St. Andreas Bobola Church (Rydzewo)
Church of St. Andrew Bobola (Rydzewo) (Kościół Św.Arzeja Boboli w Rydzewie) Church of Rydzewen (Rotwalde) |
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The once Protestant, now Catholic church in Rydzewo |
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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 |
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 .
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 | |
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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:
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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
Individual evidence
- ↑ 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
- ↑ a b c d Rydzewo - Rydzewen - Rotwalde
- ^ Luther translation
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 493.
- ↑ a b c Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Evangelical Pastors' Book from the Reformation to the expulsion in 1945 . Hamburg 1968, p. 124.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Rydzewo (district of Lötzen)
- ↑ 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.