St. Andreas Bobola Church (Rydzewo)

Church of St. Andrew Bobola (Rydzewo) (Kościół Św.Arzeja Boboli w Rydzewie) Church of Rydzewen (Rotwalde)
The once Protestant, now Catholic church in Rydzewo
Construction year:	between 1579 and 1591
Inauguration:	1591
Style elements :	Feldsteinkirche (plastered)
Client:	Evangelical Church Community Rydzewen ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union )
Location:	53 ° 57 '58 "  N , 21 ° 45' 40.5"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 57 '58 "  N , 21 ° 45' 40.5"  E
Address:	ul. Mazurska Rydzewo Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose:	Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish:	ul.Mazurska 73, 11-513 Rydzewo
Diocese :	Ełk

The St. Andreas Boboli Church in Rydzewo , built at the end of the 16th century - until 1945 a Protestant church for the parish of the East Prussian village called Rydzewen (1927 to 1945 Rotwalde ) - is the Roman Catholic parish church in the diocese of Ełk the Roman catholic church in Poland .

Interior of the church (2009)

Geographical location

The small Masurian village Rydzewo is located in the eastern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , eight kilometers south of the district town of Giżycko ( German  Lötzen ). The church stands in the center of the village north of the main street called ulica Mazurska .

Church building

The plastered stone church was built from 1579 at the instigation of the last Protestant bishop of Pomesania , Johannes Wigand , with a west tower and east gable and was completed in 1591. The year of inauguration was written on the church door. A comprehensive restoration took place in 1770.

The wooden ceiling over the central nave of the interior of the church is still vaulted, but flat over the side galleries. The altar (around 1630) and the pulpit (around 1600) were combined in 1770, but are now separated again. Carved stalls from the beginning of the 17th century survived until 1945 and were then replaced by newly manufactured benches. A crucifix and an Easter Christ from around 1600 are no longer available today. On the doors to the vestibule and the sacristy were written capitals in Latin.

In 1861 the church received an organ . The church peal consisted of three bells cast in 1604, 1726 and 1818. The bell from 1604 rings today in the church of the Deaconess Mother House Bethanien (Lötzen) in Quakenbrück in Lower Saxony . This is where the altar Bible, given by Empress Auguste Viktoria to the Rydzewen Church , with a dedication by Emperor Wilhelm II of the quotation from the New Testament Gospel of Luke, chap. 12, verse 48: Whom has been given much, one will search for much; and from whom much is commanded, much will be demanded .

A plaque used to refer to the family tragedy of the Rydzewen pastor Johann Sartorius : in the Great Plague in 1710, all of his seven children died within a week. The plaque is now in the Museum of Warmia and Masuria at the Allenstein Castle in Olsztyn ( German  Allenstein ).

The evangelical church was expropriated after 1945 in favor of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland , which redesigned it for liturgical reasons. The church was consecrated and dedicated to St. Andreas Bobola .

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

In 1579 a Protestant parish was founded in Rydzewen . It was assigned a parish comprising several places on both sides of the Löwentinsee ( Jezioro Niegocin in Polish ), the Saitensee (Jezioro Boczne) and the Jagodner See (Jezioro Jagodne). Initially, the parish was incorporated into the Angerburg inspection ( Polish : Węgorzewo ), but until 1945 it belonged to the parish of Lötzen in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .

In 1591 a parish office was established in Rydzewen, which was occupied continuously until 1945. The parish of Rydzewen counted 3200 parishioners in the census in 1925. The church patronage was incumbent on the state authorities.

Flight and expulsion of the local population caused Protestantism to collapse after 1945. The church of the few Protestant church members is now the parish church in Giżycko . It belongs to the Masurian Diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish (until 1945)

The parish of Rydzewen (1927 to 1945: parish of Rotwalde) consisted of twelve towns, villages and places of residence until 1945:

Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name		Surname	Change name from 1938 to 1945	Polish name
Altfelde		Staropole		* Koszinnen	(from 1928 :) Rodenau	Kozin
* Bogatzewen	(from 1927;) Reichensee	Bogaczewo		* Paprodtks	Goldensee	Paprotki
* Great Jagodnen	Großkrösten	Jagodne Wielkie		* Rydzewen	(from 1927 :) Rotwalde	Rydzewo
* Small Jagodnen	Small roasting	Jagodne Małe		* Sczyballen	(from 1928 :) Schönballen	Szczybały Giżyckie
* Kleszewen	(from 1928 :) Brassendorf	Kleszczewo		Thiemau		Gorazdowo
Clone	Parties	clone		Wierczeyken	(from 1928 :) Gregerswalde	Wierciejki

Pastor (until 1945)

At the parish church in Rydzewen resp. Rotwalde officiated as Protestant clergy before 1945:

Johann Moller, 1590-1630 Johann Wannowius, 1621-1640 Johann Schön, 1635–1646 Christoph Selig, 1647–1671 Johann Sartorius, 1672-1718 Andreas Puffald, 1715–1755 Samuel Iklanski, 1756–1788 Carl Wnorowski, 1788 Johann Schrage, 1789–1796 Friedrich Hieronymus Maletius, 1796–1812

Johann Jakob Stern, 1812–1828 Karl Ferdinand Marcus, 1828–1832 Carl August Maletius, 1832–1837 Martin Friedrich Sczesny, 1837–1841 Gustav Eduard Salkowski, from 1841 Karl Johann Spiller, 1854–1875 August Rudolf Krosta, 1876–1883 Hermann Franz Bercio, 1884–1913 Franz Albert Rauch, 1913–1926 Max Kuehnert, 1926–1935 Hans Biella, 1938-1945

Roman Catholic

In Rydzewen resp. Before 1945 there were very few Catholic church members in Rotwalde . Until 1937 they belonged to the parish church in Rastenburg ( Polish: Kętrzyn ), then to the church of St. Bruno Lötzen in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg (Pisz)) in the diocese of Warmia .

In the post-war years, numerous resettlers from eastern Poland settled here. The previously evangelical church became their parish church . The Parish, which in Paprotki a branch community maintains, is part of the Dekanats Giżycko św. Krzystofa in the Diocese of Ełk of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

literature

• M. Meyhöfer: The district of Lötzen , Würzburg 1961

Web links

Commons : St. Andreas Bobola Church in Rydzewo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 122, Fig. 556
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Rydzewo - Rydzewen - Rotwalde
3. ^ Luther translation
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
5. ↑ ^{a b c} Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the expulsion in 1945 . Hamburg 1968, p. 124.
6. ↑ The * indicates a school location
7. ↑ Rydzewo (district of Lötzen)
8. ↑ Parafia Rydzewo in the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.