Church of the Mother of God of Everlasting Help (Winda)
| Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Winda (Kościół Matki Boskiej Nieustającej Pomocy, Winda) Church of Wenden (East Prussia) |
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 The church in Winda / Wenden |
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| Construction year: | 15th century |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 9 '40 " N , 21 ° 23' 38.6" E |
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Winda Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | 11-410 Winda |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Kętrzyn II (Northeast) |
The Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Winda ( German Wenden ) is a building from the first half of the 15th century. Until 1945 it was the church of the East Prussian Protestant parish of Wenden and is now a Roman Catholic parish church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Winda is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , nine kilometers north of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ). The Voivodship Road 591 (former German Reichsstraße 141 ) runs through the village . The nearest train station is Kętrzyn on the Korsze – Ełk – Białystok .
The location of the church is in the northern town center on the west side of the Voivodship Street.
Church building
The church in Winda is a brick building on a field stone foundation . It was built in the first half of the 15th century as a replacement for a previously wooden church. The building is equipped with beautiful gables . The free stepped gable on the east side with the ascending and descending pseudo arcature is made of red brick, to which the white plastered niches are in vivid contrast. It was not until 1834 that the massive tower was moved to the west to replace a wooden tower that was destroyed by a hurricane on January 17, 1818 . The tower still has a recessed octagonal upper floor with a pointed brimmed hat .
Around 1800 the barrel vault was moved into the interior . Underneath there were noticeably deep side galleries . The little decorated pulpit altar was strictly architecturally structured. It was created around 1740 using the altar from 1726. A figurative crowning was attached to the top, which was each flanked by a figure. The interior decoration as a whole was from the beginning of the 18th century, including a brass baptismal bowl and a floating baptismal angel by an unknown artist. In the church there was also an epitaph of an unspecified Carl Friedrich Naze († 1746).
The church received an organ in 1766/68. Her master was Johann Christoph Unger (around 1740–1766). In 1883 the organ was expanded.
The church peal consisted of three bells cast in 1821, 1835 and 1878.
After 1945, the church , which had been evangelical since the Reformation, was rededicated in a Catholic church in the Winda parish , which was built here in 1946. The building has been thoroughly restored and the interior has been changed many times and thus adapted to the new liturgical customs. She was dedicated to the Mother of God of Perpetual Help .
Church / parish
The founding of the church in the then Wenden fell in the pre-Reformation period and is said to have taken place at the end of the 14th century. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , it became a Protestant denomination.
Evangelical
Church history
Until 1945, the parish of Wenden was incorporated into the church district of Rastenburg ( Polish: Kętrzyn ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 there were 1930 parishioners who lived in a parish comprising more than 20 villages, towns and places of residence. The patronage of the church was the responsibility of the manor owners of Elisenthal ( Niedziały in Polish ) and Wenden ( Winda ).
Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in the place then called "Winda" from 1945 to 1950. Protestant church members living here today now belong to the parish in Barciany ( German Barten ), a branch parish of the parish in Kętrzyn in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
Until 1945 the parish of Wenden was next to the parish:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Albertinhausen | Staniszewo | Petermanns | Pieszewo | |
| Elisenthal | Niedziały | Platlack | Płatławki | |
| Ernsthof | Słupek | Rawlack | Rowy | |
| Five-stroke | Niedziałki | Riplauken | Rypławki | |
| Great Kemlack | Kiemławki Wielkie | Rodehlen | Toboggan | |
| Big shade | Szaty Wielkie | Stettenbruch | Szczeciniak | |
| Small bluestone | Sińczyk-Leśniczówka | Wehlack | Skis | |
| * Klein Kemlack | Kiemławki Małe | Turning (forest) | Niedziały | |
| Maraunen | Moruny | Wendenau | ||
| Marrow lacquer | Markławka | Weypoth | Wypęk |
Pastor
The pastors held office at the church in Wenden until 1945:
- NN., 1557
- Michael Pauli, 1567/1579
- Andreas Graß, 1619
- Michael Bernhardi the Elder, 1624-1659
- Michael Bernhardi the Younger, 1659–1698
- Christian Bernhardi, 1694-1705
- Johann Schwartz, 1711/1715
- Johann Heinrich Saft, 1714–1722
- Carl Friedrich Natius, 1722–1748
- Carl Christian Suchland, 1748–1773
- Christian Fr. Suchland, 1773-1822
- Theodor Leopold Henne, 1808–1811
- August Heinrich Hildebrandt, 1811–1814
- Christoph Wilhelm Kuhnke, 1816–1839
- Friedrich Samuel Richter, 1839–1881
- Joh. Gottlieb Mallettke, 1881–1923
- Kurt Raeder, 1923–1929
- Herbert Degenhardt, 1929–1945
Church records
From the church register documents of the parish Wenden have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms: 1659-1944
- Weddings: 1681 to 1752 and 1765 to 1944
- Burials: 1766-1944
- Confirmations: 1917 to 1944
- Communicants: 1719 to 1731, 1765 to 1775, and 1833 to 1865.
Catholic
The few Catholics in the Wenden area before 1945 were parish in the church in Rastenburg in what was then the diocese of Warmia . The settlement of new Polish citizens in Winda after 1945 increased their number considerably, so that a Catholic community soon emerged here and a parish was established in 1946 . It is part of the Deanery Kętrzyn II (Northeast) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia . The parish has a branch church in Podławki (Podlacken) .
References
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of the East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 84, Fig. 305
- ↑ Werner Renkewitz et al., History of Organ Building Art in East and West Prussia from 1333 to 1944 , Volume 2.2, Cologne, 2015, p. 91
- ↑ a b Parish Winda in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 474
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 148
- ↑ Christa Stache, Directory of the Church Books in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin , Part I The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union , Berlin, 1992³, pp. 115–116