Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Górowo Iławeckie)

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The Church of the Exaltation of the Cross in Górowo Iławeckie ( Landsberg (East Prussia) ), Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship is a place of worship of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic community , whose ancestors were forcibly relocated from the southeastern voivodeships of Poland in the first post-war years as part of the Vistula action .

history

The Gothic brick church on field stone foundations was built between 1335 and 1367. It was first mentioned in documents in 1367. It was adopted by the Lutherans during the Reformation . It fell victim to a fire in 1655, was destroyed except for the circular walls and the surrounding walls of the two basement floors of the tower, but was rebuilt. The church, which had become dilapidated at the beginning of the 19th century, was rebuilt in 1866, received a tower superstructure, a gable on the east side, a sacristy and a vestibule. It was renovated again in 1911.

After the Second World War , the church was unused for several years. In the 1980s it was adopted by the local Ukrainians and adapted to the Greek Catholic rite. The church received an iconostasis wall with icons painted by Jerzy Nowosielski .

architecture

The church has a single nave with buttresses and a tower on the west wall, but without a choir . The walls are divided by narrow panels. The tower with the portal on the ground floor has a pointed tent roof. The vault of the tower hall was built in 1911. The church was covered with a gable roof made of tiles.

The church interior originally had a five-bay vault, when it was rebuilt after 1655 a flat wooden ceiling was built. The sacristy is covered with ribbed vaults.

The baroque furnishings included the high altar from the second half of the 17th century and the pulpit from Johann Pfeffer's workshop. Johann Josua Mosengel built an organ in 1701 , the richly decorated prospectus of which is attributed to the workshop of Johann Christoph Döbel . Behind the historical prospectus, a new organ was built in 1895 or 1913 (the information on this varies). This organ - which survived World War II - was gradually stripped of its pipes before the empty case was torn down in 1974.

The preserved altarpiece (after 1660) depicting the Lord's Supper is in the Warmia Museum in Heilsberg .

The church was registered on March 15, 1957 under 257 (G / 28) in the register of architectural monuments of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

  • East facade with gable

  • tower

  • South facade

  • Iconostasis

  • Iconostasis

literature

  • Georg Dehio : West and East Prussia. Handbook of Monuments of Art . German art publisher 1993.

Web links

Commons : Church of the Exaltation of the Cross (Górowo Iławeckie)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Renkewitz, Jan Janca, Hermann Fischer : History of the art of organ building in East and West Prussia. Volume II, 1: Mosengel, Caspari, Casparini . Pape Verlag, Berlin 2008, pp. 138–141.
  2. ↑ http://www.nid.pl/pl/Informacje_ogolne/Zabytki_w_Polsce/rejestr-zabytkow/zestawienia-zabytkow-nieruchomych/stan%20na%2030.09.13/WAR-rej.pdf

Coordinates: 54 ° 17 ′ 3 ″  N , 20 ° 29 ′ 32 ″  E