Zerrenthin village church

Zerrenthin village church.

Interior of the village church in Zerrenthin, looking east.

Interior of the village church Zerrenthin, looking west.

The Dorfkirche Zerrenthin is a church in Zerrenthin , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Parish

Zerrenthin is the seat of an evangelical parish with the parish office at Dorfstrasse 28, to which, in addition to the parish of Zerrenthin, the parish of Rollwitz also belongs. The parish district includes the eastern part of the Uecker-Randow-Tal office and, with the Rossow community and the Caselow location, also the western tip of the Löcknitz-Penkun office . The parish of Zerrenthin belonged to the parish of Brüssow of the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg or the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg until 1974 and then to the parish of Pasewalk of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . Since May 2012 it has been part of the Pasewalk Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Sprengel Mecklenburg and Pomerania (seat of the Sprengel Bishop in Greifswald) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

The parish of Zerrenthin has eleven parish villages:

Nine localities are affiliated to these:

History, building description and equipment

Zerrenthin village church from the north with the war memorial.

The village church of Zerrenthin dates from the second half of the 13th century and is bordered by a dry stone wall along with the churchyard. Your nave is a field stone building made of layered granite blocks. Striking is the transverse rectangular west tower, approx. 46 meters high, which is wider than the nave and carries a boarded upper floor and a copper-covered pointed helmet. Large, pointed arched step portals have been preserved on the tower and in the tower hall. On the north side of the nave there was presumably a sacristy , while on the south side a porch with a volute gable, which dates from the 17th century, is built. Both granite portals in the north and south have now been blocked. The east gable is decorated with pointed arches and a group of three windows with three-quarter bars made of brick. The remaining windows on the north and south sides were enlarged in the 19th century. In the churchyard there is a war memorial for the 32 fallen soldiers of the First World War who came from Zerrenthin.

Zerrenthin village church from the south with the vestibule with volute gable.

The interior of the nave has a beamed ceiling. On the walls there are extensive remains of a circulating wall painting cycle, which presumably dates from the first half of the 16th century. The mural painting cycle was only discovered and exposed in 1970 and restored from 1994–1996. It shows scenic representations of the apostles and saints as well as tendril ornaments. In addition, the carved crucifixion group of the former altarpiece, which dates from the first half of the 18th century, is located on the west wall. The gallery was already in the 17./18. Century built. The pulpit from the 19th century is now on the ground.

In the church there is also a tombstone of the pastor Joachim Camerarius (* 1627 † 1692), who worked in Zerrenthin from 1651 to 1691, an organ from the second half of the 19th century with a neo-Gothic prospect. The Zerrenthiner church has a total of 3 church bells, one of which was cast by Martin Heintze from Berlin in 1681, according to other information in 1690. It is on permanent loan from St. Mary's Church in Pasewalk and originally comes from Rügenwalde in Western Pomerania, today's Polish Darłowo . The other two bells were cast by A. Bachert from Heilbronn in 1996 and 1997 .

Pastor

Pulpit and altar in front of the east wall.

Crucifixion group of the former altarpiece on the west wall.

Wall painting cycle of apostles and saints on the south wall.

Wall painting cycle of tendril ornaments on the south wall.

The first mention of a pastor in Zerrenthin comes from the year 1543. The following pastors are known in Zerrenthin by name and with their term of office:

around 1543 Thomas Schonow
1585–1600 Georg Grumundt (written in the register of 1600 Brummundt)
1600–1632 Joachim Cölerus
1632–1650 Jakob Schultze
1651–1691 Joachim Camerarius (born May 17, 1627 in Carmzow † June 24, 1692 in Zerrenthin), son of the Löcknitz pastor Johann Camerarius (around 1640) and father of Christian Camerarius
1691–1698 Cristian Camerarius (born August 28, 1667 in Zerrenthin † May 4, 1728 in Zerrenthin), son of Joachim Camerarius
1698–1727 Georg Lamprecht
1727–1737 Carl Gustav Wocke (* 1692 in Stettin † May 6, 1737 in Zerrenthin)
1737–1748 Samuel Hermann Stilke (* May 14, 1710 in Berlin-Heiligensee † July 4, 1748 in Zerrenthin)
1748–1784 Heinrich Johann Struve (* in Magdeburg † February 28, 1784 in Zerrenthin), father of FW Struve
1785–1810 Friedrich Wilhelm Struve (born September 26, 1747 in Rühstädt †?), Son of HJ Struve
1810–1823 Christian Gottlob Kaiser (*? † July 13, 1823 in Zerrenthin)
1824–1855 Johann Dietrich Neffe (*? † November 13, 1860 in Messentin near Pölitz, Province of Posen)
1855–1889 Karl Gottlob Bernhard Thiele (born August 6, 1824 in Wiesenburg † December 23, 1889 in Zerrenthin)
1890–1904 Johannes Wilhelm Georg Reichmuth (born August 28, 1865 in Niederfinow † May 1, 1931 in Potsdam)
1904–1930 Paul Johann Martin Schuffenhauer (* March 22, 1865 in Berlin †?)
1931–1939 Gerhard Franz Theodor Otto Großmann (born June 12, 1903 in Thorn †?)
1940–1948 Udo Köhler
1949–1956 Willi Balzer
1957–1959 Karl Müller
1962–1989 Ernst-Friedrich Lunkenheimer
since 1989 Matthias Bohl