Church of Christ the King (Skarżyn)
| Christ the King's Church in Skarżyn (Kościół Chrystusa Króla w Skarżynie) Church of Skarzinnen / Richtenberg |
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| Construction year: | 1927-1929 |
| Inauguration: | November 15, 1929 |
| Style elements : | Field stone church |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Skarzinnen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 36 '44.6 " N , 22 ° 13' 22.4" E |
| Location: |
Skarżyn Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 10 12-230 Skarżyn |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The Christ the King's Church in Skarżyn is a building from the 1920s. Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church of the East Prussian parish Skarzinnen (1938–1945 Richtenberg) and is now the central church of the Roman Catholic parish Skarżyn in Poland .
Geographical location
Skarżyn is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , just two kilometers from the border with the Masovian Voivodeship . A side road runs through the village, which connects to Drygały (Drygallen , 1938–1945 Drigelsdorf) on the 667 voivodship road .
The location of the church is in the town center east of the main street.
Church building
The church in Skarżyn was built between 1927 and 1929 and was consecrated on November 15, 1929. The building made of field stones and with a wooden tower attached as an extension of the gable wall is kept simple and has undergone several repairs after 1945. The interior of the church was adapted to the changed Catholic liturgical use.
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
It was not until 1902 that a separate Protestant parish was established in Skarzinnen. Previously, the place was incorporated into the church Groß Rosinsko (1938-1945 Großrosen, Polish Rożyńsk Wielki ). From the parishes of Groß Rosinsko and Bialla (1938–1945 Gehlenburg, Polish: Biała Piska ), a total of ten places were re- parished into the new Skarzinnen parish , which had to get along without its own church in the beginning. In 1925 the parish had 2,100 parishioners. The church had no patronage until 1945 and was included in the Johannisburg parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Flight and expulsion of the local population in the period around 1945 put an end to church work in the place now called Skarżyn . Protestant residents living here again today stick to the parish in the town of Biała Piska, a branch parish of the Pisz parish ( German Johannisburg ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
Ten villages belonged to the parish of Skarzinnen (from 1938 parish of Richtenberg):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | |
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| * Must | Dimussen | Dmusy | * Great Rogallen | Rogale Wielkie | ||
| Happy ones | Myśliki | * Skarzinnen | Richtenberg (East Pr.) | Skarżyn | ||
| Carpenter | Dreilinden | Karpin | Should | Rose lake | Sokoły Jeziorne | |
| Lipinsken | Eschenried (East Pr.) | Lipińskie | * Wlosten | Flosten | Włosty | |
| Lodigowen | Ludwigshagen | Łodygowo | * Woynen | Woinen | Wojny |
Pastor
In the parish of Skarzinnen and Richtenberg, the following pastors officiated from 1905 to 1945:
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Church records
The parish registers of Skarzinnen (Richtenberg) have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms, weddings and funerals from 1902 to 1944.
Catholic
Before 1945, the Skarzinnen and Richtenberg region was incorporated into the Roman Catholic Church of Johannisburg . It belonged to the Deanery of Masuria II with its seat in the city of Johannisburg within the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945 more and more new Polish citizens settled here, most of whom were Catholic. They formed a parish here, which was elevated to a parish in 1958 and is now part of the Biała Piska deanery in the Ełk diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The branch church in Świdry (Schwiddern) is assigned to the parish .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 120.
- ↑ a b Parish Skarżyn in the Diocese of Ełk ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
- ↑ The * refers to a school location.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 128.
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, p. 108.
