Laggarben Church
| Laggarben Church (Ruiny kościoła w Garbnie) |
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 Ruins of the Laggarben church in Garbno |
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| Construction year: | 15th century |
| Style elements : | Gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 17 '18.2 " N , 21 ° 11' 7.7" E |
| Location: |
Garbno Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran Parish Church |
| Local community: | not available anymore. Only remains of the church remain |
The Laggarben Church (now in Polish Ruiny kościoła w Garbnie ) in Garbno was built at the beginning of the 15th century. From 1525 to 1945 it was the parish church for the Protestant parish Laggarben - Dietrichsdorf in East Prussia . Today only ruins remain in its place in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Garbno is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 26 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ). The village belongs to the rural community Barciany (German Barten ).
The ruins of the church are in the west of the village on a local road. The rectory was once opposite . The remains of the former cemetery can still be found 500 meters away in the forest.
Church building
The church in Laggarben was built around the turn of the 14th and 15th centuries. It was built in the 17th century and is said to have been dedicated to St. Anna . It could also have been a popular pilgrimage site , although it had its origins in pagan times
The church was a plastered rectangular building made of field stones and bricks . The Tower of truss was attached to the masonry of the church.
In 1710 the church was so dilapidated that significant repairs had to be made. Around 1800 the building was completely redesigned.
The interior of the church was kept simple. A wooden vault covered it. Altar , pulpit and baptismal font were evidence of local handicraft carving . In 1853 the church received an organ . The ringing comprised three bells, one of which may have been the existing bell that was cast in 1917.
The village of Laggarben was badly damaged during the Second World War . The church was not spared either. Today only the foundation walls, part of the east wall and the first floor of the tower bear witness to the former building. A Pietà from the mid-15th century in the Museum zu Heilsberg ( Lidzbark Warmiński in Polish ) is said to have survived from the furnishings , everything else was destroyed.
In the 1980s, a rebuilding of the church was planned. However, the realization is a long time coming.
Parish
Church history
The church in Laggarben was founded before 1506, in the pre-Reformation period. Laggarben belonged to the Sprengel Schippenbeil ( Polish: Sępopol ) under Warmian supervision. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , the church became Protestant .
It is not certain when exactly the first Lutheran clergy began their service in the Laggarben Church. In 1554 the parish of Laggarben was connected to the parish of Löwenstein ( Lwowiec in Polish ) and belonged to the Gerdauen inspection (now Schelesnodoroschny in Russian ) for several hundred years . In 1773 the Dietrichsdorf church became a branch church to Laggarben, whereby the parish seat remained in Laggarben - even when the two "united parishes" were later created until 1945.
In 1925 a total of 1711 parishioners belonged to the parish of Laggarben-Dietrichsdorf, of which 1384 were assigned to the district of the church of Laggarben. Laggarben was a patronage parish. The church patronage was the responsibility of the local manor owner. Until 1945 the congregation in the parish of Gerdauen in the church province of East Prussia belonged to the church of the Old Prussian Union .
Protestant church members living in Garbno today belong to the parish in Barciany (Barten) , a branch parish of the parish church in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
The parish of Laggarben-Dietrichsdorf belonged until 1945:
| German name | Polish name |
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| Parish district Laggarben: | |
| Dawerwalde | Dobrzykowo |
| Friedrichshof | Oleszka |
| Grünhof | Gaj |
| Laggarben | Garbno |
| Looskeim (in part) | Łoskajmy |
| Romahnshof | Romaliny |
| Puff stretching | Smodajny |
| Sillginnen | Silginy |
| Skandau | Skandawa |
| Sol kink | Solkieniki |
| Sonnenburg | Krzeczewo |
| Wonin germ | Wanikajmy |
| Parish dietrichsdorf: | |
| Dietrichsdorf | Dzietrzychowo |
| Mamlack | Majmławki |
| Theresenthal | Dobroty |
Pastor
At the parish church of Laggarben officiated as Protestant clergy.
- N. Holst, 1573
- Caspar Artopejus, until 1583
- Georg Schönwald, 1584–1589
- Abraham Paulitius, from 1617
- David Heilmeyer the Elder Ä., 1633-1672
- David Heilmeyer the Elder J., 1672-1726
- Daniel Christoph Weber. 1726-1744
- Christian. Friedrich Störmer, 1744–1764
- Johann Jacob Mey, 1764-1803
- August Mey, 1802-1820
- Johann Wilhelm Krah, 1821–1880
- Ernst Gottfried Otto Blech, 1880–1885
- Otto Heinrich Konrad Borowski, 1886–1893
- Paul Hermann Adolf Ruppel, 1893–1927
- Arthur Heinrich, 1928–1934
- Werner Karnath, 1939–1945
Church records
The parish registers of the parish of Laggarben-Dietrichsdorf have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1636-1784
- Weddings: 1636 to 1784
- Burials: 1636 to 1784.
References
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Garbno - Laggarben at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 39
- ↑ Interior of the church from 1904–1909, image no. 70765 of Laggarben's historical slide show
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 1, Göttingen 1968, p. 48
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 80