Żytkiejmy
Żytkiejmy [ ʒɨtk ejmɨ ʲ ] ( German until 1936 Szittkehmen, Schittkehmen 1936-1938, 1938-1945 fortified churches, Žydkiemis Lithuanian, Russian Saslonowo ) is a town in the municipality Dubeninki in the northeastern Poland in the Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship.
Żytkiejmy is the most important for tourism place in recreation and hunting area Rominter Heath. The village with about 1000 inhabitants, is located two kilometers south of the border with the Russian Kaliningrad Oblast and part of the powiat Gołdapski to. Through the village runs the province road 651
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History
Previously Żytkiejmy was an important trading center in the region bordering Poland and Lithuania. Although the place had never city rights, but had the status of a patch. He was by a railroad to the county town Gołdap and Tollmingkehmen (1938-1946 Toll Mingen, today Russian: Chistye Prudy ) connected.
Between 1874 and 1945 Szittkehmen was the eponymous site of an office district to the other than the office Village nor the places Budweitschen, parish Szittkehmen ( 1938-1946 Alte Wacht, today on Russian territory) and Pellkwawen ( 1938-1946 Pellkauen, today Russian: Jakowlewka ) belonged. He lay in the district Gumbinnen in the Prussian province of East Prussia.
At their iconoclasm, the Nazis dubbed the place in 1938 arbitrarily Wehrkirchen what neither the church nor the significance of the patch was fair as a trading center.
Church
The Church in Szittkehmen was built from 1579 to 1589. It is a rectangular hall building, formerly connected with a tower, then only a belfry. 1934 was a restoration rather than by the painter Ticino. Three and a half centuries, the Church was a Protestant church. 1945, it was confiscated by the Catholic Church and bears after a renewed consecration now the name Kościół Sw. Michała Archaniola (St. Michaelis Church ).
Community
Szittkehmen was until 1579 with Pillupönen ( 1938-1946 Castle Bach, today Russian: Newskoje ) and since then has only its own parish. In 1890 the parish had Szittkehmen 5000 souls, 800 Lithuanians. Here until 1930, the sermon was also in Lithuanian.
Formerly for inspection Gumbinnen (now Russian: Gusev ) Szittkehmen with its almost exclusively Protestant population to 1945 in the parish of Goldap ( Gołdap ) in the province of East Prussia Church of the Church of the Old Prussian Union was duly incorporated.
Because of flight and expulsion as a result of World War II, the number of Protestant church members fell sharply after 1945. After Żytkiejmy now were Polish Catholics, who formed their own parish here, to the deanery in the diocese Filipów Elk ( Lyck ) is one of the Catholic Church in Poland. Here surviving Protestant church members belong to the Church community Gołdap, which is a branch church of Suwalki ( Suwalki ) in the Diocese of the Evangelical - Augsburg Church Mazury in Poland.
Pastor ( 1945 )
From the Reformation to 1945, officiating in Szittkehmen / 29 fortified churches Protestant clergy:
- Michael Sappuhn until 1586
- Paul Kytlikowski, 1586-1590
- Samuel Sperber, 1590-1592
- David Marcianus, 1593-1598
- Lawrence George Villnensis, 1598
- Albrecht Schmidt, 1600
- Bartholomew Willentus, 1600-1605
- Paul Hoffmann, 1606-1657
- N. Caius, 1653
- Friedrich Cibrowius, 1657-1663
- Johann Glagius, 1663-1677
- N. Dullo
- Christoph Hintz, 1679-1687
- Martin Hintz, 1687-1717
- Johann Böckel, 1704-1709
- Johann Christoph Hintz, from 1709
- Michael Schubert, 1717-1736
- Jonas Christian Pusch, 1736-1746
- Gottfried Christian. Nehring, 1747-1768
- Daniel Friedrich Mielcke, 1769-1776
- Ernst Ludwig Kalau, 1776-1815
- Johann Friedrich Haupt, 1815-1832
- Frederick William Lucks, 1832-1840
- David Peteaux, 1840-1851
- Eduard Julius L. Schreiner, 1852-1863
- Georg Julius J. Rademacher, 1864-1876
- Ludwig Albert Jordan, 1876-1895
- Franz Moritz Draw, 1896-1915