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Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel in Kamionki Wielkie

ID: POL-002254-P

Parish Church of St Michael the Archangel in Kamionki Wielkie

Historical outline
The village is situated about 12 km north-east of Kolomyia. The first mention of Kamionki Wielkie dates back to 1416 and concerns the granting of the estate to Vasko Teptukovich. However, it is worth noting that much older traces of civilisation have been discovered in the village. It is a statue of a pagan deity showing the conjoined figures of a man and a woman.

The 15th century owners include: Piotr Niemirka, Ignacy of Kutyszcz. In the 17th century. Kamionki was recorded as a town. It is also known that in the 19th century it belonged to Ludwik Kalinowski, Szai Kohn and Salamon Marmorosh, and at the beginning of the next century to Markus and Kalman Fischer. The last owners of the estate were successively: Wladyslaw Wolanski, and from 1930. Roman Balicki.

Initially Kamionki Wielkie was under the auspices of the parish in Zukowo. A wooden chapel, erected and consecrated in 1868, already functioned in the village. It was treated by the inhabitants with respect worthy of an almost fully-fledged church. It was cared for and retrofitted over time. In addition, the beginning of the 20th century Markus and Kalman Fischer donated part of their land to the church.

The local profession of the inhabitants of Kamionki Wielkie was pottery. Due to historical changes and the chance to colonise new areas, the population of the village increased significantly in the interwar period. Consequently, the need to erect an independent church building and establish an independent parish was only natural. This was finally achieved in 1935, and the new unit also included the nearby village of Fatowce. Unfortunately, no new church building was erected, although the need was already apparent in the early 1920s. At the time, the number of worshippers was 1,300 and the old chapel, naturally renamed into a church, proved to be too small. However, it had to suffice. Under the domination of the USSR, the building was used as a fertiliser warehouse after the Second World War and was demolished in 1958.

Architecture
The building was constructed of wood. It was set on a stone foundation. It consisted of a nave preceded by a porch and a presbytery surrounded on two sides by sacristies. The interior was plastered and covered with a ceiling. As Kinga Blaschke cites in her study of the building, the walls were "common painted" and the windows were rectangular and closed with a semicircle. The roof was covered with sheet metal and had a turret for a bell.

The building has not existed since the late 1950s. Very little information about it has survived to the present day. No photographs can be found either. From the sources, however, it is possible to decipher a few details about the movable parts of the church.

The most important items related to the furnishings and surroundings of the building included:

  • The main altar with the sculpture "Our Lady Immaculate" and the painting "Saint Michael the Archangel";
  • Altar with sculpture "Sacred Heart of Jesus" and painting "Entombment" or "Removal from the Cross";
  • Side altar with sculpture "Mother of God" and painting "Saint Anne";
  • Paintings "Christ", "Mother of God", "Saint Anthony" , " Saint Teresa";
  • Wooden bell tower with three bells.
Time of origin:
1868
Bibliography:
  • Kinga Blaschke, „Kościół parafialny pw. św. Michała Archanioła w Kamionkach Wielkich”, w: „Materiały do dziejów sztuki sakralnej na ziemiach wschodnich dawnej Rzeczypospolitej”, cz. 1: „Kościoły i klasztory rzymskokatolickie dawnego województwa ruskiego”, Kraków: Międzynarodowe Centrum Kultury w Krakowie, 2010, ISBN 978-83-89273-69-74, t. 18, s. 111-114.
Publikacja:
12.10.2024
Ostatnia aktualizacja:
12.10.2024
Author:
Michał Dziadosz
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