Johanneskirche (Dömitz)

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Johanneskirche Dömitz
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The Johanneskirche Dömitz is the church of the parish Dömitz in the Propstei Parchim in the parish of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).

Chronicle and description

A church has been documented in Dömitz since 1195. The Johanneskirche is already the fourth church building after the previous churches had to be demolished due to dilapidation or after a city fire. The current city church was built from 1869 to 1872 according to plans by the Schwerin architect Theodor Krüger on the square of the previous church, the highest point in the city. The church was consecrated on October 20, 1872 in the presence of its patron Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II .

The neo-Gothic hall church of brick is 39 meters long and has a cross-shaped tent roof . The church tower in front, flanked by four turrets, is 50 meters high. The tower clock from 1873 was repeatedly poorly repaired until it could be restored in 1988 with a donation from a former community member.

Furnishing

The baptismal font , with a newer base and decorative ribbon from 1872, and several ball chandeliers come from the previous church . All other pieces of equipment , such as the altar, the pulpit or the organ are from around 1872.

The altar was made by the Schwerin court carpenter Peters. The 2.9 meter high altarpiece Maria , Martha and Johannes under the cross comes from the history painter Theodor Fischer also from Schwerin. The painting in the nave has remained unchanged to this day. One of the two bells in the tower dates from 1664.

Two lead glass windows were commissioned from the local glazier W. Strempel in 1921, but could not be paid for because of the devaluation of money . The works of art were bought by a doctor in 1976 after they were advertised in a Hamburg newspaper. The doctor donated the windows in 1991 to St. John's Church, in which they have been on display since 1995.

organ

The organ on the west gallery was built in 1873 by the organ builder Johann Heinrich Runge from Hagenow . The work is located in a flat, neo-Gothic prospectus with three pointed arched pipe fields with a gable crown, each flanked by a pinnacle tower. The slider chests -instrument was rescheduled before the 1945th Today it has 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal. The actions are mechanical.

I main work C – f 3
1. Bourdun 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. flute 8th'
4th Octave 4 ′
5. Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Mixture III
8th. Trumpet 8th'
II subsidiary work C – f 3
9. Dumped 8th'
10. Salicional 8th'
11. Harmonica 8th'
12. Octave 4 ′
13. flute 4 ′
14th recorder 2 ′
Pedals C – d 1
15th Principal 16 ′
16. Sub-bass 16 ′
17th Dumped 8th'
18th Octave 4 ′
19th trombone 16 ′
  • Coupling: II / I, I / P

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1725–1786 Dr. phil. Jacob Paul Zander, first pastor of the town church.

See also

literature

  • Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knauer's Culture Guide Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Droemer Knauer, Munich 1991
  • Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. and START e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2

Web links

Commons : Johanneskirche  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More information about the organ
  2. ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.

Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 30.3 "  N , 11 ° 14 ′ 57.9"  E