Mother of God Rosary (Bajtkowo)

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Church of Our Lady Rosary in Bajtkowo
(Kościół Matki Bożej Różańcowej w Bajtkowie)
Baitkowen Church
The parish church in Bajtkowo

The parish church in Bajtkowo
Construction year: 1895
Style elements : Brick building, neo-Gothic
Client: Evangelical parish of Baitkowen
( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 53 ° 44 '20.5 "  N , 22 ° 14' 49.9"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 44 '20.5 "  N , 22 ° 14' 49.9"  E
Location: Bajtkowo
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: Bajtkowo 11,
19-300 Ełk
Diocese : Ełk
Website: bajtkowo.pl

The church in Bajtkowo is a building from the end of the 19th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish of Baitkowen (1938 to 1945: Baitenberg). Today it is the worship center of the Roman Catholic parish Bajtkowo in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .

Geographical location

Bajtkowo is located in the south-east of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship, eleven kilometers southwest of the district town of Ełk ( German  Lyck ). The provincial road 667 runs through the village , and Bajtkowo is a train station on the PKP line 219 Olsztyn – Ełk ( German  Allenstein – Lyck ). The location of the church is in the western part of the village north of the DW 667.

Church building

From 1890, planning and construction work for the construction of a Protestant church in Baitkowen, which could then be inaugurated in 1895. The result was a building in neo-Gothic style with yellow bricks, set off by red bricks on the windows and entrance portals. The lower part of the church tower in front of it and the foundations under the windows are made of field stones. These can also be found on the east apse , on the south side of which a sacristy building is attached.

Since 1946, the church has been used by the Roman Catholic Church , which has redesigned the interior according to the changed liturgical purposes. Today it is called Kościół Matki Bożej Różańcowej ( Church of Our Lady of the Rosary ).

Parish

The rectory in Bajtkowo

Evangelical

Church history

From 1891 Baitkowen was a church village, even if it did not initially have a church. The parish that belongs to it was created by re-parsing places from the parishes of Lyck ( Polish Ełk ), Ostrokollen (1938 to 1945 Scharfenrade , Polish Ostrokół ) and Drygallen (1938 to 1945 Drigelsdorf , Polish Drygały ).

Until 1945 the parish of Baitkowen belonged to the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . It had no patronage and in 1925 had a total of 2,770 parishioners who lived in more than twenty villages, towns and places of residence in the districts of Lyck and Johannisburg .

Flight and expulsion of the local population brought the life of the evangelical community in the village now called Bajtkowo to a standstill. The few Protestant church members living here today stick to the parish in Ełk (Lyck) , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( Johannisburg in German  ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

In the parish of Baitkowen (from 1938: parish of Baitenberg) were parish between 1891 and 1945:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name		 Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish
name
Andreaswalde Kosinowo Pistols Kröstenwerder Pistki
* Baitkowen Baitenberg Baytkowo Köllmisch Rakowen Köllmisch Rakau Rakowo Małe
Biallojahn (from 1935 :)
Weißhagen		 Białojany Romanken Maihof (East Pr.) Romanki
Ceremonies (from 1929 :)
Dorntal		 Ciernie Rostken
(parish of Baitkowen) 		Waiblingen (East Pr.) Rostki Bajtkowskie
Karbowsken Siegersfeld Karbowskie Rymken Belt Rymki
* Kotten Koty Sniff Snap Śniepie
* Monethen Monety * Sdeden Stettenbach Zdedy
* Mostolten Mostołty * Sutzken Morning reason Suczki
* Niekrassen Krassau Niekrasy Talks Talki
* Osranken (from 1926 :)
Steinfelde		 Osranki Claws Trabenau Tracze

Pastor (until 1945)

The pastors officiated as evangelical clergy at the Baitkowen church:

  • Paul Otto Adolf Erwin, 1891–1910
  • Eduard Bachor, 1911-1919
  • Richard Fischer, 1920–1945

Roman Catholic

Parish

Until 1945, the few Catholics living in Baitkowen and Baitenberg were incorporated into the Roman Catholic Church of St. Adalbert Lyck in the Masurian dean's office II (seat: Johannisburg ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Due to the resettlement of Polish citizens, especially from eastern Poland, a Catholic community was formed in Bajtkowo, which from 1946 onwards used the previously evangelical church for its own services. Since 1970 there has been a separate parish here, the Parafia pw.Matki Bożej Różańcowej . She belongs to the deanery Ełk - Matki Bożej Fatimskiej in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

Parish places

The following places belong to the parish of Bajtkowo:

Surname German name Surname German name
Baytkowo Baitkowen
1938–1945 Baitenberg 		Niekrasy Niekrassen
1938–1945 Krassau
Białojany Biallojahnen
1935–1945 Weißhagen 		Rakowo Małe Köllmisch Rakowen
1938–1945 Köllmisch Rakau
Borki
also: Borki PGR 		Bark Rostki Bajtkowskie Rostken (Ksp. Baitkowen)
1938–1945 Waiblingen
Ciernie Cziernien
1929–1945 Dorntal 		Rymki Rymken
1938–1945 Riemken
Karbowskie Karbowsken
1938–1945 Siegersfeld 		Śniepie Schnepien
1938–1945 Schnippen
Kosinowo Andreaswalde Suczki Sutzken
1934–1945 Morgengrund
Mąki Monken Tracze Tratzen
1938–1945 Trabenau
Mostołty Mostolten Zdedy Sdeden
1938–1945 Stettenbach

Pastor

As Catholic pastors officiated at the Church of the Mother of God Rosary in Bajtkowo:

  • Jan Nowak, 1970–1988
  • Leszek Andrzejczak, 1988-1990
  • Kazimierz Błoński, 1990–1993
  • Witold Górski, 1993-1998
  • Andrzej Amielawski, 1998-2002
  • Jarosław Mierzejewski, 2002–2007
  • Adam Łosiewskim since 2007.

Web links

Commons : Church of Our Lady Rosary, Bajtkowo  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 123
  2. ↑ a b c d Parafia Bajtkowo
  3. ^ Ruska Wieś - Reuschendorf, Bajtkowo - Baitkowen / Baitenberg
  4. ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 493
  5. ↑ The * indicates a school location
  6. ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 19