Barciany

Barciany [ bartɕanɨ ] ( German Barten, Lithuanian Barčianiai ) is a city and seat of the municipality of the country Kętrzyński powiat ( county Rastenburg ) in the Polish Warmian -Masurian - Located on the River Love about 75 kilometers north-east of Olsztyn ( Olsztyn ). The name commemorates the Prussian tribe of Barten, who have lived in the Middle Ages in this landscape.

• 4.1 General
• 4.2 Municipality arrangement

• 5.1 External links
• 5.2 footnotes

Geographical location

Barciany lies at the intersection of the two provincial roads DW 590 ( Biskupiec ( Bishop's Castle ) Reszel ( Rößel ) Korsze ( Korschen ) Barciany ) and the DW 591 ( Michałkowo (long Michels ) Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) Mrągowo (Sensburg ) ). A rail link no longer exists, since the former railway lines Barten - notch castle (now Polish: Kętrzyn ), Barten Gerdauen (now Russian: Schelesnodoroschny ) and Barten Nordenburg (Russian: Krylowo ), which were operated by the Rastenburger Kleinbahnen, after 1945 except operation were taken.

Location Barciany (city Barten )

History

The name was mentioned in 1353 as "too beards " and was until 1880 the name Barciany, Barty, Borty, Barthen and beards. It is derived from Old Prussian "bar, beard ": flow, fast flow from. In the 14th century the settlement was given its own church and a castle of the Teutonic Knights, both of which are still preserved today. 1630 was the municipal charter, but could evolve away from the major traffic flows hardly. With 1488 inhabitants in 1885 or 1541 inhabitants in 1939 Barten remained a small farming town, although it was since the beginning of the 20th century, connected by narrow gauge railways with the county town of Rastenburg the neighboring county town Gerdauen and also with the North Castle.

As elsewhere in East Prussia from 1945 also saw Barten flight and expulsion of the German population. The town lost its city rights, but is now the center of a larger community, the Gmina Barciany included in the powiat Kętrzyński, which is slightly larger than the former district Rastenburg and among other things the city Reszel ( Rößel ).

Order Castle

See Special Article: Ordensburg Barten

Church

Church building

Roman Catholic. parish Church

At the church in Barciany is a hall building from the year 1389th The south sacristy was grown in 1400 provided with a barrel vault. The east gable has 1714 rebuilt, and the additional southern vestibule (next to the north) ribbed with new cross vault was built in 1783, the tower of the 16th century was from 1729 to 1741 by master builder chicken and carpenter Effried from Königsberg (Russian: Kaliningrad ). Again constructed and obtained its present roof 1804.

The interior of the church was originally, now completed by a vault of a wooden ceiling. 1989/90 was held an extensive interior renovation. Striking pieces of equipment are the altar with the coat of arms of the family of Rautter from 1643, the organ - a work from 1750 by Adam Gottlob Casparini from Königsberg, and two - no longer available - Chandeliers, both probably a gift from the Empress Elisabeth were.

From the Reformation to 1945, the church was a Protestant church. It was confiscated by the Roman Catholic Church and was awarded the 1962 a new consecration to the naming Niepokalanego Serca Maryi ( " Immaculate Heart of Mary ").

Greek- Catholic. parish Church

Today, there are Barciany next to the Roman Catholic parish church nor a Greek Catholic parish church, which maintains the Byzantine- Ukrainian rite.

On the part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church exists a small chapel in Barciany.

Parishes

In Barten lived a predominantly Protestant population before 1945. The parish was in the church circle Rastenburg (Polish: Kętrzyn ) incorporated within the Ecclesiastical Province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Since 1945, Catholic Christians live almost exclusively in Barciany of which belong to the majority of the Roman Catholic Church in Poland. Your parish Barciany belongs to the deanery Kętrzyn II - Północny - wschód ( Rastenburg II, Northeast ) in the Archdiocese of Warmia.

In addition, there Barciany in a parish of the Greek- Catholic Church in Poland, which is incorporated into the archeparchy Przemysl -Warsaw. On the part of formerly dominant Protestant church there after the flight and expulsion of the German population in Barciany again today a small church, which is affiliated with the mother church in Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) within the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.

Pastor ( 1945 )

From the Reformation to 1945, officiating in Barten same two priests:

• Christoph Meddingen, 1528-1535
• Johann NN. , 1552
• Georg Cellenus, 1553-1567
• Christoph Sperber, 1568-1615
• Georg Platanus, 1582-1588
• Stanislaus Wendeberg, 1596
• Michael Breuer, 1618
• Stanislaus Wannowius, 1654-1665
• Andreas Grassius until 1666
• Christoph Fröhlich, 1665-1678
• Martin Freyhut, 1666
• Ernst Schultz, 1679-1684
• Paul Owander, 1684-1713
• Georg Stabenau, 1687-1715
• Matthias Leonhard Northoff, 1713-1725
• Johann Friedrich Domeyer, 1716-1720
• Georg Chr Rhenius, 1720-1731
• Christopher Keiper, 1726-1742
• Michael Pisanski, 1732-1733
• Jacob Friedrich Roscius, 1735
• Michael Nitzki, 1736-1742
• Johann Friedrich Faber, 1742-1746
• Johann Friedrich Kahnert, 1742-1752
• George Albert Rogalla, 1747-1801
• Johann Gottfried Keip, 1755-1763
• Michael Chr Schiffert, 1763-1786

• Gerhard Gottfried Vogler, 1786-1803
• Friedrich Chr Morzfeld, 1801-1814
• Karl Wilhelm Mattern, 1803-1825
• Johann Gottlieb Behnisch, 1814-1822
• Johann Ferdinand Hoewig, 1823-1829
• Johann Karl Friedrich Engel, 1826-1849
• Friedrich Wilhelm Wogram, 1830-1838
• Julius Otto Eduard Meyhöfer, 1838-1851
• Gustav Peter Westphal, 1847-1848
• Heinrich Hermann Gottfried Grämer, 1850
• Friedrich Eduard Michalik, 1851-1864
• Friedrich Tappenteit, 1856-1872
• Edward Leo Wilhelm envy, 1864-1866
• Ms A. Ludwig Hoffmann, 1866-1873
• Julius Gustav Ludwig, 1873-1876
• Johann Theodor Gliodkowski, 1873-1882
• Heinrich Otto Emil Krantz, 1885-1886
• Friedrich Wilhelm Mäkelburg, 1886-1927
• Richard Alfred Rosenberg, 1887-1898
• Leo Adolf tribe, 1899-1909
• Otto Nikutowski, 1910-1920
• Erich Buchholz, 1928-1930
• Friedrich Brenner, 1930-1932
• Franz Klinschewski, 1933-1935
• Hans Werner Surkau, 1935
• NN. Fritz, to 1937

Sons of the city

• Leo Cholevius (1814-1878), philologist and literary historian at Königsberg
• Doempke Gustav (1853-1923), music critic in Königsberg and Vienna

Gmina Barciany

General

The rural community Barciany located in the northern center of the powiat Kętrzyński. It is bordered on the north by the Gorodskoje posselenije Schelesnodoroschnoje ( municipality Schelesnodoroschny ( Gerdauen ) ) in the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast ( region Königsberg ( Prussia) ), on the northwest by the Gmina Sepopol ( Schippenbeil ), on the southwest by the Gmina Korsze ( Korschen ), in south on the Gmina Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) and Isten to the Gmina Srokowo ( Drengfurth ).

The community area of ​​293.62 km ² is used for 82 % agricultural and forestry 8%. By area, makes the Gmina Barciany 24.21 % of the area of the powiat Kętrzyński from.

Community structure

For the rural community Barciany following towns include:

References