Apostle Peter Church (Momajny)
| Apostle Peter Church in Momajny (Kościół św. Piotra Apostoła w Momajnach) Church Momehnen |
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 The once Protestant and now Catholic parish church in Momajny (Momehnen) |
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| Construction year: | (14th century) 1818-1821 |
| Inauguration: | April 21, 1821 |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 18 '44 " N , 21 ° 15' 12.3" E |
| Location: |
Momajny Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 22, 11-410 Momajny |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Kętrzyn II |
The Church of the Holy Apostle Peter in Momajny ( German Momehnen ) is a church from the 14th century that was rebuilt in the 19th century. Until 1945 it was the central place of worship for the Protestant parish Momehnen and is now a Roman Catholic parish church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Momajny is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, just a few kilometers south of the Polish- Russian border . A side street leads through the village, which connects Michałkowo (German Langmichels ) on Voivodeship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ) with Skandawa (Skandau) . There is no rail connection.
Church building
Already in 1373 a church was mentioned in Momehnen . It is said to have been without a choir structure until the end of the 14th century . On December 8, 1811, it burned down to the two-meter ring wall.
It was not until 1818 that the reconstruction of the church began. The inauguration was finally celebrated on April 21, 1821.
The building is a rectangle made of field stones and bricks , originally without a tower . Instead, there was a belfry to the side of the building .
The interior with a pulpit altar was kept simple. In 1825 the church received an organ .
After 1945, the previously Protestant church became a Catholic parish church and was named after the Holy Apostle Peter . Many structural changes took place in order to adapt the interior to the changed liturgical customs. The brickwork is plastered white-gray.
Church / parish
The Church in Momehnen was founded in the pre-Reformation period. and received the hand-fest in 1373 . The parish stretched southwest of the former district town of Gerdauen ( Russian Schelesnodoroschny ), which is now located on Russian territory, and belonged to the supervisory district of the archpriest in Schippenbeil ( Polish Sępopol ).
Evangelical
Church history
The Reformation was in by secularization from the German Teutonic Knights leached Duchy of Prussia introduced early. Up until 1945 Momehnen was a Protestant parish village and most recently belonged to the Gerdauen parish in the church province of East Prussia, the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
The church patronage was incumbent on the owners of Blumenthal ( Polish: Maciejki ), Ludwigshöhe ( Piskorze ) and Neuhof ( Nowy Dwór Momajński ). In 1925 the parish had 1,350 parishioners.
The evacuation and expulsion of the local population temporarily put an end to church work in Momajny. The newly settled Polish citizens were almost without exception of the Catholic denomination. Protestant church members living in Momajny again today belong to the parish of Barciany (German Barten ), a branch of the parish church in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
Up to 1945, apart from the parish village, the Momehnen parish included 14 villages, localities or residential areas that are now on Polish (PL) and Russian (RUS) territory:
| Name (until 1945) | Name (after 1945) | State territory |
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| * Arnsdorf | Smeloje | RUS |
| Bawien 1938–1945 Bauden |
Nikitino | RUS |
| Blumenthal | Maciejki | PL |
| Friedrichshöh | Bieskowo | PL |
| * Gerkiehnen | Gierkiny | PL |
| * Great Schellenberg | Ogarewo | RUS |
| Klein Schellenberg | Stanislavskoye | RUS |
| Langmichels | Michałkowo | PL |
| Looskeim (in part) | Łoskajmy | PL |
| Ludwigsburg | Stanislavskoye | RUS |
| Ludwigshöhe | Piskorze | PL |
| Neuhof Momhnen | Nowy Dwór Momajński | PL |
| Rauttersfelde | Rutka | PL |
| Spierau | Bestushevo | RUS |
Pastor
The first pastor in Momehnen was named in 1383. As evangelical ministers officiated at the church:
- Matthias Schubert, 1573
- Caspar Böttcher, 1602
- Daniel Grube, until 1633
- Andreas Trosien, 1633
- Adam Frölian, 1633-1668
- Arnold Prange, 1670-1676
- Andreas Strauss
- Johann Korsch, 1679–1694
- Christoph Hörn, 1694
- Johann Balthasar Conradi, 1695-1725
- Johann Friedrich Kahnert, 1725–1728
- Johann Tobias Henne, 1729–1744
- Samuel Jacob Keber, 1744–1751
- Georg Heinrich Myer, 1751–1800
- Johann Thomas Kopp, 1795–1802
- Ernst Friedrich Görcke, 1802–1806
- Samuel Friedrich Schepke, 1806–1812
- Carl Friedrich Zimmermann, 1824–1825
- Friedrich Ferdinand Hecht, 1827–1841
- Robert Carl Wischhausen, 1841–1868
- Johann Otto Adalbert Müller, 1869–1890
- (Albert Julius) Otto Robatzek, 1890–1925
- Georg Schwandt, 1925–1928
- Siegfried CC Besch, 1929
- Werner Karnath, 1930–1931
- Erwin Schmerling, 1932–1940
- Gerhard Plunder, 1940–1945
Roman Catholic
Few Catholics lived in the Momehnen region before 1945. They were parish in the Roman Catholic Church of St. Bruno in Insterburg (today : Chernyachovsk in Russian ) in the deanery of Tilsit ( Sowetsk ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Today Momajny has a predominantly Catholic population. The former Protestant church was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church and is now a parish church dedicated to the Holy Apostle Peter. The parish is part of the deanery Kętrzyn II - Północy Wschód ( Rastenburg II - Northeast) in the Archdiocese of Warmia within the Polish Catholic Church . Frączkowo (Fritzendorf) and Skandawa (Skandau) are assigned as branch churches .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The parish of Momehnen
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 40
- ↑ a b Parish Momajny in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 458
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 97