Trinity Church (Stare Juchy)

Trinity Church in Stare Juchy (Kościół Trójcy Przenajświętszej w Starych Juchach) Church in Jucha (Fließdorf)
The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Stare Juchy (Jucha / Fließdorf)
Construction year:	1585
Style elements :	Boulder and brick construction
Client:	Evangelical Church Community Jucha ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	53 ° 55 '21 .3 "  N , 22 ° 10' 28.3"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 55  '21.3 " N , 22 ° 10' 28.3"  E
Address:	ul. Ełcka Stare Juchy Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish:	ul.Ełcka 16, 19-330 Stare Juchy
Diocese :	Ełk

The Trinity Church in Stare Juchy ( Polish: Kościół pw. Trójcy Przenajświętszej w Starych Juchach , literally: "Church of the Most Holy Trinity") is a building from the second half of the 16th century. Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church for the East Prussian parish of Jucha (from 1938 Fließdorf) and is now the worship center of the parish Stare Juchy in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Stare Juchy is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on the western edge of the Powiat Ełcki ( Lyck district ) and can be reached from the Polish state road 65 (formerly German Reichsstraße 132 ) at Straduny ( German  Stradaunen ) via a side road. Stare Juchy is also a station on the Korsze – Białystok railway line .

The church stands in the eastern southern part (before 1945 New Jucha called) of Stare Juchy far from the main road to Elk (Lyck) .

Church building

The then Juchen , later Neu Jucha , received its first church in 1487 at the instigation of the Brandenburg Commandery ( Uschakowo in Russian ). The building was small and made of wood. Soon the church was noticeably too small and it was decided - in order to resist the pagan customs of the Sudau descendants - to build a new church.

It was built as a boulder and brick building, later plastered, and was completed in 1585. The staggered east gable and the front west tower with its octagonal tip were striking. The tower had three floors and its appearance was based on the style of the fortified churches of the order . On the upper floor, the old parishioners used to keep their empty coffins - as is customary elsewhere - until the time they were needed. A southern vestibule was added to the new church in 1586.

The three-aisled interior of the church had a barrel vault in the middle and the ceiling was flat on the sides. The altar - once praised as one of the most beautiful in Southeast Prussia - originated from the old church , made by the Italian Girardi and donated by Baron von Podewils in 1501 and transferred to the new church in 1591. On the main floor of the altar was a picture of a crucifixion group . The pulpit from around 1574 had a sound cover from the beginning of the 17th century. A deer antler chandelier hung in the tower hall .

The organ was manufactured by Johann Christoph Ungefug in the Königsberg organ building workshop in 1772 and electrified in 1929. The church peal consisted of two bells , one of which was cast in 1669.

The barrel vault was redesigned inside by the painter Garell from Königsberg. While working on the roof structure, old silver coins were found that may have been hidden there during the time of the Tatar invasion .

Parish

The church in the village of Stare Juchy

Evangelical

Church history

The parish of Jucha (until 1929 also parish Neu Jucha , from 1938 called parish Fließdorf ) already existed in the pre-Reformation period. The Reformation soon took hold here, and as early as the mid-16th century, two Lutheran clergy were serving here together. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it counted 5,028 parishioners who lived in 20 parish towns.

The flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in 1945. Today almost no Protestant residents live in Stare Juchy. For them, the parish in Ełk ( German  Lyck ) is a point of reference. It is a subsidiary of the parish ( Polish Parafia ) Pisz (Johannisburg) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

The evangelical parish (Neu) Jucha and Fließdorf included twenty villages, localities and residential areas:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Noble Jucha	(from 1929) Yeah			Lashmiads 1936–1938 Lashmiads	Lashing forging	Łaśmiady
Old yeah	(from 1929) Yeah			* Lysken	Pisces	Liski
* Old Krzywen	(from 1936) Alt Kriewen	Starlings Krzywe		* New yeah	(from 1929 :) Jucha
Ballamutowen	(from 1934) Giersfelde	Bałamutowo		Olschöwen	Frauenflies	Olszewo
* Gorlen	Aulacken	Gorło		Orzechowen	(from 1924) Nussberg	Orzechowo
* Gorlowks	Gorlau	Gorłówko		Panistrugga	(from 1927) Herrnbach	Panistruga
* Jesziorowsken	(from 1926) Seedorf	Jeziorowskie		Plowczen	Plötzendorf	Płowce
Yeah	Fliessdorf	Stare Juchy		* Sawadden	Auglitten	Zawady Ełckie
* Kaltken	Kalthagen	Kałtki		Schönfelde		Skopnik
* Little Krzywen	(from 1929) Grünsee	Nowe Krzywe		* Szczeczynowen	(from 1925) Steinberg	Szczecinowo

Pastor (until 1945)

The pastors officiated at the church in Jucha as evangelical clergy:

• Johann Niciconius, until 1572
• N. Niciconius
• NN., 1579
• Hieronymus Pogorzelski, 1584
• Nicolaus Belitza, 1593-1625
• Jacob Zielinski, 1623-1625
• Jacob Prostka, from 1625
• Johann Columbus, 1640/1657
• Caspar Madeicka, 1657-1679
• Michael Mittelpfort, 1658–1666
• Stan. Bystram de Radlin, 1667-1676
• Matthäus Cucholowius, 1676–1715
• Gregorius Flöß, 1679–1710
• Celestine Martin Cucholowius, 1715-1721
• Johann Cibulcowius, 1721
• Martin Westerholz, 1721–1757
• Christoph Jeglinski
• Georg Radtcke, 1730–1737
• Paul Gregorowius, 1738-1743
• Bernhard Lange, 1743–1757
• Johann Joachim Schmidt, 1751–1754
• Jacob Matiszki, 1755-1757
• Johann Bernhard Lange, 1757–1801
• Johann Sabotka, 1757-1793
• Gottlieb Stern, 1786–1787
• Johann Benjamin Lange, from 1789
• Johann Thomas Skrodzki, 1794–1800
• Albert Leopold Pianka, 1825–1857
• Emil Stern, 1857–1876
• Johann Friedrich Moritz Gawlik, 1877–1897
• Georg Paul Brehm, 1897
• Emil Wilhelm Vogelreuter, 1898
• Franz Eduard Fr. Kahnert, 1898–1908
• Hermann Adolf Niklas, 1908–1921
• Ernst Stern, 1921–1930
• Eduard August Maaß, 1931–1945
• Reinhold Freiberg, 1940-1941

Church records

Some of the parish registers of the parish of Jucha and Fließdorf have survived and are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :

• Baptisms: 1790-1818
• Burials: 1798-1818.

Roman Catholic

Church history

Before 1945 only a few Roman Catholic church members lived in the Jucha (Fließdorf) region . They belonged to the parish church of St. Adalbert in Lyck ( Polish Ełk ) in the deanery Masuria II with seat in Johannisburg (Pisz) in the diocese of Warmia . After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled in Stare Juchy, most of whom were Roman Catholic. This is how a new Catholic parish came into being, the center of which was the former Protestant church. It was now named "Most Holy Trinity".

The associated parish (Polish Parafia ) includes twelve parish places in addition to the parish and is incorporated into the Deanery Ełk – Święty Rodziny in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The branch church in Gorłówko (Gorlowken , 1938–1945 Gorlau) is also looked after from Stare Juchy .

Parish places

In addition to the parish itself, the parish of Stare Juchy includes:

Surname	German name / change name		Surname	German name / change name
Bałamutowo	Ballamutowen / Giersfelde		Liski	Lysken / Lisken
Dobra Wola	Dobrowolla / Willenheim		Olszewo	Olschöwen / Frauenfließ
Gorło	Gorlen / Aulacken		Orzechowo	Orzechowen / Nussberg
Gorłówko	Gorlowken / Gorlau		Panistruga	Panistrugga / Herrnbach
Jeziorowskie	Jesziorowsken / Seedorf		Szczecinowo	Szczeczinowen / Steinberg
Kałtki	Kaltken / Kalthagen		Zawady Ełckie	Sawadden / Auglitten

References

Web links

Commons : Dreifaltigkeitskirche in Stare Juchy  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} The church in Jucha
2. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 124, fig. 572–574.
3. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 101-102.
5. ↑ The * indicates a school location.
6. ↑ Member of the Masovia Corps
7. ↑ ^{a b c} Parafia Stare Juchy