Herrnburg village church

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Church and old customs house in Herrnburg

The Herrnburg village church in the Herrnburg district of the Lüdersdorf community is a single-aisled brick Gothic church . It is located in the center of Herrnburg surrounded by the pastorate, old customs house , former water mill , former restaurant buildings and the fire station .

Testimonies

From the east: choir, nave and tower. On the right the sacristy

In the Ratzeburg tithe register , Herrnburg is not yet mentioned in 1230. The church is first documented in 1319. The place Herrnburg is mentioned for the first time in 1399.

Building history

The oldest part of the Gothic village church in Herrnburg is the square box choir typical of northern Germany with its three east windows, which are just as typical. It is dated to the middle of the 13th century and probably originally served as a chapel at the customs post.

The nave and the sacristy on the north side of the choir are assigned to the late Gothic at the end of the 15th century. The mighty church tower is even younger and was placed in front of the west side of the nave in the first half of the 16th century. The original cross vaults of the choir were replaced in 1767 by a flat wooden beam ceiling construction. The nave also has a flat wooden ceiling, while the sacristy has a barrel vault . The tower has a hipped roof made of red tiles.

Furnishing

The late Gothic winged altar is a work by Lübeck artists at the beginning of the 15th century. The Marien Altar is probably identical to the altar donated by the Lübeck mint master Petrus Huk in 1418 for the Maria Magdalenenkirche (castle church) in Lübeck. Huk had already financed the renovation of the choir of the castle church around 1400. In 1937, the art historian Hans Wentzel assigned the figures to three different Lübeck carvers, which he designated with the emergency names Herrnburg Masters I - III to distinguish them. The different styles of the individual figures indicate that no new altar was made from the Petrus Huk foundation, but an existing reredos from around 1390 was expanded. The altar was probably brought to the Herrnburg Church in connection with the renovation of the choir in 1767. The mostly female saints in the middle section are arranged in two rows around the central representation of the Annunciation of the Lord (lower row) and the Coronation of Mary (upper row). The figures in the side wings represent the apostles . The original color of the carved wooden figures of the triptych has not been preserved, because the figures were “freed from the disfiguring painting” in 1937. The Renaissance painting on the back of the side wings was also removed. Since the renovation in 1989/90, the retable has been on the medieval altar table and is crowned by a Gothic crucifix.

The oldest piece of equipment is likely the baptismal font from around 1400 , a bronze cauldron on three irregularly welded legs. In 1618 Anna Broies donated the brass baptismal bowl.

The pulpit is a work in the transitional style between Renaissance and Baroque . It was made in 1675 by the Lübeck carver Gerhard Fick in the auricle style . The figures on the basket and staircase depict Christ as the judge of the world, surrounded by evangelists and apostles. Christ as the Good Shepherd crowns the sound cover . The pulpit was probably made for another church. Her predecessor, a foundation of the monastery superintendent Nicolaus Peträus and his wife from after 1593, came to the chapel of the infirmary before Dassow, which was blown up in 1973 .

A painting by Pastor Johann Wilhelm Bartholomäus Rußwurm (1770–1855), who worked in Herrnburg from 1809 until his death in 1855 and helped church life to flourish, hangs in the choir above the walled-up priest's door on the north wall . In his hands he is holding the Musical Altar Agende published by him in 1826 , according to which services were celebrated in the surrounding churches for many decades.

A whale rib is suspended from the ceiling.

organ

The Mehmel organ (1883/84, restored 2014)

The organ was built in 1883/84 by the organ builder Friedrich Albert Mehmel on the west gallery. In 2014 it was restored by Reinalt Johannes Klein . The instrument has ten registers , which are divided into two manuals and pedal . The action is mechanical, the wind chests designed as cone chests. The disposition is as follows:

I main work C – f 3
Drone 16 ′
Principal 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Octave 4 ′
Progressio harmonica III
II subsidiary work C – f 3
Hollow flute 8th'
Viola di gamba 8th'
Flauto dolce 4 ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Principal bass 8th'
  • Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
  • Wind vent

Bells

The larger of the two bells in the tower was cast by Lorenz Strahlborn in 1731 ; Johann David Kriesche cast the smaller bell from an older bell in 1782. Of the original three bells, the largest and oldest (from 1690) and the smallest were confiscated during the First World War. The youngest returned to church in 1921. During the Second World War, the larger of the remaining bells was confiscated. She was found after the war in the Hamburg bell cemetery and was brought back to Herrnburg. The bells are still rung by hand today.

local community

The new parish center to the left of the pastorate

The area of ​​the parish of Herrnburg also includes Duvennest, Klein and Groß Neuleben (formerly Groß and Klein Mist), Lenschow, Lüdersdorf, Palingen , Wahrsow and, until 1945, the Lübeckisches Gut Brandenbaum in the Lübeck-St. Gertrud . Today the community belongs to the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Due to new residential areas after the fall of the Wall , the number of parishioners grew from 500 in 1993 to around 1700 members in 2005. Due to the increase in membership, a new parish center was built in 2009 between the church and the old pastorate.

The St. Marien Church (Selmsdorf) is co-administered from Herrnburg.

Pastors

literature

  • Hans Wentzel : The baptismal font of Beno Korp and some related sculptures in Sweden and Northern Germany. In: Fornvännen 1938, pp. 129–153. (PDF; 2.78 MB with various images) with reference to his article on the Herrnburg Altar with the images of all the figures in a supplement to Lübeckische Blätter No. 13 of March 28, 1937.
  • Gerd Baier, Horst Ende , Brigitte Oltmans, General Editor Heinrich Trost: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region with the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Henschel Verlag GmbH, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00523-3

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Excerpt from: Jan Friedrich Richter: The Triumphal Cross of the Lübeck Castle Church - On the trail of a lost choir furnishings . In: Zeitschrift für Lübeckische Geschichte Vol. 96, 2016, pp. 65–83
  2. ↑ Hans Wentzel (1938), p. 14 ff.
  3. ^ Frank Martin Brunn: Church to Herrnburg. Choir room and altar
  4. ^ A b Frank Martin Brunn: Church to Herrnburg. pulpit
  5. ^ Frank Martin Brunn: Organ. In: Internet presence of the parish in Herrnburg. Ev.-Luth. Church parish Herrnburg, accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  6. ^ Herrnburg, Protestant village church. Mecklenburgisches Orgelmuseum, accessed on November 3, 2018 .
  7. ↑ bells
  8. ↑ Membership of the community
  9. ↑ ? (No longer available online.) In: Internet presence of the Wismar church district. Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 ; Retrieved July 10, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchenkreis-wismar.de
  10. ↑ Community Center. In: Internet presence of the parish in Herrnburg. Ev.-Luth. Church parish Herrnburg, accessed on November 3, 2018 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 3.1 "  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 55.4"  E