St. Maximilian Kolbe (Kuty)

St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe Church in Kuty (Kościół Św. Maksymiliana Marii Kolbe w Kutach) Church in kutten
St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Kuty (Kutten)
Construction year:	1576 to?
Style elements :	Brick gothic
Client:	Evangelical Church Community Kutten ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	54 ° 10 '12.5 "  N , 21 ° 56' 17.3"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 10 '12.5 "  N , 21 ° 56' 17.3"  E
Location:	Kuty Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish:	Kuty 61, 11-610 Kuty
Diocese :	Ełk
Website:	http://diecezjaelk.pl/parafie.html?sobi2Task= sobi2Details & catid = 2 & sobi2Id = 98

The church in Kuty ( Polish: Kościół Św. Maksymiliana Marii Kolbe w Kutach ) is a brick building from the last quarter of the 16th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant house of worship for the residents of the parish in East Prussia , then called Kutten ; Today it is the worship center of the Catholic parish Kuty in the Polish diocese of Ełk ( German Diocese of Lyck ).  

Geographical location

Today's Kuty is located in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on Jezioro Czarna Kuta (Black Cowl) , 13 kilometers east of the district town of Węgorzewo (Angerburg) . The church is located in the southeast of the village not far from the arterial road to Jakunówko (Jakunowken , 1938–1945 Jakunen) .

Church building

The east gable of the church in Kuty

Kutten was mentioned as a church village as early as 1553 , although construction of the current church will not begin until 1576. At that time, the brick building, still visible from afar, was built on a field stone base with a decorated east gable and a three-storey west tower .

In 1887 a thorough renovation was necessary, especially the interior. Instead of a flat ceiling, it received a pointed wooden ceiling. Altar and pulpit , which were created around 1600, were combined to form a pulpit altar at the beginning of the 18th century and supplemented with new carvings . On the occasion of the renovation work in 1887, the church received an organ that was made by the master organ builder Max Terletzki in Königsberg (Prussia) . At that time, the church bell consisted of two bells .

The church was so destroyed in the Second World War that almost all of the interior was destroyed. Only two deer candlesticks, a large crucifix and the figure of Mary on the crescent moon have remained.

In 1974 a stylish reconstruction followed with modern interior fittings adapted to the Roman Catholic liturgy after the church had become the parish church of a new Catholic parish. She bears the name Maximilian Kolbes .

Parish

Evangelical

In 1570 a Protestant parish was founded in Kutten , which was branched off from the district of the parish church in Angerburg ( Polish Węgorzewo ). A clergyman was appointed here as early as 1554.

Until 1725 Kutten was assigned to the inspection Rastenburg (Polish Kętrzyn); thereafter the parish belonged to the parish of Angerburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it counted 3300 parishioners who lived in a large parish. The church patronage was ultimately incumbent on government agencies.

After 1945, the flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the evangelical parish in kutten. Today only very few Protestant residents live in Kuty. They now belong to the parish in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , a branch parish of Giżycko (Lötzen) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Roman Catholic

The Roman Catholic residents - only a few before 1945 - still belonged to the parish of the Church of the Good Shepherd in Angerburg in the dean's office of Masuria II in the then diocese of Ermland , today they are incorporated into the newly founded parish on site and the former Protestant church serves them now as a parish church. It is part of the deanery Węgorzewo in the current diocese of Ełk (Lötzen) of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The parish also has a branch chapel in Krzywinsken (1938–1945 Sonnheim, in Polish Krzywińskie).

Parish locations (until 1945)

The parish of Kutten had 14 towns, villages and places to live until 1945:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Frankenort		Jeleni Róg		* Cowls		Kuty
Gas gulls		Gąsewo		* Cells	Frocks	Przytuły
Great Lenkuk		Łękuk Wielki		* Schloßberg until 1925 Grodzisko	Heidenberg	Grodzisko
* Painted beams		Gębałka		* Steinwalde until 1923 Groß Pillacken		Piłaki Wielkie
* Yakunovks	Jakuns	Jakunówko		* Wiesental until 1907 Przerwanken		Przerwanki
Karlsberg		Sapieniec		Wilkusmühle		Wilkus
* Small stalk		Stręgielek		Prongs	High seas	Żabinka until 2010 Żabinki

Parish places (after 1945)

The parish ( parafia in Polish ) of Kuty includes 11 villages:

Surname	German name		Surname	German name
Gębałka	Painted beams		Piłaki Wielkie	Steinwalde until 1923 Groß Pillacken
Jakunówko	Jakunowken 1938–1945 Jakunen		Przerwanki	Wiesental until 1907 Przerwanken
Krzywińskie	Krzywinsken 1938–1945 Sonnheim		Przytuły	Przytullen 1938–1945 Kleinutten
Kuty	Frocks		Radziszewo	Karlsfelde
Matyski	Steinhof		Stręgiel	Big stalk
			Stręgielek	Small stalk

Pastor (until 1945)

In the Protestant parish of Kutten officiated as clergy until 1945:

Valentin Schulz, 1554–1576 Michael Dannovius, 1576–1578 Matthäus Myslenta, 1581–1588 Jacob Schinsky, until 1625 Albert Gembalowski, 1649 Paul Drygalski, 1650-1655 Andreas Mrosovius, 1655–1678 Christoph Riediger, 1678–1689 Andreas Trantz, 1689-1699 Johann Albert Cibulcowius, 1699–1708 Paul Bernhard Drigalski, 1708–1752 Paul Christian Drigalski, 1739-1749 Albrecht Josewich, 1742–1749 Martin Gisewius, 1749-1767 Jacob Sagrobski, 1766–1776 Jacob Gutowski, 1777-1780

Friedrich Ludwig Boretius, 1780–1785 Johann Christoph Schultz, 1785–1791 Albert Pianka, 1791–1797 Salomon Daniel Paulini, 1798-1826 Andreas Gottlieb Paulini, 1826–1869 Anton Emil Willamowski, 1870–1899 Friedrich Ludwig J. Wolter, 1899–1907 Anton Otto Wangnick, 1907–1914 Ernst Hecht, 1915–1921 Karl Venske, 1921–1926 Gottfried Sallet, 1926 Walter Obgartel, 1926–1930 Alfred Vorrath, from 1930 Erhard Mertens, from 1934 Rudolf Ehrhardt, until 1936 Werner Lekies, 1936–1941 Günther Siltmann, 1943

Church records

Kutten from the church registers of the Protestant parish have been preserved and are kept in the Protestant Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

• Baptisms: 1691-1733, 1733-1745, 1744-1767, 1780-1784, 1805-1827, 1827-1853
• Weddings: 1710–1721, 1723–1744, 1744–1745, 1751–1754, 1756–1758, 1760–1767, 1795–1798, 1805–1834, 1834–1903
• Funerals: 1710–1728, 1730–1741, 1742–1744, 1744–1749, 1751–1756, 1758–1779, 1772–1786, 1830–1838, 1839–1888

personality

The pastor's son Cölestin Myslenta was born in Kutten on March 27, 1588 and baptized in the parish church. He was an important Lutheran theologian and for a long time was rector of the Albertus University in Königsberg († 1653).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Kuty - Kutten
2. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 2: Pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 88–89, fig. 357.
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 Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 79.
5. ↑ The * indicates a school location.
6. ↑ Parafia Kuty ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
7. ^ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin. Part I: The eastern church provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, pp. 74-75.

Web links

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