Der Wiederaufbau des kirchlichen Lebens in der Evangelisch-Augsburgischen Kirche in Polen 1945-1948
In result of the Potsdam Conference and its political decisions the demographic and confessional situation of Poland was fundamentally changed. Poland, which in pre-war times included some 30% of ethnic and confessional minorities, now became a demographically and confessionally monolithic state wit...
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| Language: | German |
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Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht
1989
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Kirchliche Zeitgeschichte
Year: 1989, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-189 |
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| Summary: | In result of the Potsdam Conference and its political decisions the demographic and confessional situation of Poland was fundamentally changed. Poland, which in pre-war times included some 30% of ethnic and confessional minorities, now became a demographically and confessionally monolithic state with more than 90% polish and catholic population. After the collaps of church life in the former german evangelical-united churches during the last months of the war, only two protestant churches remained on the polish territory. The Silesian Evangelical-United Church tried to rebuild their work on the principles of the „confessional Church"; this process finally was stopped by the transfer of german population to the allied zones. Thus the Evangelical-Augsburgian Church with its polish-national and loyal leadership, which has been heavily persecuted by the Nazis during the occupation, became the successor of all former protestant churches on the remaining and new polish territories. Besides many material problems the Evangelical-Augsburgian Church had to face a growing dominance of the Roman-Catholic Church. Tolerated by the new state authorities the Roman-Catholic Church occupied and took over many protestant church and parish buildings in central Poland as well as in the new territories. The Evangelical-Augsburgian Churches by this lost many churches even in their traditional districts like Lodz, where the emigration of the german speaking population led to a dramatic decrease of lutheran believers. In 1948 the Evangelical-Augsburgian Church held their first post-war general church elections; in result the synod elected in 1950 Karol Ko tula as bishop of the Evangelical-Augsburgian Church heading 295 parishes in seven dioceses with 256 000 lutheran protestants. |
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| ISSN: | 2196-808X |
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