Sacrum i profanum na przykładzie luterańskich kościołów jubileuszowych w Prusach Wschodnich
The sacred and the profane on the example of Lutheran jubilee churches in East Prussia

Summary/Abstract: The two hundredth anniversary of the coronation of the Duke of Prussia Frederick I in 1701 in Kӧnigsberg was a great opportunity for building a lasting monument of this event. For this occasion, fourteen jubilee churches were built in East Prussia. The financial resources for building the lasting jubilee monument came from the consistory of unity and uniting churches, from voluntary donations and benefactors. The effort was finished in 1912.The locations of new churches varied. After seventy years from the end of the World War II, in 2015, the fates of the churches were very different, 7 churches remained in Poland, only 4 have survived, in Russia 4 churches remained, not even one has survived, and 3 churches remained in Lithuania, only one has survived, and there is no trace left after two of them. The churches are of the sacred nature, yet many of them have been desecrated.

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