Techentin village church

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Village church from the south after the renovation, 2012
Village church from the north with choir and tower, 2012

The Techentin village church is a medieval stone church in Techentin in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

Techentin, formerly also called Techutin , belonged to the state of Werle and was first mentioned in a document in 1219. Prince Heinrich Borwin I , together with his sons, donated 20 hooves to the Sonnenkamp nunnery in the village. In 1235, Bishop Brunward confirmed its possessions in Techentyn to the Sonnenkamp Monastery and in 1272 Nicolaus von Werle, to whose territory Techentin now belonged, a further confirmation of the ownership claims. In 1299, the Donors von Below donated the Belower Chapel to the Sonnenkamp Monastery . However, since the branch chapel was under the parish in Techentin and the plebanus (pastor) Reynerus worked there around 1300 , there should have been a church in Techentin as a predecessor of today's church. The monastery Sonnenkamp had sufficient income from 1319 Thegentin related how in the lift roller was recorded. In 1352 Bernhardus was named as head of the church in Techentin and in 1397 Duke Albrecht von Mecklenburg confirmed the right of patronage over the parish in Thechentin.

During the Reformation church visits were also carried out in Techentin in 1557. In 1566 it can be heard that a Goldberg bailiff had a bell fetched from the Techentiner church in order to have a clock face and pointer made from it for the Goldberg town hall (official building) . In 1592 it was noted that the rectory was a building with several small chambers and a fine parlor, even located near the churchyard. In the Thirty Years War in 1638 two bells were stolen from the church . In 1662 the devastation had not yet been overcome, the parsonage had also burned down and Pastor Joachim Permin lived in a farmer's cottage. In 1690 Joachim Christoph Danneel came to Techentin as a pastor. Before that, he was a field chaplain to the Mecklenburg troops in the Turkish war . In the register of confessors from 1704 it is noted that he had to look after 318 confessors in Augzin , Below , Langenhagen , Schlowe and a sheep farm in addition to Techentin . Kadow was desolate back then. But he also complained. The way to the Filialkirche in Below is only 1/4 mile, but it looks badly cleared, so that it is very difficult to drive and ride there, which is why I usually have to go there. In 1771 the Mecklenburg pastors had to draw up a list of confessors again. Now 410 confessors lived in the same places, only a tar stove was added in Schlowe.

Bartholdus Marrus von Twestreng from Hamburg, who pretended to be a nobleman, acquired the Hof Hagen estate in 1726 . While many Mecklenburg nobles had so-called patronage chairs built into their church, Mr. von Twetreng wanted to have a gallery built in the Techentiner church at his own expense and donate it to the church after they moved away. The construction was finished in 1729 as a hereditary burial. In 1868 the vault was so dilapidated that it was leveled.

After the church in Zidderich was demolished in 1786 Pastor Hövet in Techentin had problems accommodating the new believers for church services in the Techentin church. In 1787 he designed a seating plan for all the chairs and choirs in the High Princely Patronage Church of Techentin Amt Goldberg as chair regulations . It not only contains the names of the churchgoers, but also their places of residence and activities. Since men and women sat separately, the women’s side was in the north and the men were allowed to sit on the south side.

From 1848 to 1871 Johann Karl Riedel exercised the pastor's office in Techentin. Few people know that his son made it up to the secret medical council, professor and director of the surgical clinic in Jena . It was reported about the pastor: Even in the hottest summer, he would go to the field in a black suit and top hat, but never lend a hand himself. On Sunday afternoons, personalities from the surrounding area met with him in the Techentiner rectory for the spiritual center.

Pastor Harm, a preacher from 1882, is said to have been a very interesting man with contradicting qualities. His greatest achievement was the creation of the Techentine church chronicle. His efforts in restoring the once whitewashed wall paintings in the Belower Church with the personal support of the Privy Councilor, Schwerin Museum Director and member of the Grand Ducal Commission for the Preservation of Monuments, Professor Dr. Friedrich Schlie .

Building history

In 1592 the rectory was built. In 1762 the preacher's widow's house was built. It stood next to the churchyard for almost two hundred years, opposite was the sexton's house. From 1784 a new rectory and a farm building were built behind the previous rectory. In a report to the governor in Goldberg you can read: Preacher Hövet draws the farmers to work. It is conspicuous and sinful that Pastor Hövet zu Techentin, the ducal subordinates of the ducal office, for some years now to the point of exhaustion, and the gratuitous service that almost surpassed the strength of these poor people in the new parish buildings, annoyed and strained all by himself, but overlook the other aristocratic parishes ...

During these years there was a lot of writing and quarrels because the Zidderich church was to be demolished and the Goldberg and Techentine pastors wanted to purchase as much of the inventory and demolition material as possible. The Techentin pastor Friedrich Hövet received the particularly valuable pieces because the Zidderich believers came to Techentin. After the congregation of the abandoned church Zidderich was assigned to the Techentin parish in 1786, the Zidderich bells and material for repairing the servant choir as well as liturgical objects came to the Techentin church.

The last storm on March 3, 1793 had damaged the church roof in Techentin. Master mason Fründt reported: ... that the upper floor of the church is completely missing. The church was only boarded under the beams, with old, partly worm-eaten boards, which no longer held any nails, upon entering which, if one missed the beam, an unfortunate shooting through would be to be expected, in what danger, according to reports, some would have already been.

On March 26, 1927, there was a brief thunderstorm and the only lightning strike hit the church tower, from which a strip of clapboard was torn off. There was also damage to the church roof. A fortnight later, during another thunderstorm, almost the entire church roof was demolished. A corner pillar was separated from the church by a wide crack, all the windows were pushed outwards with iron bars and lead edging and torn completely. The repair was tedious, but now the church got a lightning rod

In 1954 the church received electrical connections and lighting. The parish barn was demolished in 1969 and the French house in 1974. In 1972 the first renovation work was carried out on the roof.

Building description

The church is slightly raised in the row of farms that were formerly arranged in a triangle around the village pond. Many rural church buildings from the 15th century appear relatively simple and were never prepared for a vault , such as the field stone church in Techentin, whose nave was built in 1459. It is a small, flat-roofed field stone hall with a three-sided choir closure.

Exterior

The nave and the choir were built from field stones, with struts and supporting pillars attached later. Their edges, details, window reveals and buttresses were made of brick. On the north side of the choir there are remains of an original sacristy. The very steep collar beam roof to the east has been covered with new plain tile roofing . The hand- painted beacon covering still present on one roof area was reused on the small half-timbered church in Meierstorf . The new clay covering of the choir slopes was complicated without the formation of ridges.

On the north side there is an ugly 6 meter long and 8 meter high extension with a triangular gable made of brick masonry. The entire area is loosened up by two pointed arched niches drawn up to the eaves and in the middle by two pointed arched windows one above the other. Since the Twestrengsche grave vault, built in 1729, was so dilapidated in 1854, it was leveled in 1868 and the present extension was built over it in 1899.

Older wooden towers, as useful structures for bells, presumably existed in many Mecklenburg churches, are hardly detectable today. In Techentin, the sloped and boarded-up wooden tower was built on the west side in 1493. Since the Techentiner church belonged to the Sonnenkamp nunnery, there was a roof turret for the first bell on the church roof . The substructure and superstructure of the roof ridge are still present in the roof structure. A real rarity in Mecklenburg village churches. The church tower was "completely stripped and ruined by a wind storm on December 8, 1703".

In 1850 two bells for the Techentiner Church were cast in Wismar . In 1861 another bell was cast in Waren by the bell founder Johann Carl Ludwig Illies .

Interior

View into the choir, 2012

The interior of the small village church with the flat wooden beam ceiling has nothing remarkable to show. Nothing has been handed down from the pre-Reformation equipment either.

Altar and pulpit

The medieval altar of Mary is lost. At that time, the old walls from the early Catholic era served as the altar , and are still enormous , although they had already been reduced in size during the times of his predecessors, wrote Pastor Harm in his church chronicle. In 1911 this altar was completely torn down and replaced with a new one made of bricks. From the entrance to the east is the simple pulpit , behind it on the south wall there is a Renaissance chair from 1676. A text is scratched on its high back, which suggests that this chair was given to pastor before the Zidderich church was demolished in 1786 Hövet was handed over, but was not mentioned in the minutes. On the back of the chair you can read: Honoring the great God. Honor the churches jewelry in this place. Her head was also well run. As a proof of loyalty the Denckmahl lists. Let it rest gently until transfigured in Great Glory, get up in Great Glory. F. Anna Margarite FTTINGERS. Seel: H. Augusti Henrici Sensten who remained deeply sad widow 1676. Senst named in this inscription was the clerk and overseer on the farm.

organ

Organ, 2012
Cannon Furnace, 2012

The organ with four registers , a manual and an attached (non-switchable pedal ) was built in 1892 by the Rostock organ builder Julius Schwarz and played for the first time at Christmas 1893. The console is on the south side of the instrument, opposite there was a pump device, an opening for a wind tunnel and an opening for a wind indicator. The organ prospectus is housed in a small three-part neo-Gothic case.

Cannon furnace

In front of the church chairs on the north wall is a remarkable cast-iron cannon stove from the Ernst Henn company, whose pull-out grate was patented in 1890. The Techentiner oven came from Kaiserslautern by water in 1899: the Rhine, North Sea, Hamburg, Kaiser Wilhelm Canal, Lübeck, Wismar, Goldberg and from there to the church in a horse-drawn vehicle. It was moved from the choir to its present location once and the chimney was removed during the 2005 restoration. An undisclosed sponsor gave 2000 euros with the condition that the stove remain in the church.

North gallery

North gallery, 2012

With the installation of the new organ gallery in the west, the existing baroque north gallery was shortened. Only a few older pillars were used for the construction of the new gallery. The galleries were painted with an imitation wood that was often used in the 19th century. With the gallery, the pulpit and the chairs were also designed in a uniform color. In November 2009, the restorer Bettina Strauss from Waren uncovered the paintings in the filling fields of the gallery balustrade. On the northern panel of the eastern parapet, remnants of the older baroque tendril painting were shown in a very filigree design as a harp entwined with foliage. The framing architecture and supporting pillars were redesigned in shades of gray according to the findings.

Bells

The Techentine bells have always played a special role. According to the moving bell history, the oldest bell is said to have been cast in 1435, but the church was only built in 1459 and the wooden tower in 1493. The second bell came around 1500 when the tower was already there. There is also said to have been a third bell. In 1566 the Goldberg bailiff from the Lühe had a bell removed from the Techentiner church in order to be able to use the material to make pointers and numerals for a clock on his official building in Goldberg. In 1592 there were again three bells in the tower. A year after the end of the Thirty Years War, two bells were stolen. A new bell broke for the first time in 1671, broke again in 1698 and was cast again in 1708 with the addition of 300 pounds of copper in Rostock and seemed to last longer. In 1786 a bell came to Techentin from the church that had been demolished in the neighboring village of Zidderich. But as early as 1793, the Schwerin Duke Friedrich Franz I had a bell from Techentin moved to the Protestant town church in Ludwigslust . For his Catholic servants, the Grand Duke had a small church of St. Helena and Andrew built in the palace park there. Again a Techentiner bell came to the royal seat, this time it was the one from 1435 in 1815 and was made in 1861 by the court bell founder Johann Carl Ludwig Illies from Waren an der Müritz. In 1850 and 1861, the Wismar bell founder PM Hausbrandt cast two bells.

In 1917 two bells had to be delivered for war purposes, in 1926 a replacement bell was cast in Erfurt . In 1943 the bell had to have two bells, which were delivered for war purposes from 1861 and 1926. Techentin now has two bells.

Church renovation after the fall of the Wall

Larch wood shingle 2012

Since 2003, extensive renovation and restoration work has been carried out on and in the church in various construction phases. In the first construction phase, extensive repairs were carried out on the particularly endangered tower. The damaged Kaiserstuhl of the roof structure and the crowning of the tower with the 30 cm ball and the weather valve were replaced. The roughly 250-year-old bullet had a few bullet holes and a bird's nest. Before re-attaching, a few coins, a daily newspaper and a village chronicle were placed in the ball. The tower had a spondak , a chip roof, better known as a shingle roof. Therefore the wooden tower was re-covered with 12,500 larch wood shingles. The work was successfully completed on March 7, 2004. The second phase of construction began in the same year and lasted two years. This was followed by the renewal of the roof construction with the cornice and the ceiling cladding over the wooden beams up to the new covering of the roof with plain tile roofing tiles. From 2006 the foundations were secured, the field stone masonry mortared, the supporting pillars that had been demolished due to poor foundations were completely renewed and the brick masonry on the north side of the Twestreng hereditary burial was repaired. The windows were given new lead glazing and the electrical installation in the interior was completely renewed. In addition to the new floor under the pews, an extensive dry rot renovation had to be carried out under the organ gallery. With the painting of the interior of the church, the repair of the organ and the refurbishment of the cannon furnace, the most important work was completed. The restorer uncovered the northern choir window with finds of the church's earlier colors. Colorful motifs also appeared on the gallery parapet. The renovation was completed on April 17, 2008 with a festive service in the Techentiner church.

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention of a pastor.

  • 1300– 0000Pastor Reiner / Reincke / Reynerus.
  • 1352– 0000Plebanus Bernhardus.
  • 1369– 0000preacher Johann von Rosteke.
  • 1505–1557 Johann or Nikolaus Steinheuser, also in Below.
  • 1564–1593 Johannes Hadelmann, previously Woosten , Luther's student.
  • 1594-1623 Joachim Lembke, Hadelmann's son-in-law.
  • 1624–1638 Johann Steffens / Stephani from Goldberg.
  • 1645–1670 Joachim Permin, previously cantor in Ratzeburg .
  • 1671–1690 Zacharias Crull from Malchin , then Plau am See .
  • 1690–1713 Joachim Christoph Danneel, previously field preacher with the Mecklenburg troops in the Turkish war, later prepositus.
  • 1713–1728 Konrad Curtius.
  • 1729–1749 Johann Friedrich Aepinus, also in Below .
  • 1749–1763 Johann Ludwig Behm from Pomerania , his brother Carl Christian Behm had become pastor in the Dobbertin monastery through electoral fraud in 1738 .
  • 1765–1773 Johann Joseph Gustav Binder, then in Lancken.
  • 1773–1800 Adolf Friedrich Hövet.
  • 1801–1810 Johann Heinrich Christian Mecklenburg, son of a tobacco dealer from Bützow , then in Buchholz.
  • 1810–1847 Carl Christian Borngräber.
  • 1848–1856 Johann Carl Riedel, deputy at Dobbertin Monastery.
  • 1871–1882 Johannes Friedrich G (a) evert.
  • 1882–1904 Friedrich Wilhelm Theodor Harm, kept a church chronicle for the first time.
  • 1905–1938 Friedrich Karl Emanuel Krüger, also Below.
  • 1938–1949 Ernst Johannes Wilhelm Wartmann, politically arrested in January 1949, fled to the West in May 1949.
  • 1950–1965 Ulrich Schabow.
  • 1966–1980 Christoph Voss.
  • 1983–1991 Matthias Gottfried Ortmann, from Mestlin.
  • 1993-2005 Jens Krause, from Mestlin.
  • 2005– 0000Kornelius Taetow, from Mestlin.

Parish

Below still belongs to the evangelical parish Techentin. The parishes of Kladrum , Mestlin and Techentin with their nine village churches belong to the Parchim provost in the Mecklenburg parish in the north church . The pastorate is in Mestlin. Services are held in the Techentiner Church every two weeks.

Support association

In 2001 a support association was founded, which is committed to the maintenance and renovation of the Techentin church.

See also

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. IV. Volume: The district court districts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901. (Reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 371-376) pp. 405-407.
  • Techentin, Parchim district, village church. In: Endangered Churches in Mecklenburg. Schwerin 1989, ISBN 3-931185-37-0 , p. 49.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 634.
  • ZEBI e. V., START e. V .: Village and town churches in the Parchim parish. Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 , p. 210.
  • Fred Beckendorff: Techentin. In: The village, town and monastery churches in the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature reserve. (= From culture and science. Issue 3). Karow 2003, pp. 64-65.
  • Fred Beckendorff: Between Sonnenberg and Müggenmoor. Techentin eight centuries. Techentin 2006.
  • Jens Amelung: Techentin, District Parchim, village church. In: KulturERBE ​​in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Issue 1, Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-935770-14-6 , p. 134.
  • Frank Hösel: Techentin, Lkr.Parchim, church, gallery painting. In: KulturERBE ​​in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Issue 5, Schwerin 2010, ISBN 978-3-935770-29-3 , pp. 182-184.
  • Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Trave and Peene. Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-131-0 .
  • Fred Beckendorff: A little chat about the Techentiner Church. Techentin 2014.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 254.
  2. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 429.
  3. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 1254.
  4. ↑ MUB III. (1865) No. 2388.
  5. ↑ MUB VI (1870) No. 4040, 4153.
  6. ↑ MUB XIII (1884) No. 7583.
  7. ↑ MUB XVI (1893) No. 9972.
  8. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: from some Techentine pastors. 2014, p. 36.
  9. ↑ a b Fred Beckendorff: From some Techentiner pastors. 2014, pp. 37–38.
  10. ↑ Fred Beckendorf: From some Techentine pastors. 2014, pp. 39–40.
  11. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Abt. 2, Nr. 080 Use of the bells from the demolished branch church in Zidderich.
  12. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: 775 years Techentin. 1995, p. 39.
  13. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, pp. 161–162.
  14. ↑ Jens Amelung: Meierstorf, District Parchim, Dotfkirche. 2006, pp. 121-122.
  15. ↑ Jens Amelung: Techentin, District Parchim, village church. 2006, p. 134.
  16. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: The von Twestrengsche choir. 2014, pp. 29–30.
  17. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: dendro from churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, p. 364.
  18. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Wooden steeples. 2014, p. 278.
  19. ↑ Techentiner Glocke on trips , newspaper for Lübz, Goldberg, Plau , January 7, 2017
  20. ^ Fred Beckendorff: Techentin. 2003, p. 65.
  21. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: 775 years Techentin. 1994, p. 39.
  22. ↑ Fred Beckendorff ;: From former Techentine pastors. 2014, pp. 35–36.
  23. ↑ Horst Alsleben: Rare cannon furnace in a small stone church. SVZ Lübz - Goldberg - Plau, March 19, 1994. Mecklenburg magazine . No. 6, 1994.
  24. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: The Church and its Pastors. 2006, p. 41.
  25. ↑ Frank Hösel: Techentin, Lkr. Parchim, church, gallery painting. 2010, pp. 182-184.
  26. ^ Frank Hösel: Inspection protocol for the restoration of the baroque gallery. LKAD February 8, 2010.
  27. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, p. 364.
  28. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: About the Techentiner church bells. 2014, pp. 11–12.
  29. ↑ Horst Alsleben : Techentiner Glocke on the move. SVZ Lübz - Goldberg - Plau, 7./8. January 2017.
  30. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: Something about the Techentiner church bells. 2014, p. 13-15.
  31. ^ Wilhelm Wartmann: Techentin, registration form for bronze bells of the churches. May 2, 1940.
  32. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: From the development association and the church renovation. 2014. pp. 6-7.
  33. ^ Sabine Weber: renovation measures at the church to Techentin. April 2005.
  34. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: From the development association and the church renovation. 2014, pp. 7–8.
  35. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin pastors since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.
  36. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Techentin. 1901, pp. 405-406.
  37. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: 775 years Techentin. 1994, Appendix 11, p. 82.
  38. ↑ MUB XIII. (1884) No. 7582.
  39. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: From some Techentiner pastors. 2014, p. 31.
  40. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: From some Techentiner pastors. 2014, pp. 33–35.
  41. ↑ Fred Beckendorff: From some Techentiner pastors. 2014, pp. 35–37.

Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 20.3 "  N , 11 ° 59 ′ 12.7"  E