Kalkhorst village church

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The village church in Kalkhorst
View of the choir

The Kalkhorst village church , consecrated to St. Laurentius , is a brick - gothic three-aisled hall church in Kalkhorst in the Klützer Winkel in the north-west of Mecklenburg . The community belongs to the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

Building history

The church comes from the 13th and 14th centuries and is noticeable because of the irregularity of its floor plan and the many additions and alterations. The square tower stands asymmetrically in front of the equally asymmetrical first yoke of the central nave . The two lower aisles also connect asymmetrically. The choir forms four corners of an octagon with buttresses .

The choir is dated to around 1350 based on a grave inscription for the pleban Johannes Schwansee and replaced a previous building. The nave is attributed to the 13th century due to the three peculiar round windows above the south portal, so it is the older part of the building. Schlie placed the construction of the tower between the completion of the nave and the choir. The octagonal, squat, pointed spire dates from 1686.

The baroque furnishings from the beginning of the 18th century include the high altar from 1708, a work by Johannes Friedrich Wilde from Wismar, who also created works in the village churches of Gressow and Groß Trebbow , the galleries of the parish-parish surrounding Kalkhorst manors, Nienhagen (today : Neuenhagen), Rankendorf and Brook, the organ front and the pulpit .

An organ is said to have been in the church as early as 1653 . The pulpit and organ go back to a foundation of the Lübeck merchant family von Dorne , which Hermann von Dorne († 1713), as landlord of Nienhagen (and thus holder of the church patronage ), ordered Wilmstorff and Wesloe at the expense of his estate and which ordered the maintenance of the furnishings of this church financially secured in the 19th century. The organ was rebuilt by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer in the old case of the organ built in 1732 by Lübeck organ builder Hans Hantelmann in 1869 and today has 15 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

The rich frescoes in the interior are from the late Gothic period.

Pastors

Book title Höfers

The Kalkhorst pastor Johann Cyriacus Höfer became known nationwide as a writer in the 17th century . Georg Johann Simon Dreves was pastor of the church from 1803 to 1826 . He was followed by Friedrich Schliemann (1790–1861), the father of Adolph Schliemann and uncle of Heinrich Schliemann , who lived in the Kalkhorst pastorate in 1832/33.

More pictures

  • South portal

  • Detail from the south portal

  • Plan from 1897

  • Organ with historical prospectus from 1732

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, Neuruck Schwerin 1992, pp. 379-392. ISBN 3-910179-06-1 .
  • Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1975, pp. 123, 138.
  • Max Reinhard Jaehn: Organs in Mecklenburg. Rostock 2008, pp. 70, 71.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership of the community
  2. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved March 20, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 14.7 "  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 42.2"  E