Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help (Spychowo)
| Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Spychowo (Kościół Matki Boskiej Nieustajacej Pomocy w Spychowie) Church dolls |
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 Roman Catholic, formerly Protestant church in Spychowo / Puppen |
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| Construction year: | 1903 to 1905 |
| Inauguration: | April 2, 1905 |
| Architect : | Neier |
| Style elements : | Brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Puppen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 35 '49.7 " N , 21 ° 20' 47.2" E |
| Address: | ul. Mazurska Spychowo Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic parish church, Protestant until 1979 |
| Parish: | ul.Mazurska 7, 12-150 Spychowo |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Rozogi deanery |
The Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Spychowo (1946 to 1960 Pupy , German Puppen ) is an East Prussian anniversary church and former Protestant parish church for the parish Puppen . Today it is the central church of the Roman Catholic parish Spychowo in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Spychowo is located in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship and 24 kilometers east of the city of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ). The village is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line , and national road 59 runs through the village, with the church on the western side in the southern center of the village.
Church building
The foundation stone for the anniversary church in Puppen was laid on July 9, 1903 . The Protestant church was inaugurated with a festive service on April 2, 1905. It is a brick building on a field stone foundation with an adjoining tower on the north-east side that continues the escape from the wall and an altar niche that just ends in the north-west.
The church has two aisles . and has recessed galleries in the aisle and on the north-east wall of the main aisle. The ceiling of the main nave and the choir is vaulted, that of the aisle is flat.
The altar and pulpit are made of wood. The altar crucifix comes from a workshop in Tyrol . The painting was done by Carl Busch in Berlin . The organ was made by the Königsberg organ builder Bruno Goebel . At the time of its construction, the church had 371 seats. Their ringing consisted of three bells . The tower clock was the work of Eduard Korfhage in Buer near Osnabrück .
Until 1979 the church was a Protestant church. On September 23, 1979, she was forcibly expropriated by Catholics during a church service. The curia in Olsztyn (Allenstein) finally agreed to pay for the building that was taken over. It was renovated, adapted to the changed liturgical customs and placed under the patronage of the " Mother of God of Perpetual Help ". It has been a parish church since August 28, 1981 .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
A Protestant parish in what was then Groß Puppen was established on July 1, 1898. Until then, the village was part of the parish of the Friedrichshof Church (in Polish Rozogi ). The planning for the construction of a church began early on, which could then be incorporated into the anniversary church program . The church was patronized, there was community election. In 1925 the parish of Puppen had 1,450 parishioners who lived in Puppen and the neighboring towns. Assistant preachers were employed here as early as 1902, until a parish office was established in 1904. Until 1945 it was embedded in the superintendent district of Passenheim (Polish: Pasym ) in the parish of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
After 1945 there was only a small Protestant congregation in the village then called Spychowo, which met sporadically in the church for church services. Polish and almost without exception Roman Catholic new citizens who settled here claimed the church for themselves. Today the Protestant residents belong to the parish of Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
The former Protestant cemetery behind the village still reminds of the former Protestant community in dolls.
Parish places
The parish of Puppen included the places or residential areas that were located in the Ortelsburg district , but also in the Johannisburg district and the Sensburg district:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | ||
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| Adam's frustration | Szklarnia | Small dolls | Spychówko | Dolls stove | |||
| Bear corner | Niedźwiedzi Kąt | Kurwien train station | Karwica Mazurska | Ratzeburg (forest) | Racibórz | ||
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Bystrz 1938–45: Brücknersmühl |
Bystrz |
Kurwig 1938–45: Kurwick |
Kierwik |
Sysdroyofen (Forst) 1938–45: Sixdroi |
Zyzdrojowy Piecek | ||
| Dieblitzthal | Polommen | Połom | * Waldersee | Koczek | |||
| Grünwalde (forest) | Colonia | * Dolls | Spychowo | Wolfshagen (forest) |
Pastor
At the church Puppen officiated as Protestant clergy, the pastors:
- Otto Friedrich Burdach, 1902–1903
- Alexander Reinh. Th. Klatt, 1903-1914
- Kurt Stern, 1914–1918
- Hugo Linck, 1918–1922
- Otto Rehfeld, 1923–1927
- Julius Bernh. K. Fürstenau, from 1929
- Joachim Dietrich, 1934–1936
- Herbert Zinnau, 1936–1943
- Johannes Klebon, 1943–1945
Roman Catholic
Before 1945, relatively few Catholic church members lived in dolls. Your parish church was that in Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the deanery Masuria I within the then diocese of Warmia . After taking over the Protestant church in Spychowo in 1979, a parish (Polish parafia ) was established here with effect from August 28, 1981 . It belongs to the deanery Rozogi (Friedrichshof) in what is now the Archdiocese of Warmia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 131, Fig. 624
- ↑ Historical photographs of the church and village dolls
- ↑ a b Parafia Spychowo in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ^ Dolls at the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, pp. 46–47
- ↑ The * indicates a school location