Frauenmark village church

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The church from the southeast

The Dorfkirche Frauenmark is a church belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Klinken in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district . The community belongs to the Parchim provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).

history

The church, founded around 1230, is one of the oldest churches in Mecklenburg. Hermann von Draguhn is named as the founder of the church and probably also as the founder of the village of Frauenmark. His father, Eilbertus von Draguhn, was a vassal of the German Counts of Ratzeburg and was appointed locator of the main castle Gadebusch around 1200 and raised to the nobility. On February 13, 1264 "confirmed the Bishop Hermann I von Schwerin the monastery in Rhün the patronage of the Church Frauenmark which the Monastery of the Count Gunzelin of Schwerin was paid." At the suggestion of the monastery Rühn was Hermann Koeppen on 1 February Appointed pastor in Frauenmark by Pope Boniface in 1397 and elected bishop of the Schwerin diocese on July 6, 1429 by Schwerin Cathedral Chapter .

Building description

View of the choir and the apse
Drawing of a knight in the triumphal arch

From east to west, the church consists of a semicircular apse , a slightly higher, slightly recessed choir , the short nave, which is slightly higher, and an equally wide square tower with a longitudinal gable roof . The Dehio-Handbuch describes it as a late Romanesque field stone building of rare uniformity. The main material is field stone, but there are some components made of brick.

In fact, the apse and the choir, dated dendrochronologically, are entirely Romanesque in shape, as is the triumphal arch between the choir and nave. However, all openings of the somewhat younger (1259) nave and the gable of the tower have Gothic pointed arches. The aperture is additionally provided with gable pinnacles decorated and down by a quatrefoil fries limited against the field masonry. The gable, the round window underneath and the group of three windows on the south side of the nave are made of brick, some of which have been renewed in the original stone formats. The stepped west portal consists mainly of natural stone blocks.

The apse is covered with a regular semi-dome, the choir with an almost domical cross vault with suggested or even painted ribbon ribs . The ship has a flat wooden ceiling, which was probably renewed later, but harmonized with the medieval wall painting.

Furnishing

During the restoration in 1968/69, the partially preserved wall paintings from the construction period, which were covered with a neo-Gothic painting in 1872, were uncovered with a cross in the apse carried by angels and the incised drawing of a knight in the triumphal arch . It is probably the oldest picture of a knight in Mecklenburg. Presumably a memorial was erected here to the founder of the church.

With the redesign of the interior, the exposed paintings and the late Romanesque spatial effect were taken into account. The splendid carved winged altar from the 15th century was placed on the side of the nave and the carved crucifix, also from the 15th century, was attached to a filigree steel cross that reveals the apse. In the design and the image program, it shows parallels to the altars in the village churches of Slate , Gischow and in the Marienkirche Parchim . The concrete altar, pulpit and baptismal font were designed by the Crivitz sculptor Wieland Schmiedel in a simple form corresponding to the late Romanesque church interior.

organ

The organ on the west gallery was built in 1873 by the organ builder Johann Heinrich Runge . The work is located in a neo-Gothic organ case with ogive pipe fields; the middle one is crowned by a gable. The pipe fields are flanked by a tower without a pipe field. A special feature is that the registers of the first manual can be played as octave transmissions in the second manual. The abrasive loading -instrument has 8 registers on two manuals and pedal , and 5 transmissions (II. Manual).

I. Manual C-f 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Viola di gamba 8th'
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Mixture II
II. Manual C – f 3
1. Dumped 8th'
2. Octave 4 ′
3. flute 4 ′
4th violin 4 ′
5. Octave 2 ′
Pedals C – c 1
7th Sub-bass 16 ′
8th. Octave bass 8th'
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ FRAUENMARK, 725th anniversary 1989 - from the chronicle, Hans-Joachim Ulbrich 1989
  2. ^ Bernhard Hederich: directories of the bishops of Schwerin . 1739 p. 452.
  3. ^ Horst Ende: Village churches in Mecklenburg. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1978
  4. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. German art publisher, 2000
  5. ↑ More information about the organ

See also

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Frauenmark  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 31 ′ 51.9 ″  N , 11 ° 47 ′ 16.6 ″  E