Lodge building Three gates of the temple

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The lodge building Three Gates of the Temple was built in Rastenburg in East Prussia in 1860 . Today it is the seat of the Arno-Holz-Gesellschaft for Polish-German understanding .

history

Three gates of the temple was a German Masonic lodge . It was founded in Rastenburg in 1818 and was part of the Great National Mother Lodge “To the Three Worlds” . The lodge was the beginning of the Third Reich to 1935 dissolved . The box building in Rastenburg has been preserved to this day.

Lodge building

The second master of the lodge , Anton Brillowska, began collecting money to build a lodge building. Construction began in 1860.

The building is decorated with four octagonal towers at the corners. The neo-Gothic architecture of the building, which was built by the architect Martin Modricker, is inspired by the English late Gothic . On the ground floor there was a terrace and five rooms, the representative rooms with the banquet hall were on the upper floor. Activities ceased during the First World War , only to be revived in 1918.

After the National Socialists seized power , the lodge, like all Masonic lodges in Germany, was dissolved and its assets were taken over by the city. After the Second World War, the lodge building was used as the district's culture house . During this time the building fell into disrepair until its renovation in 1999.

Today the building is the headquarters of the Arno-Holz-Gesellschaft for Polish-German understanding . The upper floor is used for various exhibitions, while a library and a restaurant are set up on the ground floor.

literature

• Directory of members of the Constitution of the Great National Mother Lodge of the Preuss. States, named for the three globes, working St. John's Freemason Lodge Three Gates of the Temple and the associated delegated Old Scottish Lodge Aurora in the Oriente at Rastenburg. For the mason year 1870 to 1871 . Br. Oskar Schlemm, Rastenburg 1870, p. 8 .

Web links

Commons : Lodge building Three Gates of the Temple  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kętrzyn: neogotycka loża masońska. In: Katolicka Agencja Informacyjna. Retrieved June 8, 2014 (Polish). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Arno-Holz-Gesellschaft for Polish-German Understanding. Retrieved June 8, 2014 . 

Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 34.7 "  N , 21 ° 22 ′ 26.8"  E