Mestlin village church

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Mestlin village church
Portal on the south side
Vault

The Mestlin village church is a Gothic brick church in the municipality of Mestlin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Mestlin in the Parchim provost in the Parchim parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .

history

The place Mustelin was first mentioned in 1312. The church Mestlin was from 1448/1450 until the dissolution of the monastery Dobbertin Office 1919 Patronatskirche the monastery Dobbertin .

Ruest is mentioned in 1557 as a Mestlin branch church. The visitation of all churches to which the Dobbertin monastery has church patronage began in Mestlin on September 19, 1557, as noted in the protocol of the visitation of all Dobbertin churches in 1557 . The preliminary remarks stated that the nuns were so angry with the visitors that they refused to give any information about their churches. That's why you couldn't find out anything else than asking the local chef, Johannes Graetzen, what he said after initially resisting. So Mestlin was visited with Ruest immediately after Goldberg. In Mestlin the visitors had found public idolatry. Many pictures were decorated like in the days of papism. A crucifix was erected, and in front of it were flax and wool. There were also wax lights that had recently burned. And when the pastor was asked why he suffered such a thing, he said: "If I put it away, I would deserve ingratitude, because the peasants are so used to it." The visitors have taken away all annoying images and the peasantry because of them public idolatry severely punished. “They also ordered the village mayor to remove the papist books. The questioning of Pastor Joachim Harney in Mestlin showed that he was a poor, miserable person and unsuitable for the ministry. He was an old altar and served in Mestlin for about sixty years. He had a cruel and terrible damage to his face: his left eye hung out of his head and looked like leprosy. That is why he is not to be tolerated in office. He cannot write the catechism, nor has he ever spoken to the people at the sermon, as the peasants have complained. In the sermon he is not educative, in the exams he did badly. He doesn't know how to answer any question correctly. The pastor's wife also did not know the catechism, and neither can the pastor's son, who is a sexton, the catechism issue a church ordinance. The Rostock professors Dr. Georgius Venetus and Dr. Tilmanus Heßhusen, the superintendent Magister Gerhard Oemeke from Güstrow, who was rejected by Duke Johann Albrecht for being unpopular, but who was accepted into the commission at Duke Ulrich's request, Magister Johannes Freder from the Marienkirche in Wismar and Magister Simon Leupold from Güstrow as ducal Visitation secretary.

During the Thirty Years' War , pastor Bartholomäus Simonis fled to Parchim in 1638 and died there of the plague. The Mestlin parish was devastated for six years. He wrote a little book with parish news for the years 1611–1638. His son Johann Simonis as cantor in Crivitz was appointed pastor in Mestlin in 1645 by the Dobbertiner monastery captain Paschen von der Lühe. Immediately after taking office, the rectory was also devastated and around 1650 Simonis lived in the Vicarien-Katen zu Ruest. According to the church visitation protocol of 1662, 8 farmers and 7 Kossats lived in Mestlin, and only 4 farmers and 2 Kossats in Ruest. The Parchimer Georg Brennecke was promoted to pastor in Mestlin in 1706 by the Dobbertiner provisional Philipp Cuno von Bassewitz auf Dalwitz, along with two other candidates. Pastor Birkenstaedt had been pastor in Mestlin for 43 years from 1830 when he died in 1871. Among his successors, Präpositus Tarnow from Zabel bei Malchow, Pastor and School Director Peters from Schwerin and Pastor Hunzinger from Drei Lützow. He was elected on September 14, 1871.

Building history

In 1697 the Mestlin church received a tower clock. In 1708 a pillar was added to the outside to support the side walls of the choir. In 1745 the roof of the nave was renewed. 1749 is the year in a brick on the church tower. The year 1750 can be found on the tower's weather vane.

In 1878 the windows in the nave were renewed, for this also rectangular panes from the windows of the Dobbertiner monastery church were used.

From 1995 to 1996 repair work was carried out on the tower and the outer nave.

Building description

Exterior

The Mestlin village church is a stately Gothic building, which, like numerous other Mecklenburg village churches, is clearly divided into a choir, nave and tower. The oldest part is the lower part of the choir, built in field stone masonry from around 1250. It shows a group of three arched windows in the east gable, above a brick gable with a German band , arched panels and a cross in the form of a panel, rising from one Arched frieze in the sloping gable are framed. The interior is closed with a dome-like domical vault with a crown ring and opens to the nave with an ogival triumphal arch .

The simple nave is a two-aisled, three-bay hall with buttresses from the early 14th century, which is considerably higher than the choir. The ribbed vaults are supported by octagonal pillars with presented round services . The diagonal ribs are decorated at regular intervals with painted decorative rosettes made of fired clay, some of which have been supplemented in wood. The nave is illuminated by large three-part pointed arch windows and accessed from a stepped portal on the south side. The tower on a square floor plan, built roughly at the same time as the nave, has two floors in brick masonry with a stepped portal and is closed with a half-timbered upper part and a pyramid roof from the mid-18th century. In 1876 the church needed new windows, these came from the Dobbertiner monastery church in 1877.

Interior

altar
Former altar
pulpit
Triumphal Cross Group

altar

Pastor Birkenstaedt asked the monastery rulers in 1858 to help him with the acquisition of a new altar and altarpiece, since voluntary contributions had already been collected and a kind donor had given an altar cover. The Diet Comitte was of the opinion that since the church in Mestlin is monastic patronage, it is better if the monastery administration takes this matter into their own hands and does not allow itself to be counted among those who voluntarily support the decoration of the church.

The monastery Dobbertin Captain Julius von Maltzan left in haste by the Schwerin court painter Gaston Lenthe the altarpiece to Easter 1859 Crucifixion finished. It should be noted that court painter Lenthe had previously painted the altarpiece in the monastery church in Dobbertin. There are only three people standing around the crucifix: Maria, Johannes and Maria Magdalena. The people don't actually stand, they rather act. The depiction, to which no preliminary drawing can be assigned, is still influenced by the Nazarene , especially in the faces . In contrast, it is characterized by a more lively, lively presentation. On the back of the altar you can read: “Newly erected at Easter 1859, Landrath HD v. Blücher auf Suckow, Vice Land Marshal JHC v. Behr auf Hindenberg, monastery captain Baron J. v. Maltzan from Kl. Lukow, Pastor H. Birckenstaedt, Küster Fr. Mamerow, K. Head of the leaseholder Joh. Ehmcke, the leaseholder Friedr. Soltwedel. “The purchase of the altarpiece to decorate the church was praised in the Landtag zu Sternberg in 1859 and described as successful.

The former main altar from the 17th century is now on the west wall on the organ gallery and shows a three-storey structure with a crucifixion painting.

pulpit

The oak pulpit from 1689 shows Mannerist , slender carved figures of the four evangelists on the pulpit and Christ as the triumphant on the sound cover . It bears the following inscription: H. Hanß Jacob Brandt, administrator allhie, and his wife Armgart Dorothea Schnepels have given this to Kantzel Gott u. rebuild this church to Zierath u. let stave off. AO 1689.

Triumphal Cross Group

In the triumphal arch there is a crucifixion group from around 1500, which shows a high quality carved crucifix with evangelist symbols at the ends as well as Mary and John .

organ

The organ is a work with a free pipe prospect by Leon Verschueren from 1949 and has eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal with 684 pipes.

Stained glass window

Large rectangular panes of glass, which were removed in the Dobbertiner monastery church , were inserted in some of the windows in 1877 and 1878 .

Bells

Two valuable bells from the late Middle Ages, which came here in 1989 from the Ruest village church , set the tone. One bell from 1389 with a single-line majusc inscription has the tone g sharp 1 -1, the other with the tone a 1 +7 was cast by Heinrich von Kampen in 1525 .

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 0000–1352 Hermann von Gutzstrow, priest.
  • 1352– 0000Heinrich Praemule / Hinrich Pramitten, church lord of Mestlin.
  • 1381–1389 Rector Johann Wytz / Wylz, parish priest of Mestlin and Ruest.
  • 1439– 0000Andreas Altona, priest and vicar (vicarius) of Mestlin.
  • 1447– 0000Peter Winklers, Kirchherr (Kerckherr).
  • 1511– 0000Heinrich von Campen.
  • 1541–1557 Joachim Harney "... was an old, weak and otherwise dismissed mess priest, completely incapable, because he did not know the catechism and did not understand anything about the doctrine."
  • 1569– 0000Nicolaus Georgi from Dittmarschen "was to be deployed by order of Duke Ulrich, as his predecessor was expelled from the country for adultery."
  • 1569– 0000Jacob Sassen, "had invaded Mestlin as a pastor without prior knowledge and examination and was expelled from the parish".
  • 1570–1584 Johann Leonisius from Parchim, at the age of 28, first Protestant preacher, also called in Spornitz.
  • 1585–1615 Andreas Schnepel from Sternberg.
  • 1616–1616 Andreas Duncker from Rostock, died immediately after his inauguration.
  • 1617–1638 Bartolomaeus Simonis from Malchow , fled to Parchim in 1638 and died there of the plague.
  • Between 1638 and 1645, due to war events, no church services were held and no church field was established.
  • 1645–1688 Johann Simonis from Mestlin, lived in the Vicarien-Katen in Ruest, as the rectory in Mestlin was destroyed.
  • 1688–1705 Andreas Petri from Seehausen in the Altmark , cantor in Sternberg since 1680: "a man of good science, lively demeanor and decent morals." He wrote a little book with parish news.
  • 1705–1706 pastor position not occupied.
  • 1706–1716 Georg Brennecke from Parchim.
  • 1717–1753 Carl Helmuth Neander, also prepositus.
  • 1754–1793 Johann Clamor Buchholz, 1784 writes the Buchholz chronicle on the churches in Mestlin and Ruest.
  • 1793–1816 Johann Adam Schulz from Egeln near Halberstadt .
  • 1816–1829 Martin Joachim Jakob Heydemann from Lexow near Malchow .
  • 1830–1871 Wilhelm Johann Heinrich Birkenstaedt from Granzin , 1856 representation in Dobbertin.
  • 1872–1895 Ludwig Heinrich Hunzinger, previously in Dreilützow .
  • 1895–1918 Karl Axel Walter, pastor's son from Alt Meteln .
  • 1926–1927 Friedrich August Alexander Wehner, from Rehna , was previously a pastor in Kladrum .
  • 1933–1938 Otto Richard Karl Ulrich Schmidt, then in Kladrum .
  • 1939–1974 Friedrich Heise
  • 1974–1983 vacant
  • 1983–1992 Matthias Ortmann
  • 1993–2005 Jens Krause, then Neukloster .
  • 2005– 0000Kornelius Taetow.

Parish

The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Mestlin includes the places Dinnes, Groß Niendorf with church , Hohen Pritz with church , Klein Pritz, Kukuk, Mestlin with church, Mühlenhof (Techentin) , Ruest with village church Ruest and Vimfow. The parish of Mestlin with its parish seat has been associated with the Techentin parish since 1985 and with the Kladrum parish since 2006 .

literature

  • Johann Clamor Buchholz: Comprehensive news from churches and parish things to Mestlin and Ruest and what their thorough overview seemed necessary to know, and confirmed by current writings, plans and tables by Johann Clamor Buchholz, pastor of Mestlin and Ruest at that time, written over the years 1784 and 1785. Mestlin parish archives, transferred from the manuscript by Jens Alms, Rostock, 1999.
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. VI. Volume: The district court districts Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901. Reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 373-376.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , pp. 370–371.
  • Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg . 4th edition. Evangelical Publishing House, Berlin 1985.
  • Dieter Garling: Family and personal history Mestlin / Ruest. Rostock 2001.
  • Günther Peters, Andrea Matischewski, Dieter Garling: Mestlin, chronicle of a Mecklenburg village. Mestlin 2001, ISBN 3-935244-06-1
  • Fred Beckendorff: Mestlin. The village. The church. In: The village, town and monastery churches in the nature park and its surroundings. Ed. Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide Nature Park (= From Culture and Science, Volume 3), Karow 2003, pp. 50–51.
  • ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Parchim parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 p. 208.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
    • LHAS 2.12-2 / 4 government colleges and courts.
    • LHAS 2.12-3 / 5 church visits. No. 22.
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance company.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag negotiations , Landtag assemblies , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Department 3.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, personnel and exams
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (LAKD)
    • State Office for Monument Preservation, Archive, Mestlin No. 1172.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB V. (1869) No. 3570.
  2. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 5 church stations. No. 22 Visitation of the churches of the Dobbertin monastery, 1557.
  3. ↑ LHAS 2.12-3 / 5 church visits. No. 22 Visitation of the churches of the Dobbertin monastery. 1557.
  4. ^ Johann Clamor Buchholz: Detailed information and parish matters in Mestlin and Ruest. Pp. 149-151.
  5. ^ List of the personalities of the Dobbertin Monastery
  6. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag. November 22, 1871, No. 25.
  7. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag. November 6, 1878, No. 8.
  8. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag. November 15, 1876, no.23.
  9. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag. November 17, 1858, no.21.
  10. ^ Ingrid Lent: Gaston Lenthe. A Schwerin court painter. 2012, pp. 49, 50.
  11. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Minutes of the Landtag. November 16, 1859, No. 12.
  12. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village of Mestlin. 1901, p. 374.
  13. ^ Page of the Malchow Organ Museum with information about the organ. Retrieved June 24, 2018 .
  14. ↑ LHAS 5.11-2 Protocols of the Landtag. November 15, 1876, no.22, November 6, 1878, no.8.
  15. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin pastors since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.
  16. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village of Mestlin. 1901, pp. 372-373.
  17. ^ Dieter Garling: Family and personal history Mestlin / Ruest. 2001, pp. 58-64.
  18. ^ Johann Clamor Buchholz: Detailed information and parish matters in Mestlin and Ruest. 1785, pp. 7-20.
  19. ↑ MUB XIII. (1884) No. 7883.
  20. ↑ MUB XX. (1900) No. 11382.
  21. ^ Johann Clamor Buchholz: Parish things in Mestlin and Ruest. 1758, p. 158.
  22. ^ Friedrich Lisch: The Reformation of the Dobbertin Monastery. MJB XXII. (1857) p. 116.
  23. ↑ LHAS 2.12-2 / 4 Government Colleges and Courts , No. 1071.
  24. ↑ LHAS 2.12-2 / 4 Government Colleges and Courts , No. 1076.
  25. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 2 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 4007 Election of a priest in Mestlin, 1645.
  26. ^ Johann Clamor Buchholz: Detailed information and parish matters in Mestlin and Ruest. 1785, pp. 156-157.
  27. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 4003 Carl Leopold, Duke of Mecklenburg and Pastor Georg Brenncke of Mestlin, 1716.
  28. ↑ LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Landeskloster / Klosteramt Dobbertin. No. 4007 Election of a priest in Mestlin, 1717.
  29. ^ Johann Clamor Buchholz: Detailed information and parish matters in Mestlin and Ruest. 1785, pp. 1-269.
  30. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina, p. 390.

Coordinates: 53 ° 34 '54 "  N , 11 ° 55' 45.2"  E