Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland (Garbno)

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Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland in Garbno

(Kościół Matki Boskiej Królowej Polski w Garbnie)
Lamgarben Church

The Catholic parish church in Garbno (Lamgarben), which was Protestant until 1945

The Catholic parish church in Garbno (Lamgarben) , which was Protestant until 1945

Construction year: 1728–1732
Tower: 15th century
Style elements : Neo-Gothic brick building
Client: Evangelical parish of Lamgarben ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 54 ° 7 '43.4 "  N , 21 ° 16' 32.3"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '43.4 "  N , 21 ° 16' 32.3"  E
Location: Garbno
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: No. 4
11-430 Garbno
Diocese : Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Kętrzyn I

The Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland in Garbno ( German  Lamgarben ) is a building from the first half of the 18th century. Until 1945 it was the church of the Protestant parish Lamgarben in East Prussia . Today it is the Catholic parish church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Garbno is located on the Guber River in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The provincial road 592 - former German Reichsstraße 135 - runs through the village, which connects the cities of Bartoszyce ( German  Bartenstein ), Korsze (Korschen) and Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) and continues to Giżycko (Lötzen) . The nearest train station is Tołkiny (Tolksdorf) on the Białystok – Ełk – Korsze railway line .

Church building

Tower entrance portal of the Garbno Church
Tablet from 1732 on the church wall

There was a first church in Lamgarben in the middle of the 14th century. The tower from the first half of the 15th century still bears witness to this . In the years 1728 to 1732 the nave was replaced by a new building: a plastered hall with beveled corners, which the carpenter Christian Böttcher covered with a vault on the inside in 1740 . From 1818 to 1824 the church was completely restored after a hurricane on January 17, 1818, when the tower fell onto the roof vault. The master builder Felisch directed the repair work .

The interior of the church consisted of an altar , a richly decorated pulpit from 1740, balustrades from the second third of the 18th century with biblical representations and a crucifix made of linden wood from around 1500.

In 1830 the church received an organ . As we learned later, in an "inventory list of the budget ministry" from 1785 for Lamgarben a new organ was already built in 1760, which the organ builder Adam Gottlob Casparini carried out without, however, being able to find details about the instrument. The church bell consisted of three bells .

The nave and its furnishings were destroyed in the Second World War , but the church was rebuilt and modernized afterwards. Inside the room was spanned with a wooden trapezoidal ceiling. In addition, changes were made in accordance with the changed, because Catholic, use of the church.

Before the church is a holy water font of granite , which dates from the 15th century.

Church / parish

Evangelical

A church in Lamgarben was founded in the pre-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia, the community became a Protestant denomination.

Church history

The parish of Lamgarben in the Rastenburg inspection was assigned the churches Schönfließ ( Kraskowo in Polish ) and Tolksdorf ( Tołkiny ) on June 11, 1528 . But already in 1603 these two churches had their own pastor and became independent, but connected parishes. In the 16./17. In the 19th century, two clergymen officiated at the Lamgarben church for a time.

The parish of Lamgarben had a total of 1850 parishioners in 1925, who lived in 20 villages, localities and residential areas. The patronage of the church was the responsibility of the manor owner von Lamgarben. Until 1945 the parish belonged to the church district Rastenburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

Escape and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in the place then called Garbno. Evangelical residents living here now belong to the parish in Kętrzyn in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish places

The parish Lamgarben belonged to 1945:

Surname Polish name Surname Polish name
Banish germ Banaszki Mickelnick Stary Mikielnik
Borschenen Borszyny New Mickelnick Nowy Mikielnik
Charlottenhof * Ober Plehnen, noble ~ Równina Górna
* Duplicates Dubliny Sudden nod Płutniki
Eberstein Dzikovina * Podlacken Podławki
Friedrichsthal Podgórzyn Sharp place Ostry Róg
* Godocken Gudziki shadow Szaty
Heinrichshöfen Gromki Sdunkeim Saduny
* Lamgarben Garbno Under Plehnen, noble ~ Równina Dolna
Lumienes Łominy Warning germ Warnikajmy

Pastor

Until 1945 served as Protestant pastors at the Lamgarben church:

  • Lucas Gobbel, 1550
  • NN., Until 1552
  • Crispin Radewald, until 1567
  • N. Holst, 1573
  • Abraham Röder, until 1591
  • Martin Praetorius, 1589–1617
  • Johann Birth, 1630-1656
  • Andreas Heunisch, 1657–1671
  • Matthias Musculus, 1663/1670
  • Jacob Auschwitz, 1671–1728
  • Fabian Kaminski, 1672–1679
  • Christoph Bölcke, 1679–1692
  • Georg Kelch, 1694-1724
  • Matthias Leonhard Northoff, 1725-1738
  • Andreas Czernicki, 1738–1784
  • Friedrich Wilhelm Mex, 1779–1808
  • Johann Ephraim Reichel, 1803-1820
  • Johann Gottlieb Rakowski, 1820–1831
  • Carl Wilhelm Rhode, 1832–1871
  • August Wilhelm Wellmer, 1871–1873
  • Paul Richard Großjohann, 1873–1907
  • Bruno Gehlhar, 1908–1915
  • Ernst Eckermann, 1915–1918
  • Adolf Guddas, 1919–1924
  • Ernst Segschneider, 1925–1931
  • Herbert Braun , 1931-1940
  • Friedrich Karl Tielker, 1941–1945

Church records

Of the parish registers of the Lamgarben parish, the following have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

  • Baptisms: 1738-1944
  • Weddings: 1738 to 1944
  • Funerals: 1738 to 1944,

sometimes lists of names are also available.

Catholic

The few Catholic inhabitants in the Lamgarben region before 1945 belonged to the parish Heiligelinde ( Polish Święta Lipka ) and from 1905 to the parish Rastenburg (Polish Kętrzyn ). Due to the influx of new Polish citizens, the number of Catholic church members rose sharply. The previously Protestant church has now been transferred to the Catholic Church. On May 29, 1981, the Warmia Diocese established its own parish in Garbno. It belongs to the deanery Kętrzyn I (southwest region) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia . Associated with the parish as a branch church is the Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Tołkiny (Tolksdorf) , as well as the care of Zakład Karny (prison) in Dubliny (Dublien) .

References

Web links

Commons : Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland (Garbno)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d Church in Lamgarben at ostpreussen.net
  2. a b Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 79, fig. 293, 294
  3. Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer: History of Organ Building Art in East and West Prussia , Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini , Berlin, 2008, p. 328
  4. a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
  5. a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 81
  6. The * indicates a school location
  7. Member of the Masovia Corps
  8. Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin 1992³, p. 75
  9. Lamgarben at GenWiki
  10. ^ Parafia Garbno in the Archdiocese of Warmia