St. Trinity Church (Stettin-Lastadie)
The Church of St. Trinity (Polish: Kościół Świętej Trójcy) on the island of Łasztownia (Lastadie) in Stettin was called St. Gertrud Church (Polish: Kościół Świętej Gertrudy) until 1960 . It is a building from the 19th century in late Gothic style, which is today the house of worship of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Poland . The church of the same name in Stettin-Krzekowo (Kreckow) belongs to the Polish Roman Catholic Church .
Geographical location
The Trinity Church on the Lastadie is located in the southeast of the inner city district (Śródmieście) of Szczecin at ul.Energetyków (until 1945 Große Lastadie ), which is known as the Polish state road 10 (former German Reichsstraße 104 ) between the German-Polish border at Lubieszyn (New Left) via Stargard (Stargard in Pomerania) and Piła (Schneidemühl) to Płońsk (Plhnen) and into which the Voivodship Road 115 from Nowe Warpno (Neuwarp) and Tanowo (Falkenwalde) opens near the church . It is three kilometers to Szczecin Central Station (Szczecin-Głowny).
Church building
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Building description
Today's St. Trinity Church, which was still named St. Gertrud Church until 1960, was built between 1894 and 1896 according to the plans of the Szczecin city architect Wilhelm Meyer-Schwartau . It is a cross-shaped building made of dark bricks. The octagonal tower with an elongated pointed dome is attached to the building.
Inside the church there is a one-story side gallery and - opposite the altar - an organ gallery. Five grave slabs from the 17th and 18th centuries are built into the church wall.
On the altar there is a picture "Christ in the Garden" (Garden of Gethsemane) by H. Ostachiewicz. The baptismal font, kept in late Romanesque style, comes from the chapel of the former Evangelical Bethanien Hospital on Alleestraße (today ul. Ks. P. Wawrzyniaka) in Stettin-Turzyn (Torney) . The organ was brought in 1917 from an abandoned chapel in Hermsdorf (Sobięcin) near Waldenburg (Wałbrzych) in Silesia . It is a work of the Schweidnitz organ building company Schlag & Söhne .
Building history
The St. Gertrud Church and today's St. Trinity Church was consecrated on December 17, 1896. It was built on the almost 600-year-old foundations of the previous church, which dates from 1308. During the Reformation in Pomerania, the church became a Lutheran place of worship. Already in the pre-Reformation period and even more so in the following years, the old St. Gertrud Church underwent multiple structural changes. During the time when Szczecin became part of Sweden, the church was rebuilt in the baroque style. At the beginning of the 18th century it was repaired due to war-related destruction. In 1752 she got an organ built by the Wagner student Peter Migendt .
During the Napoleonic occupation the church was used as a cattle barn. In 1887 it was finally decided to demolish it due to the desolate state of construction. Until the new church was built, the congregation moved to the St. John's Church on the western bank of the Oder .
The inauguration of the new St. Gertrud Church on December 17, 1896 was carried out by the Pomeranian-Stettin general superintendent Heinrich Poetter together with the parish priests Müller and Silex . Until 1945 it was the church of the Protestant parish on the Lastadie.
After 1945 the owners changed: the parish of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland (1945), the Polish National Catholic Church (Polski Narodowy Kościół Katolicki) (1946) and the Polish Methodist Church (1948). It is thanks to the initiative of the German Protestant church member Paul Gurgel that the church was made available for the approximately 500 Protestant Germans.
In 1959 it finally became the property of the Polish Evangelical Lutheran parish and was given the name “ St. Trinity Church ” (Kościół Świętej Trójcy) on October 16, 1960 in Protestant rejection of the name of the “Catholic” Saint Gertrude . .
An old Pomeranian folk tale handed down by Jodocus Donatus Hubertus Temme knows another meaning of the name given to the former St. Gertrud Church: A poor shepherd girl found a great treasure there on the way to Damm ( Altdamm , now Polish: Dąbie). Out of gratitude to God, who had given her happiness, she had a church built. The girl's name was Gertrude , and so the church was named after him. As late as the 19th century, a picture of a shepherd girl is said to have hung in the church, showing the builder.
Parish
history
For more than two centuries the parish of the St. Gertrud Church was part of the diocese of Cammin in the pre-Reformation period. With the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania in 1535 - in Stettin particularly shaped by the initiative of Paul vom Rode , who later became the first general superintendent of Pomerania-Stettin - the congregation accepted the Lutheran creed. Until the beginning of the 19th century there was only one pastor - e.g. Partly with assistant preacher - after that there were two parish posts here until 1945.
In 1945 the parish on the Lasta had 10,477 parishioners. She was the church district Stettin City West district the ecclesiastical province of Pomerania of the Prussian Union of churches incorporated. Due to flight and expulsion , the number of German Protestant church members in Stettin sank to less than 500 after 1945. The old church registers , which go back from 1945 to 1603, are now kept in the Evangelical Central Archives in Berlin-Kreuzberg .
The St. Trinity Church is today the Stettin parish church in the diocese of Wroclaw of the Evangelical Augsburg Church in Poland . The church includes a parsonage, which also dates from the 19th century, and a community center built in the 1990s that bears the name of Dietrich Bonhoeffer , bearing in mind the fact that this theologian was head from 1935 until it was banned by the Nazis in 1937 of the preachers' seminary of the Confessing Church in nearby Finkenwalde (Szczecin-Zdroje).
The post for a clergyman in the community has existed since 1945. The two branch communities in Trzebiatów (Treptow ad Rega) belong to its extensive church district, which makes up almost half of the area of the West Pomeranian Voivodeship - here is St. John's Church, the former church of the Old Lutherans , the place of worship - and Kłodzino (Kloxin near Pyritz) with the cemetery chapel as a place of worship.
Pastor to St. Gertrud / St. Trinity since 1535
The names Georg Enicke and Bernhard Strohschneider are known from the pre-Reformation clergy. Balthasar Cöller took office in 1527 and then converted to the Lutheran denomination:
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literature
- Hans Moderow : The Evangelical Clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the Present, Part 1. Stettin 1903.
- Heinrich Laag : A walk through the church history of Pomerania. Potsdam, undated
- Hellmuth Heyden : Church history of Pomerania (2 volumes). Cologne-Braunsfeld 1957.
- Norbert Buske : Pomeranian church history in dates. Thomas Helms Verlag , Schwerin 2001/2003.
Web links
- Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Trinity in Stettin (Polish)
- Convention of Protestant Congregations from Pomerania (German)
- The origin of the Gertruden Church in Stettin in the folk tale after Temme at Wikisource (German)
Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 8 ″ N , 14 ° 33 ′ 51 ″ E