Schlagsdorf village church

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Schlagsdorf village church from the north
Church tower from the southwest

The village church Schlagsdorf is a late Romanesque / early Gothic two-aisled hall church in Schlagsdorf in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg and the church of the parish of the same name in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

The brick church in Schlagsdorf was first mentioned in the document from 1194, in which the bishop of Ratzeburg and the cathedral chapter stipulated the division of a tithe of the village of Sclavekestorp , accordingly the church is also listed in the Ratzeburg tithe register from 1230. Schlagsdorf was named villa Zlavti as early as 1158 when a border was determined.

From 1238, Schlagsdorf was wholly owned by the cathedral chapter. 1239 confirmed Pope Gregory IX. the right of patronage to the cathedral chapter. Nothing has survived from the important castle complex in the lowlands on Mechower See. In the legend of Bishop Ludolf it is said that when his body was transferred from Wismar to Ratzeburg in 1250, the bells of the Schlagsdorf Church rang by itself. The pastors were under the chapter. It was not until 1570 that the first Protestant pastor, M. Daelingius, was appointed and the idea of ​​the Reformation was implemented in the parish. As part of the Principality of Ratzeburg , the place and church belonged to Mecklenburg-Strelitz since the Hamburg settlement (1701) .

Friedrich Ludwig Christian Masch was pastor in Schlagsdorf from 1793 until his death in 1838; his son Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch was born in 1794 in the Schlagsdorf pastorate.

Extensive restoration work was carried out on the church in 1875. The repair and restoration work carried out between 1969 and 1971 led to a further approximation of the original spatial impression. The paintings show a characteristic red and white triangular frieze on the plaster and the bricks.

During the GDR's existence, the church and community were isolated in the restricted area .

Building description

Security measures in the south aisle (2012), in front of that one of the Lübeck candlesticks (around 1650)

The village church is a stately brick building on a field stone base with a hall longhouse of four bays, a retracted choir and a massive west tower with a hipped gable roof. The oldest surviving part of the hall church is the nave , which was started with two aisles with three columns in the middle in the 12th century. It was vaulted in the Romanesque-Gothic transition style at the beginning of the 13th century based on the model of the vestibule of the Ratzeburg Cathedral . However, the outer walls were originally not designed for vaults, which repeatedly led to static problems. At the end of the 15th century, the choir , which had previously probably been designed as a rectangular choir ( box choir ) typical for Lauenburg and West Mecklenburg in the transition period , was enlarged and given a 3/6 end. Neo-Romanesque arched windows were used on the nave and corresponding pointed arch windows on the choir. In the middle of the 16th century, the massive, square (6.70 × 6.70 m) west tower was built, the brick walls of which are 1.80 meters thick. In 1623 the Gerwekammer (sacristy) was rebuilt on the north side of the choir; the corresponding extension on the south side, referred to as the morgue in 1619, was completely renovated in 1802 and converted into a sacristy in 1872. Major renovations took place in 1795 (vault, exterior), 1797 and 1818 (tower) and from 1872 to 1875 (thorough renovation with enlargement of the windows, bricking up the south portal, opening of the west portal, new stalls and paintings). Structural construction work took place after German reunification and has not yet been completed because of the financial outlay involved. In this respect, security measures have initially been taken inside the south aisle.

Furnishing

altar

The medieval masonry altar table has been adorned since 1641 with a carved reredos by Gebhard Jürgen Titge , who also created the altar for the Ratzeburg Cathedral . He previously created the votive tablets of Hartwig von Bülow (1637) in the village church of Carlow . The cartilage-style work shows in the center an alabaster representation of the Lord's Supper . In the side niches are the allegorical statues of Faith (Fides) and Love (Caritas). In the upper part of the altar there is a crucifixion with Mary and John as well as angels with the tools of the Passion . A sun with a triangle ( Eye of Providence ) was probably only added when the altar was renovated in 1791; During the last restoration in 2006–2008, which was made possible by the Church in the Village Foundation , it was replaced by the original inscription, just as the words of the predella were made visible again.

  • Altar (1641)

  • Altar: main picture

As a result of the restoration, this altar, which is unusual in its kind, regained its unity of color and shape and the sculptural work on the alabaster figures and the alabaster relief can now unfold their full effect after the uncovering.

Pulpit, fifth and chandelier

The pulpit shows late baroque forms, the Evangelists and Christ as Salvator as well as inscriptions from Bible verses; it was donated in 1703, the donor's note can be found on the door in front of the stairs to the pulpit.

The bronze baptismal font was cast from bells destroyed in the Thirty Years' War in 1652, based on the Gothic model , but with a Reformation pictorial program. The cauldron carried by the four evangelists is adorned with half-reliefs of the Twelve Apostles between ribbon and ribbon. The grilles and lids that used to be part of it have not been preserved. The founders were Stephan Woillo and Nicolaus Gage , traveling bell- makers from Lorraine . They also poured one of the church's bells.

Two brass chandeliers from Lübeck were donated in 1651 and 1669.

A beld , a collecting board with the relief of the Evangelist Luke , and an antler chandelier with a statue of St. George with the dragon between two stag poles date from the Gothic period .

  • Pulpit door (1703)

  • Pulpit (1703)

  • Bronze Fifth (1652)

  • St. George's chandelier

organ

In a case from 1742 was an organ by Emanuel Kemper from 1922. It was replaced in 1990 by a work by Wolfgang Nussbücker's workshop (13 registers distributed over two manuals and pedal ).

Bells

The church had four bells in 1913, of which the smallest prayer bell had to be delivered for armament purposes during the First World War. This cymbal or bell of unknown age, looted during the Thirty Years War but found again, had a diameter of 37 cm and a height of 35 cm; her weight was 100 pounds and she had been used in infant baptisms.

The largest bell was cast in 1649 by Stephan Wollo and Nikolaus Gage , traveling bell founders from Lorraine , in the Schlagsdorf churchyard after the Thirty Years War . These also poured the baptismal font. The bell has a diameter of 1.36 m and a height of 1.17 with a weight of 13 ship pounds (3,640 pounds). It is adorned with a frieze typical of the foundrymakers, which is formed alternately from two facing hippocamps with a flower vase between them and two facing pelicans on the nest with cubs.

The second bell, which also serves as a clock bell, dates from 1578. It was cast by Brun Hemminckhusen and Hermann Paßmann in Lübeck . The collaboration must have been more intensive, because Paßmann was related by marriage to Hemminckhusen's father. They used ornaments that can also be found on bells by Heinrich von Kampen and Gerhard van Wou . A two-line inscription names the donors and shows the coat of arms of the cathedral provost Bernhard von Dannenberg as well as the house brands of the foundrymen. Both foundry marks are next to each other on the bell of Schlagsdorf. With a diameter of 1.23 m, it is 0.97 m high, the six handles of its crown are adorned with angel heads and on the upper edge of the hood there is a narrow frieze of gothic foliage.

The smallest and oldest of the three bells is a special curiosity. It is an originally Russian bell that was cast on September 2, 1559 for the new building of the Novgorod Church of the Forty Martyrs . It measures 0.89 m in diameter, is 0.82 m high and weighs 1,358 pounds. The Jurat of the Schlagsdorf Church had acquired it in 1617, together with another, which soon jumped and was used to cast the big bell in 1649, from the Lübeck merchant Peter Gobers, who was also the owner of the copper mill in Bäk , after Novgorod in Polish-Russian War had been destroyed by the Swedes. The translation of the Church Slavonic inscription on the bell reads: By the grace of God and the Holy 40 Great Martyrs in 7067 (according to the calendar 1559) in September 12th day, this bell was cast in Great Novgorod for the Church of the 40 holy martyrs under the great tsar Ivan Wasilijewicz of all the Russians and under the Tsarevich Ivan and Feodor and under the Metropolitan Markarj of all Russia and under the Archbishop Pimin of Great Novgorod and Pleskau on the orders of the servants of God Uglichan of the 40 martyrs diocese.

  • Big Bell (1649)

  • Bell from 1578

  • Passmann's foundry mark on the bell in Schlagsdorf (right)

  • Russian bell (cast in 1559, in church since 1617)

Tower clock

The clock tower of the Schlagsdorf church was mentioned as early as 1587. It is a one-hand clock on the north side of the church tower. It is considered to be one of the oldest functioning tower clocks in northern Germany .

Churchyard and linden tree

Foot of the court linden tree with old iron grave crosses

Around the church is the historic churchyard with some old grave crosses. In the churchyard stands the judicial linden tree , which is mentioned as early as 1518 when Duke Magnus von Sachsen-Lauenburg held court in the course of his feud with the bishop and cathedral chapter and forbade the inhabitants to pay taxes to the chapter. During a visitation in 1589, it was ordered to erect a stake under the linden tree , to which those sentenced to church punishment were to be connected. In 1835 the linden tree measured 31 feet at the root , and in 1906 it had a trunk circumference of 8.50 m.

In 2011 the churchyard received a new urn community facility.

local community

Historically, the parish Schlagsdorf included the localities Schlagsülsdorf and Thandorf , Schlagsresdorf and Schlagbrügge, Groß and Klein Molzahn , Rieps and Wendorf, as well as Neuhof and Heilige Land on Lake Ratzeburg , as well as the historic Lübeck exclaves Campow and Utecht . Mechow moved from Schlagsdorf to Ziethen in 1599 .

Pastors

literature

  • Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835. (digitized version)
  • Fritz Buddin: Church and Herzogslinde in Schlagsdorf (in the Principality of Ratzeburg) . In: Mecklenburg. 8 (1913) pp. 52-53.
  • Georg Krüger (edit.): Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Volume II: The Land of Ratzeburg. Neubrandenburg 1934. (Reprint: Stock & Stein, Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-910179-28-2 , pp. 343-361)
  • Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : About the round arched style in Mecklenburg and the churches of Ratzeburg, Schlagsdorf, Gadebusch, Vietlübbe and Lübow. In: year books for Mecklenburg history and antiquity. 7 (1842) p. 59.
  • Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1975, pp. 146-147.
  • Horst Ende, Christian Molzen, Horst Stutz: Churches in Northwest Mecklenburg. Grevesmühlen 2005.
  • Frank Hösel: Schlagsdorf, church, baroque altar. In: Cultural heritage in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. 4 (2008) pp. 199-201.
  • Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches. Wismar 2016, ISBN 978-3-934776-27-2

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership of the community
  2. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 154.
  3. ↑ Handbook of the Historic Places in Germany: Mecklenburg / Western Pomerania. Volume 12, Stuttgart 1996, pp. 112-113.
  4. ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 146.
  5. ^ Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1975, p. 146.
  6. ↑ See the photo in Krüger (Lit.) p. 350.
  7. ↑ Krüger (Lit.), p. 355; Mecklenburg organ inventory , accessed on March 17, 2012.
  8. ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. 2016, pp. 229-231.
  9. ↑ Information on the bells mainly based on Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde. Lübeck: Max Schmidt 1913 (publications on the history of the Free and Hanseatic City of Lübeck 2), pp. 169–172; Transcription and translation of the Russian inscription in Krüger (Lit.), p. 361.
  10. ↑ Horst Kömme: The bell of Novgorod. Mecklenburg-Magazin, regional supplement of the SVZ (2000) No. 16, p. 10.
  11. ^ Office Rehna: Church of Schlagsdorf
  12. ^ Masch (lit.). P. 535.
  13. ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 436.
  14. ^ Wilhelm Christian August Heering: Trees and Forests Schleswig-Holstein: A contribution to the natural and cultural history of the province. Kiel: Velhagen & Klasing 1906, p. 144 note 1
  15. ↑ Kirchgemeinde Schlagsdorf ( Memento of the original from February 25, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed March 17, 2012.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kirchgemeinde-schlagsdorf.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 43 '48.9 "  N , 10 ° 49'24.3"  E