Published: 2019-12-30

The history of use of post-Evangelical property in Osieczna after 1945

Adrian Gendera
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM67.2019.4.006

Abstract

Evangelical property, which is the property of local religious communities and at the same time a testimony of their history, material and spiritual culture, in the winter of 1944/1945 became abandoned German property. The evacuation of the German (often Evangelical) population led to the cessation of activities of numerous evangelical parishes in, among others, Greater Poland, including the city of Osieczna and surrounding villages. The postwar history of the use of post-Evangelical properties was twofold: church (catholic) and secular. In Osieczna, all real estate served secular – economic and social – purposes. The local protestant parish never revived, and its goods were partly destroyed and partly blended into the small-town everyday life and survived to this day.

Keywords:

Osieczna, post-Evangelical property, temple, parish, nationalization, immovable, furnishings

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Gendera, A. (2019). The history of use of post-Evangelical property in Osieczna after 1945. Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 67(4), 505–520. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM67.2019.4.006

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