Budowa domu katechetycznego w Ełku w latach trzydziestych XX wieku
The building of a catechetic house in Ełk in the 1930s

Summary/Abstract: Catholic children who lived in the vast area of the Ełk (Lyck) parish needed proper religious education, so the local parish priest Karol Fox decided that a catechetical house would be built. At first, there were plans to adapt an officers’ mess, which was put up for sale, for this purpose. However, it was decided that a special facility would be built. A plot of land located next to the old parish house (near the present Jana Kilińskiego Street in Ełk) was obtained.Financial support of the project was declared by, among others, the Boniface Association in Paderborn. The General Government of this organisation decided at the end of 1932 that the architectural design of the catechetical house would be prepared by Max Sonnen. The implementation of the project was commissioned to Wilhelm Baumewerd. The beginning of the construction works was planned for July 1933 and the completion – for the end of February 1934. The catechetical house was blessed on 3 March 1934 by Bishop Maximilian Kaller. Catechetical sessions for children preparing for the First Holy Communion were supposedto take place there twice a year; nuns were responsible for them. Military operations during World War II put an end to the functioning of this institution.

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