Gägelow village church

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Gägelow village church, north side, 2008
View from the southeast with the former sacristy, 2008
South side, 2008

The Protestant village church Gägelow is an early Gothic stone church in the district of Gägelow von Sternberg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Dabel in the Sternberg parish in the Wismar Propstei of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .

history

The place name Gägelow can be traced back to the time of the Wende. After the Old Slavic word gogoli , the Quäkente , the place is associated with duck place .

On January 1, 1270, Bishop Hermann von Schwerin transferred the church of Gägelow - Goghelow - together with the churches in Schwaan , Hohen Sprenz , Lüssow, Alt Güstrow, Kritzkow, Groß Raden, Sternberg , Kambs and Witz to the archdeaconate of the Kollegiatstift zu Bützow - de Butzowe . There and in the surrounding area - except in Gägelow also in Sternberg, Mustin , Zülow , Pastin, Rosenow, Holzendorf, Borkow and Woserin - the old aristocratic Kramon family was wealthy as early as the 13th century and made rich in the years 1319 and 1320 Assignments to the parish and church in Gägelow earned. Two members of the same family were pastors at Gägelow in the pre-Reformation period. Around 1319 Helmold von Kramon was pastor in Gägelow - Helmoldus de Cramona plebanus in Gogelow - and contributed significantly to the equipment of his parish through rich endowments. Around 1440 Otto von Kramon was Kirchherr zu Gägelow. He bought 20 hooves from his cousins ​​Conrad and Heinrich von Kramon for the property of the parish and obtained from Duke Heinrich II. Their exemption from fiefdom with knighthood duties for himself and his successors. In 1579 the von Kramon had installed Adam Lönnis as preacher. The Pastin farmers did not like him and sued the von Kramon at Duke Ulrich in Güstrow. Until 1624 the church patronage remained with the von Kramon. Thereafter, the Dobbertin monastery held the patronage. In 1633 Pastor Johann Goeß, who also died of the plague in 1638, reports that Gägelow was burned to the ground by soldiers and the community was almost completely wiped out by hunger, plague and sword: “The church was devastated and was unlocked for many years, day and night, all church vestments is stolen away. The church book and all the old documents, of which there were quite a number, have been lost. So the service has been neglected for a long time and the church and God's house stand in ruins and the congregation has been without a preacher for a long time. ”When he took office in 1650, Pastor Heinrich Rehe“ still wrote to Gägelow, so I spent half a year in Sternberg stayed in Dabel for almost a year and a half ”. The parsonage began to be built in 1652, at the same time the sexton, in 1654 the barn was built, and in 1665 the bakery, “so that within 15 years all the rooms, as they were before, were restored. The church has very often been dilapidated, the tower so badly spoiled that it was useless. In 1652 it was found that some of the spindles and pieces of wood in the church had rotted away and lay on the vault, and at that time other pieces of wood were placed under them and, as far as possible, prevented from being completely ruined ”. In 1775 the patronage of the Borkow stable master Seitz for 1000 Reichstaler passed into sovereign possession. In 1832, Pastor Behm obtained a long-term lease on the Gägelow parish, which essentially freed the parish owners from the burden of the estate.

After the restoration, the Gägelow Church was inaugurated on February 21, 1858 in the presence of His Royal Highness Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II .

Building history

The church is an old building built on deep field stone foundations, made of partly hewn field stones and in the window openings and structures made of bricks. During the medieval construction phases, the choir was built around 1260 and the nave around 1270. Here Ruchow was built in 1267 according to the temporal sacral architecture very similar to Gägelow. There must have been a fire in the Gägelow Feldsteinkirche around the middle of the 14th century, because the roof structure of the choir and nave were renewed between 1353 and 1354. Traces of fire could be detected on the walls in the attic and in the choir entry angle. Joining signs with torn and divided, chiseled out signs with adjacent connecting signs were used for the roof renewal . The dendrodata 1354 of the church in Gägelow as a "sister building" are a good century behind the time when the nearby church in Ruchow was built .

After the end of the Thirty Years War , a visitation protocol in 1653 read: “The church is very bawfellig, is covered with stones, vaulted. but it has cracked a lot, the tower has fallen down and only the lowest part is standing. ”In 1684 the church at Gägelow is said to have been painted and in the country it had the reputation of being“ as colorful as the Gägelow church ”. From old incomplete church files it can be seen that between July and September 1794 the ducal Mecklenburg government had instructed to repair the church and the tower that wood material from their forests "free of charge" and from the brickworks 9,500 roof tiles and 3,500 bricks "against payment of the burner's wages " to be delivered.

In 1857 the church was completely restored by the Schwerin master builder Voss. The painting work was carried out by the Schwerin painter Theodor Fischer, who also worked in Schwerin Castle and the Castle Church. He lived with the leaseholder Schmidt in Gägelow. The drafts on the cardboard boxes had been checked by the Secret Archives Councilor Lisch from Schwerin, which were then carried out "to the general satisfaction"; the costs were borne by the squire Fabricius auf Rothen.

On November 5, 1969, the dilapidated rectory was released for demolition with the obligation to level the site of the ruin so that no rubble was left behind. The parish barn and the wagon shower were demolished in 1963. In 1994 the first safety and renovation work could begin. The church tower was re-covered with slate and the roof structure was repaired. The roofs of the nave and choir were covered with new roof tiles. The weathercock with the inscription FF (Friedrich Franz) 1796 and the ball received a new gilding after the repair. Equipped with coins and documents, both were brought to the top of the tower for the 725th anniversary of Gägelow on June 2, 1995. The windows received new glazing and the church received electricity. In 1997 the Wismar restorer Annette Seiffert exposed old wall paintings under the white layer of paint in preparation for a later internal renovation of the church.

At the end of September 2017, the association for the preservation of the church in Gägelow eV was founded in the rectory in Dabel.

Building description

Exterior

The Gägelow village church is a carefully executed single-nave field stone building from the third quarter of the 13th century with a retracted choir on a square floor plan with a brick gable similar to that of the Ruchow village church . The former sacristy on the south side is used as the burial chapel of the von Bülow family and has a brick gable with a triple toothed frieze . The baroque west tower made of bricks and a short pyramid helmet covered with slate was probably built in 1796 as a wall around an older wooden tower and partially covers the west gable with a rising diamond frieze . The bricks have a dimension of 26 cm × 13 cm × 9.5 cm. The choir gable shows a large aperture cross with panels coupled in groups of three and a rising pointed arch frieze on the slopes . On the north and south sides of the ship , two lancet windows with sloping soffits are grouped together to form groups of three, with the middle window at the top being higher than the outer one. The choir has a three-part window group on its east side and a two-part window group on the south and north side, the latter being closed from the outside by the north extension. The two pointed arched portals of the ship with stepped walls are walled up. In the north there is a brick porch , which probably dates from the 18th century.

Interior

The interior of the nave and the choir are closed with domical vaults , which are provided with ribbon ribs and crown rings and are separated from one another by a pointed arched belt arch and a very wide triumphal arch .

Wall and vault paintings

The church got its reputation in the country and beyond the Mecklenburg borders by painting the inside of the vaults with the slogan: As colorful as de Gägelowsch Kark (as colorful as the Gägelow church). In 1857 the interior of the church was subjected to a comprehensive restoration under the direction of the state master builder Voss from Schwerin, during which the entire stalls were replaced and the walls were given a "new whitewash". The wall painting by Theodor Fischer , which shows half-length portraits of Moses , Isaiah and John the Baptist in the reveal of the triumphal arch , also dates from this period . On the western end wall of the arch, Christ is depicted with angels. The three vaults , each of eight fields, were decorated in light yellow and gray with arabesques and scrollwork.

altar

In the altarpiece represents the from Schwerin painter Theodor Fischer-Poisson mid-19th century created altarpiece the risen Christ is. Damaged by various impurities, the painting was free restored in summer 2020 by restorers Felcitas Klein from Berlin and Sabine Princ from Munich.

pulpit

The earlier pulpit , built around 1618, was a Plessen foundation according to the inventory from 1811. The furnishings also included a simple, roughly crafted winged altar carved from oak wood with overpainted figures depicting Peter with a key, Mary, Christ on the cross, John the Evangelist with a book and Paul with a sword. The wings were painted over in 1683 at the expense of Dorothea von Halberstadt , widow of Friedrich von Zülow, on the right with the resurrection, on the left with a descent from the cross in bad taste. In the same year the altar barriers were renewed.

Furnishing

Six-seat choir stalls with crab-studded cheeks from the beginning of the 14th century have been preserved from the older furnishings . The church once had two large choir stalls carved from oak from 1325.

Small works of art

A chased christening bowl made of brass from the 16th / 17th centuries. Century shows the fall of man in the plate and on the edge deer and dogs, surrounded by leaves and branches. The church still owns two silver-gilded chalices, one of them with the name of the founder of Scheel in 1714 and the stamp of the Güstrow goldsmith Abraham Rathke. There are also two silver-gilt paten from 1871, an old pewter goblet without a sign and two good pewter candlesticks.

Bells

In a visitation carried out in 1653 it can be read: "In the tower is a bell which is very dangerous."

Two bells hang in the church tower . The formerly larger bronze bell with a diameter of 1.22 m was given up in the First World War . In 1851 it was cast by Peter Martin Hausbrandt in Wismar. Its predecessor, in turn, was cast by Vitus Siebenbaum in 1698 according to the inventory from 1811 under the patronage of Jobst von Bülow and Katharina Magdalena von Pederstorf and the pastorate of Johann Friedrich Rehe. A cast steel bell from 1925 hangs in its place today. The small bell, cast in 1719 by Michael Begun from Friedland, with the tone G sharp 1 -1. has the inscription: "Soli Deo Campanam Hanc Comparari Jusserunt Augusta Elisabeth von Finecken Domina, Joachim von Bassevitz coenobio Dobbertinensi Praefectus, Johann Crull chef, Michel Begun had me poured in the year 1719".

organ

The parish of Gägelow with its pastor Beutler collected as early as 1851 for the construction of an organ , the rest of the Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II gave out of his case, the offer of the organ examined the official building authority of Warin . The organ on the west gallery is a work by Friedrich Friese III from 1854 with five stops on a manual and a transmission in the pedal . Until 2001, the organ was no longer playable because a marten had eaten the bellows . In 2002, the Plau organ builder Andreas Arnold from Mecklenburg Organ Builders carried out extensive repairs.

Manual C – c 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
flute 4 ′
Octave 4 ′
Pedal C – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′ (Transmission)

In the Gägelow Church there are two memorial plaques for those who fell in the Wars of Liberation 1808–1815 and the First World War 1914–1918.

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1315-1319 Erdmann
  • 1319– 0000Helmold von Kramon (Cramon)
  • 1440–1346 Otto von Kramon (Cramon)
  • 1346– 0000Johann Speckin
  • 1541–1566 Johann Horningh (Hörning), "a learned, pious preacher, who was unable to speak the language for preaching for many years, lived as a married man"
  • 1566–1578 New Year's Eve Bareke, previously Grevesmühlen .
  • 1579– 0000Adam Lönnis
  • 1591–1633 Heinrich Goeß, came from Osnabrück , called to Kirch Kogel from the Dobbertin monastery , died of the plague.
  • 1633–1638 Johann Goeß, appointed by the Dobbertin monastery.
  • 0000 –1638 Johann Wulf
  • 1650–1689 Heinrich Rehe, from Wittenburg.
  • 1689–1730 Johann Friedrich Rehe, son of Heinrich Rehe.
  • 1730–1732 parish unoccupied.
  • 1732–1774 Markus Wilhelm Goldschmidt from Holstein, previously in Witzin .
  • 1779–1812 Johann Friedrich Ternant (Tarnat) from Güstrow, previously court candidate in Ludwigslust .
  • 1813–1844 Georg Julius Ernst Breem, 1826 prepositus.
  • 1822–1832 Ulrich Johann Friedrich Darjes, collaborator , 1832 Rethwisch .
  • 1845–1854 Friedrich Franz Traugott Georg Christoph Beutler from Teterow, was the third cathedral preacher in Schwerin in 1829 and second in 1839. He was an intellectually gifted man, with a sparkling wit and was in high favor with Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II , who visited him twice in Gägelow and stayed with him once a night.
  • 1855–1879 Heinrich Böcler, third cathedral preacher in 1845 and second cathedral preacher in 1851 , church councilor in 1879.
  • 1875–1876 Alfred Adolf Ernst Georg Ludwig Licius, 1874 teacher at the grammar school in Schwerin, professor.
  • 1879–1899 Theodor Ernst Eduard Tarnow, 1881 prepositus, 1892 councilor.
  • 1900–1924 Adolf Hans Friedrich Sahmkow, previously in Crivitz .
  • 1924–1925 Heinrich Johann Carl Jahn, vicar.
  • 1925–1935 Max Carl Franz Heinrich Hillmann, 1892 teacher at the girls' bourgeois school in Wismar.
  • 1935–1976 Karl Theodor Fritz Wandmacher.
  • 1945–1947 Werner Orphal as a representative with service in Sternberg .

Parish

The parish of Gägelow was united with Dabel and the parish seat there on April 1, 1979 and still belongs to the parish of Dabel with the districts of Borkow , Dabel, Hohenfelde , Holzendorf, Neu Pastin, Neu Woserin, Pastin, Rothen, Schlowe, Woserin with church and Zulow . KG Dabel was merged with KG Woserin on December 2, 2003.

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , p. 156.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin IV. Volume: The district court districts of Schaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901. (Reprint: 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 167-172)
  • Friedrich Lisch : About church restorations in Mecklenburg, especially about Dobbertin and Gägelow. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. No. 8. 1858, pp. 129-138.
  • Friedrich Lisch: The church at Gägelow (near Sternberg). In: MJB. Volume 8, 1843, pp. 102-103.
  • Friedrich Lisch: The church at Gägelow. In: MJB. Volume 24, 1859, pp. 335-344.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parish since the Thirty Years' War. Volume III, Wismar 1925, pp. 174-179.
  • Hansherbert Lange: 1000 years of Mecklenburg, 725 years of Gägelow. Festschrift. Dabel 1995.
  • Burghardt Keuthe: Parchimer legends. Part 2, Schwerin 1997, ISBN 3-932370-27-9 .
  • ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-753-7 , pp. 54-55.
  • Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Trave and Peene. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-131-0 .
  • Association for the preservation of the church in Gägelow e. V .: The church in Gägelow. Dabel, April 2018.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 2.12-4 / 2 Feudal beings . Lehnakten I., Z.
    • LHAS 2.3-4 Knightly Fire Insurance Company . Sternberg Office.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Department of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.
    • LHAS 09/10. L / 06 personal estate Lisch, Friedrich (1801–1883). No. 193 Restoration of the church in Dobbertin. Contains, among other things, index of place and subject for church restoration in Gägelow.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 2. No. 014 Transfer of the Kura via the church Groß Raden and Witzin to Gägelow, 1939. No. 016 Gägelow, Geistliche Hebungen der Pfarre und Küsterei zu Gägelow 1840–1947. No. 075 Gägelow, Friedhof 1794, 1855–1934, contains: Gundelachic burial in the church. No. 079 Gägelow, Bausachen Kirche, Gut Zülow share of construction costs in 1812, disputes over church chairs in 1817, hanging of the carved altar in 1906, fallen honor plaque in 1921.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, 11.02.03.01 Collection of photographs by Karl Schmaltz, Mk / D2 Gägelow, church from the south, before 1935.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Gägelow  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Kühnel: The Slavic place names in Mecklenburg. In: MJB 46, 1881, pp. 46-47.
  2. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 1178.
  3. ↑ MUB VI. (1870) No. 4090.
  4. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: Gägelow. 1925, p. 174.
  5. ^ A b Gustav Willgeroth: Gägelow. 1925, pp. 174-179.
  6. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gägelow. 1901, p. 168.
  7. ^ A b Gustav Willgeroth: Gägelow. 1925, p. 178.
  8. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, p. 339.
  9. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, pp. 148, 362.
  10. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, p. 186.
  11. ^ Friedrich Lisch: About church restorations in Mecklenburg by name to Dobbertin and Gägelow. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. No. 5, 1858, p. 132.
  12. ^ Friedrich Lisch: About church restorations in Mecklenburg by name to Dobbertin and Gägelow. In: Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg. No. 5, 1858, p. 133.
  13. ↑ Hans Herbert Lange: 725 years Gägelow. 1995, p. 29.
  14. ↑ Heidrun Pätzold: The secret is out: there are the wall paintings. SVZ Sternberg August 28, 1997.
  15. ↑ Rüdiger Rump: Cultural assets and gems are brought to life. SVZ Sternberg, October 1, 2017.
  16. ↑ Georg Dehio: Gägelow, Gem. Pastin, district of Parchim. 2000, p. 146.
  17. ↑ The year 1735 is in the bell cage.
  18. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , p. 156.
  19. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The church at Gägelow (near Stenberg). In: MJB 8. 1843, p. 101.
  20. ↑ Kerstin Erz: They gave the old altarpiece a new shine. SVZ Sternberg-Brüel-Warin, July 16, 2020.
  21. ↑ Katja Haescher: Quick help for the altar. Painting in Gägelow Church shines after a fresh treatment. JOURNAL eins, August 2020, p. 7.
  22. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The church at Gägelow. In: MJB. Volume 9, 1859, p. 343.
  23. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gägelow. 1901, pp. 170, 172.
  24. ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. 2016, p. 220.
  25. ↑ According to the visitation protocol of 1624, the Dobbertin monastery had patronage of the church in Dabel as well as the patronage of the branch church in Gägelow.
  26. ↑ The long-time provost Hansherbert Lange from Dabel dates the Friese organ to 1852.
  27. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved January 15, 2018 .
  28. ↑ Roswitha Spöhr: roof renovation and organ building. SVZ Sternberg, July 5, 2001.
  29. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume III, Wismar 1925, pp. 174-179.
  30. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gägelow. 1901, pp. 167-172.
  31. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: Gägelow. 1925, p. 174.
  32. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: Gägelow. 1925, p. 175.
  33. ^ According to the Gägelow death register of 1673, Johann Goeß died of the plague in 1638.
  34. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina B 123.
  35. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwein, Personalia and Examina B 150.
  36. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina L 097.
  37. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina T 009.
  38. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina S 6.
  39. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina J 8.
  40. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina H 123.
  41. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina W 198.
  42. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina O 009.

Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 8 "  N , 11 ° 53 ′ 43.5"  E