St. John the Baptist (Targowo)
| Church of St. John the Baptist in Targowo (Kościół Św. Jana Chrzciciela w Targowie) Church of Theerwisch |
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 The former Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Targowo (Theerwisch) |
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| Construction year: | 1884 to 1934 bell tower: 1927 |
| Style elements : | Neo-Romanesque stone church |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Theerwisch, Church Province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union |
| Location: | 53 ° 41 '39.1 " N , 21 ° 2' 10.9" E |
| Location: |
Targowo Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 10 12-120 Targowo |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Pasym deanery |
| Website: | www.parafiatargowo.pl |
The Church of St. John the Baptist in Targowo ( German Theerwisch ) is a building from the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries . Century. Until 1945 she was a church of the United Evangelical churches Theerwisch - Jablonken in East Prussia . Since 1981/82 it has been the Roman Catholic parish church of the Targowo parish in Poland .
Geographical location
The village of Targowo is located north of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ) in the southern center of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . A side road leads through the village, which connects Dźwierzuty (Mensguth Dorf) on Landesstraße 57 (formerly German Reichsstraße 128 ) with Orzyny (Erben) on Voivodship Road 600 .
The church stands in the center of the village east of the road to Jabłonka (Jablonken , 1938 to 1945 Wildenau (Ostpr.))
Church building
There was a church in Theerwisch as early as the beginning of the 15th century. It is not certain whether it was identical to the wooden structure that was proven to be in disrepair and then demolished in 1823. From this year the services took place in the rectory .
In 1830, Carl von Fabeck - landowner in Jablonken and Theerwisch and church patron of both villages - came up with the plan to unite both parishes into one parish and - after the church in Jablonken was also dilapidated and demolished in 1825 - to build a new church in Theerwisch , which was then to become a branch church of the parish in Groß Schöndamerau . But this plan failed.
It was not until the years 1884 to 1934 that a new church was built in Theerwisch. A plastered fieldstone building with stepped gables was erected in a very modest construction in neo-Romanesque style. The church has a single nave and no architectural details, with a low apse on the east wall.
In 1927 a free-standing massive bell tower was built next to the church.
In the years after 1945 the building fell into disrepair, as it was no longer used by the evangelical congregation, which had almost been wiped out by flight and displacement. In 1981 the Roman Catholic Church bought the building, changed it according to the liturgical custom and from 1982 onwards used it as the central church of the parish of Targowo. In 2000 the church was entered in the monument register.
Parish
A parish already existed in Theerwisch in the pre-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , it became Protestant.
Evangelical
Church history
The Theerwisch church was initially involved in the Saalfeld inspection ( Zalewo in Polish ) and was under the patronage of the local landowner, who also ruled on the pastor. They lived in Theerwisch until 1817. After that, the community was supplied from Mensguth (Polish Dźwierzuty ), from 1833 to 1850 then from Rheinswein (Polish Rańsk ). Mensguth was then again responsible until 1897, until his own clergy came to Theerwisch again to look after the parishes of Theerwisch and Jablonken / Wildenau with parish offices in Theerwisch, which were united from 1900. Both parishes were incorporated into the parish of Ortelsburg (Szczytno) in the superintendent district of Passenheim (Pasym) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 the united parish had 1510 parishioners. With the flight and expulsion of the local population , the life of the Protestant church in the place then called Targowo died out. Evangelical parishioners living here again orientate themselves towards the Dźwierzuty Church and the Rańsk Church within the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
The former rectory now houses a shop and a private apartment. The former Protestant cemetery , where German soldiers and German civilians were buried, is located in a small forest opposite the local fire brigade .
Parish locations (until 1945)
The Theerwisch care district of the united parishes of Theerwisch and Jablonken / Wildenau included the parish of Theerwisch and six places:
| German name | Changed name (1938 to 1945) |
Polish name | German name | Changed name (1938 to 1945) |
Polish name | |
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| Louisenthal | Zazdrość | Ruttkowen | Ruttkau | Rutkowo | ||
| Olschowken | Kornau (East Pr.) | Olszewki | Theerwischwolka | Waldrode | Targowska Wólka | |
| Sample mountain | Stankowo | Theerwischwolla | Theerwischwalde | Targowska Wola |
Pastor (until 1945)
At the church in Theerwisch - with responsibility from 1900 also for Jablonken / Wildenau - the pastors officiated:
- Sigismund Dimerski (around 1600)
- Johann Essedanus
- N. Dziemoi (until 1673)
- Johann Phädowius (1675-1720)
- Michael Sinagowitz (1720–1734)
- Andreas Prziwara (1735-1740)
- Johann Gregorowius (1740–1760)
- Samuel Gutzeit (1760–1769)
- Simon Benedict Kiehl (1770–1774)
- Daniel Labusch (1775–1790)
- Michael Spekowius (1791–1799)
- Johann Smolan (1800-1803)
- Johann Samuel Gisevius (1804-1810)
- Albert Leopold Pianka (1813-1817)
- Georg Paul Brehm (1897–1909)
- Otto Kowalczick (1909)
- Adolf Gerß (1909-1919)
- Ernst Zander (1920–1928)
- Walter von Lingen (1929–1934)
- Paul Buczilowski (1936-1945)
Church records
The church registers of the Theerwisch church have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptized 1841 to 1873
Roman Catholic
Until 1945, the Catholic residents of the Theerwisch region were incorporated into the parish in Mensguth . She belonged to the deanery Masuria I (seat in Angerburg ) within the diocese of Warmia .
The Catholic Church put an end to the structural deterioration of the Evangelical Church in Targowo when it bought the building in 1981. and restored. With a decree of April 15, 1982 by the Warmian Bishop Jan Obłąk, Targowo became the seat of a parish with the Church of St. John the Baptist as the parish church. The parish of Targowo is part of the Pasym deanery in the Archdiocese of Warmia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Agathon Harnoch , Chronicle and Statistics of the Protestant Churches in the Provinces of East and West Prussia , Neidenburg, 1890, printed about Theerwisch by Theerwisch at GenWiki
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, pp. 131–132
- ^ Theerwisch at the Ortelsburg district community
- ↑ a b c Parish Targowo
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 141–142
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 497
- ↑ Christa Stache, corrections and additions to the directory of church records in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I, Berlin 2001, p. 11
- ^ Catholic parish Mensguth at GenWiki