St. Andrew Bobola Church (Świętajno)
| St. Andrew Bobola Church in Świętajno (Kościół Św. Andrzeja Boboli w Świętajno) Schwentainen church (Ortelsburg district) / |
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.jpg) The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Świętajno (Schwentainen) |
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| Construction year: | 1908 to (1910) (?) |
| Client: | Evangelical parish Jerutten in Klein Jerutten ( Church Province of East Prussia / Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 34 '0.3 " N , 21 ° 12' 58.6" E |
| Address: | ul. Adama Mickiewicza Świętajno Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul. Michała Żymierskiego 19 12-140 Świętajno |
| Diocese : | Warmia |
The St. Andreas Bobola Church in Świętajno ( German Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen ) is a building erected at the beginning of the 20th century and served until 1945 as a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Schwentainen resp. Altkirchen. Today it is a Roman Catholic parish church in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Świętajno is located in the south of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 14 kilometers northeast of the district town of Szczytno ( Ortelsburg ). From Jeruty ( Groß Jerutten ), a side road leads from the Polish state road DK 53 to the town. Świętajno is a train station on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line ( German Allenstein – Lyck ).
The church is located in the northeast of the village between ul. Adama Mickiewicza and ul. Michała Żymierskiego.
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Church building
In 1908, the construction of a church began in Schwentainen, the completion of which can be expected after two years. The church was supposed to save the parishioners living in the Schwentainer region the somewhat tedious journey to the previous parish church in Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki in Polish ). When Russian troops almost completely destroyed the village on August 22, 1914, the church was also seriously damaged. In the 1920s, the reconstruction of the place began, including a new church and also a new school.
Until 1945 the building was used as a Protestant church. Then it became a Roman Catholic parish church , which was named after the holy martyr Andreas Bobola .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
A Protestant parish was founded in Schwentainen in 1908. It was subordinate to the Jerutten parish in Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki in Polish ), in which an auxiliary preacher responsible for the area around Schwentainen served in addition to the parish priest (based in Klein Jerutten) and also lived in Schwentainen between 1910 and 1920. The parish Klein Jerutten / Schwentainen counted a total of 7,300 members of the congregation in 1925, by 4000 the Sprengel were assigned Schwentainen with its eleven towns and villages.
In 1926, the Schwentainen parish received its own pastoral position, which was occupied until 1944 and whose owners now also lived in Schwentainen. The parish was without patronage .
Until 1945 the parish of Schwentainen (from 1938 parish of Altkirchen ) belonged to the superintendent district of Passenheim (Polish: Pasym ) in the parish of Ortelsburg ( Szczytno ) within the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
Flight and expulsion of the local population let the life of the evangelical community wither after 1945. Protestant church members living here again today now belong to the parish church in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
Up to 1945 ten places were parish in the parish of Schwentainen in addition to the parish :
| Surname | Polish name | Surname | Polish name | |
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| Bieberthal | * Grünwalde | Colonia | ||
| Friedrichsfelde | Chochół | Cucumbers | Górki | |
| * Friedrichsthal | Cis | Lontzig | Łąck Wielki | |
| Galonsken 1938–45 Neukirchen |
New Jerutten | Chajdyce | ||
| Great Jerutten | Jeruty | Schönwaldau | Brele |
Pastor
Between 1926 and 1945, the clergy served as Protestant pastors at the Schwentainer ( Altkirchen ) church:
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Already from 1910 to 1920 the assistant preacher Wladislaus Przybylski had his residence in Schwentainen.
Church records
The Schwentainer church registers did not survive the war. For the period up to 1908, the Schwentainen church book entries can be found in the documents of the parish of Klein Jerutten ( Jerutki ).
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Roman Catholic
Until 1945 the parish church in Ortelsburg ( Polish: Szczytno ) was the central place of worship for the Catholic church members living in the Schwentainen region . It belonged to the then diocese of Warmia . Today the St. Andrew Bobola Church in Świętajno is the responsible Catholic parish church. It is part of the Rozogi ( Friedrichshof ) deanery within the current Archdiocese of Warmia of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The two subsidiary churches in Jerutki (Klein Jerutten) and Kolonia (Grünwalde) belong to their parish .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen, 1968, p. 130
- ↑ The exact date of completion is not known
- ↑ Świętajno - Schwentainen / Altkirchen
- ↑ a b Parafia Świętajno in the Archdiocese of Warmia ( Memento of the original from July 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen, 1968, p. 496
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, pp. 58 and 138
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
