Müsselmow village church

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Village church in Müsselmow, 2009

The Müsselmow village church is a small brick church in the Müsselmow district of the Kuhlen-Wendorf municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Unused since 1957 and left to decay for decades, the monument has been gradually renovated and used again since 1996 as part of a project by schoolchildren, teachers and students.

history

Where the manor house once stood, Slavs are said to have built a castle wall as early as the 7th century. The place is one of the demonstrably oldest Slavic settlement areas in Mecklenburg. The von Plessen people built their castle on the Slavic castle complex. This is likely to have been destroyed towards the end of the 14th century by the Mecklenburg duke on his war campaign against the robber barons who had prevailed. After that the first castle-like mansion could have been built.

Müsselmow was first mentioned in a document on January 16, 1333 as the Mucelmow house with the adjoining village and called a Johannis von Plesse . Legend has it that the church was founded and endowed by Helmold von Plesse in the 12th century, who came to Mecklenburg as the ministerial and military leader of Henry the Lion . The von Plessen families remained owners of the Müsselmow manor and church village in the Crivitz district until 1788. Southwest of Müsselmow there was a Plessenstein on the hill, which was also called Plessenfriedhof due to a legend .

In 1502 Helmut von Plessen renewed the church, in 1508 Albert Gherdes was named as vicar.

In 1652 Müsselmow gave up his church patronage and was merged with Holzendorf . Separated again in 1707, they were connected to Kladow until 1739. Then the Müsselmower parish came back to Holzendorf.

In 1776 the spiritual properties in Müsselmow and Holzendorf were visited. From 1851 to 1856 there was a dispute between the church patron and the regional church about the church buildings in Müsselmow. Not until 1886 can we hear of a church renovation again. The new owner of the estate, Adolf Ludwig Alexander, as patron of the church a. a. a new organ.

Church use ended in 1957, and the building was left to decay. In the 1960s there were burglaries and looting. Then the remaining parts of the equipment with the organ and the altar were removed. In 1992 a tree fell on the building and damaged the roof.

owner

Owners in Müsselmow were:

  • from 1333 to 1790 that of Plessen
  • 1789 Hofjägermeister Gideon Helmuth Ernst von Hopffgarten
  • 1791 bailiff Hans Heinrich Schmidt
  • 1799 Count of Oeynhausen
  • 1801 Christian Friedrich Krüger
  • 1805 Christian Busch
  • 1810 von Raven family
  • 1842 lawyer Friedrich Ludwig Schulze
  • 1865 von Bülow family
  • 1884 Adolf Ludwig Alexander, grandson of the Hamburg merchant Adolph Alexander
  • 1911 Albert von Schlick zu Berlin, Inspector Mau
  • 1945 expropriation

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable first mention as pastor.

  • around 1574 Alexander Rekeling
  • 1578–1581 Daniel Mester
  • 1581–1588 Christoph Drescher
  • 1589 Caspar Calovius, dismissed by the patron Berend von Plessen, because "he often feels great and drunk" (Willgeroth)
  • 1600–1614 / 19 Georgius Wilke, also tutor
  • 1620–1622 Johann Schliemann
  • 1622–1628 Daniel Goede (Goeding), left the parish after looting, robbery and fire damage (on New Year's Eve 1627 the parish went up in flames)
  • 1628–1639 Joachim Wolff, after him 12 years vacancy ( Kura by Pastor Adam Lembke from Holzendorf)
  • 1651–1681 Peter Christopher, 1651–1661 also administrator of the Kladow parish
  • no parish of its own after 1682, administered by Holzendorf and at times by Kadow
  • 1681–1707 (parish administrator) Diederich Schönfeld († June 5, 1707), was pastor in Holzendorf for 45 years,
  • 1707–1739 (parish administrator) Jeremias Balthasar Gerstenberger († May or June 1740, 88 years old), pastor in Kadow, resigned from office for reasons of age and because he was repeatedly plundered by bandits on the way to Müsslemow.

Today's church

After the renovation was completed (see below), the first service could take place in the church on October 3rd, 1999. Church services in Müsselmow only take place on occasion. The church key can be borrowed from the restaurant opposite. The churches in Müsselmow, Holzendorf, Tempzin and Penzlin today belong to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Brüel in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

Building description

Exterior

North view with the sacristy rebuilt in 2001, 2013

The small, rectangular brick church, 17.60 meters long and 7.40 meters wide, with a straight choir and flat wooden ceiling, is a 15th century hall building. The hipped to the east, with plain tiles layd roof consisted of a total of 14 containers and was designed as a collar beam roof with a simple collar beam position. The hanging pillars, arranged in three containers, had a cover on which the joist layer was suspended. Due to the severe damage to the entire structure, the roof and ceiling construction had to be completely renewed. The twin windows of the north and south facades were designed in the pointed arch style without decorative elements. The sacristy on the north side with its ribbed vault was demolished in 1982 because of dilapidation, but rebuilt in 2001. The rectangular west tower was built on field stone foundations in the basement with field stones and bricks, in the middle with bricks and on the upper floor with half-timbering . The pyramid-shaped tent roof of the tower is covered with plain tiles. A hewn field stone almost two meters high has been added to the northwest corner of the tower . The almost three meter high entrance closes with a pointed arch, the slightly recessed door with a round arch lintel.

Interior

Exposed wall paintings, 2013

The interior of the Müsselmower Church is characterized by modesty. The walls with the baroque wall paintings were painted over with four layers of white lime in the 19th century. Parts of it were uncovered from 2001 to 2008 by studying restorers from the Hildesheim University of Applied Sciences , including The Last Judgment. The window and door reveals were imitated with brick-red masonry. The year 1601 is carved on the lintel of the southern entrance door .

The six windows on the north side and the four windows on the south side were painted brown. Two angels and the dates of birth and death of the eldest daughter of the landlord Alexander were depicted in the two larger windows of the choir. From 2004 to 2005 all windows were glazed again with modern motifs. The work was carried out by the state vocational school for the glazing trade of the Lübeck Chamber of Crafts in Travemünde.

Chair cheek of the church, today in the Holzendorfer church, 2013

In 1886 the landowner Adolph Alexander had the church renovated. The entire carving, such as the altar, the pulpit and the stalls , was also painted. In front of the altar was a grave slab , presumably by Berend von Plessen († 1594). The church stalls , made from 1601 to 1603, contained not only the colored coats of arms but also the names of the von Barner , von Pentz , von Plessen, von Bülow, von Peckatel, von Halberstadt , von Möllendorff , von Sperling and von dem Knesebeck families . Some of the carved cheeks are fragments in the church in Holzendorf. Among them Armgard von Halberstadt and Achim von Barner as well as Samuel von Plessen from 1603.

Altar and pulpit

In the late Gothic carved altar , the coronation of Mary can be seen in the shrine, to the side Anna herself , two saints and the mercy seat. In the wings there are the 12 saints in two rows. Above it an old wooden crucifix , in the predella an oil painting with the baptism of Christ and above and below the triptych biblical sayings. Plessen's coat of arms was on the altar bar from 1598. Parts of the altar , which was removed in 1951 , ended up in the village church of Roggendorf .

The carved pulpit , which had three bearded male heads on the upper base, was on the north side in the interior of the church. The four evangelists were carved into the four panels of the preacher's chair. The pulpit has disappeared since it was looted in the 1950s.

organ

The organ (I / P / 5) was built in 1886 by the Schwerin organ builder Friedrich Friese III . built. Dismantled in 1951, it was installed in the New Church in Wismar and moved to the village church in Hornstorf in 1965 .

Bells

Bell from 1575 in the tower, 2013

In the belfry hung three bronze bells . The largest bell, cast in 1574, had the inscription: HV Plessen made this bell maken laten. The other two had no inscriptions except for the year. In 1900, Captain Ludwig Alexander had a bell cast around it. The inscription reads: Come, for everything is ready .

After the renovation work on the church tower was completed, the smallest Müsselmower bell, cast in 1575 (inscription: 15LXXV), was returned to the tower in 2002. It has a shortened rib . Such bells were not designed as ringing bells, but as chiming bells . Use as a chime - like here - is only possible in very rare cases.

Underground tunnels

The crypt in the church had a damaged capstone through which one could see inside. According to a legend, it appeared that there was no reason. That is why one believes in an underground corridor that ran from the church to the former castle and from there to the Holzendorfer church. The building of the two churches is attributed to von Plessen . Thus, the belief in the underground passage between the two churches described in the legend becomes understandable.

Redevelopment

Plaque to promote church renovation by the German Foundation for Monument Protection, 2013

The “Sponsorship Müsselmower Church e. V. “was founded under the chairmanship of Volker Wolter, a Hamburg high school teacher. In the summer of 1997 he began work assignments with his students in the cemetery. Wild growth was eliminated, the remaining tombstones were put back up. The students lived in huts that students at a Hamburg trade school had built for the project.

After the cemetery was recognizable as such again, they began work on the church. Since 1996, the Müsselmower Church sponsorship has taken on the historic building and founded an association. Since then, schoolchildren, teachers and students from different regions have been working on the renovation of the church with the help of donations and professional support.

First, the building was cleared of overgrown vegetation and the interior of rubble. The crypt, which was broken into and looted in 1997, was locked and the first security work began. In 1999 the church received a new roof structure with brick cladding, and the wooden beam ceiling could also be renewed. The field stone foundation had been refurbished and a natural drainage system laid in order to keep the outer walls dry. From 2004 the first new colored lead-framed church windows were used. After installing underfloor heating in 2009 and putting it into operation in 2010, the new brick floor was laid in 2011.

At the end of the construction work, a cross, a ball and a weathercock were placed on the top of the church tower on August 18, 2016. The prayer was held by the former regional bishop Hermann Beste .

The project has received several awards, including the “German Prize for Monument Protection 1998” from the German National Committee for Monument Protection and Monument ! Prize for children and young people from the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in 2010.

Under the initiative of Volker Wolter, at least 1,500 students have been involved since the mid-1990s. On July 22nd, 2016 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon for his life's work, the reconstruction of the church in Müsselmow and other activities.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . III. Volume The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin (1899). New print Schwerin 1993, ISBN 3-910179-14-2 , pp. 424-427.
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The churches to Holzendorf and Müsselmow . In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. Schwerin (1862) Volume 27, pp. 220-221.
  • Ernst Beckmann: Historical news about the churches, patrons and preachers to Holzendorf and Müsselmow . In: Church and school paper for the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Strelitz, Rostock, Volume 1 (1840), pp. 305-316.
  • ZeBI e V.: START e V .: Village and town churches in the parish of Wismar-Schwerin. Bremen, Rostock 2001, p. 48.
  • Frank Braun: Müsselmow, Parchim district. In: Wismar writings on the preservation of monuments. Volume 1, Neumünster 2004, ISBN 3-529-02570-4 , pp. 75-77.
  • Dörthe Papenhagen: Müsselmow. In: church and village or village and church or church villages. Wismar 2006, ISBN 3-939159-00-X , pp. 1-37.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Church Archive Schwerin
    • Specialia, Dept. 2. No. 295 Müsselmow
    • Parish archive Holzendorf, 071, buildings and inventory.
    • 020, the parish in Holzendorf and Müsselmow was raised from the Schimm, Herzberg and Zaschendorf estates in 1777. 1783.
  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Dobbertin State Monastery
    • LHAS 5.12-3 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of the Interior
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. of Settlements , Knightly Gut Müsselmow
    • LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Matters, 4.2.13 Parish, buildings, cemeteries
    • LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court , case files 1495–1806

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB VIII. (1873) No. 5387.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Lisch: The churches to Holzendorf and Müsselmow . MJB 27 (1862) pp. 220-221.
  3. ↑ Cf. Archives for Regional Studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg and Revüe der Landwirthschaft. Verlag AW Sandmeyer, Schwerin 1867, Volume 17, p. 395.
  4. ↑ MUB XIV. (1886) No. 8534, 8581, 8587.
  5. ↑ LKA Specialia, Section 2, No. 295, 030.
  6. ^ LKA parish archive Holzendorf, buildings and inventory.
  7. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-SChwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War , Vol. II, Wismar 1935, pp. 804 ff.
  8. ↑ Ernst Beckmann: Historical news about the church, patrons and preachers to Holzendorf and Müsselmow , Rostock (1840) pp. 313-315.
  9. ↑ A little church is green where, who knows, in the country , in: FAZ of July 21, 2011, page 32
  10. ^ Frank Braun: Müsselmow, Parchim district. In: Building recordings and building studies in the preservation of monuments. 2004, p. 76.
  11. ^ Frank Braun: Müsselmow, Parchim district. In: Building recordings and building studies in the preservation of monuments. 2004, p. 75.
  12. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Die von Halberstadt 1622 to 1788. 1989, p. 111.
  13. ↑ Karin Güttler: Investigations into the reinstallation of a bell in the bell cage of the Müsselmow village church from a structural dynamic point of view. Diploma thesis FH Wismar 2000, supervision by Prof. Dallmann, Prof. Braun.
  14. ↑ Burghard Keuthe: Parchimer say. Part 2, Parchim 1997, ISBN 3-932370-27-9 , p. 262.
  15. ^ Rescue of a village church The vision of Volker Wolter
  16. ↑ Project and founding of an association
  17. ^ Thoralf Kreuzer: Investigations into the structural condition of the village church in Müsselmow. Diploma thesis, FH Wismar 1997, supervised by Prof. Braun.
  18. ↑ Roswitha Spöhr: Cross, ball and cock attached. SVZ, anzeiger for Sternberg, Brüel, Warin. 18th August 2016.
  19. ^ Project restoration of a Gothic church in Müsselmow
  20. ↑ Press release from the Ministry of Education, Science and Culture, September 10, 2010
  21. ↑ Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 51.6 "  N , 11 ° 37 ′ 28.4"  E