Church of the Mother of God of Everlasting Help (Parys)
| Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Parys (Kościół Matki Boskiej Nieustającej Pomocy w Parysie) Paaris Church |
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 The Catholic, Protestant church in Parys (Paaris) until 1945 |
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| Construction year: | Late 14th century |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Tower height: |
30 m |
| Location: | 54 ° 11 '6.5 " N , 21 ° 11' 50.8" E |
| Address: | No. 6 Parys Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic (until 1945: Evangelical Lutheran ) branch church |
| Parish: | ul.Słowackiego 6, 11-430 Korsze |
| Website: | www.parafiakorsze.pl |
The Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Parys ( German Paaris ) is a building from the end of the 14th century and was a Protestant parish church for the parish Paaris in East Prussia from the Reformation until 1945 . Today, as a Roman Catholic church, it is a branch church of the parish of Korsze ( German Korschen ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Parys is located north of the town of Korsze in the north-central part of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. Provincial road 590 runs through the village . The nearest train station is Korsze.
The location of the church is in the village south of the main road.
Church building
The church in Parys is a rectangular brick building on a field stone foundation . It was built in two sections: the western part around 1370/1380 and the eastern part in 1400. The 30 meter high tower with the stepped gables and the pointed arched, stepped entrance portal was only added later - probably in the 15th century.
The east gable was replaced in 1599 by shapes in keeping with contemporary tastes, although the original frieze is still recognizable. It was given its current form during a renovation in 1706. A vestibule and sacristy are built on the north side of the church .
The interior, which is covered with wood, was renovated in the 19th century. The altar dates from 1703. The altar piece is the last documented work of Isaak Riga from Königsberg (Prussia) . It is designed more simply than most of his works: a crucifix on the main floor with God the Father rising above it from the clouds, crowned with the lamb and the blessing Savior. On the sides the evangelists and angels. The pulpit is a simple carving.
In 1785 Adam Gottlob Casparini from Königsberg built an organ . It was replaced in 1899 by a work by Bruno Goebel , also from Königsberg. The church bell consisted of two bells cast in 1605 and 1733 .
The church survived the Second World War almost unscathed. In the following years it was converted from a Protestant to a Catholic church. As a subsidiary church of the parish in Korsze , it is dedicated to the "Mother of God of Perpetual Help".
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
The church in Parys is of pre-Reformation origin. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , it became Protestant. From 1543 to 1618, the pastor of Paaris also provided the church in Groß Wolfsdorf (now in Polish: Wilkowo Wielkie ). Initially belonging to the Rastenburg inspection, the parish of Paaris was then incorporated into the church district of Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 the parish had 1273 parishioners. The church patronage was the responsibility of the state authorities, which replaced the king's jurisdiction at the beginning of the 20th century.
Flight and expulsion of the local population between 1945 and 1950 put an end to the Protestant parish in Paaris. Protestant church members living in Parys today are incorporated into the parish in Kętrzyn , which belongs to the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
In addition to the parish of Paaris before 1945, the parish of Paaris included:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Great Bogslack | Bogusławki | Paarishof | Parysek | |
| * Groß Winkeldorf | Wiklewo | * Soul field | Błogoszewo | |
| Klein Winkeldorf | Wiklewko | Waldriede | Olszynka |
Pastor
Until 1945, the pastors officiated at the Paaris Church as Protestant clergy:
- Michael Eusebius, until 1541
- Daniel Maass, 1543–1548
- Briccius Lehmann
- Johann Deseritius, 1550–1556
- NN., From 1556
- Theobald Axt, 1558–1561
- Jacob Ritter, 1561–1564
- Peter Schacht, from 1564
- Jacob Eichler, 1569-1588
- Nicolaus Rhodius, 1588-1617
- Peter Gottber, from 1618
- Johann Gottberg, until 1680
- Georg Thilo, 1680-1730
- Johann Gottfried Rakau, 1715–1739
- Michael Andreas Schiemann, 1739-1770
- Andreas Albert Czerniczki, 1771-1816
- Ernst Wilhelm Bethke, 1817–1818
- Christian Grünheyd, 1818-1823
- Georg Carl Fleischer, 1823–1830
- Georg Ludwig Steinwender, 1830–1846
- Carl Ludwig Wessel, 1846–1861
- Hermann artist, 1861–1867
- Johann Rudolf Em. Lingenberg, 1868–1875
- Louis Emil Eugen Press, 1875-1880
- Gustav Adolf R. Kaehler, 1881–1883
- JF Emil Mertens, 1884-1896
- Ernst Bruno Max Reck, 1896–1900
- Gottfried Ferdinand Schenk, 1901–1928
- Karl Friedrich Wilhelm Gaser, 1934–1936
- Gerhard Spellmeier, 1938–1945
Catholic
The numerically few Catholic residents of Paaris were incorporated into the parish of Rößel ( Reszel in Polish ) in 1860, in 1872 in the parish of Rastenburg and from 1904 to 1945 in the parish of Korschen . They belonged to the then diocese of Warmia . In the years following the war, numerous new Polish citizens came to Parys, almost all of whom were Catholic. They claimed the previously evangelical church for themselves. Today it is a branch church of the parish of Korsze in the deanery Reszel in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 80, Fig. 299
- ↑ a b Parys - Paaris at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Parafia Korsze in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church Otspreussens Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 107
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Paaris at GenWiki