Church of Our Lady Queen of Poland (Pisanica)

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Church of the Mother of God, Queen of Poland in Pisanica
(Kościół Matki Bożej Królowej Polski w Pisanicy)
Church Pissanitzen / Church Ebenfelde
The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Pisanica

The once Protestant, now Catholic parish church in Pisanica
Construction year: 1913-1914
Inauguration: January 29, 1914
Builder : Arthur Kickton
Style elements : Brick , neo-Gothic
Client: Evangelical Church Community Pissanitzen
( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 53 ° 49 '27.1 "  N , 22 ° 34' 50.4"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 49 '27.1 "  N , 22 ° 34' 50.4"  E
Location: Pisanica
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: Pisanica 11,
19-314 Pisanica
Diocese : Ełk

The church in Pisanica is a building from the beginning of the 20th century and until 1945 was the central church for the East Prussian evangelical parish of Pissanitzen (1926–1945 Ebenfelde). Today it is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish of Pisanica in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

location

The Masurian village Pisanica is 14 km east of the district town Ełk ( German  Lyck ) in the southeast of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship and can be reached from the state road 16 via Sędki (Sentken) or Wysokie (Wyssocken , 1938–1945 Waltershöhe) . The location of the church is in the northeast area of ​​the village not far from the road to Borzymy (Borszymmen , 1936–1938 Borschymmen , 1938–1945 Borschimmen) .

Church building

The first church was built in Pissanitzen in 1565. It was built in wood . During the Tatar invasion in 1656, the church was completely destroyed. A new church, probably made of wood again, was built, which later fell victim to a fire.

According to the plans of the Berlin builder Arthur Kickton , a stone church was built in 1913/14 , which was consecrated on January 29, 1914, eight months before the outbreak of war. It was destroyed by Russian troops in the first year of the war.

At the beginning of the 1920s, the church was restored in the original way in the state it is still in today: as an exposed brick building with a built-in tower .

The interior is divided into three naves and has flat covered sides. There is a barrel vault above the central nave . The altar area has a massive cross vault . The pulpit altar was made in Gothicizing forms. The painting of the church was done by Ernst Fey from Berlin.

After 1945 the church was transferred to the Catholic Church, which adapted it to the changed liturgical use. At first it was a branch church of the parish Wiśniowo Ełckie (Wischniewen , 1938–1945 Kölmersdorf) ; since 1971 it has been the parish church of the newly established parish of Pisanica.

Evangelical parish

Church history

In 1565 Pissanitzen became a Protestant church village and received its parish church in the same year. The village initially belonged to the Lyck inspection department and was later incorporated into the changed church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The first pastor of the church was Hieronymus Maletius (1525–1583), who had been in office here since 1552 , and who made a name for himself not only as a theologian , but also as a printer, translator and interpreter.

In 1925 the parish of Pissanitzen had 3,300 parishioners who lived in a widely scattered area. The state authorities were responsible for church patronage .

Flight and expulsion of the local population brought the life of the parish of Pissanitzen and Ebenfelde to a standstill. Today only a few Protestant church members live here. You stick to the Protestant parish in the district town of Ełk ( German  Lyck ), a branch parish of the parish in Pisz (Johannisburg) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish places

Until 1945 belonged to the parish of Pissanitzen (Ebenfelde):

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name		 Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name
Czybulken Cybulki Loyalty Loien Łoje
Czynczen Zinschen Czyńcze Makoscheyen Ehrenwalde Makosieje
Gollubia B Gollen Golubie Piss pits (from 1926)
Ebenfelde		 Pisanica
Gollupken Lübeckfelde Golubka Ropehlen Kleinentken Ropele
Big Lasken Laski Wielkie Boil Mazurowo
Karolinenthal Wólka Golubska Legs Stacze
Kulessen Kulesze Sypittken Four bridges Sypitki
Kutzen , village with
Kutzen , good		 Kucze
with Kuczki 		Wyssocken Waltershöhe Wysokia

Pastor

At the church in Pissanitzen (Ebenfelde) officiated as Protestant clergy:

  • Hieronymus Maletius , 1552–1567
  • Georg von Helm, 1567–1588
  • Matthias Burecko, 1588–1601
  • Johann Boretius, from 1602
  • Paul Trentowius, 1608-1637
  • Matthias Trentowius the Elder Ä., 1637-1673
  • Matthias Trentowius the Elder J., 1671-1702
  • Fabian Wedecke, 1702–1732
  • Bernhard B. Olschewius, 1733–1738
  • Michael Pisanski, 1738-1742
  • Johann Christoph Funck, 1742–1748
  • Samuel Ocronglowius, 1748–1758
  • Andreas Trojan, 1758-1800
  • Johann Thomas Skrodzki, 1800–1812
  • Friedrich Hieronymus Maletius, 1812–1832
  • Friedrich Ed. Hieronymus Maletius,
    1832–1874
  • Ferdinand Prophet, 1870–1878
  • Theodor Heinrich Schulz, 1878–1899
  • Dietrich G. Hassenstein, 1900-1915
  • Otto Emil Rauch, 1916–1919
  • Theodor Heinrich H. Kaminski, 1920–1924
  • Richard Czygan, 1926-1933
  • Hermann Gesk, 1933–1939
  • Werner Rousselle, 1939–1942
  • Horst Adomat, 1942–1945

Church records

The parish registers of the Pissanitzen parish (Ebenfelde) have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :

  • Baptisms: 1832-1874
  • Weddings: 1832 to 1874
  • Burials: 1832-1865.

Catholic parish

Church history

Before 1945 only very few Catholics lived in Pissanitzen (in 1895 there were 6, compared to 496 members of the Evangelical Church) or Ebenfelde. With the resettlement of Polish citizens after 1945, many Catholic church members came to Pisanica, who soon also regarded the previously Protestant church as their place of worship. A parish emerged here, which was initially a branch parish of the parish in Wiśniowo Ełckie (Wischniewen , 1938–1945 Kölmersdorf) in the Diocese of Warmia . On May 15, 1971, a separate Roman Catholic parish was established in Pisanica and the church was dedicated to the Mother of God, Queen of Poland . Today she is part of the Deanery Miłosierdzia Bożego in Ełk in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Parish places

The parish ( Polish Parafia ) Pisanica includes eight villages:

Surname German name Surname German name
Czyńcze Czynczen
1938-1945 Zinschen 		Pisanica Pissanitzen
1926–1945 Ebenfelde
Kucze with Kuczki Kutzen , village with good Romanowo Romanowen
1938–1945 Heldenfelde
Łoje Loyen
1938–1945 Loien 		Stacze Legs
Makosieje Makoscheyen
1938–1945 Ehrenwalde 		Wysokia Wyssocken
1938–1945 Waltershöhe

Remarks

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h school location
  2. ↑ Prophet (1837–1878) was a member of the Corps Masovia .

Web links

Commons : Church of Pisanica  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pisanica - Pissanitzen / Ebenfelde at ostpreussen.net
  2. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, pp. 123–124, fig. 571.
  3. ↑ Picture of the war-torn church in Pissanitzen (German Historical Museum)
  4. ↑ a b c Pisanica - Parafia pw.Matki Bożej Królowej Polski in the diocese of Ełk
  5. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 494.
  6. ^ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 111.