Doba Chapel
| Chapel in Doba (Kaplica w Dobie) Church Doben |
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| Construction year: | 16th century (before 1574) |
| Style elements : | Brick construction (plastered) |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Doben ( Church Province East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 4 '52 " N , 21 ° 35' 33" E |
| Location: |
Doba Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran subsidiary church |
| Parish: | 11-500 Kamionki , until 1945 rose garden |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The chapel in Doba - until 1945 the Protestant church in Sprengel Doben of the parish Rosengarten -Doben in the Angerburg district in East Prussia - is now the branch chapel of the Roman Catholic parish Kamionki ( German Kamionken , 1928–1945 Steintal ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The settlement ( Polish osada ) Doba is located on the south-west bank of the Dobensee (Polish Jezioro Dobskie) in the Giżycko district (Lötzen) , 13 kilometers west of the district town. The chapel is located in the northern part of the village, not far from the country road to Radzieje (rose garden) via Skrzypy (stone courtyard) and Pilwa (pilwe) .
Church building
The church in the former Doben , which was first mentioned in 1574 instead of a chapel already standing in 1530 , is a plastered brick building with a west tower in front of it in 1887 . Fundamental restorations were carried out in 1747 and 1887.
The interior of the church had a gallery and was covered by a trapezoidal wooden ceiling. The simple furnishings came from the 17th century. The altar showed a painted representation of the Lord's Supper in the predella , above it on the main floor a carved crucifix and a round image of the risen Christ . The pulpit was equipped with simple carvings that were added later .
The church bell consisted of only one bell . It dates from 1649.
The church building survived the times with only a few wounds. In 1985 it was completely restored and the furnishings of the Roman Catholic liturgy adapted, since it has served as a branch chapel of Kamionki (Kamionken , 1928–1945 Steintal) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland since 1945 .
Parish
History
Doben was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period . Soon after the Reformation was introduced in East Prussia , it became Lutheran . The church belonged to the inspection Rastenburg ( Polish Kętrzyn ); Initially, their own catechists served here. Later Doben was united with Rosengarten (Polish Radzieje) to the common parish Rosengarten-Doben, which until 1945 belonged to the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Of the 2900 parishioners counted in 1925, 250 were assigned to the Doben district. The patronage of the Dobener church was incumbent on the landowners of Groß Steinort (Sztynort in Polish), the Counts of Lehndorff . Flight and expulsion of the local population destroyed the life of the Protestant church in Doben.
After 1945, Polish citizens settled in the village, then called Doba , who were almost without exception Catholic denominations and who revived church life in the village. The previously evangelical church was given to them as a chapel and assigned to the parish in Kamionki . She belongs to the Deanery Giżycko -św. Szczepana Męczennika (St. Stephanus) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . Until 1945 the Catholics living in Doben were parish in the Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz) in the Diocese of Warmia .
Protestant church members living in Doba today orient themselves towards both Giżycko and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) . Both parishes belong to the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
The district of Doben in the parish of Rosengarten-Doben consisted of six villages up to 1945:
| German name | Polish name |
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| Deyguhnen 1939–1945 Deiguhnen |
Dejguny |
| Above | Doba |
| Cherry strings | Kirsajty |
| Bold place | Dziewiszewo |
| Steinhof | Skrzypy |
| Vargulla |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors in Rosengarten (Polish Radzieje) were also pastors of the church in Doben.
Church records
A large number of the church records in Rosengarten-Doben (1700/1710 to 1944) have been preserved.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Doba - Doben
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 89, fig. 358.
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 477.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 122.