Roman Catholic Church (Księży Lasek)
| Roman Catholic Church in Księży Lasek Church Fürstenwalde |
|
|---|---|
 The once Protestant, now Catholic church in Księży Lasek / Fürstenwalde |
|
| Construction year: | I: 1815-1816 II: 1928-1931 |
| Inauguration: | I: February 11, 1816 II: May 31, 1931 (Trinity) |
| Builder : | I: Karl Friedrich Schinkel II: NN. |
| Style elements : | I: wooden church with presented tower II: brick building with roof tower |
| Client: | Evangelical parish of Fürstenwalde ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 8 '44.1 " N , 21 ° 11' 30.3" E |
| Location: |
Księży Lasek Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Evangelical Lutheran parish church until 1945 , now a Roman Catholic branch church |
| Parish: | No. 28 12-160 Lesiny Wielkie |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Rozogi deanery |
The Roman Catholic Church in Księży Lasek ( German Fürstenwalde ) is a building from the early 20th century and the successor to a church that was built according to Schinkel's plans about a hundred years earlier. Until 1945 it was the parish church of the East Prussian Protestant parish of Fürstenwalde and is now a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish Księży Lasek in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Księży Lasek is located in the powiat Szczycieński ( Ortelsburg district ) in the southern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . A side street runs through the village, which connects the place both with the middle center Rozogi (Friedrichshof) and with the city of Myszyniec . The location of the church is in the city west of the main street.
Church building
Church from 1816
The church in Fürstenwalde, built in 1815 and 1816, was a simple wooden structure that was plastered on the inside with clay . The tower presented was also made entirely of wood. The church was inaugurated on February 11, 1816. Karl Friedrich Schinkel made the building sketches . They are preserved to this day.
The altar and the pulpit formed a whole. The organ had 13 registers and a pedal . The church bell consisted of three bells .
After just 50 years, the church was on the verge of decay. During his visit to Masuria , initiated by the Inner Mission , the preacher Friedrich Oldenberg stated: “If the term“ servant figure ”was to be represented in a building, no representation could be more concise ... This gloomy, dilapidated wooden building that everyone The gust of wind wavers and its bell may no longer be rung, because every movement of the church - but more of a barn than a church - can upset it. The interior decoration, although testifying to the nurturing love of the clergyman, who practices a kind of “church” poor relief at this church even with the faithful of the community, is the same in a slightly different style, what is shown on every Masurian farmhouse ... of human help , but hopefully not abandoned by God's help ... "
Nevertheless, this church had to do its service until 1927. Then it was finally demolished because of its dilapidation.
The church was Schinkel's second wooden church in the parish of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno in Polish ). The other one, which was in Jablonken ( Jabłonka in Polish ), had to be demolished after an even shorter period in the middle of the 19th century due to its dilapidation.
Church from 1931
While the services had to be held in the Fürstenwald school for a full four years, the construction of a new church began in 1928. A massive brick building with a roof tower was built. The hall building with a wooden ceiling was inaugurated on May 31, 1931, the Trinity Festival.
The old altar of the Friedrichshof Church ( Rozogi in Polish ) from the 18th century was inserted into the interior . With its individual parts, probably created by Isaak Riga in Königsberg (Prussia) , the Friedrichshofers made it a gift to the Fürstenwalder. The altar had to be shortened, as it was not made for the low ceiling height of the Fürstenwald church. The main picture of the altar shows the crucifixion of Christ .
The altar was closely connected to the pulpit , which was also baroque , after both had previously been thoroughly restored. The church bell consisted of two bells . Until 1945 a memorial plaque was placed in the church for the residents who died in the war of 1870/71.
Until 1945 the Fürstenwald church was a Protestant church. After the Second World War , the Roman Catholic Church took over the building, which today functions as a branch church of the parish in Lesiny Wielkie (Groß Leschienen) . The interior was adapted to the changed liturgical use.
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
Fürstenwalde was parish into the Evangelical Church of Willenberg (Masuria) until 1816 . A church was planned for the village on the political and denominational border with Poland as early as 1810 to counteract the fanatics who appeared here. They were also active in Wawronen (1938 to 1945 Deutschheide , Polish Wawrochy ), Lipowitz (1938 to 1945 Lindenort , Polish Lipowiec ), Liebenberg (Polish clone ) and Willamowen (1932 to 1945 Wilhelmshof , Polish Wilamowo ), called themselves "saints" and were probably epigones of the Polish brothers .
In the year 1816 a Protestant church was founded in Fürstenwalde, which had its own house of worship and a specially established pastor's office. The parish was formed from the most distant villages of the parishes Friedrichshof ( Rozogi ), Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki ) and Willenberg ( Wielbark ).
The parish of Fürstenwalde belonged to the church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 in the superintendent district of Ortelsburg of the parish of Ortelsburg within the church province of East Prussia . The church patronage was incumbent on the state authorities. The number of parish members in 1925 was 1,850.
Flight and expulsion of the local population during the Second World War put an end to the Protestant Church in Fürstenwalde. The few Protestant residents living in Księży Lasek now belong to the church in Szczytno (Ortelsburg) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
From 1816 to 1945 - apart from the parish - ten villages were part of the parish of Fürstenwalde:
| German name | Changed name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name | German name | Changed name (1938 to 1945) |
Polish name | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * Large Leschienen | Lesiny Wielkie | New Suchoross | Auerswalde | Nowy Suchoros | ||
| * (Large) wheel tracks | Hill forest | Aimsiec | Radostoven |
(since 1936 :) Rehbruch |
Radostovo | |
| Klein Leschienen | Lesiny Małe | * Suchorowitz | Deutschwalde | Suchorowiec | ||
| * Lucka | Luckau (East Pr.) | Łuka | * Wujak |
(since 1934 :) Ohmswalde |
Wujaki | |
| Luckabude | Luckau (forestry) | Łuckie Budy | * Target ony reason |
(since 1933 :) Schützengrund |
Orzeszki |
Pastor
From 1815 to 1945 the pastors officiated as Protestant clergy at the Fürstenwalde church:
- Bernhard Brachvogel, 1815–1821
- Friedrich Wilhelm Wilimzig, 1821–1827
- Friedrich Ludwig Riemer, 1828–1841
- Heinrich Suminski, 1841–1863
- Gustav Samuel Zacharias, 1863–1873
- Adolf Benjamin Dziembowski, 1874–1884
- August Rudolf Skrodzki, 1884-1892
- Ernst Eduard Jacobi, 1892–1900
- Heinrich Adolf Bachor, 1909–1912
- Walter Kaminski, 1920–1922
- Rudolf Mantze, 1923–1929
- Ernst Sczepan, 1931–1933
- Ewald Weidekamm, 1933–1934
- Oskar Stentzel, 1936–1945
graveyard
The former Evangelical Fürstenwald cemetery is still located on the road to Klon or Myszyniec . Its appearance is characterized by several cast iron grave crosses. In its northeastern part there is a section in which five German and ten Russian soldiers were buried. Overall, the cemetery makes a neglected impression.
Roman Catholic
Until 1945 the Catholic population of Fürstenwald was integrated into the parish in Groß Leschienen ( Lesiny Wielkie in Polish ). It belonged to the extensive deanery Masuria I with its seat in Angerburg (Polish : Węgorzewo ) in the Diocese of Warmia .
After the end of the war and the flight and expulsion of the local - mostly Protestant - population, numerous new citizens settled in Księży Lasek, almost all of whom were Catholic. A Catholic community soon formed and claimed the previously evangelical church as their church. The parish in Księży Lasek is now a branch parish of the parish of Lesiny Wielkie of the Rozogi deanery in the Archdiocese of Warmia .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The church patronage, which would then also change the lemma, could unfortunately not be determined.
- ↑ a b c Agathon Harnoch, History and Statistics of Lutheran churches in the provinces of East and West Prussia , Neidenburg, 1890 , excerpt in: Fiirstenwalde (Kreis Ortelsburg) at GenWiki
- ↑ quoted from: Walther Hubatsch , Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche Ostpreußens I , Göttingen 1968, p. 368
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 128, fig. 599, 600
- ↑ Księży Lasek - Fürstenwalde at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ Parafia Lesiny Wielkie the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia I , Göttingne 1968, p. 368
- ↑ Reinhold Göttling, History of Fürstenwaldes
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 496
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 39
- ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF
- ^ The Deanery Masuria I at GenWiki