Kreuzkirche (Angerburg)
| Church of the Cross in Angerburg Cerkiew Świętego Krzyża w Węgorzewie |
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 The Holy Cross Church in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) in 2012 |
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| Construction year: | 1930-1933 |
| Inauguration: | October 2, 1933 |
| Style elements : | Brick church |
| Client: | Institution "Bethesda" of the Evangelical Church in Angerburg in the parish of Angerburg ( Church Province of East Prussia , Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 12 '56.2 " N , 21 ° 44' 33.7" E |
| Address: | ul. 11 Listopada 14 Węgorzewo Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical-Lutheran , since 1998 Greek-Catholic parish church |
| Diocese : | Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , Przemyśl-Warsaw Archeparchy |
| Website: | mojemazury.pl/6687,Wegorzewo-cerkiew-greckokatolicka.html/ |
The Bethesda-Kreuzkirche in Węgorzewo ( German Angerburg ) is a Greek Catholic church in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The Polish name is: Cerkiew Świętego Krzyża ( Holy Cross Church ).
Church building
history
Until 1945 the Protestant church was part of the “ Bethesda ” care facility . The cornerstone was laid on October 2, 1930, and the church was consecrated on October 2, 1933. After 1945 it served as a Polish military church. In the 1950s it was given to the Evangelical Church in Poland . She leased it from 1983 and sold it to the Greek Catholic community in Węgorzewo in 1998 . In 1999 the choir room was rebuilt for the new use. The Protestant church has the right to use the chapel as well.
architecture
The rectangular choir is now limited by an iconostasis . The bell tower is narrow and rectangular. The dark red brick and the pointed window arches are reminiscent of neo-Gothic, the simple shapes of the Bauhaus. The crucifix in the chancel and the church windows have been preserved from the inventory .
Parish
history
The parish of the Kreuzkirche in Angerburg was an institutional parish of the "Bethesda" care facility of the Protestant church. Since 1912 there was a separate pastoral care district here until a proper church community was established. Since 1998 the church has been a house of worship of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church .
Pastor (until 1945)
In the community of the institution officiated as pastors:
- Erich Braun, 1912–1944
- Georg Feix, 1924–1931
- Gerhard Ehlert, 1931–1945.
Web links
literature
- Erich Braun: The Bethesda Jubilee Cross Church in Angerburg East Prussia. Festschrift for the inauguration. Angerburg 1933.
- Andreas Kossert : Masuria: East Prussia's forgotten south . Siedler, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-88680-696-0 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2: Images of East Prussian churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 87, fig. 348, 349.
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 19145. Hamburg 1968, p. 17.