Johanniterkirche Mirow

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Johanniterkirche Mirow

The Johanniterkirche Mirow (sometimes town church Mirow , parish Mirow , Castle Church Mirow ) is a listed church building on Castle Island in Mirow in Mecklenburg. It used to be the church of the Mirow Commandery and from 1704 the court church and burial place of the dukes and grand dukes of Mecklenburg-Strelitz . Today it serves as an Evangelical Lutheran parish church. An official name is not specified. The most common name has now established itself as the Johanniterkirche Mirow .

history

Interior before 1945

From the time of the Johanniterkomtur only the three-bay choir from the 14th century, a work of brick Gothic . The slightly wider nave was built when the church was part of a secondary residence of the (partial) duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz , which was newly formed in 1701 .

A lightning strike in the wooden tower on September 4, 1742 burned the church down. The tower and furnishings were destroyed, as were the surrounding buildings. On behalf of Duke Adolf Friedrich III. a massive baroque tower tower and the magnificent baroque furnishings were created. The copper for the Welsh bell cap of the tower gave Prussian King Frederick II. , Who as crown prince relations with Mirow. In 1744 the church was consecrated again. The altar painting was done by Charles Maucourt in 1750 . It was replaced in 1868 by a copy painted by Grand Duchess Marie after Albrecht Dürer Christ on the Cross and was placed in the village church of Leussow (Mirow) .

The church was destroyed in the Second World War on April 30, 1945 by shelling of the German armed forces to the outer walls; Only the royal crypt remained. Then the community commissioned the architect Paul Zühlke with the reconstruction. He made the plans for the simple reconstruction as well as for the altar, the pulpit, the baptismal font, the symbols, and he designed the central windows and the like. a. with the symbols for faith, hope and love: anchor, cross and heart.

The church was rededicated on September 3, 1950. A support association was founded in 1989 to restore the destroyed tower. The exterior of the tower tower with a hood and its lantern was restored in 1993 and has been open to the public since 1997. The adventure church tower now shows various exhibitions about the Order of St. John, the church and the royal crypt are accessible. In 2008 the facade of the nave was renovated.

organ

The first documented organ came into the church in 1821. It was subsequently maintained by the organ builders Sauer , Lütkemüller and Grüneberg . A last expansion before the destruction was made in 1943 by Grüneberg to 21 registers . The rebuilt church received an organ from the organ building company Schuke from Potsdam with 18 stops on two manuals and pedal (II / P / 18) in 1977 .

Princely Crypt

Princely Crypt

On the occasion of the death of Duchess Johanne (* October 1, 1680 in Gotha; † July 9, 1704 in Strelitz), the second wife of the reigning Duke Adolf Friedrich II. , An older canon crypt at the Mirow Church became a prince's crypt and burial place from 1704 of the (grand) ducal house of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, newly built in 1701, rededicated and expanded. From 1708 the ruling dukes, their wives and their closest relatives of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz line found their final resting place in the royal crypt on the north side, which was later expanded several times. There is archival evidence of 44 burials with 45 dead - one child was buried with the mother.

For 1921 there are 52 coffins, spread over four crypt rooms, documented. They suffered damage and looting as a result of the destruction of the church in 1945. In the publicly accessible part of the crypt there are now 22 rather simple coffins, including those of five of the eight regents of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz region. At the end of 2015, the federal, state and local authorities pledged an amount of around 900,000 euros for the renovation of the royal crypt. Thirty coffins were identified in three rooms, some of them only parts. The restoration of four coffins was completed in spring 2018.

Grand Duke Adolf Friedrich VI. , the last regent from the Mecklenburg-Strelitz family, was buried on the "Love Island" after his suicide. The last burial in the family crypt took place in 1996, when Georg Alexander Herzog zu Mecklenburg , who had last lived in Mirow, was buried in a non-public part of the crypt.

Parish and Activities

Today's nave

Today the church is the parish church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Mirow. It belongs to the Neustrelitz Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The community also includes the places or Mirow districts Granzow, Leussow (church), Peetsch, Starsow and Zirtow (church). The community also organizes concerts and organ concerts. The church choir, a trombone choir and a group of women, youth and preschool children meet as groups.

Annually there are exhibitions in the Johanniterkirche. a. organized by the Schlossverein, the church tower festival takes place and on a Saturday around August 17th . The 29 meter high viewing platform allows a wide view of the lake district.

Monument protection

The building is listed as no. 17a in the list of architectural monuments in Mirow .

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Mecklenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1980.
  • Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaurs Kulturführer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26490-0 .
  • Joachim Thal, Hans-Joachim Hardow, Hans-Jürgen Lippe: The Johanniterkirche to Mirow. A little church leader . Ed .: Förderverein "Kirchturm Mirow" eV Mirow 1999.

Web links

Commons : Johanniterkirche Mirow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. See the references in the state bibliography MV .
  2. ^ Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Volume Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , p. 373.
  3. History of the Johanniter Church Mirow ( Memento from July 28, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ^ Entry in the Mecklenburg organ inventory
  5. See Regina Ströbl: Wolgast - Schwerin - Mirow. The three great ducal tombs in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In: Ohlsdorf - magazine for mourning culture. 2009 ( digitized version )
  6. Mirow - skeleton puzzle in the princely crypt. In: Schweriner People's Newspaper . February 24, 2017. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  7. Prince's Crypt Mirow is being renovated. December 21, 2015, accessed December 21, 2015 .
  8. Work on the church tower and princely crypt: service for the renovation of the church in Mirow. In: Mecklenburgische and Pommersche Kirchenzeitung. April 20, 2018. Retrieved April 26, 2018.
  9. Mirow on kirche-mv.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 17 '  N , 12 ° 49'  E