Löcknitz village church

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Evangelical Church of the community of Löcknitz.

The Dorfkirche Löcknitz is a church in Löcknitz , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Parish

The main sermon point and the official seat of the Protestant pastor are located in Löcknitz. The four Evangelical parishes of Plöwen , Bergholz , Bismark and Wilhelmshof belong to the Evangelical Parish Office located there at Chausseestrasse 99 with the Löcknitzer Church . A total of three Christian denominations are represented in the area of ​​the Evangelical Pastoral Office: Evangelical Lutherans, French Reformed and Roman Catholics. From 1997 to 2012 the Löcknitz parish was part of the Pasewalk parish (seat of the superintendent in Pasewalk) of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . Since May 2012, the parish Loecknitz belongs to the provost Pasewalk in Pomeranian Protestant parish of the diocese Mecklenburg and Pomerania (seat of the diocese Bishop in Greifswald) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

A pastor in Löcknitz is mentioned for the first time as early as 1514, but without being named. In 1557 a new castle with a castle chapel and a church were built right next to the castle. In the course of the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648) this church was completely destroyed. During repair work in 1948/49 to remove the damage caused by the Second World War (1939 to 1945), the ball of the tower cross u. a. found a document from 1870 with further information on the history of the Löcknitz church. This shows that the church services of the community of Löcknitz took place in the chapel of the Löcknitz Castle from the end of the Thirty Years War until 1805 and that a provisional new construction of a small but probably not very solid half-timbered church took place only in 1804/05. This provisional interim church was very dilapidated in 1864. Thereupon, on October 1st, 1869, the foundation stone was laid for the Löcknitz church, which was estimated to cost 15,000 thalers and is still standing today, with important documents from this time being built into the foundation of the altar. The church, designed by the royal building inspector Kühnle from Prenzlau, was completed on August 17, 1870, consecrated on June 13, 1871 and officially handed over to the community of Löcknitz. The original of the above-mentioned document is now being kept in the rectory, a copy of the document was deposited in the Kugel in 1948/49. As early as 1863, the old rectory in Löcknitz was in serious disrepair, which is why it was demolished and the rectory, which is still used as a parish office, was built. The old parish barn burned down completely in a fire in 1893. In 1969 the Löcknitzer church was closed again and fundamentally repaired and renovated and rededicated in 1972.

Building description

Löcknitz Church from the northeast.

The Löcknitzer Church is a hall church made of yellow bricks, which has stepped buttresses on the outside and whose rectangular shape of the nave is terminated by four corner pillars with "turret approaches", so-called fial attachments. The window openings are designed in a Gothic pointed arch shape, with two rows of windows one above the other on the eaves of the church in the north and south. The 45 meter high tower (up to the top with a golden ball and cross) has a square floor plan with an octagonal bell house with high, coupled sound openings, which were renewed in 2013 and a slim pointed helmet with a copper covering from 1986. The wall surfaces of the tower are also through Structured pilaster strips.

Inside, the rectangular, five-bay church nave with a surrounding eaves cornice and ornamental frieze is statically supported by buttresses and has an Italian-style basilica formwork as a broken wooden ceiling , with a visible supporting structure and openwork tracery. On the east side of the nave, a neo-Gothic triumphal arch is followed by the polygonal closed apse with side chapels as a polygonal altar niche, which is covered by a profiled star rib vault with oak leaf consoles. On the east wall with the apse there is also a neo-Gothic, staggered front gable.

The colored church windows are from the Royal Institute for Glass Painting Berlin-Charlottenburg, in the apse and the west facade they show carpet patterns from the 19th century based on medieval models. They were recovered in 1980 from the demolition of the cemetery chapel on the New Cemetery in Greifswald on the initiative of the then Löcknitz pastor Christoph Wittenberg and - like the statue of the Redeemer later - fitted into the Löcknitz church. The remaining windows were made by the Kuhl glassworks in Züssow according to designs by Eginhard Dräger, from Schwennenz , with lead glazing and represent the four evangelists , in the middle of the south side the tree of life symbol in connection with the passion theme and on the north side the Luther rose .

Furnishing

The crucifix made of cast zinc hangs on the east wall of the apse and is mounted on oak from an oak from Löcknitz. The masonry altar in the apse is covered by an oak canteen . On the right, southern triumphal arch to the apse is an octagonal wooden pulpit. The pulpit is designed with clover-leaf arches in a pointed arch frame and a four-leaf motif on the foot, as are the balustrades of the gallery and stalls. The wooden furnishings of the pulpit, stalls and gallery come from the time the church was built around 1870. To mark the 125th anniversary of the Löcknitz church, a red sandstone red sandstone statue of the Redeemer from the aforementioned Greifswald cemetery chapel was placed on the left, northern triumphal arch of the apse in 1996 . This sculpture was made in 1884 by the sculptor Carl Gruber from the Academy of Arts in Kassel . The baptismal font, made of white sandstone in 1974, was made by a stonemason in Anklam, based on a drawing of the baptismal font in Stralsund's Heilgeistkirche , at which Pastor Wittenberg served at the time. Also in the church is a baroque wooden epitaph, which originally stood in the Löcknitz castle chapel, which was demolished in 1805 and reminds of Colonel Idell Ehrentreich von Pfuel , who died and was buried in Löcknitz in 1711, who was the fortress commander in Löcknitz between 1689 and 1711. The epitaph bears the following inscription: “ Go sorrowful life because it is better that Jesus Christ in heaven will give me. Idell Ehrentreich von Pfuhl, died 1711. "

The Löcknitz church has a total of 3 bells. A bell (g sharp ') was taken over in 1973 from a church in a lignite mining area. In 1974/75, two more bells (h'-cis') were cast for the Löcknitz church in the VEB bell foundry Apolda under the direction of the last Apolda bell founder - master bell founder Franz-Peter Schilling. A new church tower clock with two striking mechanisms and four dials from VEB Spezialuhren Leipzig replaced the old tower clock in 1978. After the old organ of the Löcknitz church was desolate, a new one was built from 1960 by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company. This is a two manual organ with pedal in 15 registers with mechanical play and key action . With its main and breastworks and the two pedal towers, the organ, which was only finally completed in 1978, still adorns the Löcknitz church today.

Pastor

The first mention of a pastor in Löcknitz comes from the year 1514, but without naming them. The following other pastors must be proven by name and term of office in Löcknitz:

Office and residence of the Evangelical Pastor of the Löcknitz community.
Parish barn of the Evangelical Parish Office Löcknitz.
  • 1609 0000Joachim Eccard
  • 0? 000000Jonas Gigans
  • around 1640 0Johann Camerarius
  • 1676–1678 Andreas Reibhand
  • 1678–1688 Petrus Klahorst
  • 1689-1724 Georgius Boullarius
  • 1718–1749 Johann Caspar Geipler
  • 1749–1770 Johann Christian Wilhelm Neumerckel
  • 1768–1774 Ernst Friedrich Teetz
  • 1774–1783 Christian Friedrich Schubart
  • 1784–1829 Johann Gottfried Schütz
  • 1829–1832 Julius Theodor Moll
  • 1834–1845 Karl Bernhard Moll
  • 1845–1856 Christian David Oelgarte
  • 1882–1910 August Friedrich Theodor Thomsen
  • 1910–1916 Alfred Eckert
  • 1916–1943 Hugo Varchmin
  • 1943–1945 vacancy
  • February / March 1945? Krüger ("Refugee Pastor")
  • July to November 1945 Martin Reimer
  • 1945–1950 Walter Wilm
  • 1950–1953 Werner Schmidt
  • 1954–1959 Johannes Möller
  • 1960–1968 Ernst Gausmann
  • 1968–1998 Christoph Wittenberg
  • 1999–2015 Dr. Ullrich Drans
  • Febr. 2015 to Jan. 2016 vacancy (vacancy replacement: Pastor Mattias Jehsert, Retzin)
  • since February 2016 Jens and Helga Warnke

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Evangelical parish of Löcknitz.
  2. ↑ Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Evangelical parishes of Löcknitz: Parish of Löcknitz.
  3. ↑ a b c Gabriele Heyden: The pastor pulls out all the stops. In: Pasewalker Zeitung . Saturday / Sunday 23/24 January 2010, page 24.
  4. ↑ Friends of Burgfried Löcknitz e. V. (Ed.): Ortschronik von Löcknitz (Part I) : Pages 17, 43–44 and 47-48.
  5. ↑ a b c Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Löcknitz village church.
  6. ^ Correspondence between the architect Karl Doflein and the sculptor Carl Gruber, Greifswald City Archives, "Acta des Magistrats zu Greifswald", repository no. 6300, no. 138 ff.
  7. ^ Official notice of the office Löcknitz-Penkun, Volume 6, No. 5, May 10, 2011, pp. 12-14. (PDF; 4.3 MB)
  8. ↑ Gemeinde Ramin (ed.), Bodo Rennwanz: Bismark 1212 to 2007. Chronicle Bismark , Schibri-Verlag , Ramin, Bismark 2007, p. 13.
  9. ↑ Friedrich August Schmidt (ed.): New Nekrolog der Deutschen , Vol. 10, 2nd part , printed and published by Bernhard Friedrich Voigt, Ilmenau 1834, pp. 675–676;Digitized

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Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 12.7 ″  N , 14 ° 12 ′ 30 ″  E