Stegna

Stegna [ˈstɛɡna] is a village in Nowy Dwór Gdański County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina (administrative district) called Gmina Stegna.[2]

Stegna
Village
A timber-framed church in Stegna
Coat of arms
Stegna
Coordinates: 54°19′35″N 19°6′44″E
Country	Poland
Voivodeship	Pomeranian
County	Nowy Dwór Gdański
Gmina	Stegna
Population	2,337[1]

It lies approximately 13 kilometres (8 mi) north of Nowy Dwór Gdański and 32 km (20 mi) east of the regional capital Gdańsk.

The first documents confirming the existence of a Roman Catholic church in Steegen date back to the 14th century. According to sources from 1465, there was a Gothic church in Steegen.

In 1609, the German pastor Georg Klein built a small wooden Lutheran church, which burned down in 1676. Only the tower, organ, altar furnishings and a bell remained from the Thirty Years' War. On the site of the old Lutheran 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 of Danzig. The construction of the baroque 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 church in Steegen was taken away from the Lutheran Church in 1945 when the inhabitants were forced to flee westward by the newly established Polish authorities and Stegna became part of Poland after WW II.