Niemica village church

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The village church of Niemica (German Nemitz, district of Schlawe / Pomerania ) is a brick and field stone building from the early 13th century and the oldest church in the Sławno ( Schlawe ) region in the Polish West Pomeranian Voivodeship . It is now called Kościół Wniebowzięcia Najświętszej Marii Panny (NMP) Church of the Assumption.

Building description

The church is located in the middle of the village at the intersection of State Road 6 Stettin - Gdansk with the side roads to Grabowo ( Martinshagen ) - Dobiesław ( Abtshagen ), to Bartolino ( Bartlin ) - Sulechowo ( Groß Soltikow ) - Polanów ( Pollnow ) and to Kusice ( Kuhtz ) - Ratajki ( Ratteick ).

What is striking about the appearance of the Nemitz village church with its west tower is the lack of a choir. Its east wall is broken by two ogival windows, and the gable above is divided by narrow panels. The longitudinal walls are reinforced by narrow buttresses . The tower has Romanesque vaults and there are Gothic style elements in the nave .

In 1219, the Bishop of Cammin Sigwin (1191–1219) consecrated the St. Anna Church at that time and equipped it with two hooves and the tithing of the place. The first building was rebuilt and expanded several times in the following time.

Furnishing

The furnishings with altar, pulpit, stalls and baptismal font come from the 17th century. The middle image of the painted Renaissance altarpiece from 1626 is a relief depicting the crucifixion of Jesus with Mary and John in front of the cross. Two coats of arms can be seen on the side pieces, above them a representation of the resurrection of Jesus Christ , who carries a victory flag.

At the instigation of the Nemitz pastor Sellicke (Selchius) a new pulpit was created in 1648 and painted at the expense of the Rittmeister von Natzmer . The four evangelists are depicted in the panels between free-standing corner columns .

The brass font bears a relief of the Annunciation .

In the middle of the 19th century the church was renovated under the patron Anton von Kleist and equipped with an organ .

Parish

The transfer of the patronage of the church by the Wendish truchess Stephan von Nemitz is reported from the year 1250 , and in 1267 the Camminer Bishop Hermann von Gleichen (1251–1289) donated the parish, to whom he owned the villages of Bartlin (now in Polish: Bartolino), Borkow (Borkowo), Groß- and Klein- Soltikow (Sulechowo or Sulechówko), Kuhtz (Kusice), Leikow (Lejkowo), Panknin (Pękanino) and Zirchow (Sierakowo Sławieński) as well as four hooves .

The parish Nemitz remained almost unchanged as a parish in the post-Reformation period. Before 1945, Bartlin and Kuhtz and then Söllnitz (Destinationsica) were parish, and the other earlier places together formed the subsidiary community of Klein Soltikow within the parish of Nemitz. The village of Leikow finally formed a parish vicariate with Zirchow.

Before 1945 the landowners of the parish villages held the church patronage: von Natzmer-Nemitz and von Schlieffen-Klein Soltikow.

The parish of Nemitz belonged to the parish of Rügenwalde (Darłowo) of the church province of Pomerania of the Church of the Old Prussian Union until 1945 . In 1940 there were 2183 parishioners.

Today most of the parish residents belong to the Catholic Church in Poland . Niemica is only a branch church in Parafia Sulechówko ( Klein Soltikow ). The Protestant church members are cared for by the rectory in Koszalin ( Köslin ) in the diocese of Pomerania-Greater Poland of the Evangelical-Augsburg (i.e. Lutheran) Church in Poland .

The parish registers in Nemitz have been kept since 1647. Documents that have been preserved are kept by the State Archives in Stettin, those of the Klein Soltikow branch in the State Archives in Köslin.

Pastor

In the period between 1535 and 1945 the following were active as clergy:

  1. Jakob Krüger, 1579
  2. Jonathan Hartmann
  3. Jakob Sellicke (Selchius), 1647–1678
  4. Johann Adam, 1680-1709
  5. Martin Rhode, 1710-1721
  6. Christoph Friedrich Wisch, 1722–1737
  7. Christian Friedrich Ventzke, 1738–1791
  8. Johannes Andreas Onnasch, 1791–1835
  9. Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Hesse, 1836–1847
  10. Julius Heinrich Tietz, 1848–1876
  11. Karl Georg Büge, 1876–1878
  12. Karl Paul Johannes Schönberg, 1878–?
  13. Paul Post, 1916–1928
  14. Martin Vossberg, 1928–1945

literature

  • Ernst H. von Michaelis: Nemitz . In: Manfred Vollack (Ed.): The Schlawe district. A Pomeranian homeland book . tape 2 . Husum 1989, p. 1024-1029 .
  • Johannes Hinz: Pomerania. Signpost through an unforgettable country . Augsburg 1996, ISBN 3-86047-181-3 .
  • Ernst Müller: The Protestant clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part II . Szczecin 1912.

Coordinates: 54 ° 16 ′ 33 ″  N , 16 ° 28 ′ 50 ″  E