Parkentin village church

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The village church in Parkentin

The Parkentin village church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Parkentin-Hanstorf in Bartenshagen-Parkentin in the Rostock district . The community belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ). The village churches of Hanstorf and Stäbelow belong to the community .

history

The Parkentin area is one of the lands that Pribislaw gave to Doberan Monastery when it was founded in 1171. The church was founded a little later by the monastery. Around 1300 Rabenhorst ( Rethwisch ) belonged temporarily to the parish. On April 7, 1333 the monastery was given jurisdiction over Parkentin by Duke Albrecht II . The church belonged to the archdeaconate area of ​​the monastery until 1552. After the secularization and dissolution of the monastery, the place came under the ducal domanial office. The first Protestant pastor appointed by the duke and not the abbot of the monastery was Brand Meseke in 1557 .

Building description

The church was built in several stages beginning in the 13th century. The oldest part is the square, eight-rib vaulted choir made of field stones. It still has Romanesque slit windows. The eastern brick gable is richly structured. The three-aisled hall house with two bays has four two-part early Gothic windows that indicate a construction period at the beginning of the 14th century. The nave is closed with cross vaults. A sacristy was added to the south side of the choir and a morgue built in the 14th century is located on the north side. The bridal door , the former main entrance walled up in the 20th century on the north side of the church, is well worth seeing . This is decorated with alternating round and pear sticks as well as flowers. There were three more breakthroughs now walled up with an unknown purpose on the south side. The two central pillars of the nave are strikingly decorated. Both have pictorial representations of saints on three sides each. Only the area facing the outer wall is unpainted. The southern pillar also bears small sculptures of saints. Instead, the north pillar carries a holy water font. It is only a few steps away from the original entrance, the bridal door, and was easily accessible. Today it is in the middle of the stalls and would hardly be usable if the church was fully occupied. The tower with the side chapels that is drawn into the interior dates from the second half of the 14th century, is 41 meters high and has an octagonal pointed helmet and four shielded gables.

  • Slit window in the choir

  • former bridal door on the north side

  • Interior of the church looking towards the choir in the east

Furnishing

The winged altar dates from the second half of the 15th century. The central shrine was changed in the Baroque style in 1689 . In this a carved group of figures of the Holy Trinity, as well as Saints George and Catherine and a bishop are arranged. The apostles can be found in the wings. The backs of the wings consist of eight paintings. The pulpit is dated April 3, 1615 and represents a completed Renaissance work. It was made by the Rostock carpenter Hans Schwant. There are carvings depicting four evangelists and the crucifixion scene. The sound cover is a more recent work. The furnishings include an early Gothic font from around 1280 . There are several tombstones in the church, including that of the pleban Johannes Birnith and his mother Catherine from 1369.

Inside the church there are frescoes from the 14th century in the domed vault , which were discovered and restored in 1899. The women painted in the choir vault represent the parable of the wise and foolish virgins . On the east wall of the nave there is a single picture of the Descent from the Cross and in the arch opposite the pulpit a depiction of the flagellation of Jesus.

Until 1967 the church housed a Runge organ. Today's Schuke organ was made in 1961 as Opus 314 for the Georgenkirche in Wismar, was later in use in Rostock and came to Parkentin in 1976. It has eight registers , a manual and a pedal .

The tower houses three bells, the oldest and smallest of which is a bronze bell cast in 1627. Two more bronze bells had to be delivered for war purposes in 1918 and were replaced in 1923 by two hard-cast iron bells from Ulrich and Weule .

  • altar

  • pulpit

  • Baptismal font

  • Frescoes in the choir vault

  • Church bells

Support association

A support association for the preservation of the Parkentiner Church was founded, which has taken on important tasks for the renovation of the church. It is necessary to drain the foundations and renovate the interior.

Web links and sources

Commons : Parkentin Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Inscription reproduced in the Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch , Volume 16, Schwerin 1893, No. 9964 ( digitized version )
  2. ↑ Catalog raisonné on schuke.de, p. 35


Coordinates: 54 ° 4 ′ 39 ″  N , 11 ° 58 ′ 47.3 ″  E