Alt Meteln village church
The village church Alt Meteln is an Evangelical Lutheran church building in Alt Meteln , a municipality in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ). It belongs to the parish Alt Meteln in the Wismar provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg in the northern church .
history
Alt Meteln was first mentioned in a document in 1284, when Count Helmold von Schwerin took several villages, including Metle (Alt Meteln), as a fief from Bishop Hermann zu Schwerin . Around 1316 the lords of Eckernförde and Johann von Verden received elevations from Metle . Around 1356 Henning Knoop and Johann Berchteheide were mentioned, around 1420 Joachim von Plessen from Dambeck sat on Metle , but Joachim and Hartig von Bülow were already settled there in 1441 .
Little is known about the clergy in the Middle Ages. Around 1534 Rudolf Spick was pastor, who in 1518 was appointed patron of the church by the dukes.
Building history
The brick church , built in the second half of the 13th century, is by far the oldest building in the village.
It was not until 1541 that the church was mentioned again in the visitation protocols . A bell tower is said to have stood when the church was built, because three bells were mentioned in 1595. A wall around the churchyard is said to have existed as early as 1595. In 1663 a new wooden tower was built, as can be seen from the church bills for boards and wrought iron nails. From 1705 the building condition of the church had deteriorated, because the eastern gable had cracked from top to bottom . With the new Pastor Lenz, the church was busy repairing from 1708 . Boards for confessionals, sextons and other chairs were procured and the church door received a new lock. In 1726 thieves smashed a church window. Another break-in occurred in 1728 and the church block, which was firmly anchored in the ground, was stolen. Around 1752 the condition of the church was found to be good, only the window panes were missing and the church floor was hardly accessible .
The bell tower was clad with oak boards and there were two beautiful large and one small bells in the tower . From 1756 Johann Friedrich Cramer was pastor. He judged the state of construction of the church a little differently than the visitors a few years ago. Therefore, there were constant repairs until 1775, including the pulpit, the altar, the confessional and the bell tower. In 1791 there was talk of highly necessary repairs and in 1795 the two big bells were no longer allowed to ring. A short time later the bell tower was demolished. At the end of 1795, Pastor Raettig sent a crack (drawing) with a cost estimate for a new bell tower 56 meters high up to the weather tap to the Schwerin church authorities. The answer came quickly: useless and expensive . But years later, and only for two decades, there was a small wooden bell tower. In 1853 Pastor Heinrich Friedrich Kehrhahn had a new tower built, which was demolished for the second time in 1861. Although it was unharmed, it was too close to the church and blocked access at funerals. So it was rebuilt a few meters apart.
Between 1865 and 1869 a major renovation took place inside the church, which ended with the new roofing of the church roof with plain tiles. Comprehensive renovation of the roof structure was not carried out until 2000. 1995–1996 the free-standing belfry was completely repaired and in 2001 the construction work ended.
The church is a listed building .
Exterior
The small, flat-roofed brick building consists of a nave on two bays and a retracted box choir with a gable roof . On the east gable there are three flat pointed arches and below a three-part pointed arched choir window as simple decoration above the tooth-cut frieze. The stepped buttresses between the three-part pointed arched windows on the north and south sides of the nave indicate a planned vaulting. The mutual interlocking on the west gable was intended for a planned tower construction. In 1683, however, only a wooden church tower was built and used as a bell tower. The masonry under the eaves has a rare toothed frieze, also known as a stream frieze. The reveals of the west and south portal are provided with pear rod profiles. There is an inscription above the door of the south portal: How lovely are your apartments, Mr. Zelbaoth .
Interior
The interior has a flat roof throughout and, with its neo-Gothic furnishings, is characterized by the extensive renovations in 1865–1869. The windows and doors were renewed in 1867, the chancel with the partition in 1868. The paving of the floor was completed in 1881 and the roof structure in the roof structure had been reinforced by carpenters in 1884.
From 1880, thanks to the efforts of the wife of the pastor at the time, Friedrich Schliemann, who was an extensive relative of the Troy excavator Heinrich Schliemann, the church was redesigned again, which ended in 1885 with the organ consecration. The overall picture of the church was kept very simple.
altar
The visitation protocol from 1705 wrote about the old two-winged altar that the light from the east window fell on the altar table during the morning devotion. In the middle of the wide altar wall in front of it in 1868 is the crucifixion painting by Anthony van Dyck copied by the painter Bertha Albin . The original can be seen in Antwerp. The altarpiece itself is highlighted within the altar wall in a three-fold structure. Above the altarpiece one can see a three-leaf clover as an indication of the divine trinity, as opposed to a number of four-leaf clover on the pulpit.
pulpit
After 1759 repairs were made to the pulpit and the altar. In 1805 the pulpit could no longer be repaired. The pulpit was rebuilt and moved to the choir only after approval by the Duke. During the major renovation in 1869, the pulpit was moved to the north side in the choir.
baptism
The baptismal font was discovered in 1980 under large stones in the parking lot at the rectory.
organ
During the major renovation in 1869, the parish wanted an organ, but it wasn't until October 1885 that the organ was consecrated.
The small organ (I / AP / 5) on the west gallery was built by Friedrich Friese III in 1885 . In September 2012 it was restored by the Rostock organ builder Johann-Gottfried Schmidt.
Bell and belfry
Instead of a church tower, there is a free-standing wooden belfry on the west side. Of the original bells, only the small but oldest bronze bell, cast in 1516, remains. The inscription reads: Chaterine mihi nomen perdulce dicatur anno dni mu rui . (Katharina is her name) It is also decorated with the image of St. Catherine and a pocket shield, which is depicted as a coat of arms with an eagle's head looking to the right. The largest bell was cast in 1663 by ore caster Andreas Wulff and the middle bell in 1750 by Otto Gerhard Meyer in Rostock. Both bells were melted down in Hamburg in 1941 for war purposes. Since 1965, two cast steel bells have hung next to the old bell in the bell cage.
Parish
In addition to the parish villages of Alt Meteln and Zickhusen, the parish includes the towns of Alt Meten Aufbau, Drispeth, Grevenhagen, Hof Meteln, Moltenow, Neu Meteln, Wendisch Rambow and Wiligrad. In January 2014 the independent parishes Alt Meteln, Cramon and Groß Trebbow merged to form the "Parish Alt Meteln - Cramon - Groß Trebbow". The administration is located in the Alt Meteln rectory.
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Printed sources
- Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
Unprinted sources
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State Main Archive Schwerin
- LHAS inventory Domanialamt Schwerin, No. 3485.
- State Church Archive Schwerin
- Alt Meteln church records 1685–1875
- Specialia Dept. 1. Alt Meteln 1756–1996
- Parish archive Alt Meteln 1624–1980 No. 079 Repair of the dilapidated church Alt Meteln 1758–1767
- Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of Finance, Building Construction Dept., Alt Meteln patronage building files, No. 261 Buildings on religious buildings 1866–1938
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898 (reprint 1992), pp. 638-640. ISBN 3-910179-06-1
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000. p. 11.
- ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-753-7 , p. 120.
- Elke Schnoor: Chronicle of the village Alt Meteln Volume 1–3, Schwerin 2007–2009.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 1766
- ^ History of the Alt Meteln Church ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Alt Meteln parish archives 1624–1980, repairs to the dilapidated church
- ^ Parish archive Alt Meteln, church accounting books.
- ↑ State Main Archive Schwerin LHAS, holdings Domanialamt Schwerin, No. 3485
- ↑ Pfarrarchiv Old Meten, church account books
- ^ LKA Mecklenburg-Schwerinsches Ministry of Finance, Dept. Building Construction, Patronatsbauakten Alt Meteln No. 261
- ^ Parish archive Alt Meteln, building files
- ↑ Reinhard Schaugstat: Medieval bells in Mecklenburg village churches Mecklenburg Magazin, regional supplement of SVZ No. 21, December 28, 1990
Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 48.6 " N , 11 ° 20 ′ 25.8" E