Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa (Grabnik)
| Church of Our Lady of Częstochowa in Grabnik (Kościół pw Matki Bożej Częstochowskiej w Grabniku) Church Grabnick |
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 Grabnik Church - Grabnick |
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| Construction year: | 1565 and 1865 |
| Style elements : | Field stone church |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Grabnick ( Church Province East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 51 '48.8 " N , 22 ° 12' 39.2" E |
| Location: |
Grabnik Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | Grabnik No. 11 19-330 Grabnik |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The church in Grabnik ( German Grabnick ) is a building that dates back to the 16th century in its foundation walls and was restored in the middle of the 18th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the Grabnick parish in East Prussia . Today it is the parish church of the Grabnik parish in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Geographical location
Grabnik is located in the east of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , eleven kilometers northwest of the district town of Ełk ( German Lyck ). The province road 656 , which connects Ełk with the neighboring district town of Giżycko (Lötzen) , runs through the village .
The church is on the main road in the east of the village south of Grabnick Lake ( Jezioro Grabnik in Polish ).
Church building
There was a first church in Grabnick in 1565. It survived the devastating Tatar invasion in 1656/57 and had to be repaired several times in the following period due to its disrepair. In 1865 - exactly 300 years after the first construction - the church was extensively restored and erected on the old stone foundations and the old tower base as a rectangular field stone building. The wooden structure of the tower was added in 1890.
The interior of the church with its paneled ceiling was renovated in the following years. The altar and pulpit remained one whole. During the First World War , a crucifixion group from 1670, candlesticks from 1697 and 1701 and the organ from 1750 were preserved. The equipment was probably lost in the Second World War . But not the smaller of the two church bells : It had been delivered for war purposes during the first war and then in 1941, but was preserved and was rediscovered in the bell cemetery in Hamburg . It rings today on the Altenberg near Heidenrod-Egenroth in the Rheingau-Taunus district . Its year of casting is 1661, its mass is 265 kg, and its inscription reads: SI DEUS PRO NOBIS QUIS CONTRA NOS (Is God for us, who can be against us? - [Rom. 8:31])
Previously a Protestant house of worship, the church was transferred to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland in 1945 . With extensive renovation measures, u. a. In 1989/90, it got an interior design corresponding to the changed liturgical use and was consecrated to Our Lady of Częstochowa .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
Already in the pre-Reformation period there was a parish in Grabnick, and a separate pastor is also named for 1482. From 1565 to 1945 the parish office was continuously occupied by Lutheran clergy. The parish Grabnick belonged to the church district Lyck in the church province East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 there were 2090 parishioners; the church patronage was the responsibility of the state authorities.
Church life in the Protestant community in Grabnick and Grabnik came to a standstill in 1945 due to the flight and displacement of the local population . Only a few Protestant church members now live in the former Gnabnick parish district. You stick to the parish in Ełk , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( German Johannisburg ) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations
Between 1565 and 1945 the church Grabnick was parish locations:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| * Bees | Binie | Bienie | * Krolowolla |
(from 1926) Königswalde |
Królowa Wola | |
| * Czerwonken |
(from 1932) Rotbach |
Czerwonka | Lepacken, large ~ | Ramecksfelde | Lepaki Wielkie | |
| * Grave nod | Grabnik | Lepacken, small ~ | Kleinramecksfelde | Lepaki Małe | ||
| Gusken | Guzki | Malkiehnen | Malkienen | Małkinie | ||
| Karleven | Karlshöfen | Grabnik (Osada) | * Woszc cells from 1928 onwards |
New paint | Woszczele |
Pastors
At the church in Grabnick the pastors officiated as Protestant clergy:
- Matthias Richolowius, 1565–1567
- Johann Schultz, 1567–1589
- Thomas Miechowius, 1588–1604
- Jacob Eichler, 1604-1637
- Christoph Neffel, 1637–1657
- Jacob Mrongowius, 1657-1694
- Georg Adami de Koreczki, 1688–1704
- Andreas Wedeke, 1704–1743
- Michael Schemien, 1725-1733
- Paul Gregorovius, from 1743
- Matthias Marcus, 1769-1803
- Friedrich Thimotheus Krieger, 1812–1813
- Christian Sadowski, 1813-1824
- Johann Gottlieb Marcus
- Carl Friedrich Michael Otterski, from 1834
- Adolf Fr. Otto Skrzezka, 1865–1883
- Friedrich Heinrich Eduard Bylda, 1886–1908
- Ernst Eduard Jacobi, 1909–1926
- Hermann Rahnenführer, 1930–1945
Church records
The church records of the Grabnick parish have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1832-1874
- Weddings: 1832 to 1874
- Burials: 1832 to 1874.
Roman Catholic
Church history
As a result of the war, numerous Polish citizens settled in Grabnik after 1945. They used the previously evangelical church as their worship center and took it over as their parish church for the independent parish from 1963 ( Polish parafia ). She is assigned to the deanery Ełk - Święty Rodziny in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The branch church in Woszczele is assigned to the parish .
Until 1945 the then few Catholic parishioners were incorporated into the parish of St. Adalbert in Lyck in the Diocese of Warmia .
Parish places
to parish Grabnik includes the villages:
| Surname | German name |
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| Czerwonka |
Czerwonken 1932–1945 Rotbach |
| Grabnik | Grave nod |
| Grabnik (Osada) |
Karlewen 1938–1945 Karlshöfen |
| Królowa Wola |
Krolowolla 1926–1945 Königswalde |
| Małkinie |
Malkiehnen 1938–1945 Malkienen |
| Rogale | Rogallen |
| Woszczele |
Woszczellen 1928–1938 Woszellen 1938–1945 Neumalken |
Parish registers
The parish registers of the Parafia Grabnik for the years 1945 to 1962 are stored in the Parafia Stare Juchy (Alt Jucha) , from 1963 directly in Grabnik.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Church of Grabnik - Grabnick
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 124.
- ^ Luther Bible - revised 2017
- ↑ a b c Parafia Grabnik, Diocese of Ełk
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, pp. 44–45.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Skrzezka (1810–1886) was a member of the Corps Masovia .