The Lutheran parish Gostynin

Name:

Gostynin / Waldrode

Location:

20 km southwest of Płock

Established:

1825

Pastors:

Karl Wilhelm Pastenaci (1825-1827/1828),

Johann Georg Seegemund (1828-1833),

Ludwig Otto Ehlers (1833-1841),

Karl Her­mann Erdmann Cotta (1842-1858),

Eugen Albrecht Rosenberg (1858-1876),

Theodor Wosch (1897-1898),

Philipp Schmidt (1899-1932),

Eugen Wilhelm Jungto (1932-1939),

Otto Lipski (1940-1945)

History:

1780-1800 German colonists settled in the Gostynin area (Deutsch-Mocker / Mokre Niemieckie H. earlier than  1795).

When after 1818 cloth workers from Poznań and West Prussia came to Gostynin, a new district, the "Neustadt" was founded.

1824-1825 a brick church and a wooden parsonage was built on a hill west of Gostynin, using the place and material of a ruined castle.

Former Lutheran church of Gostynin - Photo by: Jutta Dennerlein, 2005

Detail of Gostynin church - Photo by: Jutta Dennerlein, 2005

Detail of Gostynin church - Photo by: Jutta Dennerlein, 2005

About 1830 the break out of Cholera caused many deaths.

1843 several colonies left the Gostynin parish to found their own parish in Nowa Wieś.

1876-1896 there was no pastor in Gostynin.

Nevertheless a new parsonage was built in 1883.

The emigration to Volhynia reduced the number of members of the community.

On 11 September 1925 the community celebrated it's 100th anniversary. 

Sources:

Eduard Kneifel: Die evangelisch-augsburgischen Gemeinden in Polen 1555-1939