St. Anthony of Padua (Gąski)
| St. Anthony of Padua Church in Gąski (Kościół Św.Antoniego Padewskiego w Gąskach) (Church of Gonsken / Herzogskirchen) |
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| Construction year: | 1831–1833 tower: 1908/09 |
| Style elements : | classicism |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community Gonsken ( Church Province of East Prussia / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 56 '41.2 " N , 22 ° 26' 15.6" E |
| Location: |
Gąski Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman Catholic (until 1945 Evangelical Lutheran ) parish church |
| Parish: | Gąski 27 19-400 Gąski |
| Diocese : | Ełk |
The St. Antonius von Padua Church in Gąski ( German Gonsken , 1938–1945 Herzogskirchen ) was built in the first half of the 19th century and was the central church for the Protestant parish Gonsken (Herzogskirchen) until 1945 . Today it is the Roman Catholic parish church for the Gąski parish .
Geographical location
Gąski is located in the east of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, southwest of the district town of Olecko (Marggrabowa , colloquially also Oletzko , 1933-1945 Treuburg ) on the national road DK 65 (former German Reichsstrasse 132 ). The location of the church is in the northern town center, east of the main street and opposite the confluence of the street of Kukówko (Kukowken , 1938-1945 Heinrichstal ).
Church building
The current church was built between 1831 and 1833 as a successor to a wooden church built in 1741. Initially without a tower , the church building was under the influence of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , who at the time was head of the Oberbaudeputation in Berlin .
The church is a massive building to which a tower was added in the north-west in 1908/1909 as an extension of the western gable wall. Inside, were galleries moved in, resting on round columns. The central nave was covered by a barrel vault, while the sides were roofed flat. A pulpit wall stood on the east side and an iron crucifix from the mid-19th century on the altar .
The church received an organ and the peal consisted of two bells .
After 1945 the church was expropriated and transferred to the Roman Catholic Church in Poland . The interior design of the church was then redesigned in view of the needs of changed liturgical purposes and the church was dedicated to the namesake Antonius of Padua .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
In 1741, a Protestant parish was founded in what was then Gonsken. Until 1749 she was cared for by Stradaunen ( Straduny in Polish ) from the parish office, but then received her own pastoral position, which was occupied continuously until 1945. At first, the parish of Gonsken with its almost 20 villages, towns and residential areas was incorporated into the Lyck inspection (Polish Ełk). Until 1945 it belonged to the Oletzko (Treuburg) parish in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . The church patronage initially exercised by the king was ultimately the responsibility of the state authorities. In 1925 the parish of Gonsken had 3,005 parishioners.
After 1945, flight and expulsion of the local population made evangelical parish life no longer possible. The Protestant church members living in the Gąski region today orient themselves towards the parish in Ełk (Lyck) , a subsidiary of the parish in Pisz ( Johannisburg in German ) in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish places
The evangelical parish of Gonsken (Herzogskirchen) included 18 villages, localities and residential areas:
| Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
Place name | Change name from 1938 to 1945 |
Polish name |
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| * Babken | Babeck | Babki Gąseckie | * Kukowken | Heinrichstal | Kukówko | |
| Bartken | Bartki | Lakommen | Łakome | |||
| Bartkenhof | Bartkowski Dwór | Leschnicken | Kleinheinrichstal | Leśniki | ||
| Dzingellen | Dingeln | Dzięgiele Oleckie | Breakdowns | Kelchdorf | Pomiany | |
| * Gonsken | Ducal churches | Gąski | Sabielnen | Podersbach | Zabielne | |
| Great Gonschorowen | Klinken (Ostpr.) | Gąsiorowo | * Satty corners | Satiated | Zatyki | |
| * Ki-lions | Kijewo | * Sayden | Saiden | Zajdy | ||
| Kiöwenhorst | Wólka Kijewska | Schlepien | Schlöppen | Ślepie | ||
| Klein Gonschorowen | Little lions | Gąsiorówko | * Schwiddern | Świdry |
Pastor
Between 1741 and 1945 officiated at the church Gonsken (Herzogskirchen) as Protestant clergy:
- Christoph Mäding (Stradaunen), 1741–1749
- Christoph Tidemann, 1749–1754
- Friedrich Ludwig Boretius, 1754–1759
- Johann Friedrich Kuleschewius, 1759–1771
- Georg Gottfried Solomon, 1771–1777
- Karl Heinrich Gregorovius, 1777–1797
- Johann Jakob Paulini, 1792–1799
- Andreas Frenzel, 1799–1807
- Ernst August Frenzel, 1835–1847
- Friedrich Ferdinand Kuhr, 1847–1881
- E. Albert Chr. Rud. Sapatka, 1882-1889
- Gustav Friedrich Fenselau, 1889–1890
- Wladislaus von Przybylski, 1891–1909
- Georg Alfred Weinberger, 1909–1911
- Otto Arthur Dignatz, from 1912
- Walter Schubert, 1936–1945
Church records
The church records of the parish of Gonsken (Herzogskirchen) have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :
- Baptisms from 1800 to 1874 with lists of names.
Roman Catholic
Until 1945, the numerically very few Catholic church members of Gonskens or ducal church were parish in the parish church of Marggrabowa (1928–1945 Treuburg, Polish Olecko) in what was then the diocese of Warmia . The resettlement of Polish and predominantly Catholic citizens after 1945 made it possible to found their own congregation in Gąski, with the previously Protestant church being rededicated as a Catholic parish church. There is now its own parish, to which a branch church has been assigned in Kijewo ( German Kiöwen ) .
The parish ( Polish parafia ) Gąski belongs to the Dean's Office Olecko - św. Jana Apostoła in the Ełk Diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 115, figs. 522-523.
- ↑ a b Gąski - Gonsken / Herzogskirchen (with historical photo of the church)
- ↑ a b Parafia Gąski in the Diocese of Ełk ( Memento of the original from August 12, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet 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. 484.
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 44.
- ↑ The * indicates a school location.
- ^ A b Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ Christa Stache: Directory of the church records in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin , Part I: The Eastern Church Provinces of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union. 3. Edition. Berlin 1992, p. 47.
