St. Maximilian Kolbe (Jerutki)
| St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Jerutki (Kościół św. Maksymiliana Kolbego w Jerutkach) Church of Klein Jerutten |
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.jpg) The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Jerutki (Klein Jerutten) |
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| Construction year: | 1734 |
| Style elements : | Half-timbered church |
| Client: | Evangelical Church Community of Klein Jerutten ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 53 ° 35 '29.5 " N , 21 ° 8' 11.2" E |
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Jerutki Warmia-Masuria , Poland |
| Purpose: | Protestant parish church until 1945 , now a Roman Catholic branch church |
| Parish: | ul. Żymierskiego 19, 12-140 Świętajno |
| Diocese : | Archdiocese of Warmia , Rozogi deanery |
The St. Maximilian Kolbe Church in Jerutki ( German Klein Jerutten ) is a half -timbered church built in the first half of the 18th century . Until 1945 it was the parish church of the Evangelical parish of Klein Jerutten in East Prussia , today it is a branch church of the Roman Catholic parish of Jerutki in the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship .
Geographical location
Jerutki is located in the southern center of the Warmia-Masurian Voivodeship , about ten kilometers east of the district town of Szczytno ( German Ortelsburg ). The village can be reached from Młyńsko on national road 53 (former German Reichsstraße 134 ) via a side road. The nearest train station is Jeruty (Great Jerutten) on the Olsztyn – Ełk railway line .
The church is in the western center of the village.
Church building
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The church in Klein Jerutten was built in 1734 as a half-timbered church. The cemetery was laid out immediately next to it.
The church, to which the massive tower was added in 1821 , has a three-sided choir closure . The interior is spanned by a vaulted wooden ceiling that is flat on the sides. The richly decorated, wood-carved pulpit altar was created in 1737 and is said to have been made by Michael Kapitzki from Willenberg ( Wielbark in Polish ). Approximately from the same period dates a confessional , and only a little older is the baptismal , who is now in the Museum of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn (Allenstein) is kept.
The still-preserved grave slab of the wife of the first pastor in Klein Jerutten, Johann Biegon, who died at the age of 17, dates from the 18th century .
The church only received an organ in the 19th century. It was inaugurated on September 10, 1858 1911 from which Bohemia originating organ builder Carl Novak in Königsberg (Prussia) renovated and later revised by from Upper Silesia -born organ builder Bruno Goebel , also in Konigsberg.
The church bell originally consisted of three bells , later there were four. One of these bells is now in the tower of the church in Lobmachtersen (town of Salzgitter in Lower Saxony ). It was confiscated for ammunition use during World War II , but survived and is now serving in a new location.
The church has been owned by the Roman Catholic Church since the 1980s . It was partially renovated and structurally adapted to the changed liturgical use and dedicated to Maximilian Kolbe . Next to the church in Kolonia (Grünwalde) it is a branch church of the parish Świętajno ( Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen ).
Parish
Evangelical
Church history
Klein Jerutten became a Protestant parish village in 1709 and for a long time belonged to the Rastenburg Inspection ( Kętrzyn in Polish ). The first clergyman began his service here as early as 1710. However, many years passed before the church was built.
Trivia: In 1854 King Friedrich Wilhelm IV handed over the Order of the Black Eagle to General von Günther to the Church of Klein Jerutten, which General von Günther had asked for during his lifetime. In that year, the king was visiting Jerutten with his wife Elisabeth to remember the stay of his parents, King Friedrich Wilhelm III. and to remember Queen Luise , who had prayed in front of the altar of the church.
The parish of Jerutten encompassed an extensive region until in 1908 the village of Schwentainen (1938 to 1945 Altkirchen , in Polish Świętajno ) was separated as a separate parish and given its own parish. However, both churches remained parochial connected until 1926.
In 1925, the parish of Klein Jerutten had 7,300 parishioners compared to 4,000 in the Schwentainen parish. Until 1945, both were incorporated into the superintendent district of Passenheim (Polish: Pasym ) in the parish of Ortelsburg (Szczytno) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . Flight and expulsion of the local population during the Second World War put an end to the life of the Protestant parish in the village then called Yerutki. Protestant church members living here today belong to the church in Szczytno in the Masuria diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
In the 19th century a new rectory was built in Klein Jerutten . It stood in the immediate vicinity of the church and still seems to be preserved today as an uninhabited building. When the French moved through on their way to Moscow in 1812, Generals Dubois and Tierny stayed in what was then the rectory. When the Russians moved to France in return in 1813, Grand Duke Constantine stayed here .
The former Protestant cemetery still exists today, even if numerous grave sites are in a neglected state. There is a memorial on its site in memory of those who fell in the years 1914–1918. It is in very good condition.
Parish places
The following places belonged to the parish of Klein Jerutten:
| German name | Polish name |
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| Alt Keykuth (partly) | Stare Kiejkuty |
| * (Old) Marxöwen 1938–45: Markshöfen |
Marksewo |
| Bergfelde 1938–45: Seenwalde |
Piasutno |
| Gondola mill | |
| * Klein Jerutten | Yerutki |
| German name | Polish name |
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| Kobiel 1938–45: Lake View |
Kobiel |
| New Marxöwen | |
| * Olschienen 1938–45: Ebendorf (Ostpr.) |
Olszyny |
| * Piassutten 1938–45: Seenwalde |
Piasutno |
| * Plohsen | Płozy |
| German name | Polish name |
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| * Powalczin 1938–45: Schönhöhe |
Powałczyn |
| Lonk 1938–45: Kleinseenwalde |
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| Strusken | |
| Wisno | |
| Wyrog 1938–45: Neuseenwalde |
Wyrok |
Pastor
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At the church in Klein Jerutten the pastors officiated as evangelical clergy:
- Johann Biegon, 1710-1734
- Michael Sinogowitz, 1734-1758
- Johann Christoph Sinogowitz, 1758–1772
- Johann Ernst Nordhoff, 1772–1802
- Samuel Ernst Riemer, 1802–1817
- Gottlieb Briese, 1818–1819
- Jacob Czygan, 1819-1840
- Friedrich WB Brachvogel, 1840–1841
- Friedrich Ludwig Riemer, 1841–1869
- Rudolf Carl Rudnick, 1846-1853
- Franz Ludw.A. Paczynski, 1853-1859
- Reinhold Ludwig Jacobi, 1869–1871
- Friedrich Heym. Claudius, 1869-1900
- Alexander August Metschies, 1898
- Franz Pilchowski, 1901–1926
- Wladislaus Przybylski, 1910-1920
- Paul Pachaly, 1926-1928
- Joh. Sam. Barth. R. Ehmer, 1940-1943
- Heinz Günther Fehr, 1941
- Heinz Martin Wiesner, 1942–1945
Church records
The church register documents have been preserved and are being kept at the German Central Office for Genealogy (DZfg) in Leipzig :
- Baptisms: 1754-1819, 1805-1817, 1850-1875
- Weddings: 1754–1770, 1805–1840, 1866–1874
- Burials: 1795–1840, 1854–1861, 1873–1875.
Roman Catholic
The Roman Catholic population in the Klein Jerutten region belonged to the parish church in Ortelsburg (Polish: Szczytno ) in the dean's office Masuria I in the then diocese of Warmia until 1945 . After the Second World War , numerous new Polish citizens settled here, almost all of whom were Catholic. They claimed the previously evangelical church for themselves, which was finally given over to the Roman Catholic Church in the 1980s. The church dedicated to Maximilian Kolbe is today a branch church of the parish Świętajno ( Schwentainen , 1938 to 1945 Altkirchen ) in the deanery Rozogi (Friedrichshof) within the Archdiocese of Warmia .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 130, fig. 609, 610
- ↑ a b c d Jerutki - Klein Jerutten at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Parish Świętajno in the Archdiocese of Warmia
- ↑ a b c Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of 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, p. 58
- ^ Memorial to the fallen in Klein Jerutten (Polish: Jerutki), Ortelsburg district, East Prussia
- ↑ The * indicates a school location
- ↑ lived in Schwentainen
- ↑ district Szczytno at AGoFF