Sokolica, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship

Sokolica ( German Sokolov, district Bartenstein ) is a village in the north of the Polish Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship. It is in Bartosyzce ( circle Bartenstein ) and belongs to the Gmina Bartoszyce (Town Bartenstein ).

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Geographical location

Sokolica located 14 kilometers southeast of the county town Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein ) on a side street that Sepopol ( Schippenbeil ) and Wiatrowiec ( Wöterkeim ) with Łabędnik (Great Swan box ) on the Polish voivodeship 592 ( former German Empire Road 135) connects. The nearest train station Wiatrowiec is five kilometers away and is on the PKP railway from Białystok on Giżycko ( Lötzen ) and Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) to Bartoszyce.

History

The earlier Sokolov called community - located in the district until 1927 Friedland - was the eponymous on May 4, 1930 Location of the previous Amtsbezirks Wöterkeim (Polish: Wiatrowiec ), which was then renamed " the district of Sokolov ". He belonged to the district of Bartenstein ( Ostpr. ) in the district of Königsberg the Prussian province of East Prussia. Wöterkeim and Sokolov were the only two belonging to this office district municipalities until 1945. In 1910 lived in Sokolov 383 inhabitants, in 1933 there were already 553, 1939, 552

As a result of the Second World War came Sokolov in 1945 with the southern East Prussia to Poland and was given the designation " Sokolica ". The village was until 1954 the seat of their own community ( gmina ) and is now mayor's office within the rural community Bartoszyce in powiat Bartoszycki the Warmia and Mazury ( Olsztyn Voivodeship 1975-1998 ).

Church

Church building

At the parish church in Sokolica is a well-preserved monastery church from the years 1350 to 1360. The tower superstructure dates from the turn of the 14th to the 15th century, the porch in the south was added in the 15th century. Inside the church are remains of an altar from the time are from 1420 to 1430, covering it from a flat wooden ceiling. During renovation work in 1896 discovered wall paintings from the period around 1500.

Between 1525 and 1945 the church was a Protestant church. The building was then confiscated by the Catholic Church. It bears the name Kościół Święty Anny (St. Anne's church) today.

Parish

Sokolov was a church and parish village already in pre-Reformation period. The Reformation held here at a very early collection. Between 1525 and 1533 Sokolov was with United Schwanfeld (now Polish: Łabędnik ) connected, then officiated here to 1945 's evangelical clergy. Initially for inspection Rastenburg ( Kętrzyn ) belonging, Sokolov became a parish within the church district Friedland (now Russian: Prawdinsk ), then in the parish of Bartenstein ( Bartoszyce ) in the ecclesiastical province of East Prussia the Church of the Old Prussian Union.

Because of flight and the number of Sokolov Protestant Germans sank to zero. In Sokolica also flourished in the predominantly Catholic Poland, where now the village church became their place of worship. 1962 a parish was built in Sokolica to the Śmiardowo ( Schmirdtkeim ) was a Filialort. The parish is part of the Dean's Office Sokolica Sepopol ( Schippenbeil ) within the Archdiocese of Warmia of the Catholic Church in Poland.

In Sokolica living evangelical church members now belong to the Church community in Bartoszyce ( Bartenstein ), which in turn is a filial church of Ketrzyn ( Rastenburg ) in the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.

Parish places (until 1945)

For parish Sokolov belonged before 1945 the resorts:

  • Sokolov ( Sokolica )
  • Grudshöfchen ( Gruda )
  • Horst
  • Maxheim ( Maszewy )
  • Rosenort ( Różyna )
  • Waldhaus.

Pastor ( 1533-1945 )

As a Protestant clergyman officiated in Sokolov 23 Pastor:

  • NN. , To 1538
  • Esticampianks, 1545
  • NN. , To 1556
  • NN. , To 1558
  • Michael Harenius, 1579, 1599
  • John Kluge, 1615-1618
  • George Schwartz, 1623, 1632
  • Georg Kleibitz
  • Georg Bliesner, 1655-1670
  • Matthias Jacobi, 1670-1696
  • Lawrence Bödner, 1735-1771
  • Abraham Simon Roscius, 1766-1780
  • Gerhard Gottfried Vogler, 1781-1786
  • Johann Daniel Schmidt, 1787-1792
  • Johann Friedrich Worm, 1792-1793
  • Abraham Becker, 1794-1836
  • William Frank, 1837
  • Christian Theodor M. Großjohann, 1859-1867
  • Carl Ludwig Milau, 1867-1889
  • John Adolf V. Hübner, 1889-1922
  • Ferdinand Todtenhaupt, 1923
  • Richard Daudert, 1945

Church records

Of the church book records from the period before 1945 have been preserved and are kept in the Evangelical Central Archive in Berlin- Kreuzberg:

  • Baptisms: 1670-1850
  • Marriages: 1670-1849 (excluding 1679-1699 )
  • Burials 1671 to 1849.

References

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Footnotes

  • Place of Warmia and Mazury
  • Gmina Bartoszyce
Voivodeship (Poland) Bartoszyce County Vehicle registration plates of Poland Teutonic Knights History of the term "Catholic" Protestant Reformation Roman Catholicism in Poland Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland Parish register
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