St. Andreas Bobola Church (Gudniki)
| St. Andrew Bobola Church in Gudniki (Kościół Św. Andrzeja Boboli w Gudnikach) Gudnick Church |
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.jpg) The once Protestant, now Catholic village church in Gudniki (Gudnick) |
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| Construction year: | 14th and 15th centuries |
| Style elements : | Field stone church |
| Location: | 54 ° 6 '15.8 " N , 21 ° 8' 49.3" E |
| Location: |
Gudniki Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran branch church |
| Parish: | ul.Słowackiego 9, 11-440 Reszel |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Reszel |
Today's St. Andreas Bobola Church in Gudniki ( German Gudnick ) was built in two phases in the 14th and 15th centuries. She was from 1528 to 1945 Protestant church for the parish Gudnick the parish Langheim - Gudnick ( Polish Łankiejmy-Gudniki ) in East Prussia . Today it is a Catholic branch church of the parish Reszel ( German Rößel ) in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Gudniki is located in the northern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , seven kilometers north of the former district town of Reszel ( German Rößel ). Voivodeship road 590 runs through the village, which connects Barciany (Barten) via Korsze (Korschen) with Biskupiec (Bishop's Castle) . The nearest train station is Korsze.
The church is in the center of the village on the east side of the main street.
Church building
Construction of the church in Gudnick started in the middle of the 14th century - a few years after the town was founded around 1340. In 1483 the church was first mentioned in a document. The church was built in two stages. The western part is the older, the younger eastern part with the attached sacristy was built in the second half of the 15th century.
The building is a plastered field stone building that has been renewed several times, but only slightly redesigned. Between 1731 and 1733 it was extensively restored, with a vestibule being built on the south side. In addition, the sacristy was given a curved gable , and the east gable and partly also the west gable of the church were renewed. A tower stump was built on the west side .
Further restorations were carried out in 1855, 1905 and 1924. The year numbers are documented on the east gable. In 1927 the windows were widened.
The interior of the church has a flat wooden beamed ceiling . In 1744 it was painted in a popular way by Johann Jerusalem from Friedland (East Prussia) (today in Russian Prawdinsk ).
The altar dates from 1626 and was supplemented with diamondwork in 1715. The pulpit on the north side of the church was made in 1656 and received a sound cover in 1744 . The painted gallery was built in the middle of the 18th century. The organ found its place on it around 1740 . A representation of Trinitas from the end of the 16th century has survived .
The bell hangs in a free-standing wooden bell carrier.
Developed in the pre-Reformation period, the church served as a Protestant church from 1528 . Until 1945 it was a branch church of the united parishes of Langheim ( Łankiejmy ) and Gudnick (Gudniki) with a parish in Langheim. After that it became a Catholic church and was named after the saint and martyr Andreas Bobola . She is now subordinate to the rectory in Reszel (Rößel) . Structurally, the church was adapted to the changed liturgical use.
Parish
A church was built in Gudnick before the Reformation . It was subordinate to the parish in Rößel until 1528 .
Evangelical
Church history
When the Lutheran denomination gained a foothold in East Prussia with the Reformation in 1525 , the Gudnicker Church remained with its previous parish for three years. On June 10, 1528 she came to the parish of Langheim ( Polish Łankiejmy ), which until 1538 also included the church of Groß Schwansfeld ( Łabędnik ). From 1692 to 1736 the church in Gudnick was independent, from 1736 to 1768 it belonged again to Langheim and then finally from 1870. The parish seat of the two connected parishes remained in Langheim, even if clergymen lived in Gudnick's own rectory in the meantime. Until 1945 Gudnick belonged with Langheim to the church district Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union .
In 1925 the two parishes had a total of 5,000 parishioners, of which 2,800 belonged to the Gudnick district . The church patronage of both parishes was the responsibility of the Groebenschen Family Foundation based in Langheim.
Escape and expulsion of the local population put an end to the evangelical community in the village, now called “Gudniki”, after 1945. Protestant church members living here today belong to the parish of Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish
For parish Gudnick belonged to 1945, only the village and (until 1928), the Gut Gudnick with the Vorwerk Mühlhufen (Polish Młynisko , no longer in existence).
Pastor
Mostly looked after by the parish in Langheim, Gudnick also had times of his own pastor:
- Jacob Schröder, 1692–1703
- Christian. Ms. Heilmeyer, until 1736
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schumacher, 1768–1777
- Gottlieb Theodor Weber, 1777–1780
- Johann Friedrich Worm, 1780–1792
- Friedrich Theodor Weichert, 1796–1808
- Georg Carl Fleischer, 1808–1823
- Carl Julius Franz Hecht, 1832–1836
Catholic
In the period before 1945 only a few Catholics lived in the Gudnicks area. Catholic clergy held office at the church until 1528. When this was handed over to the Lutherans, the Catholic church members moved to Rößel (Reszel) , Rastenburg (Kętrzyn) and Korschen (Korsze) . At the time, all three parishes belonged to the Diocese of Warmia .
With the settlement of new Polish citizens in Gudnick after 1945, numerous Catholic church members gathered here, who claimed the previously Protestant church for themselves. It was subordinated to the parish in Reszel (Rößel) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Gudniki - Gudnick at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of the East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 80, fig. 297, 298.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg, 1968, p. 50.
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia. Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 473.