Village church Lübsee (Menzendorf)

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Lübsee village church

The village church Lübsee is a Romanesque brick church of the transition style from Romanesque to Gothic in the district of Lübsee of the municipality of Menzendorf . Today it belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Roggenstorf in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

The village church in Lübsee was built between 1236 and 1263 in the Romanesque style with early Gothic elements made of brick on a granite foundation. The Gothic tapered windows at the top were added later. In 1263 it fell under the patronage of the nearby Rehna Monastery , which had gained influence in the village as landowners through donations from the noble Bülow families and other Mecklenburg nobles. From 1266, the church in Lübsee, along with other churches in the area, enjoyed the wine donation from Duke Heinrich the Pilgrim . Through further donations of land by regents of the House of Mecklenburg: Johann von Gadebusch (1294), Heinrich d. Ä. and Heinrich d. J. (both 1300) the influence of the Rehna monastery in Lübsee increased until the middle of the 14th century. This only ended with the secularization of the Rehna monastery in 1552. Lübsee falls into the domanium and the patronage over the village church Lübsee thus to the dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin as sovereign. From 1576 to the beginning of the 18th century, Lübsee and the Rehna Monastery became the personal belongings of the Mecklenburg duchies and princesses Anna Sophie (until 1591), Sophia von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf (until 1634), Anna Sophie (until 1648) and Juliane Sibylla (until 1761).

Building description

The church consists of a rectangular nave two vaulted yokes in length and a vaulted choir in the form of the square box choir with three windows, which was typical for the area of western Mecklenburg at this time. Striking Romanesque design elements are the Romanesque round arch friezes on the gable of the choir. The single-nave nave , separated from the choir, has a flat roof and is made of field stones in the western part and bricks in the eastern part. The neo-Gothic west tower of the nave from 1729, which was renovated in 1901, has an eight-sided pointed tower and is covered with shingles. The windows were enlarged in the Gothic.

As a special feature, part of the exterior painting (red ashlar on a white background) has been preserved on the northwestern part of the main nave. Inside there are four layers of paint on the wall and vault, of which extensive remains have been exposed. Their dates range from the end of the 12th to the early 17th century. The paintings show ornamental and figurative motifs. The architectural structure of the vault and the evangelist symbols in the choir date from the end of the 13th century. From the middle of the 14th century there are ornamental trees of life in the vault and scenic paintings on the walls: Cain and Abel and Martin von Tours as well as the Annunciation , Christ before Pilate , crucifixion . The painting of the so-called Hell Throat also dates from this time . It is not, as is usually shown in profile, but frontal. The large-format representation of a Deesis was created around 1500 , and around 1600 the nave was painted with a curtain and a picture of the Last Judgment , the vaults were decorated with quatrefoil tiles.

Furnishing

The furnishings of the church were changed in the course of a thorough neo-Gothic renovation of the church in 1874. The simple, carved Gothic winged altar came into the Middle Ages collection of the State Museum Schwerin . The church received a neo-Gothic altarpiece designed by the builder Schlosser, which was decorated with a crucifixion by Theodor Fischer-Poisson .

According to Friedrich Schlie , the church had three bells at the end of the 19th century. Of these, the largest and the smallest were castings by the bell founder PM Hausbrandt in Wismar from the beginning of the second half of the 19th century. The middle bell was cast by the Lübeck council founder Lorenz Strahlborn from 1749. Its inscription referred to the patron, Duke Christian Ludwig II. And showed the coat of arms of Mecklenburg. An old baptismal font was then in the parish garden.

In 1888 the church received twelve images of the apostles in the area of ​​the triumphal arch. The walls of the choir were decorated with the pictures of the four evangelists. The south side of the choir had stained glass windows with the apostles Peter and Paul earlier.

The organ comes from the organ builder Friedrich Friese III . It was given to the church in 1874 by Werner von Siemens in memory of his parents, Christian Ferdinand Siemens and Eleonore, born in the churchyard . Deichmann donated.

Today the church is within sight of the federal highway 20 , about five kilometers east of the Schönberg exit and is therefore illuminated at night .

literature

  • Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( digitized version )
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The church at Lübsee near Rehna. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology 42 (1877), pp. 175–179 ( full text and digitized version )
  • 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, reprint Schwerin 1992, pp. 447-451. ISBN 3-910179-06-1
  • Lübsee (district of Menzendorf): Village church In: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. (The architectural and art monuments in the GDR 5) Berlin: Henschelverlag Art and Society 1990, ISBN 3-362-00457-1 , pp. 60–62

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Lübsee  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership of the community
  2. ↑ a b c d Jennifer Stracke: A look into hell . In restauro: The roof of the village church in Lübsee. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 3 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN  0941-7125 , p. 28, 29 .
  3. ↑ According to the architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region. (Lit.), p. 61
  4. ↑ Description in Lisch (Lit.)
  5. ↑ See the design drawing
  6. ^ Report of the inauguration on November 1, 1874: Weekly advertisements for the Principality of Ratzeburg from November 6, 1874

Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 58.7 ″  N , 11 ° 1 ′ 28.6 ″  E