Church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist (Orłowo)
| Church of the Birth of St. John the Baptist in Orłowo (Cerkiew Narodzenia św. Jana Chrzciciela w Orłowie) Orlowen Church (Adlersdorf Church) |
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| Construction year: | 1855-1857 |
| Inauguration: | 1857 |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Orlowen ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 3 '13 " N , 22 ° 9' 37" E |
| Location: |
Orłowo Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Polish Orthodox , until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul.Pinonierska 8/17, 11-500 Giżycko |
| Diocese : | Białystok-Gdańsk Diocese of the Polish Orthodox Church |
The Church of the Birth of St. John the Baptist in Orłowo ( German Orlowen , 1938–1945 Adlersdorf ) is a building from the mid-19th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Orlowen (Adlersdorf); Today it is the worship center of the Polish Orthodox parish Orłowo in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Orłowo is located in the north-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship on the southwestern edge of the Borkener Forest (also: Borker Heide, Polish Puszczta Borecka ) and can be reached on a side road from Voivodship Road 655 near Pietrasze (Pietraschen , 1938–1945 Petersgrund) . There is no longer a train connection.
The church is located in the center of the village north of the road from Łękuk Mały (Klein Lenkuk) to Gajrowskie (Friedrichsheyde , 1938–1945 Friedrichsheide) and is only a few hundred meters from the Roman Catholic St. Casimir Church.
Church building
The small Masurian village became a parish in 1857. In the years 1855 to 1857 the church was built, which functioned as a Protestant church. A rectangular brick building with an apse and a high west tower was built in a Gothic style.
A year after the inauguration, the church received an organ . The ringing originally consisted of two bells .
Until 1945 the building was a Protestant house of worship, since 1965 the Polish Orthodox Church has used it as its parish church , for which it was structurally altered according to the other liturgical requirements.
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
In 1853 an evangelical parish was founded in Orlowen, the parish church of which was completed in 1857. Orlowen became a parish seat to which a large parish was assigned. The parish belonged to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union and in 1925 had a total of 3,300 parish members in almost 20 villages, localities and places of residence. Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to Protestant church life in the village now called Orłowo . The living here today few evangelical church members are now in the Protestant church in Wydminy (Widminnen) the parish, a filial community of the parish Giżycko in the diocese Mazury the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
Before 1945, the parish of Orlowen (from 1938 the parish of Adlersdorf) included 18 villages, localities and residential areas in addition to the parish, which belonged to four districts ( Angerburg , Oletzko / Treuburg , Lötzen and Lyck districts ):
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| Dobrowolla |
(from 1935) Willenheim |
Dobra Wola | Klein Lenkuk (good) | Łękuk Mały | ||
| * Friedrichsheyde | Friedrichsheide | Gajrowskie | Kowalewsken | Kowalewskie | ||
| Gaylowks | Gailau | Gajlówka | * Lipowen |
(from 1928) Lindenheim |
Lipowo | |
| * Grondzken | Spark | Grądzkie | Pietraschen | Petersgrund | Pietrasze | |
| * Grünheyde (village) | Grünheide (village) | Jelonek | Rhog | Klein Lenkuk (municipality) |
Róg Orłowski | |
| Grünheyde (forest) | Grünheide (forest) | Jelonek | Steinbach | Kamienna Struga | ||
| Haasznen | Bunny | Łażne, also: Zamoście |
* Sczyballen | Lorenzhall | Szczybały Orłowskie | |
| Hagenhorst (forest) | Jurkówko | Walisko | Forest lake | Wolisko | ||
| Jorkowen | Jorking | Jurkovo | Wessolowen | Kleinfronicken | Wesołowo |
Pastor (until 1945)
Between 1853 and 1945 the pastors officiated as Protestant clergy at the Orlowen and Adlersdorf churches:
- Carl August Ferdinand Kiehl, 1853–1866
- Friedrich Wilhelm Flöß, 1888–1913
- Johann Hermann Jungius, 1913–1923
- Wilhelm Denzer, 1925–1930
- Walter Ambrosy, 1931
- Siegfried FM Symanowski, 1932-1945
Polish Orthodox
In 1947 the Polish Orthodox Church (POK) gained a foothold in Orłowo due to resettlement, especially from Ukraine, and took over the former Protestant church as its place of worship. A parish was founded in 1965 , which Giżycko looks after today. It is part of the Białystok-Gdańsk diocese of the POK.
literature
- M. Meyhöfer: The district of Lötzen. Wuerzburg 1961.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 121.
- ↑ The Church in Pictures
- ↑ a b Parafia Orłowo
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 492.
- ↑ A * indicates a school location.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 105.
- ↑ August Kiehl (1813–1897) was a member of the Corps Masovia .