Mother of God of Everlasting Help (Borzymy)
| Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help in Borzymy (Kościół Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy w Borzymach) Church Borszymmen / Borschymmen / Borschimmen |
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| Construction year: | 1815-1817 |
| Inauguration: | 1817 |
| Style elements : | Field stone and brick construction |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Borszymmen ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 49 '4.2 " N , 22 ° 41' 7.7" E |
| Location: |
Borzymy Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | 19-313 Borzymy |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
| Website: | borzymy.diecezja.elk.pl/index.php |
The Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help in Borzymy is a building from the early 19th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Borszymmen (1936–1938 Borschymmen , 1938–1945 Borschimmen ); since then it has been the Roman Catholic Church of the Borzymy parish in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Borzymy is located in the south-east of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, not far from the border with the Podlaskie Voivodeship , 22 kilometers east of the district and diocese town of Ełk . The church is near the intersection of the streets Pisanica (Pissanitzen , 1938–1945: Ebenfelde) - Pomiany and Krzyżewo (Krzysewen , 1928–1945 Kreuzborn) - Stożne (Stosznen , 1938–1945 Sprindenau) .
Church building
The church in Borszymmen was built between 1815 and 1817 and consecrated in 1817. It is a rectangular, now plastered field stone and brick building that was initially built without a tower . The wooden church tower standing on a solid foundation was inaugurated in 1903; until then the bells (they were from 1860) hung in a separate bell tower.
In 1914 the church was completely renovated and received carved beams , a colored and flat wooden ceiling and painted galleries . The pulpit altar was a work from 1928. The baptismal table is a cast iron work from 1850/1860.
Until 1945 the church was used by the then Protestant parish; then she took over the Catholic community, which she - most recently in 1999 and 2000 - adapted structurally to her liturgical customs and gave her the name of Kościół Matki Bożej Nieustającej Pomocy ( German Church of the Mother of God of Perpetual Help , in short: Maria-Hilf Church ).
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
Borszymmen only became a church village in 1803. Until then, the place was part of the parish of Lissewen ( Lisewo in Polish ). When the church burned down there for the second time in 1803, it was decided to relocate the parish to the more conveniently located village of Borszymmen.
In 1815 the building of the church could begin here, which continued until 1817. The church was put into service in the 300th anniversary year of the Lutheran Reformation . The pastor's post was occupied continuously from 1817 to 1945. Until 1945 the parish of Borszymmen (resp. Borschymmen, Borschimmen) was incorporated into the church district of Lyck in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it had 1,850 parishioners, to which after 1905 there were still 800 parishioners from the branch church in Prawdzisken (1934–1945 Reiffenrode , Polish Prawdziska ) included in the parish . The state authorities were responsible for church patronage .
Flight and expulsion of the local population put an end to the Protestant parish in Borzymy. Today the few Protestant church members who live here orientate themselves towards the parish in the district town of Ełk (Lyck) , a branch parish of the parish in Pisz ( Johannisburg in German ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
For parish Borszymmen belonged from 1803 to 1945 next to the vicarage twelve places, villages or residential places:
| Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Surname | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| * Burnien | Burnie | Marienhof | Ryczywół | |||
| Duttken | Petzkau | Dudki | Przepiorken |
(from 1923) Wachteldorf |
Przepiórki | |
| * Gronsken | Steinkendorf | Grądzkie Ełckie | * Romanovs | Heldenfelde | Romanowo | |
| Imionken | Imionki | Romotten | Romoty | |||
| Jendreyken | Andreken | Jędrzejki | * Skrzypken |
(from 1926) Geigenau |
Skrzypki | |
| * Lyssewen | Lissau (East Pr.) | Lisewo | * Bumps |
(from 1936) Sprindenau |
Bumps |
Pastor (until 1945)
The pastoral post in Borszymmen was occupied by eleven evangelical clergy until 1945:
- Ferdinand Emanuel Floeß, 1817–1826
- Martin Friedrich Szczesny, 1826–1837
- Carl August Maletius, from 1837
- Johannes Otto Hermann Gawlick, 1847–1865
- Johann Wilhelm Ebel, 1865–1873
- Oskar Heinrich von Herrmann, 1874–1894
- L. Hermann Rudolf Hassenstein, 1895–1922
- Ernst Willamowski, 1922–1930
- Siegfried Hecht, 1931–1936
- Kurt Bodschwinna, 1937–1939
- Karl Czarkowski, 1941–1945
Church records
From the parish registers of Lyssewen and Borszymmen / Prawdisken the following have been preserved:
- at the German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig : Baptisms (1706–1874), weddings (1803–1817), burials (1803–1817)
- at the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg : Confirmations (1921–1944), Communicants (1934–1944).
Roman Catholic
Very few Catholics lived in the Borszymmen region until 1945. They were parish in the parish of St. Andreas in Prawdzisken (1934-1945 Reiffenrode, Polish Prawdziska ), which belonged to the deanery Masuria II (official seat: Johannisburg , Polish Pisz ) in the Diocese of Warmia . As a result of the war, numerous Polish citizens, mostly Catholic, settled in Borzymy after 1945. They took over the previously evangelical church as their place of worship. Until 1985 they were still incorporated into the Prawdziska parish and from 1989 to the Pisanica parish (Pissanitzen , 1938–1945 Ebenfelde) . In 1992 a parafia was established in Borzymy , which belongs to the deanery of the city Rajgród in the diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , which is already in the Podlaskie Voivodeship .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 123, fig. 567–568.
- ↑ a b Parafia Borzymy
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
- ↑ Borzymy - Borszymmen / Borschymmen / Borschimmen
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1968. Hamburg 1968, p. 25.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Ebel (1824–1873) was a member of the Corps Masovia , Dr. phil.
- ^ Prawdzisken, St. Andreas
- ^ Parafia Borzymy in the Diocese of Ełk