Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary (Kruklanki)

Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kruklanki (Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Kruklankach) Church in Kruglanken
The former Protestant and now Roman Catholic parish church in Kruklanki (Kruglanken)
Construction year:	1753
Style elements :	Feldsteinkirche (plastered)
Client:	Evangelical parish in Kruglanken ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	54 ° 5 '22 "  N , 21 ° 55' 28"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 5 '22 "  N , 21 ° 55' 28"  E
Address:	ul. 22 Lipca Kruklanki Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran parish church
Parish:	ul. 22 Lipca 28, 11-610 Kruklanki
Diocese :	Ełk
Website:	diecezjaelk.tk/kruklanki-parafia-pw-wniebowziecia-najswietszej-marii-panny

The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Kruklanki ( Polish: Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Kruklankach ) is a plastered field stone building erected in the middle of the 18th century . Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the parish residents in the then East Prussian and Kruglanken village and is now the church of the Roman Catholic parish in Kruklanki, Poland .

Geographical location

The village of Kruglanki is located in the northeast of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, northeast of the city of Giżycko ( German  Lötzen ). As one of now three churches, the today Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption is located in the eastern part of the village at ulica 22 Lipca.

Church building

A first church was built in Kruglanken in 1575 in the late Gothic style. A choir-less plastered field stone building was erected on its foundations in 1753 , which was subjected to extensive restoration in 1874. In the south of the church building there was a vestibule, in the east a sacristy .

The church tower on the still recognizable old foundation was completed in 1648 after two storeys had been added and the gables had been bricked up. It was restored in 1875 and renewed after war damage in 1914/15.

The interior of the church has three aisles. There is a wooden barrel vault above the central nave , whereas the galleries have flat ceilings. Using an older altar and pulpit (around 1610), a pulpit altar was created in 1753 . There is also a crucifix from the beginning of the 17th century .

The bells of the church existed before 1945 of two bells .

Parish

Evangelical (until 1945)

History

Kruglanken was already a church village in the pre-Reformation period. The Lutheran doctrine found its way into East Prussia soon after the Reformation , when the first Protestant clergy began their service here around 1540. Until about 1816, two pastors held office here at the same time.

Until 1725 the parish Kruglanken belonged to the inspection Rastenburg ( Polish Kętrzyn ). After that she was part of the church district Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 the parish had a total of 4460 parishioners who lived in more than 20 villages, towns and places of residence.

Flight and expulsion of the local population brought the life of the Protestant community in the parish now known as Kruklanki to a standstill after 1945. Today only very few Protestant church members live here. They now belong to the parish Giżycko (Lötzen) with the branch parish in Pozezdrze (Possessern , 1938–1945 Großgarten) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish places

In the parish of Kruglanken were parish next to the parish until 1945:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Borken , forest		Borki		Mosquitoes	(from 1930 :) Borkenwalde	Możdżany
* Gansenstein		Brożówka		* New Freudenthal		Boćwinka
Groß Eschenort		Jasieniec		New soldiers		Nowe Sołdany
Establish		Grądy Kruklaneckie		Regulovks		Regułówka
* Jesziorowsken	Seehausen	Jeziorowskie		* Siewen		Żywy
Johannisthal		Janowo		* Siewken		Żywki
Katzerowken	Mountains of cats	Kaczorówko		* Soldiers		Sołdany
Knobbenort		Podleśne		* Soltmahnen		Sołtmany
Kruglinner meadow house				Lötzen forest estate		Knieja Łuczańska
Luisenhof		Żywki Małe		* Willudden	Andreastal	Wyłudy
Hop Valley		Chmielewo		Wolf break		Wyrzywilki

Pastor

At the church in Kruglanken officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945:

Matthias Richolovius, until 1564 Martin Kuchta, from 1565 Albert Danovius, until 1574 Adam Dolivianus, until 1588 Johann Kupzau, 1588–1589 Andreas Reinicius, until 1591 Martin Gadzalius, from 1593 Johann Adami, 1630-1681 Paul Surminski, 1655-1705 Friedrich Mieczkowski, from 1682 Gottfried Reimer, 1699–1703 Michael Itzko, 1703-1710 Paul Bernhard Drigalski, 1706–1708 Martin Pilkowius, 1708-1710 N. Gorsepius, 1710 Johann Sadowius, 1711-1718 Albrecht Koslowski, 1712-1722 Georg Kreutner, 1718–1756 Christoph Strugul, 1723-1726

Johann Ungefug, 1726–1747 David Sterling, 1740-1741 Andreas Golendzio, 1744–1756 Jacob Guttowski, 1749–1777 Andreas Golendzio, 1756-1793 Michael Bieber, 1777-1805 Johann Milau, 1797-1816 Michael Kalkowsky, 1806-1819 Andreas Gottl. Paulini, 1816-1819 Andreas Wilhelm Friczewski, 1819–1827 Johann Jacob Stern, 1828-1850 Jacob Preuss, 1840-1850 Hermann Julius E. Wendland, 1850–1883 Johann Michael Ebel, 1883–1884 Johann Gottl. Richard Uszczeck, 1884-1897 Otto Julius Reichmann, 1894–1898 Ludwig E. Borkowski, 1898–1913 Fritz Angermann, 1914–1934 Karl Seifert, from 1935 Karl Lange, 1937–1944

Church records

The church register documents of the parish Kruglanken have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :

• Baptisms, weddings and funerals from 1834 to 1874.

Roman Catholic (since 1945)

Before 1945, only a few Catholics lived in the Kruglanken area. They were parish in the parish church of St. Bruno in Lötzen (Polish: Giżycko). She belonged to the deanery Masuria II with seat in Johannisburg (Polish Pisz) in the diocese of Warmia .

After the Second World War , numerous Polish citizens settled in the kruklanki region, most of them of Roman Catholic denomination. The previously Protestant village church in Kruklanki was expropriated in their favor and turned into a place of worship adapted to the Roman liturgy. It is called the Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary . In 1962 an own parish was established here. It is part of the Deanery Giżycko -św. Krzysztof (Christophorus) in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

In addition to the Roman Catholic Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, there is also a Greek Catholic Church św in Kruklanki . Jozafata Kuncewicza and a Polish Orthodox Church św. Dymitra.

References

Web links

Commons : Church of the Assumption of Mary in Kruklanki  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kruklanki - Kruglanken
2. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 88, figs. 355–356.
3. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 476.
4. ↑ ^{a b} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 77-78.
5. ↑ The * indicates a school location