St. John the Baptist (Łankiejmy)
| Church of St. John the Baptist in Łankiejmy (Kościół Św. Jana Chrzciciela w Łankiejmach) Langheim Church |
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 The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Łankiejmy (Langheim) |
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| Construction year: | Late 14th century |
| Style elements : | Field / brick Gothic |
| Location: | 54 ° 8 '58 " N , 21 ° 4' 33.8" E |
| Location: |
Łankiejmy Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | 11-430 Łankiejmy |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Deanery Reszel |
The Church of St. John the Baptist in Łankiejmy ( German Langheim ) is a building from the end of the 14th century. Until 1945 it was the worship center for the Langheim district of the united Protestant parishes of Langheim -Gudnick in East Prussia and is now the Catholic parish church of the Łankiejmy parish in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Łankiejmy is located on the river Zaine ( Polish Sajna ) in the north of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship , 21 kilometers northwest of the district town of Kętrzyn ( German Rastenburg ). The Voivodship Road 592 (formerly German Reichsstraße 135 ) runs through the village between Giżycko (Lötzen) and Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) . The village is also a train station on the Poznan – Toruń – Korsze railway line .
The location of the church is south of the main street not far from the confluence of the side street from Trzeciaki (Dreihöfen) and Wygoda (Heinriettenhof) .
church
The church in the former Langheim was built at the end of the 14th century - probably between 1375 and 1400 - under the patronage of the Truchseß von Wetzhausen family . It is a choir-less building made of field and brick with a beautiful stepped gable on the east wall.
The church tower was added about a hundred years later - with field stones in the substructure. The upper three floors are bricked and decorated with stepped gables on two upper sides. The dials for the clock on the four sides of the tower date from 1772. They were donated by the von der Groeben patronage family .
A vestibule is attached to the church in the south, the sacristy in the north and a crypt vault next to it .
The church in one nave. Its interior has a trapezoidal wooden ceiling and is rich in carved galleries and stalls. The altar from 1682 and the pulpit from 1687 are simple carvings combined with insignificant oil paintings . A crucifix from around 1515 and a chalice from around 1380 to 1400 have been preserved from the Gothic furnishings .
In 1822 the church received an organ that was built by Johann Scherweit from Königsberg (Prussia) ( Russian: Kaliningrad ). The bells bore the dates 1771, 1772 and 1834.
In 1817/18 a hurricane destroyed the church roof and the tower, which resulted in considerable repairs. In 1911 the entire building was completely renovated. In the years after 1945 further renovation measures were carried out in order to adapt the church interior to the changed - because then Catholic - use. In addition, the church received the name of John the Baptist ("Kościół św. Jana Chrzciciela"). Epitaphs found (including those of the Truchseß von Wetzhausen family) were brought to the lapidary of St. George's Church in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) .
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
The foundation of a church in Langheim is dated to the year 1367. With the introduction of the Reformation in East Prussia , the church became Protestant. From 1533 to 1538 Groß Schwansfeld ( Polish: Łabędnik ) was connected to Langheim. Already in 1528 the church Gudnick (Polish: Gudniki ) was laid in Langheim - until 1692, again from 1736 to 1768 and finally from 1870. The parish seat of the two affiliated congregations Langheim and Gudnick remained in Langheim that until 1945 in the parish of Rastenburg (Polish Kętrzyn ) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Prussian Union of churches belonged.
In 1925, both parishes had a total of 5,000 parishioners, of whom 2,200 belonged to the Langheim district and 2,800 to the Gudnick district. The church patronage for both churches was incumbent on von der Groebenschen Family Foundation based in Langheim.
Flight and expulsion of the local population in the 1940s put an end to the life of the Protestant church in Langheim. Evangelical residents today belong to the parish in Kętrzyn (Rastenburg) with the branch church in Bartoszyce (Bartenstein) within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish locations (until 1945)
For Sprengel Langheim the parish Langheim-Gudnick belonged until 1945 twenty villages, towns and residential places:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Dreihöfen | Trzeciaki | Langwäldchen | Długi Lasek | |
| Eichenau | Dąb | Ludwigsfelde | ||
| Free field | Scharkeim | Sarkajmy | ||
| * Beliefs | Głowbity | Blasting rails | ||
| Grützau | Gnoyevo | * Sweet nod | Suśnik | |
| Hartels | Dzierżążnik | Tamperboths | Krzeszewo | |
| Heinriettenhof | Wygoda | * Flexing tendons | Wandajny | |
| Kätzels | Kociól | Wotterkeim (village) | Kowalewo Małe | |
| Cremates | Krzemity | Wotterkeim (Vorwerk) | Kowalewo Duże | |
| * Langheim | Łankiejmy | * Zandersdorf | Swędrówka |
Pastor (until 1945)
From the Reformation to the end of the Second World War , the following officiated as Protestant clergy at the Langheim Church:
- NN., 1538
- Johann Wagner, 1554/1567
- NN., Until 1574
- N. Martinus, from 1574
- Matthäus Waissel , 1574–1587
- Samuel Hebelius, 1590–1594
- Jonas Wolstein, from 1594
- Michel Cuderus, 1598-1613
- Martin Romanus, 1629
- Christoph Romanus, 1664–1668
- Matthias Roscius, from 1670
- Johann Heinrich Frouwen, 1679–1704
- Johann Christoph Friese, 1704–1724
- Daniel Friedrich Weber, 1724–1783
- Friedrich Wilhelm Schumacher, 1777–1790
- Johann Christoph Pflüger, 1790–1803
- Christoph Mich. Nietzki, 1803-1814
- Ferdinand Leopold Neumann, 1815–1854
- Otto Friedrich W. Biermann, 1854–1901
- Paul Ernst Alb. Nietzki, 1901-1909
- Hermann Georg A. Poetz, 1909–1913
- Hans Fr. KL Zollenkopf, 1913–1934
- Franz Geist, from 1934
- Hermann Paulokat, 1938
- Curt Schlösser, 1939–1945
Church records
The parish registers of the Langheim parish contain:
- Baptisms: 1672 to 1765 and 1810 to 1835 and 1847 to 1911
- Weddings: 1672 to 1765
- Burials: 1672 to 1765.
Catholic
Before 1945 there were only a few Catholics in Langheim. They were parish after Sturmhübel ( Polish Grzęda ) or Korschen (Polish Korsze ) in the Diocese of Warmia . Their number rose sharply when, after 1945, new Polish citizens of almost all of the Catholic denomination settled in Łankiejmy and claimed the previously Protestant church as their place of worship. In Łankiejmy a separate parish was established , which belongs to the dean's office Reszel ( German Rößel ) in the current Archdiocese of Warmia . Affiliated to the parish are the branches Kraskowo (Schönfließ) and Wandajny (Wendehnen) .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 80, Fig. 306
- ↑ a b Church in Langheim at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Parafia Łankiejmy in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
- ↑ Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 48
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Protestant Pastor Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945 , Hamburg 1968, p. 82
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ Member of the Masovia Corps
- ↑ a b c Storage: German Central Office for Genealogy in Leipzig
- ^ Place of storage: State Archives Allenstein, Olsztyn / Poland