Klępsk
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| Basic data | |||
| State : | Poland | ||
| Voivodeship : | Lebus | ||
| Powiat : | Zielonogórski | ||
| Gmina : | Sulechów | ||
| Area : | 10.83 km² | ||
| Geographic location : | 52 ° 7 ' N , 15 ° 43' E | ||
| Residents : | 560 | ||
| Telephone code : | (+48) 68 | ||
| License plate : | FZI | ||
| Economy and Transport | |||
| Street : | Babimost - Sulechów | ||
| Next international airport : | Poznan Airport | ||
| Administration (as of 2006) | |||
| Mayor : | Magdalena Jaroszkiewicz Mikulska | ||
Klępsk [ ˈklɛmpsk ] ( German Klemzig ) is a village with about 600 inhabitants in Poland . It is located nine kilometers northeast of Sulechów (Züllichau) in the powiat Zielonogórski , Lebus Voivodeship and belongs to the Gmina Sulechów.
history
Klemzig became known beyond the surrounding area when after 1830 numerous families refused to join the United Evangelical Church in the Royal Prussian Lands . Instead they stayed with the old Augsburg Confession and called themselves explicitly "Lutherans". (The term “ Old Lutheran ” was later used as a foreign name .) In order to escape the pressure of state and church authorities, 200 Klemziger and another 600 residents of the neighboring villages migrated under the leadership of their pastor August Ludwig Kavel (1798–1860) in 1838 to South Australia. Not far from Adelaide they founded a settlement which they named their home village: Klemzig .
Until 1945 Klemzig was in the former district of Züllichau-Schwiebus in the province of Brandenburg (Neumark). In 1939 the village had 539 inhabitants. There was a transport connection to the rail network of the former Deutsche Reichsbahn via Langheinersdorf station. In Klemzig there was an agricultural Freigut with castle and winery owned by the family of Philips Born in the 1930s / 1940s primarily managed by Mr. Keyserlingk.
In the years 1945 to 1947 the German residents were forcibly expelled, initially by the advancing Red Army , and later by Poles, who were also forcibly relocated. The castle was completely destroyed as a result of the turmoil of war in 1945/1946, individual farm buildings, stables and remains of the castle park are preserved. The school and the village church have also been preserved in their old condition.
Attractions
The local St. Mary's Church was built in 1576 as a half-timbered building for the local evangelical population and is one of the most important wooden churches in Poland. The three-winged main altar comes from the Gothic period. The painting of the interior from 1610 to 1613, and especially the wooden barrel vault, with biblical motifs as well as the rest of the extremely rich Mannerist or Renaissance furnishings, consisting of pulpit, altars, galleries and epitaphs, remained almost unchanged. It is characterized by folk carvings and 117 small paintings, which are explained by various historical inscriptions. In 1657 the massive shingled front tower with a needle helmet was added, followed later by the Philipsborn Chapel with windows and wall paintings by the artist Wolf Röhricht (1886–1953), board member of the Free Secession in Berlin, from the early 1920s.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Article by Leonhard von Kalckreuth for the home district Meseritz , accessed on July 22, 2014.
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach , Joachim Mehlhausen : Neuluthertum . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Vol. 24. de Gruyter, Berlin 1994. pp. 327–341, here p. 327.
- ^ Anitta Maksymowicz: Emigration from the Brandenburg-Silesian-Posen Borderland to South Australia in the 19th Century . Muzeum Ziemi Lubuskiej, Zielona Góra 2010, p. 15.
- ^ Friedrich Wilhelm Kantzenbach, Joachim Mehlhausen: Neuluthertum . In: Theologische Realenzyklopädie, Vol. 24. de Gruyter, Berlin 1994. pp. 327–341, here p. 336.
- ↑ See dziedzictwo.ekai.pl ; down. on June 6, 2008
- ↑ cf. man.poznan.pl; down. on June 6, 2008 ( Memento of the original from October 1, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Source: Scheffler, Karl: Wall paintings and new pictures by Wolf Röhricht. In: Kunst und Künstler 22 (1924), p. 104 ff.
- ↑ See lwkz.zgora.pl ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ; down. on June 6, 2008.
