Church of the Birth of Mary (Żabin)
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Polish Kościół Narodzenia Najświętnej Maryi Panny ) is a Catholic parish church in Żabin in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . Until 1945 it was the Protestant parish church of Klein Szabienen (Klein Schabienen, Kleinlautersee) in the province of East Prussia .
history
The village of Szabienen received its first simple wooden church between 1565 and 1570 by order of Duke Albrecht of Prussia . It became the parish church for the entire southern part of what was then Darkehmen . In 1609 it was removed from the Insterburg inspection . German, Lithuanian and Polish were preached in the church. In 1657 the building was destroyed in a Tatar attack and rebuilt in 1672. A massive new building took place in 1741, and the tower was completed in 1746. In 1817 the longitudinal walls were reinforced again. In 1864/65 the interior was redesigned, among other things Doric wooden columns were inserted.
During the First World War the building was damaged by shell fire, during the Second World War the exterior was largely undamaged.
In 1945 the church was handed over to the Polish Roman Catholic Church. In 1968 it was named Church of the Most Holy Virgin Mary and in 1982 became the main church of a parafia.
Architecture and interior design
The church building is a three-aisled structure with a tower. In the central nave there is a wooden arched vault, in the side aisles there are flat ceilings. The altar from around 1680 has been preserved from the interior fittings before 1945, which was probably made in the vicinity of the workshop of the sculptor Johann Pfeffer .
Structures
present
The Parafie Żabin belongs to the Deanery Gołdap in the Diocese of Ełk .
Until 1945
The parish Klein Szabienen (1936–1938 Klein Schabienen, 1938–1945 Kleinlautersee) belonged to the Darkehmen parish (1938–1945 Angerapp) of the church province of East Prussia in the church of the Old Prussian Union .
Szabienen parish
The Szabienen parish included numerous places that are now partly in Polish and partly in Russian territory, some no longer exist. Places with a former school are marked with *.
- Adamischken (Antonowka, R.)
- Alt Ballupönen / Schanzenhöh (Stare Gajdzie, Pl.)
- Old Kermuschienen / Kermenau (Kiermuszyny Małe, Pl.)
- Alt Stumbrakehmen (Saretschje, R.)
- Angerapp / Kleinangerapp (Rapa, pl.)
- Antmeschken / Messken (Antomieszki, Pl,)
- Bream (Brjusowo, R.)
- Broszaitschen / Brosen * (Brożajcie, Pl.)
- Christiankehmen * (Maiskoje, R.)
- Eszerienen / Escherienen / Seehagen (pl.)
- Gotthardsthal (Swerewo, R.)
- Groß Medunischken / Großmedien * (Mieduniszki Wielkie, Pl.)
- Groß Szabienen / Groß Schabienen / Großlautersee (Pl.)
- Griesgirren / Grieswalde (Gryżewo, Pl.)
- Jaggeln / Kleinzedmar (Jagiele, Pl.)
- Iodine tin / Jodschinn / Sausreppen * (Tschistopolje, R.)
- Royal Szabienen / Alt Schabienen / Altlautersee (Stary Żabin, pl.)
- Klein Medunischken / Medunen (Mieduniszki Małe, Pl.)
- Klein Szabienen / Klein Schabienen / Kleinlautersee (Żabin, pl.)
- New Kermuschienen / Kermenau (Kiermuszyny Małe, Pl.)
- Paulsdorf (pl)
- Radkehmen / Wittrade (Radkiejmy, pl.)
- Skallischen / Altheide (Skalisze, pl.)
- Sodarren / Soden (pl.)
- Stobrigkehlen / Stillheide * (Ściborki, Pl.)
- Uszblenken / Uschblenken / Blinkersee (Pl.)
- Frames (Szarek, pl.)
Pastor
The following pastors from Klein Szabienen are known. Until the 17th century most of them also preached in Lithuanian, some of them also in Polish.
- Leonhard Wirczinski
- Andreas Wirczinski, 1590
- Stanislaus Wirczinski, 1595/1612
- Johann von Stein, 1615
- Heinrich Buchholtzer, until 1655
- George von Stein, 1655–1697
- Fabian Sempf, 1677-1688
- Fabian Schachtmeyer, 1697–1709
- Wilhelm Dullo, 1709-1710
- Martin Radtke, 1711-1730
- Heinrich Ernst Rabe, 1731–1734
- Friedrich Ryßka, 1834–1745
- Georg Friedrich Gazali, 1745–1771
- Carl Wilhelm Glogau, 1771–1783
- Friedrich August von Essen, 1785–1794
- Johann Jacob Steinkampf, 1794–1807
- Christian Unverdorben, 1808–1812
- Adolf Fürchtegott Kah, 1817–1825
- Johann Ernst Haack, 1825–1849
- Wilhelm Stengel, 1849–1890
- Karl Ferdinand F. Fretschien, 1894–1907
- Adolf Gotthard von Popwski, 1907–1924
- Ewald Quittschau, 1924–1929
- Werner Mingo, 1928–1930
- Helmut Walsdorf, 1931–1940
- Heinz Tetzlaff, 1940–1943
Lithuanian pastor
From 1621 to 1817 another pastor was hired to preach in Lithuanian.
- Wolfgang Vogelius, 1621/1634
- Johann Freytag, 1654/1677
- Daniel Friedrich Pastenacius, 1678–1697
- Johann Gottlieb Marks, 1785–1788
- Johann Jacob Steinkampf, 1788–1794
- Johann Friedrich Glogau,
1795–1799 - David Seger, 1801-1802
- Heinrich Albert Schulz, 1803–1807
- Georg Samuel Fritz, 1807-1817
literature
- Adolf Boetticher : The architectural and art monuments of the province of East Prussia. Volume 5. Architectural and artistic monuments in Lithuania. Königsberg 1895. p. 128 pdf
Web links
- Kościół Najświętnej Maryi Panny Polskaniezwykla
- Chronicle of the parish of Klein Lauterbach (Klein Schabienen) district community Angerapp
- Jürgen Schlusnus, parish of Szabienen ( memento of the original from November 30, 2012 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.
- Historical photographs Image archive East Prussia
Individual evidence
- ↑ Anton Ulbrich : History of sculpture in East Prussia from the end of the 16th century to around 1870. Volume 1. Gräfe and Unzer, Königsberg 1926. P. 268 .
- ^ Angerapp district community, Szabienen parish
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 130
- ↑ Jürgen Schlusnus, Szabienen parish ( Memento from November 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Stengel (1822–1895) was a member of the Corps Masovia . Superintendent.
Coordinates: 54 ° 19 ′ 9.5 ″ N , 22 ° 2 ′ 3.6 ″ E