Prelature Schneidemühl
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The prelature Schneidemühl was created due to the border shifts after the First World War and the associated new border drawings in 1919 and 1920. It was about areas of the now Polish dioceses Gnesen - Posen (until 1946 still in personal union ) and Kulm . The prelature existed de jure from 1923 to 1972. In fact, Polish administrators exercised the jurisdiction from 1945 onwards .
history
On December 1, 1920 Archbishop Edmund Dalbor von Gnesen-Posen appointed an archbishop's delegate with the powers of a vicar general for the five deaneries with 45 parishes and 80,000 to 100,000 Catholics , while Bishop Augustinus Rosentreter von Kulm split off the three deaneries concerned in the Bütow districts and Lauenburg in Pomerania with around 40,000 Catholics refused. Nevertheless, the Holy See led these deaneries in 1922 to the delegate sitting in Tütz and united the areas of the two dioceses on May 1, 1923 in an independent Apostolic Administration , which counted 332,443 inhabitants on 7,695 km². The Holy See delegated the administration to the Apostolic Protonotary Robert Weimann (1870–1925).
Weimann was followed by Maximilian Kaller in 1926 , at whose instigation the headquarters of the administration was moved from Tütz to Schneidemühl on July 1, 1926 , where Kaller took over the management of the parish. Through the Prussian Concordat concluded in 1929 , the administration with Kaller was elevated to a prelature in the Association of the East German Church Province under the new Archdiocese of Breslau in 1930 , although the prelate was not to receive episcopal ordination. Shortly afterwards, Kaller was ordained Bishop of Warmia in Schneidemühl .
The area of the new diocese was spatially separated into four islands, which were difficult to reach. If the Apostolic Administration was not yet able to dispose of a real administration, a five-person consistory , a vicariate general and an official office were created from 1930 onwards . In 1930 the prelature numbered 74 parishes and 123 priests. Kaller's successor was Franz Hartz .
With the flight and expulsion of the German population after the Second World War , the incumbent prelate Franz Hartz came to Fulda . He died in 1953 in Hüls near Krefeld. Although the leadership of the diocese was de facto passed to the Polish church authorities, the consistory elected vicars capitular for Schneidemühl, who were confirmed by the Holy See. In 1953 Ludwig Sebald Polzin (1892–1964) was elected and confirmed as vicar of the capitular. He was followed by Wilhelm Volkmann in 1964 until the reorganization of the former East German dioceses in 1972.
Meanwhile, on August 15, 1945 , August Hlond appointed Edmund Nowicki , effective September 1, as administrator for the prelature and the diocesan areas of Berlin east of the Oder. Nowicki operated as the administrator of Cammin , Lebus and the prelature Schneidemühl (Administrator Kamieński, Lubuski i Prałatury Pilskiej) based in Landsberg an der Warthe. The Polish anti-clerical government under Bolesław Bierut relieved and banished him from the administrative area in 1951. He was followed by vicar capitular Tadeusz Załuczkowski, who replaced the vicar capitular Zygmunt Szelążek in 1952. In 1956 Teodor Bensch (1903-1958) took over the office of administrator, followed by Józef Michalski (only 1958), who was immediately followed by Wroclaw Auxiliary Bishop Wilhelm Pluta , titular bishop of Leptis Magna , as Apostolic Administrator (until 1972).
With the reorganization of the former German dioceses in 1972, the area of the prelature Schneidemühl came to the dioceses of Gorzów (from 1992 Zielona Góra-Gorzów) and Koszalin-Kołobrzeg , which also legally ended their existence. Since then, apostolic visitators have been appointed for the diocesans of the Schneidemühl prelature in Germany , first Prelate Paul Snowadzki for the years 1972 to 1982 and then Prelate Wolfgang Klemp for the years 1982 to 1997. After that, Lothar Schlegel was joint visitator for the German diocesans of Danzig , Warmia and Schneidemühl. Schlegel retired on October 4, 2011. A new visitor to Warmia, Danzig, Schneidemühl was not appointed because no one was found. At the end of 2016, all visitors were canceled without replacement.
Prelates
- Robert Weimann, 1920–1925
- Maximilian Kaller , 1925–1930
- Franz Hartz , 1930–1945
- Edmund Nowicki , Apostolic Administrator 1945–1951
- Tadeusz Załuczkowski, Capitular Vicar 1951–1952
- Zygmunt Szelążek, vicar capitular 1952–1956
- Józef Michalski, vicar capitular 1956–1958
- Wilhelm Pluta , Apostolic Administrator 1958–1972
literature
- The Apostolic Administration Schneidemühl. A book for the Catholic people , Franz Westpfahl (ed.), Schneidemühl: Verlag des Johannesboten, 1928.
- Church Handbook for Catholic Germany , Official Central Office for Church Statistics of Catholic Germany (ed.), Cologne: Bachem, 1909–1943, here: Vol. 20 '1937/1938' (published 1937), Vol. 21: '1939 / 1940 '(published in 1939) and vol. 22' 1943 '(published in 1943).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b cf. Barbara Wolf-Dahm: Polzin, Ludwig Sebald. In: Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon (BBKL). Volume 7, Bautz, Herzberg 1994, ISBN 3-88309-048-4 , Sp. 817-821.
- ↑ a b Georg May , Ludwig Kaas : the priest, the politician and the scholar from Ulrich Stutz's school : 3 vols., Amsterdam: Grüner, 1981–1982 (= canonical studies and texts; vol. 33–35), vol 1, p. 175. ISBN 90-6032-197-9 .
- ↑ a b Sabine Voßkamp, Catholic Church and Displaced Persons in West Germany: Integration, Identity and East Political Discourse 1945–1972 , Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 2007, (= Confession and Society; Vol. 40), p. 395. ISBN 3-17-019967 -6 .
- ↑ See "Zum Geleit", drawn by Lothar Schlegel as visitor to Warmia - Danzig - Schneidemühl, following the supporting program of a pilgrimage, on: visitator-ermland.de, Apostolic Visitator Warmia (official website), accessed on May 13, 2011. (Unreachable, forbidden)