St. Peter and Paul (Węgorzewo)

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Church of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo
(Kościół Świętych Piotra i Pawła w Węgorzewie)
Parish Church of Angerburg
Church of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo (Angerburg), 2010

Church of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo (Angerburg) , 2010
Construction year: 1605-1611
Inauguration: 1611
Style elements : late Gothic brick building
Client: Evangelical parish in Angerburg
( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location: 54 ° 12 '47.7 "  N , 21 ° 44' 34.5"  E Coordinates: 54 ° 12 '47.7 "  N , 21 ° 44' 34.5"  E
Address: ul. Zamkowa
Węgorzewo
Warmian-Masurian , Poland
Purpose: Evangelical-Lutheran , from 1945 Roman-Catholic parish church
Parish: Parafia pw. Św. Apostołów Piotra i Pawła
, ul.Zamkowa 16, 11-600 Węgorzewo
Diocese : Ełk
Website: diecezjaelk.pl/parafie.html?sobi2Task=sobi2Details&catid=2&sobi2Id=105
Interior of the Church of St. Peter and Paul in Węgorzewo, 2008

The Church of St. Peter and Paul is a church from the beginning of the 17th century in Węgorzewo, Poland ( German Angerburg ) in the northeast of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . It is located in the eastern part of the city on ulica Zamkowa next to the newly built order palace .  

Church building

history

The church was completed as a Protestant church in 1611. In 1729 a transverse wing was added. The tower was completed in 1741, the dome and lantern were put on in 1829. The church has been operating as the Catholic Church of St. Peter and Paul since 1945.

Building description

The church was built in the late Gothic style with a choir closed on three sides . The brick- built church has a steeple with copper roofing and a lantern.

Furnishing

Many parts of the original furnishings are still in the church. This includes a baroque altar from 1652, which comes from a Königsberg workshop. The altar is decorated with numerous figures and has Latin and German inscriptions. The pulpit dates from the beginning of the 17th century; it was rebuilt in the 18th century.

The two confessionals date from 1696 and 1715.

organ

The oldest surviving organ in East Prussia is in the church . It is also the only three-manual organ from the 17th century in the former northeastern Germany that has survived with essential original parts. It still has the original baroque sound.

The instrument was made by Joachim Thiele in Rastenburg ( Polish: Kętrzyn ) from 1643 to 1648 . The register mechanism is made of oak and wrought iron. The metal pipes contain a lot of lead. The wing paintings were completed in 1651.

The organ on the west gallery

In 1708 Johann Josua Mosengel from Königsberg repaired the organ. From 1713 his student Georg Barsenick from Angerburg was entrusted with the maintenance of the instrument. A repair cost estimate from 1754 by Johann Preuss mentions 30 voices for the instrument , including five reeds and four bellows . Preuss changed the disposition in the main plant.

The organ was damaged by soldiers in 1806/1807. The organ builder Scherweit then rebuilt the pipework of the breastwork and replaced parts of the pedal pipework. In 1853 the instrument got new keyboards and in 1912 Carl Novak replaced three voices in the Rückpositiv with fundamental registers . Novak also replaced the trumpet 8 'in the pedal with a cello 8'.

In the Second World War, the painted double doors and the pipework of the breastwork were lost. Because of this loss, the keyboard and register switch of the breastworks were also removed.

I main work CDEFGA – c 3
Quintadon 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Pointed flute 8th'
Octav 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Quint 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture III
Trumpet 8th'
II Rückpositiv CDEFGA – c 3 3
Covered 8th'
Gamba 8th'
Principal 4 ′
Flet kyty 4 ′
Dolce 4 ′
Super octave 2 ′
III sub-positive CDEFGA – c 3 3
Amabile slack 8th'
Flute minor 4 ′
Nasat 3 ′
Octav 2 ′
Mixture II
Pedal C – c 1 / d 1
Violon 16 ′
Subbas 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
Octave bass 4 ′
Recorder 4 ′
trombone 16 ′
cello 8th'

Remarks

  1. ↑ orig. II. Manual
  2. ↑ orig. III. manual
  3. ↑ orig. I. Manual

Parish

history

Soon after the introduction of the Reformation , an evangelical parish with a large parish was established in Angerburg in 1528 . Two clergymen served here until 1945, and one assistant preacher was added at the beginning of the 20th century. Until 1726, the Angerburg parish belonged to the Rastenburg inspection (in Polish: Kętrzyn ). Then Angerburg itself became the seat and namesake of a church district in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1925 the parish had a total of about 10,000 parishioners, two thirds of whom lived in the city. The war-related flight and expulsion of the local population caused Protestant church life in the city now called Węgorzewo to come to a standstill after 1945. Polish Catholics then settled here and revived church life. Today there are three Roman Catholic churches and one Greek Catholic church in Węgorzewo. They are part of the deanery Węgorzewo in the Diocese of Ełk (Lyck) or the Archeparchy Przemyśl-Warsaw . The Greek-Catholic church, the former Kreuzkirche and Bethesda-Anstaltskirche, is open to Protestant church members for worship services. They belong to the parish in Giżycko (Lötzen) in the diocese of Masuria of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

In addition to the urban area, the parish of Angerburg also included numerous villages, localities and residential areas:

German name Polish name German name Polish name
* Angerburg Węgorzewo * Ogonken
1938–1945 Schwenten 		Ogonki
Angerburg, good Węgorzewko * Paulswalde Pawłowo
Angerhof * Prinowen
1938–1945 Primsdorf 		Prynowo
* Great stalk Stręgiel Reussen Ruska Wieś
* Jakunowen
1929–1945 Angertal 		Yakunovo Rothof Czerwony Dwór
Johanneshof Janówko Schönbrunn Maćki
* Throats Cal * Stullichen Stulichy
* Kehlerwald Kalskie Nowiny * Thiergarten Trygort
Leitnersfelde Waldheim Wysiecza
Miltalersberg * Wilkowen
1938–1945 Geroldswalde 		Vilkovo

Parish places (since 1945)

In addition to the city, the parish of the Church of St. Peter and Paul today includes the following locations

Surname German name Surname German name
Czerwony Dwór Rothof Ogonki Ogonken
1938–1945: Schwenten
Kalskie Nowiny Kehlerwald Prynowo Prinowen
1938–1945: Primsdorf
Kolonia Rybacka Stulichy Stullichen
Maćki Schönbrunn Wysiecza Waldheim

Pastor (until 1945)

At the parish church of Angerburg officiated as Protestant clergy until 1945 (the owners of the second parish office were also responsible for the rural area):

  • NN., 1528/1530
  • J. Tortilowitz von Batocki, 1537-1545
  • Johann Gsimerski, 1550–1574
  • NN., 1552
  • Michael Danovius, 1573-1576
  • Vincentius Barefoot, 1574–1593
  • Albertus Brosinna, 1576-1590
  • Nicodemus Pogerzelski, 1591-1602
  • Elias Wolf, 1594-1604
  • Michael Molterus, 1602-1603
  • Christoph Kaulperska, 1603–1624
  • Hans Samuel, 1604-1630
  • Andreas Kofnatius, 1624-1630
  • Uriel Bertram, 1630-1657
  • Albert Gembalowski, 1631-1650
  • Daniel Nebe, 1649-1657
  • Jacob Schultz, 1657-1685
  • Andreas Helwing, 1658–1705
  • Jacob Nebe, 1685-1710
  • Georg Andreas Helwing, 1691–1748
  • Johann Friedrich Boretius, 1709–1726
  • Georg Chr. Boretius, 1726–1768
  • Georg Aemilius Helwing, 1738–1767
  • Jacob Ludwig Pisanski, 1760-1810
  • Johann Friczewski, 1768–1793
  • Friedrich Th. Wollweber, 1793–1820
  • Johann Friedrich Hecht, 1811–1825
  • Samuel Neumann, 1820–1845
  • Gottfried Schulz, 1825–1837
  • Wilhelm Schulz, 1838–1846
  • Gottlieb Treskatis, 1844
  • Paul Nathanael Paulini, 1845–1873
  • Julius Linck, 1846-1847
  • Johann Friedrich Anders, 1848–1858
  • Karl Christoph Tyrol, 1858–1864
  • Karl Adolf Schrage, 1864–1875
  • Carl Eduard Cludius, 1874–1876
  • Philipp Salkowski, 1875–1881
  • Theophil Carl Tribukait, 1877–1879
  • Hermann Adalbert Braun, 1881–1925
  • Friedrich Julius Leopold Skierlo, 1883–1888
  • Johann Otto Adalbert Müller, 1890–1906
  • Erich Braun, 1902–1903
  • Kurt Rudloff, 1903-1911
  • Friedrich Ludwig Johann Wolter, 1907–1916
  • Karl Venski, 1917–1921
  • Walter Segschneider, 1921–1933
  • Gustav Boersch, 1922–1923
  • Franz Gabler, 1925–1945
  • Arno Dumschat, 1933
  • Ernst Zander, 1933–1939
  • Kurt Thude, 1940–1945

Church records

The parish registers of the Angerburg parish church before 1945 have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Agency for Genealogy (DZfG) in Leipzig :

City area:

  • Baptisms: 1605 to 1606, 1625 to 1874
  • Weddings: 1691 to 1874
  • Burials: 1646, 1673, 1696 to 1874

Land area:

  • Baptisms: 1715-1874
  • Weddings: 1710 to 1874
  • Burials: 1710 to 1874.

literature

  • Martin Rost: Forgotten "North German" organs - study trips by the organ commission . Stralsund 2008.

Web links

Commons : St. Peter and Paul (Węgorzewo)  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 87, figs. 345–347
  2. ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 476.
  3. ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 16.
  4. ↑ The * indicates a school location.
  5. ^ A b Member of the Masovia Corps