Marienkirche (Okartowo)

Church of the Immaculate Conception of the Most Holy Virgin Mary in Okartowo (Kościół pw Niepokalanego Poczęcia Najświętszej Marii Panny w Okartowie) Eckersberg Church
The once Protestant and now Catholic St. Mary's Church in Okartowo (Eckersberg)
Construction year:	1922-1924
Builder :	Henry, Johannisburg
Style elements :	Brick construction (plastered)
Client:	Evangelical Church Community Eckersberg ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	53 ° 48 '21.2 "  N , 21 ° 51' 27.1"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 48 '21.2 "  N , 21 ° 51' 27.1"  E
Location:	Okartowo Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish:	Okartowo 9 12-250 Orzysz
Diocese :	Ełk

The Marienkirche in Okartowo is a building from the 1920s. Until 1945 it was the Protestant church for the East Prussian parish of Eckersberg ; since then it has been the Roman Catholic Church in the parish of Okartowo in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Okartowo is located in the eastern Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on state road 16 , 20 kilometers north of the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ). The place is a train station on the - although no longer regularly used - railway line Czerwonka-Ełk (German Rothfließ-Lyck ).

The location is in the center of the village on the southern side of the main street .

Church building

Church interior view

View to the organ gallery

A church, probably named after the apostle Bartholomäus , is said to have been built in Eckersberg during the time of the order . This was replaced in 1799 by a successor building, which, however, was burned down in 1914 during the fighting in the First World War . On the former castle grounds, which was given to the church in 1848, a new building was built between 1922 and 1924 according to the designs of the Johannisburger government architect Henry . It was the massive, plastered brick building with an inserted wooden tower that still exists today .

The interior has three aisles, arched in the middle and flatly covered over the side galleries. The stands and beams as well as wooden surfaces were richly painted by the Königsberg artist Günther with ornaments, stylized tendrils, leaves and flowers in the Masurian colors blue, white and reddish. A picture of an animal is said to have been immortalized: Jacob, the transport horse - with the text I, Jacob, carted most of the stones for the construction of this church .

The church received an organ and two bells when it was built . Until 1945 it was the parish church of the Evangelical parish of Eckersberg. Today it is the church of the Roman Catholic parish of Okartowo , which has existed since 1984, and the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary ( Church of the Conception of Mary ).

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

A church was founded in Eckersberg in the pre-Reformation period of the Teutonic Order between 1340 and 1345. It became Lutheran around 1530 , and two evangelical clergymen began their service here at the same time. Initially incorporated into the Lyck inspection ( Polish Ełk ), the parish of Eckersberg was then from 1715 to 1945 part of the Johannisburg church district ( Polish Pisz ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The parish counted 3,815 parishioners in 1925.

Grave of the rector couple Skrodzki in the old Protestant cemetery in Okartowo

Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the Protestant parish after 1945. Very few Protestant church members live in Okartowo today. You stick to the church in the district town of Pisz ( German  Johannisburg ) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

The still existing Protestant cemetery reminds of the time before 1945, but is no longer used.

Parish places

By 1945, 16 villages, localities and residential areas were incorporated into the Eckersberg parish:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
* Chmielewen	Talau	Chmielewo		* Sastrosnen	Snake flow	Zastrużne
* Dombrowken	(from 1929) Eichendorf	Dąbrówka		Schönwiese		Osiki
Drosdowen	Drosselwalde	Drozdowo		Sdengowen		Zdęgówko
* Eckersberg		Okartowo		* Czierspienten up to 1905 above sea level		Cierzpięty
* Gregersdorf		Grzegorze		Dry horn		Suchy Róg
* Gutten (E)	(from 1935) Seegutten	Nowe Guty		* Cloth liners		Tuchlin
Neuendorf		Nowa Wieś		Wensewen	Wensen	Wężewo
Poplar home		Gaudynki		* Zollerndorf official until 1904		Dziubiele

Pastor

The pastors held office as Protestant clergy at Eckersberg Church until 1945:

Friedrich Stenzel, 1541 Friedrich Jeger, 1554/1579 Martin Prefdisken, 1571 Johann Gregorowitz, 1583-1625 Jacob Lasmiecky, from 1625 Matthias Dannovius, 1637 Albrecht Dannovius, 1637 Felix Wannowius, until 1656 Fabian Prasmo, 1657-1676 Johann Adam Krzywiewski, 1668 Georg Cibrowius, 1676–1689 Andreas Garönicke, 1690–1691 Christoph Pawlicki, 1690-1719 Johann Orlowius, 1691-1710 Johann Danowius, 1710-1745 Johann Lazniczki, 1720-1732 Christian Wannowius, 1733–1758 Johann Friedrich Göhrke, 1739–1743 Wilhelm Swonckowski, 1744-1745 Johann Klinger, 1758–1765

Christian Wannowius, 1758–1785 Paul Friedrich Kusbiel, 1765-1810 Christian Wannowius, 1785–1790 Michael Piontkowsky, 1791-1799 Samuel Appelbaum, 1810–1829 Johann Skierlo, 1830–1839 August Ferdinand Kob, 1839–1845 Johann Christ. Ferdinand Haeber, 1846-1849 Carl August Rhein, 1850–1881 Ernst Theodor Teschner, 1883–1890 Agathon Harnoch , 1890-1896 Johann Fr. G. Koschorreck, 1896–1907 Friedrich Karl Mitzka, 1908–1910 Ernst August Heinrich Sack, 1910–1917 Erich Riedel, 1920–1924 Hermann Ippig, 1924–1931 Herbert Schott, 1933–1939 Johannes Kypke, 1940–1941 Werner Elert, 1942–1945

Church records

From the church register documents of the parish Eckersberg have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

• Confirmations: 1914, 1917 to 1944.

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 only a few Catholics lived in the Eckersberg area; they were parished to Johannisburg in the deanery Masuria II in the diocese of Warmia . However, their number increased sharply after 1945 when Polish citizens settled here again. They were mostly of the Catholic denomination and took over the former Protestant church as their church. On November 5, 1984, a parish was set up here, which today includes the branch church in Cierzpięty ( German  Czierspienten , 1905-1945 above sea level ). She belongs to the deanery Biała Piska in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche in Okartowo  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Church Okartowo - Eckersberg at ostpreussen.net
2. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 119, fig. 540-543.
3. ^ History of Okartowo - Eckersberg at ostpreussen.net
4. ↑ ^{a b} Parafia Okartowo in the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from January 24, 2017 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. 
5. ^ ^{A b} Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 34.
7. ↑ The * marks a school location.
8. ↑ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . 3rd edition, Berlin 1992, p. 37.