Punsko bažnyčios fundacija ir parapijos materialinė padėtis XVII a

Abstract

Straipsnyje nagrinėjamos XVI–XVII a. sandūros Vilniaus vyskupijos Punsko bažnyčios fundacinės privilegijos ir užrašymai, atskleidžiamas jų turinys, remiantis XVII a. Punsko bažnyčios vizitacijų ir inventorių medžiaga, aptariama parapijos turtinė padėtis. Nusakytos parapijos aprūpinimo formos, bažnyčios materialinė įranga, klebonija ir ūkis. Atliktas tyrimas leido suprasti, kokia buvo tipiškos Vilniaus vyskupijos parapijos materialinė padėtis XVII a

In the times of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania Puńsk was a typical parish of Simnas deanery in Vilnius dio-cese settled in the junction of the 16 th –17 th centuries during the peak of foundations and grants for Catholic Churches. There are some copies of documents remained in Lithuanian and Polish archives and manuscripts about privileges and grants given to Puńsk Church (there are usually 2–3, sometimes even 4 copies of docu-ments of the year 1597, 1600, 1606, 1609, 1612). Not all the information is consistent, because some mistakes were made while rewriting the documents. In this article we seeked to compare the copies of these documents and to describe consistently its content, to indicate the growth of material good of the parish thanks to these documents. The other group of sources that was used is the documentation of visitations and inventorisations of Puńsk Church in the 17 th century. The documents of visitations of the parish in 1669, 1676, 1700 and the economic inventorisation in 1672 were used. These sources allowed us to reveal the material situation of the parish in the 17 th century. The aim of this article is to explore the foundation and grant privileges of Puńsk parish and its material situation in the 17 th century referring to the above mentioned documents. The research revealed that Puńsk Catholic Church was foundated and equipped by local forester Stan-islovas Zalivskis’ initiative, sovereign Sigmund III Vaza’s 1597 and later privileges. The Church gained land, grasslands, the right to use timber, provide itself with fish, to build a millhouse, to have an inn, to collect tithing – typical for that time forms of providing for parish Churches and became an averagely rich parish of Simnas deanery. It had a built presbytery with necessary farming buildings, Studzenca (later Šaltėnai – Szołtany) fol-wark with subject peasants. [...]