Rezesskirche
Rezess churches were places of worship that had been expropriated by the Catholic Church as a result of the great church reduction in Silesia from 1654 to 1668 and had to be returned to the Protestant communities within the framework of the Altranstadt Convention from 1707 to 1709.
King Charles XII. As King of Sweden was the guarantor of religious freedom in Germany and after the victory in the Northern War in the Altranstadt Convention of 1707 forced the return of churches in the former Protestant Silesian principalities.
As a result of the execution recession of 1709, around 125 churches in the principalities of Liegnitz, Brieg, Münsterberg, Oels and in the city and surroundings of Breslau (of the formerly around 780 expropriated churches) became Protestant again, 33 of them in the principality of Liegnitz , 58 in the principality of Brieg , 15 in the Principality of Wohlau , 9 in the Principality of Münsterberg , 6 in the Principality of Oels and 4 rural churches in Breslau. For the parishes that had remained without a Protestant church, the nearby Rezess churches became refuge churches .
Recess churches were z. B. the four Breslau country churches in Herrnprotsch ( Pracze Odrzańskie ), Domslau ( Domasław ), Riemberg ( Rościsławice ) and Schwoitsch ( Swojczyce ), as well as the church in Lossen ( Łosiów ) near Brieg.
literature
- Reiner Sörries: By the grace of the emperor - Protestant church buildings in the Habsburg Empire. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20154-8 , 225 pp.