Refuge Church
Refuge churches were existing places of worship in Protestant parts of the country, which were located near the border with Catholic areas in Silesia at that time and which granted the Protestant Silesians of these areas admission and religious refuge after the expropriation of their Protestant churches (1654–1668). Protestant Silesians turned to these 95 or so churches, who from then on were not allowed to practice their religion freely in their homeland, ie they went to church . There was
- Refuge churches in Brandenburg
in Großburg ( Borek Strzeliński ), a former Brandenburg enclave near Strehlen, south of Wroclaw.
- Refuge churches on Saxon territory
in Gebhardsdorf ( Giebułtów ), Marklissa ( Leśna ), Meffersdorf (Unięcice, now part of Pobiedna ), Ober-Wiesa ( Wieża ), Rengersdorf (Stankowice), Volkersdorf ( Wolimierz ), Siegersdorf ( Zebrzydowa ) and Sächsisch-Haugsdorf ( Nawojcki ) at Queis in Upper Lusatia.
- Refuge churches on Polish territory
in Weigmannsdorf ( Wygnańczyce ) and Fraustadt ( Wschowa ).
- Refuge churches on the territory of the evangelical Silesian principalities
in Altenlohm (Stary Łom), Harpersdorf ( Twardocice ) (now ruin) and Probsthain (Proboszczów) near Goldberg and Schreibendorf ( Sarby ) in the Strehlen district.
20th century
Church buildings in the Federal Republic of Germany built especially for displaced persons in the 1960s .
See also
- Border church
- Rezesskirche
- Silesian prayer houses
- Tolerance Church
- List of border and refuge churches in Silesia
literature
- Günther Grundmann: The Protestant Church in Silesia . 1970, Frankfurt / Main
- Reiner Sörries: By the grace of the emperor - Protestant church buildings in the Habsburg Empire. Böhlau Verlag, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20154-8 , pp. 29–32 and 108–110.
- Lars-Arne Dannenberg , Matthias Donath , Eike Thomsen, [trans. Wojciech Wagner]: "Lord, God, you are our refuge for and for: Border and Refuge Churches of Silesia." W Tobie, Panie, moja ucieczka ": Ślaskie kościoly graniczne i ucieczkowe. Via-Regia-Verlag, Olbersdorf 2012, ISBN 978 -3-944104-01-0 .