Church of the Assumption of Our Lady (Asuny)
| Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary in Asuny (Cerkiew Zaśnięcia Najświętszej Maryi Panny w Asunach) Church of Assaunen |
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 The church in Asuny (Assaunen) |
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| Construction year: | 14th century or 1914 |
| Style elements : | Brick gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 19 '11.8 " N , 21 ° 23' 21.5" E |
| Location: |
Asuny Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Ukrainian Greek-Catholic , until 1958 Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | No. 11, 11-410 Asuny |
| Diocese : | Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw , Deanery Węgorzewski |
The Dormition Church in Asuny ( Assaunen in German ) was founded in the 14th century. Until 1945 it was the worship center of the Protestant parish Assaunen in East Prussia , after which it has been a Ukrainian Greek Catholic church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship since 1958 - after a transition period in Roman Catholic use .
Geographical location
Asuny is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, not far from the Polish-Russian state border, on a side road that branches off from Voivodship Road 591 (former German Reichsstrasse 141 ) at Aptynty (Aftinten ) in an easterly direction. There is no train connection.
The location of the church is in the southern village between the Omet river and the arterial road to Święty Kamień (Heiligenstein) .
Church building
A church in Assaunen was first mentioned in documents in 1406. It was a building made of field stones and bricks from the end of the 14th century. There was no choir , no tower either, but a belfry that stood apart . Towards the end of the 15th century the church was extended to the west and at the same time received a southern porch with a three-part stepped gable and the 16-part star vault in the sacristy on the north side.
In the 19th century the church received a free-standing bell tower made of stone and wood. The small church was rebuilt in 1905 according to plans by the architect Fritz Heitmann .
During the First World War , the church was destroyed by fire when Russian troops attacked East Prussia in 1914. Immediately new building plans were drawn up that included the eastern part, which dates back to the 14th century, and were implemented as quickly as possible.
A flat wooden ceiling spanned the interior of the church . The centerpiece of the altarpiece on a wooden table showed the Descent from the Cross - the work of a master from the Netherlands . Only items from the beginning of the 17th century were preserved from the old furnishings.
In 1945 the church was given up as a Protestant church. The Roman Catholic Church took it over as a branch church of the Parish Drengfurth ( Srokowo in Polish ). In 1958 it was given to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church , which has been using it as a parish church since 1978 . The interior decoration was changed according to the other liturgical customs, e.g. a. the church got an iconostasis and paintings. When it was consecrated , the church was given the name “ Church of the Assumption of Mary ”, which is not unusual in Orthodox churches .
Parish
The church in Assaunen was founded in the pre-Reformation period. At that time she was subordinate to the archdeaconate Schippenbeil (now in Polish Sępopol ). With the Reformation it was taken over by the Protestant Church.
Evangelical
Church history
Lutheran clergymen are known by name for the Assaunen church from 1571. At that time it belonged to the Wehlau Inspection (today in Russian Znamensk ). Until 1945 it was then incorporated into the church district Gerdauen (Russian Schelesnodoroschny ) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
In 1925 the Assaunen parish had 2,450 parishioners who lived in a large parish , the area of which is now divided by the Polish-Russian border . The church patronage was incumbent on the landowners of the parish villages Heiligenstein (2/3) and Henriettenfeld (1/3), since 1791 the von Klinckowström family . The Assaunen parish was given a prayer room in Popowken (today Kotschkino in Russian ).
Flight and expulsion of the local population in the years 1944 to 1950 put an end to the Protestant parish in the place then called "Asuny". Protestant church members living here today belong to the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) with its subsidiary communities in Barciany (Barten) and in Brzeźnica (Birkenfeld) in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
Before 1945, the Assaunen church had a large parish with over twenty villages, localities and residential areas:
| German name | Current name / state | German name | Current name / state | |
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| Agonken 1938–1946: Altsiedel |
Kochubejewo / RUS | Linden tree | Mikhailovka / RUS | |
| * Assaunen | Asuny / PL | * Löcknick | Łęknica / PL | |
| Bawien, Forsthaus 1938–1946: Bauden |
Nikitino / RUS | Louisenwerth | - / RUS | |
| Charlottenburg | Smolnoye / RUS | Mint meadow | Mintowo / PL | |
| Damerau | Degtjarjowo / RUS | Plienkeim | Plinkajmy / PL | |
| Ernsthof | Zalesie / PL | * Popowken 1938–1946: Neusobrost |
Kochkino / RUS | |
| Heiligenstein | Święty Kamień | Prock | - / RUS | |
| Henriettenfeld | Sławosze / PL | Rehfließ | - / RUS | |
| Liming | - / PL | * Schiffus | Siwoszewo / PL | |
| Karlsfelde | Popielisko / PL | Sobrost until 1928: Groß Sobrost |
Saretschenskoje / RUS | |
| * Little Sobrost | Obilnoye / RUS | Waldeck | - / PL | |
| Klinthenen, Forst | Leskowo / RUS | Wall paints | Swerevo / RUS | |
| * Klonofken 1938–1946: Dreimühl |
Panfilowo / RUS | Wickerau | Cherkassovka / RUS |
Pastor
At the Assaunen church, the pastors officiated as evangelical clergy:
- Elias Seiffert, 1571–1577
- Michael Bernhardi, until 1622
- Reinhold Roberti, 1635-1636
- Theodor Fehrkopf, 1672–1676
- Friedrich Schubert, 1656–1672
- Michael Montanus, 1676-1710
- Christoph Gregorovius, 1710–1711
- Friedrich Danovius, 1711–1731
- Joh. Gottfr. Tilgner, 1731-1749
- Christian Fr. Stoglovius, 1749-1760
- Samuel Heling, 1760–1785
- David Friese, 1785-1806
- Johann Gottlieb Born, 1806–1808
- Johann Friedrich Berck, 1808–1810
- Karl Friedrich Meißner, 1810-1824
- Johann Ferdinand Hoewig. 1829-1851
- Heinrich Albert Fümfstück, 1851–1881
- Friedrich Franz Waubke, 1881–1884
- Sev. Emil Gottl. Gemmel, 1884-1897
- Friedrich Müller, 1898–1904
- Hans Grämer, 1904–1909
- Johannes Gemmel, 1909–1923
- Alfred Reinhard, 1924–1927
- Franz Hecht, 1927–1933
- Emil Stascheit, 1936–1945
Church records
From the church register documents of the parish Assaunen have been preserved and are kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1662 to 1700 and 1703 to 1874
- Weddings: 1658 to 1782, 1782 to 1803 and 1823 to 1874
- Burials: 1658 to 1710 and 1733 to 1874.
Roman Catholic
Few Catholics lived in the Assaunen region until 1945. They belonged to the parish of Insterburg ( Russian: Chernyachovsk ) in the deanery Tilsit (Russian: Sowetsk ) in what was then the Diocese of Warmia . After 1945, many new Polish citizens settled in Asuny, who used the previously evangelical church as their church and who received parish care from Drengfurth ( Srokowo in Polish ). Among the new settlers in Asuny were also very many citizens from the Ukraine , whose number even exceeded that of the Poles. As a result, the house of God was handed over to the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church in 1958 . The members of the Roman Catholic Church have since oriented towards the parish in Mołtajny (Molthainen , 1938 to 1945 Molteinen) in the Deanery Kętrzyn II (Rastenburg Nordost) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .
Ukrainian-Greek-Catholic
The large number of Ukrainian settlers made it possible from 1958 to use the church in Asuny as a separate place of worship for the Greek Catholic Church, which is committed to the Byzantine-Ukrainian rite . In 1978, Asunys was classified as a parish with an associated parish church . It is part of the Deanery Węgorzewski (Angerburg) of the Przemyśl-Warsaw Archepark.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 36
- ↑ a b c d Asuny - Assaunen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 18
- ↑ a b c d e Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 457
- ↑ a b The parish of Assaunen
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ The abbreviation PL stands for Poland, RUS for Russia
- ^ Assaunen at GenWiki
- ^ Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw of the UGKK (Ukrainian / Polish / English)