City Church Preetz
The Preetz town church is the main Protestant church in the town of Preetz in the Plön district in Schleswig-Holstein . It is located in the south of the Preetz city center on a hill on the west bank of the Kirchsee . It is surrounded by the parish hall, houses for pastors and other church workers and a church-sponsored retirement home , which form an ensemble of church buildings.
history
In its current form, the Preetz town church essentially corresponds to a design by Rudolph Matthias Dallin from the 1720s. It was founded in the 12th century. A first building, dedicated to St. Lawrence , was replaced by a small stone church around 1200/10, the foundations of which, discovered in 1727, were exposed during the renovations between 1938 and 1941 and had a simple rectangular floor plan of seven by twelve meters. On the west side of the nave was a bell tower made of field stones .
In the following centuries the building was expanded, changed and repaired several times. Of these alterations, only the brick choir, which was added in the 14th century, is now the small church . Major repairs to the field stone tower were carried out in 1651. In 1670 the belfry was renewed. In 1690 the nave was enlarged to the south, so that the choir was no longer in the central axis of the building. Nevertheless, the buildings soon fell into disrepair: in 1708 only a stump remained of the tower and the church was almost in ruins; this condition lasted for almost 20 years.
The landlord of Gut Rastorf , Count Christian Rantzau, who was entrusted with the management of the reconstruction , raised funds for it from the surrounding estates. The Preetz master builder Johann Heinrich Schwartz was commissioned with the demolition work. There were disputes between Rantzau and Schwartz about the reconstruction, whereupon Rantzau hired Rudolph Matthias Dallin, who came from Eutin , as a master builder.
The west and north sides of the town church are based on Dallin's design. A field stone wall on the north side was removed. The structure of the south side appeared stable enough to support the new roof. For the top of the tower, Dallin originally planned a dome with a small point; but this project was not realized. The interior design of the nave is also largely based on designs by Dallin.
A reconstruction, decided in 1937, took place from 1938 to 1941, whereby the original chancel in the north half of the east side of the nave was separated from the nave by a wall. Since then, the former choir has served as a so-called small church for smaller devotions and as a winter church . The renovation was intended to make the nave more closed, to improve the visibility of the altar from some places in the nave, to improve acoustics and to bring the altar closer to the congregation.
Interior
The oldest item in the furnishings is the granite font from the 13th century.
Further sights are three brass chandeliers from the 17th century (which have not yet been electrified) : The oldest is the “tailor's crown ”. It was donated in 1641 by the office of tailors . The largest, sixteen-armed candlestick hanging in the center of the nave is a foundation by the shoemakers , as can be seen from the boot hanging from the candlestick below. It dates from the year 1696. A woman Dorothea Wensin donated ( "adored" ) the third candlestick in 1649.
The most striking part of the interior is the west wall , which is decorated with numerous carvings , often covered with gold leaf . It includes patronage boxes on two levels , including those of the Preetz Monastery . The main organ is located above the two box levels . On the north wall there are other patronage boxes, including those of the surrounding estate families.
The Gothic winged altar and an altar of the Annunciation were sold to the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen in 1828 .
Since the renovation from 1938 to 1941, the east wall of the church has been relatively plain: a crucifix from the 15th century hangs above a simple brick altar with a stone canteen . During the renovation, the peasant floor and the patron's box of the shoemaker's guild in the south-east of the church area were also removed, where the pulpit , which was newly built during the renovation, is today .
Little church
The small church was created from the former choir room during the renovation between 1938 and 1941 and is connected to the nave in the northern half of the east side. The colorful windows were designed by the Munich artist Ina Hoßfeld (1881–1943) in 1940; they represent creation, redemption and resurrection. Due to the Second World War , the interior work was delayed, so that this room could not be made accessible to the congregation until Pentecost 1946.
Another item in the interior is a baptismal angel that has been hung around 1725–1730 since the 1980s . The wooden angel carrying a bowl is lowered for baptisms.
Organs
Main church
The organ of the Preetz town church dates back to Hans Köster in 1573. The current instrument was built by Nicolai Plambeck in 1733/1734. With its prospectus, it fits into the interior furnishings designed by Dallin. A reconstruction was carried out in 1838 by Marcussen and Reuter and finally a return to the original state of a baroque organ by Johannes Rohlf in 2000.
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- Secondary register: Cymbelstern , Nachtigall
- Sliding coupler for the manuals, no pedal coupler
- Three wedge bellows (can also be actuated by a limestone )
- Tuning pitch 493 Hz at 18 ° C, i.e. a whole tone above 440 Hz
- Temperature according to Andreas Werckmeister (semitones from C: 0, 90, 192, 294, 390, 498, 588, 696, 792, 888, 996, 1092)
Little church
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The organ in the small church was built by the Alexander Schuke company (Potsdam) in 1943 as Opus 202. It has a manual with a split loop.
Disposition
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- Pedal coupler
- Instead of the fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3 ′, the original disposition contained a triple cymbal. The register is still labeled as "Cymbel 3-fold". The exchange took place in the early post-war period, possibly by the Kemper Orgelbau company .
Bells
The town church has three bronze bells with the tones e, g sharp and b. The bells did not enter the church until 1947. The original bell was delivered during World War II. The bells e and g sharp come from the year 1789 by the bell founder Johann Georg Krieger from Breslau.
Trivia
On July 29, 1932, shortly before the Reichstag election on July 31, 1932 , a large swastika flag waved on the top of the church tower in the morning . Since the doors were locked, the approximately 30 m high tower must have been climbed with the help of the lightning rod . A Preetz “ Original ” known in the city for its jokes did not comment on its presumed authorship during its life. The local branch of the NSDAP published a "declaration" that it had neither given an order for this act, nor did it approve of the act; However, if the authorship was unknown, she saw no reason to take down the flag. This was done at the request of Pastor Lange by members of the Iron Front and communists. The flag hoist is said to have been "according to general opinion, Hugo 'Hutscher' Freese, who was known for such daring deeds". He died in December 1977.
literature
- Brita Countess von Harrach: Preetz through the centuries. 1983.
- City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, people, culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000. ISBN 3-928326-24-4 .
- Dehio-Handbuch Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 2009, pp. 749f.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio-Handbuch Hamburg, Schleswig-Holstein, 2009, p. 749
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ^ City of Preetz (Hrsg.): Preetz: Landscape, People, Culture. Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2000.
- ↑ The riddle about the bold "flag hoist" will probably never be solved again. In: Kieler Nachrichten of July 29, 1992.
- ↑ Peter Pauselius: "Preetz under the Hakenkreuz", Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2001, ISBN 3-928326-29-5 , p. 99.
- ↑ Preetzer Zeitung No. 21 on December 19, 1993 (quoted from Peter Pauselius: “Preetz under the Hakenkreuz”, Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2001, ISBN 3-928326-29-5 , note 834, p. 128).
- ↑ Preetzer newspaper obituary on 09.12.1977 (quoted by Peter Pauselius "Preetz under the swastika" Edition Barkau, Großbarkau 2001, ISBN 3-928326-29-5 , note 834, p 128).
Coordinates: 54 ° 13 ′ 54.1 ″ N , 10 ° 16 ′ 53.6 ″ E