Witzin village church

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Witzin village church, 2009
Sacristy on the north side, 2009

The late Romanesque village church in Witzin is a listed church building in Witzin , a municipality in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The building belongs to the Witzin parish in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

Witzin was first mentioned as a church village in 1270, it belonged to the Land Sternberg and borders on what is now Mustin . The Witziner Church was mentioned in 1270 in the context of a prebend order of the Bützow Collegiate Foundation. In 1309 , Prince Heinrich von Mecklenburg enfeoffed the Knight von Ganzow with an elevation from the village. Klaus Berkhahn acquired the property with all rights from the squire Klaus Ganzow, two mills in the field and one in the village. Twelve years later, von Ganzow bought back all the shares in the village, including the logging and fishing. Through nepotism, they increased their property and their rights in Witzin. With the income from this property, Klaus Berkhahn from Güstrow donated a vicarie in Güstrow Cathedral . In the second half of the 14th century the von Pressentin took possession of Witzin, which was bought in 1408 by the Tempzin monastery . The von Bülow on Zibühl and Prützen also had rights to Witzin. Under Duke Adolf Friedrich , in 1625, a loan of 2000 guilders capital was transferred to the pledge of the ducal Braunschweig council and court marshal Hans von Petersdorff . In 1633 he donated a gilded silver chalice from 1497 to the Witzin Church. In 1652 he increased his property by buying property from Restorff on Mustin. His eleventh child Hans Georg von Petersdorff was provisional in the Dobbertin monastery from 1682 to 1693 .

In 1707 the Witzin estate was again in the hands of Duke Friedrich Wilhelm , who pledged it to the Court Marshal of Halberstadt for a period of 10,000 Thalers . Afterwards, Witzin belonged to the Grand Ducal Office of Warin-Neukloster-Sternberg-Tempzin as a domanial lease and farming village.

Little is known of the Witzin clergy in the Middle Ages. With the death of pastor Johann Fanter in 1740, the parish was united with the Witziner church with Boitin . In 1751 the parish became independent again. From 1914 to 1934 the parish was administered from Sternberg . From 1996 it was associated with Groß Raden and from 2003 it was affiliated with the Ruchower Church . In 2018 the parish was dissolved.

Building description

Exterior

The church is a single-nave field stone building from the 13th century in the Romanesque - Gothic transition style was dated to 1275 and is one of the first stone churches around Sternberg. It has a rectangular box choir with a north sacristy . The slightly younger, recessed square west tower also consists of field stones in the lower part and brick on the upper floor . The top eight sided with shingles covered spire as a bishop's miter is dated to 1441st On the west wall of the tower is a Kornquetsche granite walled, perhaps once considered holy water have served, but could also have been a Bronze Age attrition.

In 1993 the church roof was repaired with renewal of the lightning protection system and in 2006 the inner church with the sacristy was renovated. From April 2014, the church tower was renovated, the rafters under the top of the tower were renewed, sleepers were replaced and the roof was covered with new larch shingles. After the brickwork in the tower panels had been repaired, the loosely hewn field stones in the lower tower shaft were consolidated.

The large display gables almost always on the east side of the choir are among the most outstanding creations of North German church architecture. The east gable is provided with a large cross and lanceolate screens. The monumental aperture cross formed a primary component of the viewing gable. Historical photographs show a plastered-up step frieze, the gable foot was formed by a round arch frieze, the scoring of which is still partially preserved today. The panels were also surrounded by cleaning bottles. The ogival staggered three-window group is located under a triangular panel. In the triangular gable of the sacristy on the north facade, a blind cross with two narrow arched windows can be seen above the toothed frieze.

On the north and south side there is a later walled up portal. The entrance now leads through the tower. The window openings were later changed. Inside there are two domed cross rib vaults , which are separated by a wide, slightly ogival arched belt. At the apex of the eastern vault there is a wooden disc about two meters in diameter.

Interior

The interior furnishings are from the 19th century in a neo-Gothic style. The wooden furnishings are from 1862.

altar

The Gothic winged altar (Silesian-Bohemian four-part altar), a carved triptych from the beginning of the 16th century, was acquired for the collection of the Grand Ducal Museum in Schwerin after 1862, but before 1901, and restored there in 1918. It was attributed to the master of the Bützow altar by Friedrich Lisch in 1503. In the chapel-shaped shrine stands the apocalyptic Mary with the child under a vault on an openwork base, surrounded by a cloud mandorla, on either side of her head there are two floating angels. On the sloping walls of the shrine, one below the other on consoles, are arranged on the left: St. Matthew and the young St. Thomas, right: St. John the Elder. T. and St. Jacobus Major. On the altar was a before 1862 by the Grand Duchess Auguste von Mecklenburg, born. Restored altar ceiling commissioned by Princess Reuss zu Köstritz.

organ

The organ (I / P / 6) was built in 1894 by the Wismar organ builder Edmund Bruder. The organ prospect is on the west gallery, the console is on the left.

Bells

At the beginning of the 20th century, the church in Witzin had two historic bronze bells, one of which in 1469 the other and bell was cast 1,553th Inscriptions and foundry marks are available. The bell from 1469 came back after the end of the war with the return of unmelted bells from the bell cemetery in Hamburg in 1949 .

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1541 0000Dietrich Schulte
  • 0000 1599 Johannes Haberkorn
  • 1599-1616 Daniel Mester
  • 1616–1643 Georg vom Bergen
  • 1646–1653 Bartholomaeus Ludovici (also Ruchow)
  • 1654–1703 Petrus Falkenhagen
  • 1704–1724 Johann Andreas Selschopp
  • 1724-1727 vacanz
  • 1727–1732 Marcus Wilhelm Goldschmidt (afterwards Gägelow )
  • 1732–1751 Johann Christian Fanter (afterwards Boitin)
  • 1917–1922 August Stephan Johannes Gundlach
  • 1922–1927 Paul Friedrich Theodor Wegener
  • 1934–1942 Otto Greve
  • 1950–1953 Joachim Boddin
  • 1953-1970 Max Herberg
  • 1971–1977 Ernst Harms
  • 1978–1989 Rienhard Rienth
  • 1993–1999 Raiki Dürr
  • 2004–2017 Siegfried Rau
  • 2019– 0000Ludwig Hecker

Today's church

The Witzin parish includes the villages of Bolz , Buchenhof, Diedrichshof, Groß Raden, Klein Raden, Lenzen, Loiz, Lübzin, Mustin , Rosenow, Ruchow and Tieplitz.

Churchyard

In the churchyard, west of the tower next to a linden tree, there is an eight-sided baptismal font, carved from a monolith around 1160 . As you can see from the rough surface, this granite funnel was made using the stone-on-stone head technique. The iron hooks to which the covering hood was attached were attached to the outside in two opposite holes under the upper edge. The fifth has a total height of 110 cm. The upper width is 30 cm. The baptismal font is 69 cm wide and 42 cm deep. The wall thickness is between 13 and 16 cm. Since the church square was renovated in 2018, the baptismal font in front of the church entrance has been aligned with the altar; the congregation gathers there for church coffee after the service.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office
    • LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburgisch-Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual and Medical Matters
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, Specialia, Section 1. No. 073 Parish Witzin 1751-1914.
    • LKAS, Specialia, Section 2. No. 259 Parish Groß Raden 1914–1951.
    • LKAS, Specialia, Dept. 4. No. 778 Parish Boitin 1740–1750.
    • LKAS, Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of Finance, Building Construction Dept., patronage building files, building drawings, No. 269 plans of church buildings.

literature

  • Friedrich Lisch : The Church to Witzin. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. 7 (1842), pp. 74-75.
  • Friedrich Lisch: The altar of the church to Witzin. In: Mecklenburgische Jahrbücher. 27 (1862), pp. 226-227 ( full text ).
  • 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 1896 (reprint 1993) ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 159-163. archive.org
  • ZEBI e. V., START e. V .: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-753-7 , pp. 79-80.
  • Kristina Hegner: From Mecklenburg's churches and monasteries. The medieval inventory of the State Museum Schwerin. Petersberg 2015 ISBN 978-3-7319-0062-7
  • Tilo Schöfbeck: The Land of Sternberg in the Middle Ages (7th - 13th century). Genesis of a cultural landscape of the Warnower. In: Slavs and Germans in the High Middle Ages east of the Elbe. Volume 8, Studies in the Archeology of Europe. Bonn 2008 ISBN 978-3-7749-3485-6
  • Paul Martin Romberg: The early Romanesque baptismal font of the Wends and Obotrites. Alt Meteln 2015.

Web links

Commons : Church in Witzin  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Membership of the community
  2. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 1178
  3. ↑ MUB V. (1869) No. 3337.
  4. ↑ MUB X. (1877) No. 6803.
  5. ↑ MUB XIII. (1884) No. 7562.
  6. ↑ MUB XVI. (1893) No. 9621.
  7. ↑ a b Friedrich Schlie: The church village Witzin. 1896, p. 160.
  8. ↑ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: The von Petersdorff, 1624 to 1778 in Mecklenburg. 1989, p. 227.
  9. ↑ LKAS Specialia, Section 4. No. 778.
  10. ↑ a b Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Trave and Peene. 2014, p. 364.
  11. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: The country Sternberg in the Middle Ages. 2008, pp. 176-177.
  12. ↑ Friedrich Lisch: The Church to Witzin. MJB VII (1842) p. 74.
  13. ↑ Wolfram Hennies: From the Hünenhaken to the holy water font. SVZ, Mecklenburg-Magazin 2006 No. 16, p. 9.
  14. ^ SVZ Schwerin, editorial staff Sternberg-Brüel-Warin, July 23, 2014.
  15. ↑ Site inspection on October 27, 2015.
  16. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: A brief overview of the development of the show pediment. 2014, pp. 168–169.
  17. ↑ (Inv.-Nr. Pl. 165), illustration of the middle part
  18. ^ Kristina Hegner: Medieval Art, Architectural Fragments, Sculptures and Panel Paintings. State Museum Schwerin 1979.
  19. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Witzin. 1901, pp. 160-161.
  20. ^ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parish since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.
  21. ^ Paul Martin Romberg: The early Romanesque baptism of the Wends and Obotrites. Alt Meteln 2015.

Coordinates: 53 ° 43 ′ 26.7 "  N , 11 ° 55 ′ 13.1"  E