Menkin village church
The evangelical village church Menkin is a medieval hall church in Menkin in the Wollschow part of the municipality of Brüssow in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Brüssow in the Pasewalk parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and can be visited after registration.
History and architecture
The church was built from layered granite blocks in the second half of the 13th century . The tower was made as wide as the nave.
The painted beamed ceiling dates from the 17th century, as does a segmented sacraments niche in the south wall. The door leaf of the south portal from 1703 has wrought iron fittings in the form of a knight figure. A brass chandelier with a figure of a knight dates from 1727. In 1731 the south vestibule and the tower top made of half-timbered construction with a closed lantern and a slate-covered dome were built . In addition, the west gable was renewed. The bell from 1767 comes from Johann Heinrich Scheel from Stettin. On the walls of the gallery, as well as on the north and south walls, there are 32 children's death shields from the 17th and 18th centuries. From 1995 to 1998 the church was restored.
The building has mostly rectangular windows, only in the south wall there are pointed arch windows and in the east gable there are slightly staggered round arch windows.
Between 1995 and 1999 structural repairs to the tower and the ship were carried out, which was supported by the German Foundation for Monument Protection . With the support of a Hamburg donor, the altar and pulpit, patronage gallery, south vestibule and organ were also renovated.
During a church renovation from 1926 to 1930, wall paintings from the 14th and 16th centuries were rediscovered and exposed in 1927. Consecration crosses on the east and south walls also date from the 14th century. In 1580, based on the Lübeck cathedral slogan , the following was written on the south wall of the church :
“Christ our Lord says to us like this:
I am eternal - you are not looking for me.
I am omnipotent - you do not fear me.
I am merciful - you do not trust me.
I am true - you do not believe me.
I am righteous - you do not honor me.
I am the way - you don't walk me.
I am the light - you do not see me.
I am life - you do not desire mine.
I am wise - you do not follow me.
I am the master - you do not ask me.
I am rich - you do not ask me.
I am beautiful - you do not love me.
I am noble - you do not serve me.
I'm the judge - don't blame me. "
Parish
The parish of Menkin belonged to the parish of Brüssow of the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg or the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg until 1974 and then to the parish of Pasewalk of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . Since May 2012, she is part of the parish Brüssow in 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 .
Furnishing
The late Renaissance altar essay was donated in 1599 by the village owner Ursula von Blanckenburg. Three portraits of her hang above the pastor's pews from 1638. The altar has a colorful architectural structure with a lot of ornament. In the arched central niche, framed by protruding columns, there is a multi-figurative crucifixion relief, in side niches there are allegorical figures and saints and in the predella there is a communion relief. To the left and right of the predella there are two angels showing the elements of the Lord's Supper, the host and the chalice with wine. Above it, in the middle part, the crucifixion of Jesus is depicted, above it the risen Christ with the victory flag and on the top of the altar the pelican who soaks his boys with his own blood.
The pulpit with sound cover and the lectern with fittings also date from this period. The richly decorated pulpit basket shows, among other things, the four evangelists between corner pillars and cardinal virtues painted on the stairs in arched niches . The sexton stalls below the pulpit date from around 1600. It is structured by pillars on high pedestals and shows images of the apostles in diamond-coated blind arcades.
A comprehensive renovation took place between 1623 and 1642 after Swedish troops twice devastated Menkin and its church during the Thirty Years War . Among other things, the windows were changed. The pews in the church have remained unchanged since 1637.
Manorial box and crypt
In 1637, on the north side of the church, a two-storey box extension measuring around 6.5 mx 5 m was built for a mansion gallery and a crypt for the von Winterfeldt family's hereditary burials. The von Winterfeldt family lived in Menkin from 1623 to 1945 and were also the patrons of the church. Adam von Winterfeld and his wife Anna von Roebel founded the extension. In front of the basket arch opening to the north extension, a patronage box, glazed with plate panes, with four stove plates with biblical scenes and the Brunswick coat of arms from the Ilsenburger Hütte was set up.
On the inside of the door to the crypt is the saying: "If I were as white as Solomon and also as beautiful as Absalon and if I had the great Alexander Reich I would have to be like death in the year 1637". In 1900 the Winterfeldt family carried out an inventory, order and cleaning of the crypt. Adam Winterfeldt's tin coffin, like the other coffins, had been forcibly opened and robbed. The restoration of the tin coffin was carried out in Berlin. When the crypt was repaired between autumn 2005 and 2006, the Winterfeldt family's coffins were cleaned and examined. The individually and lavishly designed coffins are mostly made of wood, some are painted and have rich fittings, only Adam Winterfeldt's coffin is made of pewter. The interior is also rich and lavish with fabric, filling material and pillows. The buried dead were all clothed and decorated with bonnets or skulls , similar to those on the mansion's box inside the church. As a result of the good ventilation of the crypt, the dead were well preserved and mummified . The youngest coffins are made of oak and date from the second half of the 18th century.
organ
In 1917 Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin installed an organ as opus 740. The instrument was destroyed at the end of World War II in 1945. It had a three-part prospectus in neo-renaissance form .
In 2005 the organ was restored by master organ builder Andreas Arnold from the Mecklenburg Orgelbau company / Wolfgang Nussbücker . The existing parts were cleaned and provided with wood protection and the organ case restored and reconstructed. The bellows system with the connection of an electric wind generator, the wind chests of the play system, the pneumatic wind chests of the tone and stop mechanisms as well as the wooden pipes and all metal pipes have also been restored. The organ has the following disposition :
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- Coupling : I / I Superoctavcoppel, II / I, I / P
- Playing aids : Mezzoforte, Tutti, Auslöser, Calcant, blind swell
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 691.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved July 9, 2020 .
- ^ Georg Dehio : Dehio - Handbook of German art monuments: Brandenburg. Handbook of German Art Monuments . 2nd revised and expanded edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 691 .
- ^ Church in Menkin. In: Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. MANET Marketing GmbH, accessed on June 19, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Menkin Church. Parish of Brüssow, accessed on June 19, 2017 .
- ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Regional Church Greifswald, No. 1, 1974 , p. 2.
- ^ Bettina Jungklaus , Daniel Krebs, Blandine Wittkopp : The crypt of Menkin (Brandenburg, Uckermark district) . In: Förderkreis Ohlsdorfer Friedhof (ed.): Ohlsdorf. Magazine for culture of mourning . tape IV , no. 107 . Hamburg November 2009, p. 23–25 ( fof-ohlsdorf.de [accessed June 20, 2017]).
- ^ Organ restoration in the evangelical church in Menkin. Mecklenburg organ builder, Wolfgang Nußbücker, accessed on June 19, 2017 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 50.4 " N , 14 ° 11 ′ 51.4" E