Groß Upahl village church

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Groß Upahl church, south side 2009

The village church Groß Upahl is a field stone church in Groß Upahl, a district of the municipality Gülzow-Prüzen in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

West tower 2009

Whether the village of Upahl, first mentioned in 1237, which with 20 hooves belonged to the Dobbertiner monastery area, was the church village of Groß Upahl or Klein Upahl, is not clearly proven. In the papal confirmation document issued at Orvieto near Rome on January 28, 1263, both Upahls ( Dorff Opal vnd Wendische Opale ) are attached to the Dobbertin monastery . Pope Urban IV took the Dobbertin monastery and its property under his protection.

In 1357 and 1367 a church in Groß Upahl was first mentioned in a document. The mother church in Karcheez was mentioned as early as 1234. Like that of Groß Upahl afterwards, it belonged to the Dobbertiner monastery archdeaconate and the Schwerin diocese . According to the Brüsehaver, the Kröpelin had been sitting on Groß Upahl since the beginning of the 16th century, lastly Henning von Kröpelin in 1625. During the Thirty Years' War the von Cramon Upahl owned them, but the village was completely destroyed.

From 1812 to 1815 and from 1823 to 1825 the sexton and organist Schmidt sued the villages of Oldenstorf , Gerdshagen , Garden and Klein Upahl for refused school fees and sexton surveys. In 1848 the wooden bell tower burned down and the two bells rattled. In 1851 a new tower was built. Apart from the interior restorations carried out after 1848 and 1891, little has been learned about the church in the last two centuries. On New Year's Day 1855, a violent storm had damaged the church roof and bell tower.

Since 1988, the church has been renovated with funds from a regional church fund and laborious work after work . The field stone masonry was repaired, the roof was rebuilt, the windows were renewed and the belfry was stabilized and then boarded up. The repair work, especially in the church interior, could only be continued after the fall of the Wall and completed in 1992.

The church was then usable again for church services and the Gebhardt organ from 1708 was playable again from 1996 after its restoration.

Building description

East gable 2009

It was built in the second quarter of the 13th century when numerous parishes were founded and the Mecklenburg church was established in the country. The most important decoration on the exterior of the otherwise simple Upahl church is the panel structure on the east gable.

Exterior

The church was built as a rectangular field stone building without a choir , but with two flat gables and a wooden, boarded bell tower on the west side. The saddle roof of the church and the hipped roof of the tower have been covered with plain tiles. Both gable triangles were made from bricks . In the east gable is a two-lane pointed arch window in the middle . On the north and south sides the windows and portals were made with round arches .

Interior

Inside the church has always been simply furnished. After a restoration carried out around 1849, Fridrich Lisch wrote: The Church of Gr. Upahl is an unusual church building in the transitional style, but so thoroughly spoiled by modern restoration that the old building is difficult to recognize again. The gate and the windows are arched round, the walls are smoothed and whitewashed and the whole church is covered with a white plastered ceiling so that the whole thing looks like a modern social hall.

The color version that has been preserved goes back to a redesign in 1891. The base area was red, above it a blue frieze with white tendrils and the wall area painted ocher. The pseudo basket arch-shaped ceiling was kept white and the window reveals had bluish-red shadows. The older plaster was removed from the walls and the plastered flat ceiling was presumably drawn in. According to the church inventory from 1811, there were no older decorations in the church .

Altar and pulpit

The altar and pulpit date from the Baroque period , probably from the second quarter of the 18th century . The carved figures of the four evangelists and the rich acanthus tendrils on the parapets of the pulpit are remarkable .

The stalls and the confessional can be attributed to the 19th century, perhaps as part of a renovation mentioned in 1848. The baptismal font , supported by a wrought-iron stand, could have been made in the Schwerin grinding mill .

organ

The organ on the west side, built as a cabinet organ (I / - / 3) has a regionally interesting history and has been classified as a monument to the music history of Mecklenburg .

The instrument came to Groß Upahl in 1893 from Polchow near Rossewitz Castle as the first organ in the church. It was not, however, a Schwerin castle church organ that came to the church in Karcheez afterwards, as Schlie describes it in 1901. Karcheez had never had an organ and the sale of a castle organ can be verifiably excluded from the existing organ files.

The organ is said to have been built by Johann Engelbrecht Gerhardt in 1708 for the chapel in Rossewitz Castle, commissioned by Colonel von Vieregge . After the bankruptcy of the last lord of the castle VA von Vieregge in 1760, the ducal chamber from Schwerin took over the castle and estate Rossewitz in 1790. Countess von Bassewitz, a trusted friend of the wife of the pious Duke Friedrich , bought the organ there.

The organ from Rossewitz to Dalwitz and in 1790 to the old church in Polchow must have been moved by the Rostock organ builder Paul Schmidt . Because on the back of the treble board is the inscription Paul Schmidt, organ builder from Rostock, 1760. The Countess von Bassewitz donated the organ to the Polchow Church after her death in 1790.

In the church inventory of the Polchow Church from 1811, the organ is inscribed. The organ was designed by Countess Sabina v. Bassewitz on Dalwitz was given to the local church and listed there in June 1790 . In the Polchow church the organ was changed by the local school teacher, organist and organ builder Jacob Friedrich Friese around 1792 so that it was suitable for the church and did not play like a bagpipe , as Pastor Brandt said. In 1851 repairs were carried out by the Doberan organ builder Heinrich Rasche .

In 1888 the Polchow church was demolished, the organ was moved to the emergency church and sold to Groß Upahl. Three years, from 1890 to 1893, lasted a patient, cunning and ultimately victorious fight between Pastor Heinrich Franz Niemann from Groß Upahl against the church authorities with the Güstrow superintendent Pohlsdorf to take over the organ. The organ cost 180 marks, which were raised through voluntary donations . Despite the poorly passable dirt road to Groß Upahl, the Wismar organ builder Edmund Bruder succeeded in installing the organ in the local church in the spring of 1893, and it was consecrated on March 5, 1893. Instead of an organ gallery on the west side, the Grand Ducal Office financed only one about 50 cm high soundboard that still exists today.

In 1914, after minor repairs had been carried out, the Gehlsdorf organ builder Carl Börger wrote on the 4th of June 1914, Carl Böger Hoforgelbauer restored the exterior of the building . After that the instrument degenerated to the point of unplayability.

After 1993, the organ builder Wolfgang Nußbücker from Mecklenburg Organ Builders in Plau am See took over the restoration of the organ. Because of the strong anobia infestation , the entire case had to be taken to the workshop, the wind chests had been made by various organ builders, the bellows protruded from the right side of the organ case, some pipes were completely eaten away by the woodworm and some were missing completely. In the more than 300 years, six organ builders in the country have worked on what is probably the smallest, almost completely preserved work by Johann Engelbrecht Gerhardt.

The rededication of the historic organ took place on Easter Sunday, April 8th, 1996 in the church of Groß Upahl.

In white broader , high rectangular case two flat fields flanking a Tablet with dumb pipes. The veil boards and the curved top of the case consist of openwork latticework with tendrils in the Biedermeier style . The pedalless instrument has three divided registers on a bass tray and a treble tray.

Manual C – f 3
Timber Principal B 8th'
Gemshorn D. 8th'
Wooden flute B. 4 ′
Metal dacked D 8th'
Princial 2 ′

Bells

When the wooden bell tower burned down on September 23, 1845, both bells are said to have rattled . Before 1900 there were again two bronze bells in the belfry. The larger one was cast by C. Illies in Waren in 1849 and the smaller one by PM Hausbrandt in Wismar in 1867 . A bell had the inscription: O Rex + glorie + criste + ueni + cum + pacem + and a foundry mark, pacem should have been pace . According to the church inventory from 1811, there was a bell with monk's writing and a second from 1789. Today a cast iron bell still hangs in the boarded bell tower.

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1502 - 0000Matthias Monastery
  • 1550 - 0000Nicolaus Paschen.
  • 0000–1574 Peter Warten / Pertus von der Wort.
  • 1574– 0000Leonard Ursinus, also Karcheez Church .
  • 1582–1617 Mauritius Saupenius (Saupel)
  • 1632–1638 Laurentius Barlippe (Garlipp)
  • 1638–1643 vacant
  • 1643–1682 Simon Kayser (Caesar) from Krakow, without oath.
  • 1684–1696 Franz Hartwig, from Lübeck .
  • 1699–1740 Daniel Christian Stavenhagen, 1728 Lohmen .
  • 1740–1744 vacant
  • 1744–1746 Magister Petrus Andreas Klein from Stettin, previously field preacher in the Ukraine.
  • 1749–1785 Johann Schleef
  • 1785–1827 Johann Friedrich Cord Schleef
  • 1828–1838 Theodor Heinrich Bühring
  • 1839–1853 August Johann David Francke, 1822 succentor at the cathedral school in Güstrow .
  • 1853–1864 Wilhelm Jacob Stark, 1843 rector of the city and orphanage schools in Schwerin .
  • 1864–1888 Friedrich Julius Luhde, also in Karcheez, 1855 assistant preacher in Röbel-Neustadt.
  • 1888–1910 Ernst Heinrich Franz Niemann, 1868 rector in Gadebusch , also Karcheez church.
  • 1912–1923 Albert Christian Dietrich Hans Johann Hermann Bollenhagen, 1891 Rector in Röbel .
  • 1923–1928 Otto Ludwig Johann Friedrich Langmann, 1928 pastor in Bogota in Colombia , 1930 pastor in Guatemala .
  • 1928–1932 vacancy, represented by Tarnow and Parum.
  • 1932–1933 Hermann Balcke.
  • 1933–1959 Struck, also in Lohmen and Groß Upahl.
  • 1959–1971 Wilhelm Pietsch.
  • 1980–1993 Anna Karina Benckendorff
  • 1994-2003 Karsten Schur
  • 2003–2018 Siegfried Rau

Parish

The villages of Boitin ( church ), Dreetz, Groß Upahl (church), Grünenhagen, Hägerfelde, Mühlengeez, Prüzen (chapel), Tarnow ( church ) and Zibühl belong to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Tarnow .

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. IV. Volume: The district court districts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901, reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8
  • Friedrich Lisch : The Church of Upahl. In: MJB 20 (1885) p. 332.
  • ZEBI e. V., START e. V .: Village and town churches in the Güstrow district. Bremen, Rostock 1997, pp. 32-33.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 212.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 1.5-4 documents Dobbertin monastery. No. 181.
    • LHAS 2.3-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin. 3.2 Management, official minutes. 3.11 Management of the lakes. 7.13 Border regulations. 7.25 Sexton, school. 7.44 Jurisdiction.
    • LHAS 5.12-3 / 1 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office. No. 240 Klein Upahl 1927-1935.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 2. No. 264 Groß Upahl, Karcheez, Ruchow. Occupation of the parish at Upahl 1740–1754.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, personnel and exams.
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . (LAKD)
    • Department of Monument Preservation, Archive, Local File Church Groß Upahl 1903–1996.

Web links

Commons : Church in Groß Upahl  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files
  • Literature about the village church Groß Upahl in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 469.
  2. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 983.
  3. ↑ MUB XIV. (1886) No. 8321.
  4. ↑ MUB XVI. (1893) No. 9673.
  5. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 425.
  6. ↑ Friedrich Lisch: About the Rostock patricity. MJB 11 (1840) p. 197.
  7. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. 7. 25 sexton, school. No. 3804, 3805.
  8. ^ Christian Menzel: Divine service in Upahl. SVZ, Güstrower Anzeiger, October 6, 1992.
  9. ^ Marion Wulf: From Rossewitz via Polchow to Groß Upahl. Mecklenburg church newspaper April 7, 1996.
  10. ↑ Friedrich Lisch: The Church at Upahl. MJB 20 (1885), p. 332.
  11. ↑ Dietrich Bräutigam: Short documentation on the restoration of the interior of the village church in Groß Upahl. Güstrow in October 1992.
  12. ^ Georg Dehio: Gross Upahl. 2000, p. 212.
  13. ↑ Dietrich Bräutigam: The organ to Groß Upahl - mystery about the origin. Guestrow, April 8, 1996.
  14. ↑ Johannes Voss: Monument worthiness of the organ in the church of Groß Upahl. State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Schwerin March 11, 1993, No. 577.
  15. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Karcheez. 1901, p. 281.
  16. ^ Walter Haacke, Reinhardt Jaehn: Paul Schmidt and Mecklenburgs organ building in the 18th century. In: Acta Organologica . Volume 18, Merseburger, Kassel 1985, p. 99.
  17. ^ Andres Arnold: Restoration report of the organ at Groß Upahl. Plau am See, December 1997, point 3 Current condition - how was this organ once.
  18. ↑ Dietrich Bräutigam: The organ to Groß Upahl - mystery about the origin. Guestrow, April 8, 1996.
  19. ↑ Carlotta room: From Polchow to Groß Upahl. Guestrow, April 8, 1996.
  20. ↑ Site inspection on November 20, 2015.
  21. ^ Andreas Arnold: Restoration report of the organ at Groß Upahl. Plau am See, December 1997, point 3 Current condition - how was this organ once.
  22. ↑ Wolfgang Nußbücker: Report on the restoration work on the organ in the Evangelical Lutheran. Church to Groß Upahl. Guestrow, April 8, 1996.
  23. ^ Marion Wulf: From Rossewitz via Polchow to Groß Upahl. On Easter Monday the organ will sound again in Groß Upahl. Mecklenburg Church Newspaper, April 7, 1996.
  24. ↑ Malchow Organ Museum: Groß Upahl, Protestant village church , accessed on November 20, 2015.
  25. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gross Upahl. 1901, p. 278.
  26. ↑ Friedrich Lisch: The Church at Upahl. MJB 20 (1885) D. 332.
  27. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin pastors since the Thirty Years' War. 1925.
  28. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gross Upahl. 1901. pp. 277, 278.
  29. ↑ Was appointed pastor in Kirch Kogel in 1502 by Provost Johannes Thun of the Dobbertin Monastery. Thun was bishop in Schwerin from 1504.
  30. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Gross Upahl. 1901, p. 277.
  31. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Dept. 2 No. 264.
  32. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina F 035.
  33. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwein, Personalia and Examina S 325.
  34. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina L 109.
  35. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina N 025.
  36. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina R 104.
  37. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina L 026.

Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '26 "  N , 12 ° 2' 46"  E