Church of Our Lady of the Dawn Gate (Tołkiny)
| Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Tołkiny (Kościół Matki Bożej Ostrobramskiej w Tołkinach) Church of Tolksdorf (Rastenburg District) |
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 The former Protestant, now Catholic village church Tołkiny / Tolksdorf, Rastenburg district |
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| Construction year: | 14th century tower: around 1500 |
| Style elements : | Field stone / brick construction |
| Location: | 54 ° 6 '35.7 " N , 21 ° 13' 19.1" E |
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Tołkiny Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic (until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran ) branch church |
| Parish: | No. 4, 11-430 Garbno |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia |
The Church of Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn in Tołkiny ( German Tolksdorf ) is a building from the end of the 14th century. From 1525 to 1945 she was a Protestant church for the parish Tolksdorf in East Prussia parish Schönfließ- Tolksdorf ( Polish Kraskovo-Tołkiny ). Today it is a Catholic branch church of the Parish Garbno (Lamgarben) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Tołkiny is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , ten kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ). Your side road runs through the village, which connects Gudziki (Godocken) and Voivodship Road 592 with Worpławki (Worplack) on Voivodship Road 590 . Tołkiny is also a station on the Białystok – Ełk – Korsze line .
The location of the church is in the northwest of the village.
Church building
The Tołkiny Church is a rectangular building made of field stones and bricks, built on a hill like a defensive structure . It was built at the end of the 14th century. In the north, the sacristy was added around 1400 . The submitted west tower was completed around 1500. Its upper floors with the arched brick panels replaced the former wooden structure in the 19th century.
A flat wooden ceiling spans the interior. Remnants of old painting were preserved on the walls. The altar from 1604 and 1607 was restored by Michel Großmann in 1675 , as indicated by a label. Some of his wood carvings date from the pre-Reformation period - such as the representation of the Trinity . The pictures on the movable wings of the shrine in the Gothic form are by Valentinus Helendorf and Gregorius . The pulpit is a simple work from the 17th century - as are parts of the stalls. Two Last Supper angels are noteworthy, the date of which is supposed to be around 1750. In the porch of the church there is a granite font from the 15th century.
On one wall of the interior there is a memorial plaque for Heinrich Graf zu Dohna-Schlobitten (sometimes also: Graf zu Dohna-Tolksdorf ), who participated in the resistance against National Socialism and was executed on September 14, 1944. The plaque comes from his children and was inaugurated in July 1994 by Edmund Piszcz , Archbishop of Warmia, with great public sympathy .
The church bell consists of three bells.
The previously evangelical church was converted into a catholic church after 1945 and structurally adapted to the changed liturgical use. It now bears the name of the "Mother of God of the Gate of Dawn " and is a branch church of the Garbno parish (Lamgarben) .
Church / parish
There was already a church in Tolksdorf in the pre-Reformation period.
Evangelical
Church history
At the beginning of the 16th century, Lutheran teaching gained a foothold in Tolksdorf and the neighboring church in Schönfließ ( Kraskowo in Polish ). On June 11, 1528, both churches were assigned to the parish in Lamgarben (Garbno) . But already from 1603 Schönfließ and Tolksdorf had their own pastor. Both churches were then united under one parish in Schönfließ until 1945.
The total number of parish members was 1520 in 1925. 360 of them belonged to the parish of Tolksdorf. The patronage of the church was incumbent on the manor owner.
Until 1945, the Tolksdorf church belonged to the church district of Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn in Polish ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union under the joint parish of Schönfließ-Tolksdorf .
Flight and expulsion of the local population as a result of the war put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in the village, then called Tołkiny. Protestant church members living here today orientate themselves towards the Johanneskirche in Kętrzyn within the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish of Tolksdorf
The parish of the parish of Schönfließ-Tolksdorf belonged to the parish of Tolksdorf until 1945:
| Surname | Polish name |
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| Gross Altendorf | Starynia |
| * Junkerken | Jutrkowo |
| Little Altendorf | |
| Tolksdorf | Tołkiny |
Pastor
The list of pastors from Schönfließ and Tolksdorf see under Tołkiny .
Catholic
Before 1945 there were relatively few Catholic church members in Tolksdorf. On April 14, 1860, the village was incorporated by decree into the parish of Rößel ( Reszel in Polish ) in what was then the diocese of Warmia . After the formation of a parish in Korschen (Korsze) at the beginning of the 20th century, Tolksdorf came there.
After 1945, the number of Catholics in Tołkiny increased rapidly due to the resettlement of Polish citizens. The former Protestant church was taken over by them. Today it is a branch church of the Parish Garbno (Lamgarben) and belongs to the deanery Kętrzyn I (West) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .
References
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 81, Fig. 310
- ↑ a b c The Tołkiny Church - Tolksdorf at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 81
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Göttingen 1968, p. 136
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ^ Tolksdorf (Rastenburg district) at GenWiki
- ^ Parafia Garbno in the Archdiocese of Warmia