Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa (Drygały)
| Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Drygały (Kościół Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej w Drygałach) Church Drygallen / Drigelsdorf |
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 Festively decorated baroque altar of the church in Drygały (Drygallen / Drigelsdorf) |
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| Construction year: | 1732-1734 |
| Inauguration: | September 29, 1734 |
| Builder : | Joachim Ludwig Schultheiss von Unfriedt |
| Style elements : | Hall church |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Drygallen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 41 '2.5 " N , 22 ° 6' 24.2" E |
| Address: | ul.Sienkiewicza Drygały Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul.Sienkiewicza 14, 12-230 Drygały |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
| Website: | drygaly.pl |
The Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Drygały (Drygallen, 1938–1945 Drigelsdorf) is a building from the first half of the 18th century. It was a place of worship for the East Prussian parish of Drygallen until 1945 and is now the parish church of the Drygały parish in Poland's Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
location
Drygały is a village in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and is located on Voivodship Road 667 between the cities of Biała Piska ( German Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg ) and Ełk (Lyck) . The place is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line .
The location of the church is on a small hill in the southern town center, east of the main street called ulica Sienkiewicza.
Church building
A church was mentioned in Drygallen as early as 1438. During the Mongol storm of 1656 it went up in flames. The successor building from 1660 was dilapidated in 1729 that it had to be abandoned and demolished in 1830.
Between 1732 and 1734 a new building was erected on the Kirchenberg, which was inaugurated on September 29, 1734: The simply structured, plastered hall church with a massive, recessed church tower with a hood and a weather vane from 1732. The construction was carried out under the architectural influence of the East Prussian master builder Joachim Ludwig Mayor of Unfriedt . The altar and pulpit originated in the 17th and 18th centuries and were only later joined together to form a pulpit altar - then separated again after 1945. A brass baptismal font depicting the Fall of Man was made in the 17th century, while well-crafted and also made of brass stand- and chandeliers were from the mid-17th century.
In 1860 the church received an organ that was built by Schmerberg in Gumbinnen (now Gussew in Russian ). This year the church was preceded by extensive repairs.
The bells were cast by Westphalian metal and bell founders in Bochum .
After 1945, when the building was taken over by the Roman Catholic Church in Poland, several changes were made and the church was dedicated to Our Lady of Czestochowa .
Evangelical parish
As early as 1436 - i.e. in the pre-Reformation period - there was a church in Drygallen. The Reformation arrived here early, so that a Lutheran pastor was mentioned as early as 1538 , to whom a second clergyman was added after 1560 and until 1814. Until 1715 the parish was assigned to the Inspection Lyck (now in Polish Ełk ); until 1945 it belonged to the church district Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1725 the parish Drygallen had 4,400 parishioners, the majority of whom lived outside the parish .
Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant community. The few Protestant church members living here today now belong to the parish in Biała Piska (Bialla , 1938–1945 Gehlenburg) , a subsidiary of the Pisz parish (Johannisburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
The parishes of Drygallen and Drigelsdorf included more than 20 villages, localities and residential areas:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
|---|---|---|
| Annafelde | Iłki | |
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(Groß) Branding until 1907 Groß Pogorzellen |
Pogorzel Wielka | |
| Danielshof | ||
| Dombrowken | Old willows | Dąbrówka Drygalska |
| * Drygall | Drigelsdorf | Drygały |
| * Dupken | Lindensee | Lipowskie |
| Goullonshof | Skupie | |
| Jeglinna, forest house | Yeglina | |
| Jurgasdorf | Zaskwierki | |
| Klarashof | Klarewo | |
| Small pogor cells |
(from 1930) Brandau |
Pogorzel Mała |
| Kosovans | Wild peace | Kozłowo |
| Legenthof | Drogoslaw | |
| * Mysken | Misken | Myszki |
| New Drygallen | Neudrigelsdorf | Nowe Drygały |
| * Nittken | Nitki | |
| Pölken | ||
| * Quiets | Ruda | |
| * Sabielnen | Friends | Zabielne |
| * Salleschen | Offenau | Zalesie |
| * Whipped jug | Bemowo Piskie | |
| Whipping mill | Młynno | |
| * Sulimmen | Sulimy | |
| Valentines | Falęcin | |
| Valisko | ||
| Worgulls | Worgouls |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastors were Protestant clergy at the Church of Drygallen until 1945:
- Stanislaus Gorzicalla, 1538
- Stanislaus Labielski, until 1564
- Paul Drygalski, 1567–1596
- Martin Gadzalius, until 1593
- Martin Drygalski, 1594-1612
- Friedrich Ferrarius, from 1596
- Thomas Kerstein, 1638–1650
- Martin Sabielnus, 1638-1657
- Christian Orlowius, 1651–1677
- Georg Swinda, 1657-1658
- Albert Knopka, 1658-1668
- Michael Ambrosius, 1668-1707
- Christoph Oberhüber, 1677–1710
- Johann Oberhüber, 1707–1710
- Johann Corsepius, 1708-1710
- Michael Sartorius, 1710
- Paul Olschewius, 1710-1730
- Jacob Urbanus, 1711-1735
- Reinhold Orlowius, 1730–1769
- Paul Bernhard Trentovius, 1735-1740
- Johann Theodor Sartorius, 1741–1748
- Christoph Mäding, 1749–1755
- Michael Nikutowski, 1756–1774
- Michael Horn, 1769-1771
- Friedrich Albert Kiehl, 1771–1814
- Jacob Hambruch, 1774–1786
- Gottlieb Stern, 1787–1803
- Christian Sadowski, 1803-1809
- Johann Samuel Fischer, 1809–1814
- Johann Sebastian Schultz, 1814-1830
- Paul Nathanael Paulini, 1830-1845
- Karl Ferdinand Marcus, 1846–1867
- Gottlieb Treskatis, 1868–1871
- Julius Emil Alexander Gayk, 1872–1884
- Otto Carl Julius Meißner, 1885–1909
- Heinrich Conrad Skowronski, 1909–1913
- Alfred G. Petersdorff, 1913–1933
- Bruno Braczko, 1933–1945
Church records
Some of the parish registers of the parish Drygallen and Drigelsdorf have survived. The German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig keeps them:
- Baptisms 1781–1824 and 1844–1874.
Catholic Church
Before 1945 only a few Catholics lived in Drygallen or Drigelsdorf. They were parish in the Roman Catholic Church in Johannisburg in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg) in the diocese of Warmia .
After 1945, numerous new Polish citizens settled in Drygały, almost all of whom were Roman Catholic denominations. A congregation was formed here that claimed the previously evangelical house of God to be their church.
In 1962 Drygały was promoted to a parish , which - like the church - was dedicated to Our Lady of Czestochowa. It is incorporated into the deanery Biała Piska in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . In Pogorzel Wielka ((Groß) Brennen , until 1907 Groß Pogorzellen) a subsidiary community was established .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Drygały - Drygallen / Drigelsdorf at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Bd. 2 pictures of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 119, fig. 539.
- ↑ a b c d Drigelsdorf - The church and the last clergy in the parish. In: EJ Guttzeit: The district of Johannisburg. Würzburg 1964, pp. 246-247.
- ↑ a b Parafia Drygały in the Diocese of Ełk
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
- ↑ a b c Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 31.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Treskatis (1809–1872) was a member of the Corps Masovia .