Village church Alt Gaarz
The village church Alt Gaarz is a church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Schwarz and the parish of Lärz in the Mecklenburg Lake District .
history
Alt-Gaarz, founded between 1230 and 1235, is regarded as an old church in the area south of the Müritz . Gaarz was first mentioned in a document on August 15, 1298, when Prince Nicolaus von Werle gave the Dorfer Gaarz property to Johanniter-Comthurei Mirow .
Building description
The first church was a half-timbered church with a wooden tower, choir, pulpit altar and had two bells . It was probably destroyed by fire in 1809. The half-timbered building , which is clad with wooden cuff cladding, which is rare for Mecklenburg , was built from 1854 to 1855 by the court architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel . The church has a rectangular floor plan with a 1/3 tower in front, a retracted rectangular choir and a gable roof with plain tiles . The rosette window in the choir was made in 2008 according to original templates, on the sides there are two windows with pointed ends. In the choir, parts of the original interior painting can be seen with beams painted blue. The nave is provided with a flat wooden beam ceiling. The tower is square. It is completed by a pyramid helmet with a ball and cross.
The church has no power connection.
Specialty
The Alt Gaarzer Kirche is one of only two half-timbered churches built by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel in Mecklenburg. The second is in Dabelow between Neustrelitz and Fürstenberg .
Interior
The interior of the church dates from the time the church was built. This includes the altar , the altarpiece , the pulpit , the baptismal font , the benches and the gallery. The baptismal bowl, the chandelier and the altar candlesticks are later ingredients.
On the south wall next to the altar hangs a memorial plaque for the fallen Mecklenburg-Strelitzers in the war of 1870/71. The memorial plaque on the north wall reminds of a disaster that happened here. Twelve very young people are named who drowned on April 5, 1885 on a boat trip in the Gaarzer Thüren lake .
Bell jar
The bell was cast in 1854 by the Schünemann foundry in Demmin and bears the inscription: Upward the sense, towards the eternal, my name is Luise, Georg gave me as a present .
Small works of art
The chalices of the Lord's Supper are of different origins and dates. The chalice from 1855 stamped a bull's head for Neustrelitz and the surname of the master Adolf Friedrich August von Behmen next to the date. The second chalice, probably made at the end of the 18th century, bears the inscription Hr. FL Jacobi, Pastor - C. Wegner, Head . Jacobi was a pastor from 1781 to 1790. An angel for Röbel and CK for master Joachim Christian Hensky is stamped in an oval. Hensky had been a master since 1763 and also made the paten belonging to the chalice .
organ
The organ on the west gallery was remarkable for a small village church . It was built in 1823 by the master organ builder Carl August Buchholz together with his father Johann Simon Buchholz for the Bethlehem Church in Böhmisch-Rixdorf near Berlin. From here she came to Alt Gaarz in 1895 for a purchase price of 250 marks. In the documents it is reported: ... a village community from Mecklenburg bought it for ridicule money . Since the height of the case of the organ is very low, presumably due to the space available at the original installation site, the large pipes were installed horizontally. The organ has nine parts in the manual and four transmitted voices in the pedal . Since the Second World War it could no longer be played due to severe damage. In 2018 it was sold to the parish of Wotenick / Nossendorf and installed in the Nossendorfer church in a restored form. There it was inaugurated again on August 18, 2019. The disposition is as follows:
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Parish
Until 1934 Alt Gaarz was an independent parish with its own parish. Today the community belongs to the Neustrelitz provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ). Church services take place on major church holidays and on special occasions. The church is open to visitors during the day.
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- Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
- Mecklenburg Yearbooks (MJB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Schmaltz: The establishment and development of the church organization of Mecklenburg in the Middle Ages. In: MJB 73, p. 90.
- ↑ MUB IV. (1867) No. 2514.
- ↑ www.kirchentour.de
- ^ Information sheet of the parish
- ↑ Comprehensive organ information and disposition
Coordinates: 53 ° 17 ′ 33.1 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 31.4 ″ E