Z dziejów architektury ewangelickiej w Grudziądzu

• Authors: Birecki Piotr

Title variants

EN

Studies in the history of the Protestant architecture in Grudziądz

DE

Zur Geschichte der evangelischen Architektur in Graudenz

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article introduces the contemporary history of the Protestant churches of the town and parish Grudziądz in the chronological order. It is based on the contemporary subject literature and some new source materials that have not been published yet gathered from Polish and foreign archives. The archival sources concerning the churches of Grudziądz were also found in the sources relating to other Protestant shrines. Although in the Old-Polish period the Protestants struggled with numerous difficulties of political nature, in the period of Partitions of Poland their situation changed dramatically. The protection of Prussian monarchs allowed them to build a new church on the market square in Grudziądz at first; thus the fates of the first Protestant church are presented in the article. Increase in the number of parishes in the second half of the 19th century resulted in the need of new shrine, which, owing to its size, was located outside the town center, but in the vicinity of new districts of Grudziądz. The part of the article dedicated to the new church, its project, architect and the building itself was based mainly on the archival sources that offer insight into the history of the church, while the collected iconographic data enabled to present the inside of the church before the changes introduced after 1945, when it was converted to Catholic church. New source and iconographic material were used also to present the history of the Protestant garrison church as well as the churches in Piaski and Mokre, both belonging to the parish of Grudziądz. Also some uncommonly used iconography was applied in this case. Thanks to the author’s research effort the state of knowledge about the Protestant shrines of Grudziądz is significantly extended.

• Publisher: Muzeum w Grudziądzu
• Journal: Rocznik Grudziądzki
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 23
• Pages: 49-73

Dates

published

2015

Contributors

author

Birecki Piotr

• Wydział Sztuk Pięknych UMK w Toruniu Zakład Historii Sztuki Średniowiecznej i Nowożytnej

Identifiers

ISSN

0080-3464