |
| Style elements : | Brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical Parish Alt Ukta ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 41 '19.9 " N , 21 ° 29' 50.4" E |
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Ukta Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | Ukta 19 12-220 Ukta |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The Exaltation of the Cross in Ukta is a brick building from the mid-19th century. It served as the central Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Alt Ukta until 1945 and is now the Roman Catholic parish church of Ukta in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Ukta is located in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and only a few kilometers northwest of the city of Ruciane-Nida ( German Rudczanny / Niedersee-Nieden ). The church is located in the center of the village on the northeast side of the provincial road 610, which runs through the town, not far from the confluence with the provincial road 609 . Ruciane-Nida is the nearest train station and is on the Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) line.
Church building
The parish church in Alt Ukta was built between 1863 and 1864 and was consecrated as a Protestant church on September 4, 1864. Johann Groß was the master builder who built the building under the influence of Friedrich August Stüler as a brick structure with a small bell structure above the west gable.
The interior of the church is vaulted and decorated in a neo-Gothic style. The central nave ends in the apse . The frame and the altarpiece are from a design by Stülers. The royal carpenter CW Franke made the altar substructure in Berlin . The altarpiece was not rediscovered as an important work by the Italian painter Girolamo Muziano (1528–1692) until 2010, after it had long been considered lost and was already on the list in the Lost Art database . The picture shows the Lamentation of Christ and owes its resurrection to the art monument protector geographer Krzystof Worobliec from Kadzidłowo ( German Kadzidlowen , 1938 to 1945 Einsiedeln ).
The organ was made by master organ builder Wilhelm Sauer in Frankfurt (Oder) . The church's original baptismal font is located in the Protestant parish hall in Pisz (Johannisburg) .
The church has been owned by the Roman Catholic Church in Poland since 1981 , although the change of ownership does not seem to have gone completely smoothly. In the period that followed, the walls were painted white. As a result, however, the old wall paintings with the Bible verses in the chancel were covered. Only in the 2010s could they be released again with EU funds through the work of art curator Magdalena Schneider.
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
In Alt Ukta a Protestant church was founded in 1846 and assigned to the parish of Sensburg in the church province of East Prussia, the church of the Old Prussian Union . More than 30 parish places were parish. The pastor's post was occupied continuously from the first year until 1945.
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The ever constant growth of the community made a division necessary in 1920. The center of the new part of the parish was in Rudczanny (1938–1945 Niedersee , today in Ruciane-Nida ), where a parish hall with a large chapel was built in 1912/13, which is now used as a Catholic parish church. Rudczanny remained connected to Alt Ukta as a parish seat. As early as 1906, however, an auxiliary preacher of his own was employed to provide for the daughter church.
Together, the Alt Ukta / Rudczanny parish had to look after a total of 5,700 parishioners in 1925, 4,200 of whom lived in the parish village and 1,500 in the branch parish.
After 1945, the flight and expulsion of the local population let evangelical community life in the place now called Ukta wither away. The former German Protestant cemetery has been preserved to this day. Little by little, however, some Protestant church members settled here again. They were able to use the former village chapel Alt Ukta for their own purposes after the parish church was expropriated to the Catholic Church. The “new” church is located on the western part of ulica Mągorowska No. 31 and belongs to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland . It now bears the name of the Apostle Peter ("Kościół Apostoła Petra") and is a branch church of the parish in Mikołajki ( German Nikolaiken ).
Parish locations (until 1945)
More than 30 villages, towns and places to live were incorporated into the Alt Ukta / Rudczanny parish by 1945 . In 1920 it was divided into two districts :
Alt Ukta district
| Surname | Changed name (1938-1945) |
Polish name | Surname | Changed name (1938-1945) |
Polish name | |
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| * Old Ukta | Ukta | * Jägerswalde | Rosocha | |||
| * Bubrovko | Beavers | Bobrówko | Ivanovs | Ivanovo | ||
| Chostka |
(from 1930 :) Walddorf |
Chostka | Kamien | Boars | Kamień | |
| Collogienes (collogienes) | Kalgien | Kołowin | * Klein Schwignainen - Schönfeld | Śwignajno Małe / Ładne Pole | ||
| * Cruttinnen (Kruttinnen) | Krutyń | Neubrück | Nowy Most | |||
| Cruttinnerofen (Kruttinnerofen) | Krutyński Piecek | * New Ukta | Nowa Ukta | |||
| * Eckertsdorf | Wojnowo | Nikolaihorst, Forst | Nickelshorst, Forst | Mościska | ||
| * Fedorwalde (-Peterhain) | Osiniak (-Piotrowo) | * (Fedorwalde-) Peterhain | (Osiniak) Piotrowo | |||
| Galkowen- * Nikolaihorst , village | Nickelshorst, village | Gałkowo | Sacrament | Zakręt | ||
| Gonschor | Gonscher | Gąsior | Castle | Zameczek | ||
| Groß Schwignainen | Śwignajno Wielkie | Sgonn | Deer | Zgon | ||
| Grünheide | Zielony Lasek | * Wigrinnen | Wygryny |
District Rudczanny / Lower Lake
| Surname | Changed name (1938-1945) |
Polish name | Surname | Changed name (1938-1945) |
Polish name | |
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| * Dietrichswalde | Wólka | * Low | Nida | |||
| Fox Angle | * Rudczanny | Lower Lake | Ruciane | |||
| Guszianka | Guschienen | Guzianka | Samendawe | |||
| Kowallik | Mullershof | Kowalik |
Pastor (until 1945)
From 1906, the Alt Ukta / Rudczanny parish was additionally manned by an assistant preacher to look after the Rudczanny / Niedersee parish district. The pastor took care of the parish of Alt Ukta:
Parish district Alt Ukta
Protestant clergymen worked at the church Alt Ukta as pastors:
- Leopold Gustav Kendziorra, 1846–1879
- Daniel Johannes Heinrich Rutkowski,
1879–1888 - Franz Eduard Friedrich Kahnert, 1888–1898
- Ferdinand Baginski, 1898
- Hermann Arthur Rogalsky, 1898–1914
- Hermann Oskar Bohle, 1914–1917
- Ernst August Heinrich Sack, 1917–1927
- Albert Koßmann, 1927–1936
- Theophil Flügge, 1937–1945
Parish district Rudczanny / Niedersee
The following worked as assistant preacher at the church Alt Ukta with the task of caring for the parishioners in the Rudczanny / Niedersee district:
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Catholic
Before 1945, very few Roman Catholic residents lived in the Alt Ukta area. They were parish in the parish church in Sensburg ( Polish Mrągowo ) in the deanery Masuria II (official seat: Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Warmia . After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled in the Ukta area, almost all of whom were Catholic. They formed an independent congregation in Ukta and in 1981 appropriated the previously evangelical church as their parish church. In 1984 a separate parish was formed, which, like the church, was dedicated to the Exaltation of the Cross ("Kościół Podwyższenia Krzyża Świętego"). Since 1992 she has belonged to the Deanery Mikołajki (Nikolaiken) in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 140, fig. 683.
- ↑ a b Ukta - Ukta at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Paul Nickel: Bible texts shine again in the chancel. In: Masurische Storchenpost , December 2013, pp. 31/33.
- ↑ a b c d Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 500.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 16, 124.
- ↑ Parafia Matki Bożej Miłosierdzia in Ruciane-Nida
- ^ Parafia Mikołajki in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Kendziorra (1811–1879) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
- ^ Parafia Ukta