Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn (Drogosze)
| Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Drogosze (Kościół Matki Bożej Ostrobramskiej w Drogoszach) Church of Groß Wolfsdorf |
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 The former Protestant village church Groß Wolfsdorf and now the Catholic church Drogosze |
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| Construction year: | 14th Century |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 12 '28.5 " N , 21 ° 14' 43.1" E |
| Location: |
Drogosze Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 38 11-410 Drogosze |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Reszel |
The Church of the Mother of God at the Gate of Dawn in Drogosze ( German Dönhofstädt ) is a building from the 14th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the district of Groß Wolfsdorf ( Polish: Wilkowo Wielkie ) of the united parishes of Groß Wolfsdorf-Dönhofstädt in East Prussia . Today it is the Catholic parish church of Drogosze in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
The former Groß Wolfsdorf was opened up after 1945 in the neighboring village with the name "Drogosze" (Dönhofstädt) . The small village is located on the river Guber in the north of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 17 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ). Drogosze is no longer a train station. Woiwodschaftsstraße 590 runs through the village , on the western side of which the church is located, only a few hundred meters from the former castle and Gut Dönhofstädt.
Church building
The church in what was then Groß Wolfsdorf is a building from the 14th century, whose exact year of construction, according to some historians, is said to have been the year 1363. There is a four-part gable in the east and the tower in the west . In the 15th century the sacristy was added to the north.
In 1593, under the patron saint Ludwig von Rautter, a thorough renovation of the church was carried out, in which the tower was given a clapboard helmet . In 1788 a vestibule was added on the south side of the church.
The interior of the church has a wooden barrel vault and deep galleries . Altar and pulpit from the mid-19th century form a whole. The top of an earlier altar with sculptures of Moses and his brother Aaron - just like the figures of angel boys and the "Savior of the Cross" - was made by the sculptor Joseph Anton Kraus in 1715/1716. The former pulpit was a foundation of the patron von Rautter . It was supported by five fluted columns. Only sparse remains of the sculptural work are left, while the altarpiece from the 18th and 19th centuries has been preserved for a long time, as has a baptismal angel .
In the central aisle of the church there is a large rectangular metal plate with a Latin inscription. It is dedicated to the former squire Ludwig von Rautter .
The organ is on the west gallery. The earlier organ - the year of construction and the builder are not known - had a peculiarity: on special holidays the cantor switched on a miniature glockenspiel for the last stanza of each chorale , which was hidden in an eagle figure that set it in motion when it sounded.
The church bell consists of two bells that were cast in 1786 and 1844 respectively.
On the north side of the church there is a burial chapel of the Counts von Dönhoff , who were the church patrons for many years .
After 1945 the previously Protestant church in Groß Wolfsdorf became a Catholic church - now for the town of Drogosze, which had grown together with Groß Wolfsdorf. For the rededication, extensive construction work was necessary, which was carried out in 1965, during which numerous pieces of equipment from the 18th and 19th centuries were removed. As early as April 1st, 1962, a parish was established in Drogosze , whose name was taken over by the current parish church . He recalls the Mother of God at the Gate of Dawn .
Church / parish
The foundation of the church in Groß Wolfsdorf is dated to the year 1361. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , the church became Lutheran .
Evangelical
Church history
From 1543 to 1618 the Groß Wolfsdorf Church was assigned to the Paaris Church ( Parys in Polish ) within the Rastenburg inspection. Before the parish became independent and was looked after by its own pastors, a deacon was already doing his auxiliary service here from 1607 . The church patronage was the responsibility of the landlords in the neighboring village of Dönhofstädt , which belongs to the parish - from 1681 to 1863 the von Dönhoff family , then the Counts of Stolberg-Wernigerode.
The parish of Groß Wolfsdorf joined the newly founded Old Prussian Union in 1817, a union of Lutheran and Reformed churches - in contrast to the neighboring parish of Dönhofstädt, founded in 1725, which remained true to the Reformed tradition and did not decide to join until 1839. In 1875 the two parishes of Groß Wiolfsdorf and Dönhofstädt were united. They were grouped under a (Lutheran) parish office, with the parish seat being Dönhofstädt. The clergyman in charge held regular services in the Groß Wolfsdorf church, once a month also in the castle chapel in Dönhofstädt.
The united parishes of Groß Wolfsdorf-Dönhofstädt were integrated into the church district of Rastenburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1926 the parish of Groß Wolfsdorf had 1375, the parish of Dönhofstädt 155 parish members.
The evangelical parish in Groß Wolfsdorf and Dönhofstädt put an end to the flight and expulsion of the local population . The Evangelical Church in Groß Wolfsdorf became the Catholic church in the parish of Drogosze .
Protestant residents living here today belong to the parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) with the branch church in Barciany (Barten) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
The parish of Groß Wolfsdorf of the united parish Groß Wolfsdorf-Dönhofstädt included the villages, towns and places of residence until 1945:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Garbnick | Garbnik | Krimlack | Krymławki | |
| * Groß Wolfsdorf | Drogosze (Wilkowo Wielkie) | * Mod sheaves | Modgarby | |
| * Kamplack | Kąpławki | * Pomnick | Pomnik | |
| Little Bogslack | Bogusławki Małe | Romberg | Rzymek | |
| Klein Wolfsdorf | Wilkowo Małe | Stables | Pokrzywno | |
| * Piston beans | Kolwiny | Wargitten | Wargity |
Pastor
At the church in Groß Wolfsdorf the pastors officiated between 1618 and 1945 as Protestant clergy:
- Johann Albertus, 1618-1622
- Nicolaus Tragheim, 1622-1650
- Samuel Mylius, 1650-1675
- Johann Bock (Booken), 1676–1694
- Johann Brieskorn, 1694-1712
- Balthasar Boy, 1712-1741
- Gottfried Voglerus, 1742–1794
- Karl Friedrich Voglerus, 1790–1811
- Theodor Leopold Henne, 1811–1844
- Ludwig Heinrich Hitzigrath, from 1845
- August Joseph Martin Schorn, 1858–1861
- Friedrich Otto Hüber, 1861–1900
- Fedor Hugo Gerlach, 1900–1928
- Martin Braun, 1929-1935
- Hans Rüter, 1934–1945
From 1875 the pastors of Groß Wolfsdorf were also responsible for the neighboring parish of Dönhofstädt ( Drogosze in Polish ).
Church records
The parish register documents of the Groß Wolfsdorf district of the united parishes Groß Wolfsdorf-Dönhofstädt have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1676-1874
- Weddings: 1676 to 1874
- Burials: 1676 to 1874.
Catholic
Before 1945 there were relatively few Catholics in the Groß Wolfsdorf and Dönhofstädt region. Until 1945 they were included in the parish church in Korschen (in Polish: Korsze ) in the Rößel ( Reszel ) dean's office in what was then the Diocese of Warmia .
The resettlement of Polish citizens after 1945 caused the number of Catholic residents in what was then called "Drogosze" to rise sharply. A Catholic parish was formed in what was initially called “Wilkowo Wielkie” and claimed the previously evangelical church for itself. On April 1, 1962, a parish was founded in Drogosze , the center of which was the "Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn ". It is part of the Deanery Reszel (Rößel) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .
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. 79
- ↑ a b History of Drogosze - Groß Wolfsdorf / Dönhofstädt at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Parafia Drogosze in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 48
- ↑ Eberhard Gresch, Evangelical Reformed in (East) Prussia , in: Circular letter of the Community of Evangelical East Prussia eV , No. 1/2011, pp. 1–32 (revised version from 2012)
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Served here as a temporary deacon from 1607
- ↑ Groß Wolfsdorf at GenWiki