St. Peter and Paul (Korsze)
| Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in Korsze (Cerkiew Świętych Apostołów Piotra i Pawła w Korszach) Evangelical Church in Korschen |
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 The former Protestant, now Orthodox church in Korsze (Korschen) |
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| Construction year: | 1903-1904 |
| Inauguration: | July 17, 1904 |
| Architect : | J. Wilimzig, Berlin |
| Style elements : | Neo-Gothic brick building |
| Client: | Evangelical Parish of Korschen ( Church Province of East Prussia , Church of the Old Prussian Union ) |
| Location: | 54 ° 9 '49.4 " N , 21 ° 8' 11.8" E |
| Address: | ul. Adama Mickiewicza 31 Korsze Warmian-Masurian , Poland |
| Purpose: | Polish Orthodox , until 1945: Evangelical Lutheran parish church |
| Parish: | ul. Adama Mickiewicza 33, 11-430 Korsze |
| Diocese : | Polish Orthodox Church , Białystok-Gdansk Diocese , Olsztyn Deanery |
The Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the Polish town of Korsze ( German Korschen ) is a building from the beginning of the 20th century that was built as a jubilee church. Until 1945 it was the parish church for the Korschen parish in East Prussia and is now a place of worship for the Polish Orthodox Church .
Geographical location
Korsze is located in the northern center of the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship . The provincial road 590 ( Barciany - Korsze - Reszel - Biskupiec ) runs north-south through the city, in which railway lines Posen-Toruń-Korsze and Białystok-Korsze encounter.
The location of the church is in the south of the city on the east side of the road to Podlechy - Reszel .
Church building
The once Protestant church in Korschen was one of the 14 anniversary churches that were set up on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the coronation of Frederick III. were built by Brandenburg . As a brick building with the character of the religious order , it was modeled on the mother church in Leunenburg ( Sątoczno in Polish ) - according to a design by the Berlin architect J. Wilimzig . The church has a tower and a closed choir .
The foundation stone was laid on May 17, 1903, and just 14 months later the church was handed over to its intended purpose on July 17, 1904 as part of a service.
The church interior has a single nave. It has a flat wooden ceiling , with the choir and main entrance vaulted. The altar is made of white brick . The entire interior is in a Gothic style. The organ was made by the Göbel organ workshop in Königsberg (Prussia) ( Kaliningrad in Russian ). The ringing originally consisted of three bells .
In 1968 the Polish Orthodox Church became the owner of the former Protestant church. Its furnishings were adapted to the changed liturgical customs. An iconostasis was installed , and both sides of the altar are now decorated with paintings by a monk from the Jabłeczna Monastery : Prince Vladimir I and his mother Olga, as well as the conversion of the Kievan Rus under St. Vladimir.
Parish
Evangelical (until 1945)
Church history
There was a Protestant parish in Korschen from 1926. Up to this point in time, the place was parish to Leunenburg ( Sątoczno in Polish ). However, the number of parishioners in Korschen and the surrounding area increased so much that at 3000 it was more numerous than that of the Leunenburg Church at 2500 and the building of a church in 1904 was urgently needed. A parish office was only established in Korschen in 1927.
However, there was still a pastoral bond between Leunenburg and Korschen. The cleric in office in Korschen was considered the second pastor of the parish of Leunenburg-Korschen. It was part of the church district Rastenburg (Polish Kętrzyn ) in the church province of East Prussia of the Church of the Old Prussian Union . The evacuation and expulsion of the local population from 1945 to 1950 made it impossible to continue the work of the Evangelical Church in the place now known as "Korsze". The Protestant residents living here today orientate themselves towards Kętrzyn to the local St. John's Church in the Masurian diocese of the Evangelical-Augsburg Church in Poland .
Parish
The Korschen district of the Leunenburg-Korschen parish included the following places and living spaces:
| German name | Polish name | German name | Polish name | |
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| Approach height | Góra | Korschen | Korsze | |
| Glide tendons | Glitajny | Nohnkeim | Nunkajmy | |
| Kollmen | Kałmy | Sandenberg | Piaskowiec |
Pastor
Between 1927 and 1945 the Protestant pastors officiated at the Korschen parish church: Paul Ankermann (1927–1934) and Gottfried Moll (1935–1945).
Orthodox
An Orthodox community in Korsze was founded on the initiative of a resident of the city of Reszel ( German Rößel ). He belonged to the Roman Catholic Church , but converted to Orthodoxy. He tried to form an Orthodox community, which finally succeeded in 1963 in Sątopy-Samulewo ( Bishop's Village ) near Reszel. Three years later the parish was moved to Korsze, and in 1968 it became the new owner of the local evangelical church. The present parish in Korsze is part of the Olsztyn (Allenstein) deanery in the Białystok-Danzig diocese of the Polish Orthodox Church .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Churches in Korschen at ostpreussen.net
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch , History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 2 Pictures of East Prussian Churches , Göttingen 1968, p. 79, fig. 295, 296
- ↑ a b Korsze - Orthodox Church of St. Peter and Paul
- ↑ a b Walther Hubatsch, History of the Evangelical Church of East Prussia , Volume 3 Documents , Göttingen 1968, p. 473
- ↑ a b Friedwald Moeller, Old Prussian Evangelical Pastor's Book from the Reformation to Distribution in 1945 , Hamburg, 1968, p. 76