Evangelical Church (Rańsk)
| Evangelical Church in Rańsk (Kościół ewangelicki w Rańsku) Rheinswein church |
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 The Evangelical Church in Rańsk / Rheinswein |
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| Construction year: | 1815 to 1827 |
| Style elements : | Field stone church |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Rheinswein ( church province East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 42 '27 " N , 21 ° 5' 43" E |
| Location: |
Rańsk Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran branch church |
| Parish: | ul. Warszawska 1 12-120 Szczytno |
| Regional Church : | Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland , Diocese of Masuria |
| Website: | www.szczytno.luteranie.pl |
The Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Rańsk ( German Rheinswein ) is a plastered field stone church with a half-timbered tower from the early 19th century. It is still a Protestant church today . Until 1945 it was the parish church of the East Prussian parish Rheinswein and is now a branch church of the parish Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Rańsk is located on the eastern bank of the Rheinswein Lake ( Jezioro Rańskie in Polish ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship north of the city of Szczytno . Through the village leading provincial road 600 which Mrągowo (Sensburg) connects to Szczytno.
The church is in the northern town center, east of the main street.
Church building
A first church was built in Rheinswein as early as the 1380s. Basic elements of this church have been preserved as fragments when the current church was built. It was built between 1815 and 1827, and in the 1820s there were various construction problems that delayed construction. A choreless stone building with two extensions was built, which is now plastered . A half-timbered tower was built on the west side , which rests on masonry bricks . The church underwent extensive restoration between 1895 and 1901.
The interior of the church is kept simple. A wide, arched wooden ceiling spans the room. A valuable altar from the 16th century was given to the Ortelsburg Local History Museum ("Muzeum Mazurskie"). Today's altar from the mid-19th century forms a whole with the pulpit .
A memorial plaque for 14 parishioners who died as soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars and whose names are mentioned individually deserves special attention . The plate is dated June 24, 1816.
The church bell consists of three bells .
The organ is the work of the Königsberg organ builder Max Terletzki . It has eight voices with two manuals and an attached pedal . The instrument was in an extremely desolate condition until the 1990s and was unplayable for 25 years. A restoration was not financially feasible for the community. So it was convenient that Adam Zalewski, a young organist from Szczecin , was “in the right place at the right time”. With knowledge of organ building he had acquired himself, he started a very complex repair and made the organ sound again in time-consuming detail work. When the Rańsk parish celebrated a festive service on August 20, 2017 on the occasion of the 190th anniversary of the church, Adam Zalewski made music on "his" organ to great applause.
The church in Rańsk is one of the few places of worship in Masuria that remained Protestant after the Second World War and is now owned by the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish
Church history
There was already a church community in Rheinswein in the pre-Reformation period. It was mentioned in 1383. The church patronage had existed since 1468 , which was held by the Rheinswein estate owner family Küchmeister von Sternberg until 1780 and then passed to various owner families until 1945 - most recently to the Schneider family. Since the introduction of the Reformation , the Rheinswein or Rańsk Church has been evangelically oriented.
Initially, the Rheinswein parish was part of the Saalfeld inspection ( Zalewo in Polish ). Until 1945 it belonged to the superintendent district of Passenheim (Polish: Pasym ) in the parish of Ortelsburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 the parish of Rheinswein had more than 2,700 parishioners, most of whom lived in the region surrounding the parish village.
After 1945, the Rheinswein Church in the place now called Rańsk became the property of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland (EAKP). Here clergy from Szczytno officiated at the parish church , which was then downgraded to a branch church of the Szczytno parish . The parish belongs to the EAKP diocese of Mazury .
An old Protestant cemetery and the former rectory next to the church date from before 1945 . The latter underwent an urgently needed roof repair in 2017.
Parish locations (until 1945)
Up until 1945, the Rheinswein parish included more than twenty villages, localities and residential areas:
| German name | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | German name | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | |
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| Old Kallenczin | Emshof | Julienhof | Julkovo | |||
| Annaberg | Zagórzany | * Kallenczin | Kallenau | Kałęczyn | ||
| Antonienhof | Little Lontzig | |||||
| Babanten | Babięty | * Mingfen | Miętkie | |||
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Burggarten until 1908: Grodzisken |
Grodziska | Cells | Stone height | Przytuły | ||
| * Inherit | Orzyny | * Rhine wine | Rańsk | |||
| Gronden | Grądy | * Rogallen | Rogenau | Rogale | ||
| Hermannshof | Rogowo | Rowmühle | Babantmühle | Rów | ||
| Ingelheim | Maniny | Salleschen | Ingelheim | Zalesie | ||
| * Jellinowen | Gellen (East Pr.) | Jeleniowo | Sysdroyheide | Sixdroiheide | Zimny Zdrój | |
| Johnau | Zimnavodda |
(from 1933 :) Hirschthal |
Zimna Woda |
- Notes on the table:
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors held office at the Rheinswein church until 1945 as Protestant clergy.
- Paul Schwartz, 1566/1573
- Andreas Bock, until 1658
- Michael Saphran, 1658-1664
- Michael Wannowius, 1678–1709
- Jacob Nicolowius, 1709-1716
- Georg Wengorovius, 1716–1721
- Daniel Skowronski, 1723-1763
- Gottfried Fleischer, 1763–1808
- Gottlieb Nikolaiski, 1808-1826
- Friedrich Ludwig Riemer, 1827–1828
- Friedrich Leopold Montzka, 1828–1830
- Julius Herm. E. Wendland, 1830-1850
- Hermann Albert Heling, 1850–1874
- Johann Julius Ignée, 1874–1879
- Karl Oskar Aug. Nikolaiski, 1882-1894
- Gustav Adolf Will, 1894–1906
- Richard Schwarz, 1906–1929
- Rudolf Mantze, 1929–1935
- Erwin Grzybowski, 1936–1943
- Heinz Ludwig Sassenscheidt, 1944–1945
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e f g h Kościół ewangelicki w Rańsku
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of the East Prussian Church , Göttingen 1968, p. 131, fig. 625–627
- ^ Rheinswein at the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1968 , Hamburg 1968, p. 121
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497