St. Andrew Bobola Church (Biała Piska)
| Church of St. Andrew Bobola (Biała Piska) (Kościół Św.Arzeja Boboli w Białej Piskiej) Church of Bialla (Gehlenburg) |
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 The once Protestant, now Roman Catholic Church in Biała Piska (Bialla / Gehlenburg) |
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| Construction year: | 1765-1763 |
| Inauguration: | 1763 tower: 1832 |
| Architect : | unknown tower: Karl Friedrich Schinkel |
| Style elements : | Feldsteinkirche (plastered) |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community of Bialla ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 36 '33.8 " N , 22 ° 3' 38.6" E |
| Address: | ul.Konopnickiej 22 Biała Piska Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul.Konopnickiej 3a 12-230 Biała Piska |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
| Website: | www.parafiabialapiska.pl |
The St. Andreas Bobola Church in Biała Piska ( German Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg ) is a building from the mid-18th century. Until 1945 it was the central Protestant church in the parish of Bialla (Gehlenburg) in East Prussia and is now the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Biała Piska in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The small town of Biała Piska is located in the southeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on State Road 58 and Province Road 667 . The Olsztyn – Ełk ( German Allenstein – Lyck ) railway runs through the city . The church is located in the southern center of the city on Marii Konopnickiej Street.
Church building
The current church building in Biała Piska is a replacement for an older wooden building that had to be demolished. It was built between 1756 and 1763 as a - today plastered - field stone building . The church tower , for which Karl Friedrich Schinkel made the design, was only placed in front of the church in 1832.
The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault in the central nave , while there are flat ceilings over the side galleries. The altar and pulpit were built around 1630. They were combined in 1765 to form the pulpit altar.
The organ from 1765 received a major overhaul in 1819. Three bells made the chiming of the church.
Until 1945 the church was a Protestant place of worship. After 1945 it was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church and the old interior was lost except for a crucifix . The interior was redesigned according to the changed liturgical conditions. It was dedicated to St. Andrew Bobola . The exterior facade was renovated in 2006.
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
A church already existed in Bialla in the pre-Reformation period. It was mentioned in 1428. The Lutheran teaching established itself here soon after the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia . A Protestant clergyman was already in office here at the end of the 1520s.
Until 1715, the parish of Bialla belonged to the Lyck inspection ( Polish Ełk ). Later it was part of the Johannisburg church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 the parish had 5,911 parishioners who lived in a large parish. Two clergymen (“pastor” and “deacon”) served here at the same time. The church patronage was ultimately the responsibility of the state authorities.
After 1945, the flight and expulsion of the local population put a temporary end to Protestant community life in the city now called Biała Piska .
The Protestant church members living here again today form a new parish , which is a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . It has its own parish hall not far from the town hall, which was named on January 15, 2006 after the last pastor Heinrich Heldt, who lived here in the resistance against National Socialism .
A small chapel is used as a worship room. It was extensively renovated in 2001, whereby the floor was laid with ceramic tiles, a ceiling was put in and the walls were painted a light green. Donated oil radiators can now be connected to a new power line. The roof structure required major repairs and new battens and could be covered with red tile pans. The solemn inauguration took place on September 15, 2001, which was also attended by Pastor Paul Pissowotzki (1911-2010) from Heilbronn, who gave his first sermon here as vicar in 1935. He presented the congregation with a 52 cm high bronze crucifix made by the Württemberg artist Ingrid Seddig , born in Vietkow (Stolp district) in 1926, and two candlesticks for the altar, as well as a silver chalice and a wafer plate with a storage box. The Rosh Circle of Friends donated a wrought-iron candlestick.
Parish locations (until 1945)
To the parish of Bialla (from 1938 parish of Gehlenburg) belonged next to the city the following places:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | |
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| * Belzonzen | Large village | Bełcząc | * Search | Kölmerfelde | Kożuchy | |
| * Czyborren | Stones | Cibory | * Krusseven | Erztal | Kruszewo | |
| Dannowen | You exactly | Danowo | * Lissen | sand dunes | Lisy | |
| Gentken | Giętkie | Oblewen | Kolbitzbruch | Oblewo | ||
| Great Brzosken |
(from 1932) Birkenberg |
Brzózki Wielkie | * Orleans | Siegmunden | Orłowo | |
| * Callishken | Flockau | Kaliszki | * Pavlozinnen | Paulshagen | Pawłocin | |
| Klein Brzosken |
(from 1930) Birkental |
Brzózki Małe | Rollken | Rolki | ||
| Kommorowen | Ebhardtshof | Komorovo | * Schwiddern | Świdry | ||
| Konopken | Mühlengrund | Konopki | * Skodden | Schoden | Szkody |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors officiated as evangelical clergy at the church Bialla (Gehlenburg):
- Georg Landmesser, until 1531
- Jacob Pohl, 1539
- Laurentius Diskordia, 1552–1553
- Johann Lapkowski, 1553–1563
- Matthias Gäobelius, 1563–1567
- Johann Lapkowski, 1567–1576
- Albertus Oblanski, 1579
- Michael Niedswieczky, 1586
- Hieronymus Maletius the Elder Ä., 1588-1620
- Hieronymus Maletius the Elder J., 1621-1662
- Jan Falentzki, 1630
- NN., 1656-1688
- Albert Hoffmann, 1656-1658
- Hieronymus Rostock, 1661–1692
- Martin Maletius, 1662–1671
- Bernhard Drigalski, 1675-1710
- Jacob Bannasch, 1693-1725
- David Gottfried Hoffmann, 1711–1746
- Christoph Meyer, 1726-1730
- Johann Bannasch, 1730–1732
- David Borowius, 1734-1764
- Ephraim Ebel, 1747-1757
- Michael Gross, 1755–1757
- Johann Christoph Surminski, 1757–1773
- Johann Klinger, 1765–1795
- Melchior Jacob Kempen, 1773-1803
- Johann Christ. Dziobeck, 1796-1810
- Johann Bernhard Rabe, 1803-1824
- Karl Heinrich Bregorovius, 1811–1814
- August Friedrich Thim. Czygan, 1814-1820
- Gottfried Schulz, 1820–1825
- Theophil Kendziorra, 1825-1830
- Johann Fr. August Szamborski, 1826–1829
- Carl Gustav Willamowski, 1829–1830
- Friedrich Wilhelm Aug. Henke, 1830–1855
- von Szczepanski, Friedrich Adam L., 1855–1858
- Otto Konrad Wilhelm Kierchner, 1858
- Theodor Christian Czygan, 1859-1896
- Gustav E. Arndt, 1866–1877
- Wilhelm Carl Ludwig Zimmeck, 1878–1894
- Eduard Rudolf Paul, 1894–1905
- Rudolf Carl Rausch, 1897–1916
- Johannes Brehm, 1905–1926
- Werner Lehmbruch, 1921–1926
- Walter Horn, 1926–1928
- Ernst Link, 1927–1929
- Karl Heinrich Heldt, 1929–1945
Church records
The parish records of the Bialla / Gehlenburg parish have been preserved and are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1839-1850
- Weddings: 1839 to 1850
- Burials: 1839-1850.
Roman Catholic
Church history
Before 1945 only a few Catholic church members lived in the Bialla (Gehlenburg) region. They were parish in the parish in Johannisburg ( Polish Pisz ) in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg) in the then diocese of Warmia .
In the post-war years, numerous new Polish citizens settled in the town of Biała Piska and its surroundings, almost all of whom were Catholic. This is how a small but steadily growing congregation came into being, which from 1946 claimed that the previously evangelical church could be used. In 1962 the "Parish of St. Andreas Bobola" was officially established. Biała Piska also became the seat of a deanery .
With its two branch churches in Kowalewo (Kowalewen , 1938–1945 Richtwalde) and Kożuchy (Kosuchen , 1938–1945 Kölmerfelde) , the parish is incorporated into the Biała Piska deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Parish places (from 1946)
The parish of Biała Piska has 22 villages:
| Surname | German name (with change name from 1938 to 1945) | Surname | German name (with change name from 1938 to 1945) | |
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| Bełcząc | Belzonzen (Großdorf) | Kożuchy Małe | ||
| Biała Piska | Bialla (Gehlenburg) | Kózki | Kosken | |
| Cibory | Czyborren (stones) | Kruszewo | Krussewen (Erztal) | |
| Danowo | Dannowen (Siegenau) | Lisy | Lissen (dunes) | |
| Giętkie | Gentken | Oblewo | Oblewen (Kolbitzbruch) | |
| Kaliszki | Kallischken (Flockau) | Orłowo | Orlowen (Siegmunden) | |
| Kolonia Kawałek | Pawłocin | Pawlozinnen (Paulshagen) | ||
| Komorovo | Kommorowen (Ebhardtshof) | Radysy | Radishöh | |
| Konopki | Konopken (Mühlengrund) | Rolki | Rollken | |
| Kowalewo | Kowalewen (Richtwalde) | Szkody | Skodden (Schoden) | |
| Kożuchy | Kosuchen (Kölmerfelde) | Zabielne | Sabielnen (friends) |
Pastor (from 1946)
Since 1946, Catholic clergymen have served as pastors at the St. Andreas Bobola Church in Biała Piska:
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Church records
The church registers are kept from 1947.
literature
- Festschrift to celebrate the 500th anniversary of Bialla Ostpr. Elck 1928.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Biała Piska - Bialla / Gehlenburg at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 119, fig. 547, 548.
- ↑ a b Parafia Biała Piska, Diocese of Ełk
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 22.
- ^ Edeltraud Rostek: Inauguration of the restored Protestant chapel in Gehlenburg, 2002
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ^ Arndt (1829–1885) was a member of the Corps Masovia .
- ^ Parish places of the Parafia Biała Piska
- ↑ List of pastors of the Parafia Biała Piska