Kölzow village church
The Kölzow village church in the Kölzow district of the Dettmannsdorf community in the Vorpommern-Rügen district is a stone church from the transition period from Romanesque to Gothic . The parish belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
History and description of the building
It is believed that the construction of the Kölzow village church began on behalf of the local locator family von der Lühe , who also held the church patronage during the time they owned the Kölzow estate . Since this family is mentioned for the first time in 1240, the first church will be built in the middle of the 13th century at the earliest.
The village church is an evenly bricked rectangular field stone building. There are three narrow, ogival windows on both sides of the nave, two round-arched windows on the sides of the choir and a group of three windows in the east wall. On the south side there is the arched priest gate with inserted round bars and a rolling layer of bricks. The retracted square choir , which is on the same level as the nave, has a domical vault, an eighth helmet vault. The wooden beam ceiling was replaced by a barrel vault in 1736. The detached choir and the nave are separated from each other inside by a triumphal arch designed as a pointed arch . The choir, as the oldest part of the church, is bricked. The outer edges were neatly finished with granite house stones. The square west tower with a field stone basement from the 15th century and a half-timbered tower with brickwork has a four-sided tower spire covered with wooden shingles.
As early as 1652 there was a dispute over the size and the demarcation of the parish priest between Major Bengson Rosenfeldt from Kölzow, Andreas von der Lühe and Pastor Henricus Rodbertus. In 1705 it was the Danish budget adviser Johann Christian von Lützow as pledge master of Kölzow with the pastor Daniel Nicolaus Rodbertus. In 1722 there was also a violent dispute between Gutzmer von Gussmann and Pastor Rodbertus about a church stalls.
In the 1970s, the tower, the roof structure and the roof were thoroughly renewed. During the interior restoration carried out from 1983 onwards, wall paintings from the 13th century were uncovered in 1988. After the reunification, the church has been completely renovated in several stages since 2007.
In the pre-March period in Kölzow the pastor had Adolf Fuchs , who through his resignation and emigration to Texas was known.
Furnishing
altar
In the church there is a baroque altar from 1736 with a carved crucifixion group and in the base area with a relief of the Last Supper . On the side between the pairs of columns there are figures of Peter and Paul . The altar is crowned by a radiant sun and a figure of the risen Christ with the flag of victory. The altar was donated by Ernst Friedrich von Gussmann , the owner of the Kölzow estate at the time. His coat of arms can be found on the lower right of the altarpiece. The altar enclosure with carved balustrades is flanked on the sides by crates with bars.
Gussmann's father, the Mecklenburg councilor and Lübeck syndicus Johann Georg Gutzmer , came into the possession of Kölzow as a pawn in 1709 through a contract with Friedrich von der Lühe auf Reddersdorf in the Ribnitz district. As Privy Councilor of the Duke of Mecklenburg [-Strelitz], he was ennobled in 1712 as Gutzmer von Gussmann . With his death in 1716 the rights to Kölzow passed to his son. From 1724 they were the subject of a legal dispute with the Ernst von der Lühe family as patron saint of the church and pastor Jasmund Christian Schmidt, which only ended one year after the death of Ernst Friedrich Gussmann († 1761), as the heirs had also died.
pulpit
The richly decorated baroque pulpit with the figures of the evangelists and acanthus leaves carved on the pulpit is from 1783.
Baptismal font
The idiosyncratic baptismal font found its way into the church in 1934 as a foundation. The relatively small kettle made of chased brass sheet rests on the tail fins of three dolphins, which serve as feet. Two village images embedded in a landscape can be seen on the kettle, between four handles designed as lions' heads. Possibly the use as a baptismal font is a second use or the donor, the diplomat and imperial real privy councilor Adolf von Prollius decidedly wanted a baptism with a regional reference, as indicated by the motifs from the Mecklenburg landscape.
Friedrich Schlie describes the wooden organ gallery as a work of the transition period from Gothic to Renaissance. It stands on eight pillars. The substructure is probably from the 15th century. Two columns are provided with scale-like carvings from the late Gothic period. On the balustrade there are coat of arms paintings of 24 noble families of Mecklenburg from the beginning of the 17th century, including the Lühe , Oertzen , Hahn , Moltke and Zeppelin .
organ
The single manual organ with attached pedal and six registers was built in 1883 by Friedrich Friese III . The three-part neo-Gothic prospectus with pinnacles is crowned with eyelashes, tracery, crabs and finials. In 1936 Christian Böger from Gehlsdorf made the prospectus replacement and in 1983 the organ received the first wind motor during repairs by Axel Stüber from Berlin.
On the walls and on the vaults you can see frescos with recurring motifs. In addition to the cross, the sun wheel, palmettes, lilies and mythical animals, a monk armed with a club can also be recognized. Tendril decorations can be seen on the ribs of the vaults and the window reveals have colored borders. The figurative and symbolic wall paintings are from the second half of the 13th century.
Bells
According to Schlie (1898), the church had two bronze bells , of which the larger from 1786 was cast in 1865 by Paul Martin Hausbrandt in Wismar. This bell had to be delivered in the First World War. After the war, the remaining smaller bronze bell was traded in in 1923 for three new chilled cast iron bells from the Ulrich & Weule iron bell foundry in Bockenem .
Churchyard
The mausoleum of the von Prollius family at Gut Stubbendorf was built in 1915.
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume I: The district court districts of Rostock, Ribnitz, Sülze-Marlow, Ticino, Laage, Gnoien, Dargun, Neukalen. Schwerin, 1896, p. 394 ff. ( Digitized in the Internet Archive , accessed on June 23, 2016).
- Max Reinhard Jaehn: Organs in Mecklenburg. Rostock 2008, pp. 80, 81.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments. The districts of Neubrandenburg-Rostock-Schwerin. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980, p. 60
- ↑ In 1738 Gussmann acquired a burial chapel in Lübeck Cathedral, which is still named after him today
- ^ LHAS , 9.1-1 Trial files Reich Chamber Court No. 603.
- ^ Horst Ende: Mecklenburg baptisms through the ages. Schwerin 2009, p. 56.
- ↑ Mecklenburg Organ Inventory , accessed on April 29, 2012
- ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. 2016, p. 222.
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 12 ° 32 ′ 44.8 ″ E