St. Peter and Paul (Jeże)

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Church of St. Peter and Paul in Jeże
(Kościół Świętych Apostołów Piotr i Pawła w Jeżach)
Church of Gehsen
The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Jeże (Gehsen)

The once Protestant, now Catholic Church in Jeże (Gehsen)
Construction year: 1865-1866
Inauguration: December 18, 1866
Style elements : Brick gothic
Client: Evangelical Church Community Gehsen
( Church Province East Prussia ) / Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union
Location: 53 ° 29 '12.5 "  N , 21 ° 52' 35"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 29 '12.5 "  N , 21 ° 52' 35"  E
Location: Jeże
Warmia-Masuria , Poland
Purpose: Roman-Catholic , until 1945 Evangelical-Lutheran parish church
Parish: No. 5b,
12-200 Jeże
Diocese : Ełk

The Church of St. Peter and Paul in Jeże ( German  Gehsen ) is a building from the middle of the 19th century. Until 1945 it was a Protestant church for the East Prussian parish Gehsen; Today it is the parish church of the Roman Catholic parish in Polish Jeże.

Geographical location

Jeże is located in the east-south of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship on state road 63 . The location of the church is in the southern local area in the east of the main road from Pisz (Johannisburg) to Kolno .

Church building

The church from the east with the semicircular choir

At the church in Jeże is a brick building with a small western gable turrets and a semicircular eastern apse . It was inaugurated on December 18, 1866. It was not until five years later - on November 4, 1871 - that the organ was also ready for use. The church peal consists of two bells .

Until 1945 the church was in the service of the Protestant church. It was then taken over by the Catholic Church, initially as a branch church of the Church of St. John the Baptist in Pisz , and later as the parish church of the independent parish of Jeże.

Parish

Evangelical

Church history

In 1846 a Protestant parish was founded in Gehsen . Places that previously belonged to the church in Johannisburg and to the church in Kumilsko (1938–1945 Morgen , Polish Kumielsk ) were united to their parish . Until 1945 the parish was incorporated into the church district Johannisburg in the church province of East Prussia of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1925 it had 2,489 members. The state authorities were responsible for church patronage .

Flight and expulsion of the local population meant the end for the Protestant parish in Gehsen. Protestant residents living here today adhere to the parish in Pisz within the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland .

Parish locations (until 1945)

For parish Gehsen were next to the vicarage Gehsen 14 villages and towns:

Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name Surname Change name from
1938 to 1945		 Polish name
Bear quarry, forest Niedźwiedzie Bagno * Königsdorf
until 1904 Piskorzewen 		Piskorzewo
Dlottowen Fischborn (East Pr.) Dłutowo * Königstal
until 1905 Dziadowen 		Dziadowo
Eichental, forest Szast * Lipniken Lipniki
Great Pasken Mining Königstal Paski Wielkie Rakowken Sernau Rakówko, now:
Turowo Duże
Big Wollisko Heron nest Wolisko Wielkie * Turowen Turau Turowo
Henriettental, forest Wondollek Wondollen Wądołek
Little Wollisko Little Egret Horst Wolisko Małe Wobble Wróble

Pastor (until 1945)

The pastors at the Gehsen church officiated as Protestant clergy from 1846 to 1945:

  • Leopold Czypulowski, 1846–1858
  • Johann D. Hermann Hassenstein,
    1858–1865
  • Heinrich Rudolf V. Hensel, 1865–1875
  • Ernst Theodor Teschner, 1874–1878
  • Karl Oskar Aug. Nikolaiski, 1878–1882
  • Karl August Bogdan, 1884–1885
  • Johann Hermann Bolz, 1886–1893
  • Paul Hensel , 1893-1907
  • Robert Griggo, 1901
  • Otto Arthur Dignath, 1907–1912
  • Ernst Stern, 1913–1922
  • Johannes Carl Julius Zachau, 1922–1935
  • Herbert Friedriszik, 1936–1939
  • Horst Sturm, 1939–1942
  • Hans Strasdas, 1941–1945

Church records

The church records of the Gehsen parish have been preserved and are being kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin-Kreuzberg :

  • Burials 1846–1876.

Roman Catholic

Before 1945 there were very few Catholics in the Gehsen region. They were parish in the Roman Catholic parish church in Johannisburg in the deanery Masuria II (seat: Johannisburg) in the diocese of Warmia .

Many with the influx of Polish and mostly Catholic new citizens could in Jeże form their own Catholic community, first of all a filial community of the parish in Pisz was. In 1987 the Warmian bishop Edmund Piszcz established his own parish here , to which the branch church in Borki (Adlig Borken) belongs today. The parish Jeże is incorporated into the deanery of Pisz in the diocese of Ełk in the Roman Catholic Church in Poland .

References

Web links

Commons : Church of St. Peter and Paul in Jeże  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Walther Hubatsch : History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches. Göttingen 1968, p. 119, fig. 545.
  2. ↑ a b Parafia Jeże in the Diocese of Ełk
  3. ^ A b Walther Hubatsch: History of the Protestant Church in East Prussia , Volume 3 documents. Göttingen 1968, p. 491.
  4. ↑ The * indicates a school location.
  5. ↑ Friedwald Moeller: Old Prussian Protestant Pastor's Book from the Reformation to the Expulsion in 1945. Hamburg 1968, p. 40.
  6. ↑ church records Gehsen the Evangelical Central Archives