Stegna | |
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Village | |
_ID_637011.jpg) Catholic Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, atimber-framed church in Stegna | |
 Coat of arms | |
  Stegna | |
| Coordinates:54°19′35″N19°6′44″E / 54.32639°N 19.11222°E /54.32639; 19.11222 | |
| Country |  Poland |
| Voivodeship | Pomeranian |
| County | Nowy Dwór Gdański |
| Gmina | Stegna |
| Population | |
• Total | 2,337[1] |
| Time zone | UTC+1 (CET) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+2 (CEST) |
| Vehicle registration | GND |
| Voivodeship roads |   |
Stegna[ˈstɛɡna] is avillage inNowy Dwór Gdański County,Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland.[2] It is the seat of thegmina (administrative district) calledGmina Stegna.
The first documents confirming the existence of aRoman Catholic church in Stegna date back to the 14th century. According to sources from 1465, there was aGothic church in Stegna. The settlement was a possession of the city ofGdańsk, located in thePomeranian Voivodeship of theKingdom of Poland.[3]
In 1609, theGerman pastor Georg Klein built a small woodenLutheran church, which burned down in 1676. Only the tower, organ, altar furnishings and a bell remained from theThirty Years' War. On the site of the oldLutheran church began on March 25, 1681, the works on the construction of a new one under the direction of Peter Willer - architect, surveyor and mechanic of the city ofGdańsk. The construction of thebaroque church, according to the chronicle, was very expensive (e.g. the carpenter Peter Kamrath received: 2000 guilders, 8 barrels of beer and 6 spruces. Andreas Bosche received 1150 guilders for building the tower and wood from the old tower that has been preserved). On November 29, 1681 - the first Sunday in Advent - preacher Martinus Krüger consecrated the church. On May 25, 1682, the construction of the choir was completed, and on June 15, 1683, the organ was expanded. The tower is a work by Bosche, the cross and the flag by Daniel Madler. The works were finally completed on November 17, 1683 - this year can be seen on the flag, which many researchers incorrectly interpret as the year the church was built. The new tower also has a bell from 1643, which survived the fire, which still chimes at 12 noon every day, and two larger ones - from 1732. The bell, over three hundred years old, bears an inscription in Latin: "Domine, da pacem in diebus nostris", which means: "Lord, give peace to our time."
The village was annexed byPrussia in theFirst Partition of Poland in 1772, and from 1871 it formed part of theGerman Empire. In 1919, it became part of theFree City of Danzig (Gdańsk), and during theinvasion of Poland at the start ofWorld War II in 1939 it was occupied and annexed byNazi Germany. In 1942, the German Government established aforced labour subcamp of theStutthof concentration camp in the village.[4]
The church was taken away from the Lutheran Church in 1945 when the inhabitants were forced to flee westward and Stegna became again part of Polart of Poland after World War II.
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