Alt Teterin Church
The Protestant Church of Alt Teterin is a church building from the 15th century in the Alt Teterin district of the Butzow community . The church is one of the churches of the Evangelical Parish of Teterin-Lüskow, which is administered by the Anklam I parish office and has belonged to the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . The consecration took place in honor of St. Niclas and the holy body .
location
The street of the same name leads through Alt Teterin, which, coming from the south, branches off to the east and leads to the historic village green . From there it continues in an easterly direction through the village. Within the village green, the street spans the churchyard with the building, which is enclosed by a wall made of unlayered and uncut field stones .
history
The core of the sacred building was made up of boulders , which were layered with a rectangular floor plan in the 15th century. The building falls under the rule of those von Nienkerken , who had their headquarters in neighboring Neuenkirchen and who owned the Müggenburg moated castle . They are therefore likely to have had church patronage over the building. In 1582 the building was mentioned in a document as St. Niclas Church in Teterin . In the 18th century, the parish changed the structure and had the windows made smaller, which was unusual for the time. In 1778 the outer walls were given a light-colored plaster . When in 1820 two bells of the original three (?) Bells jumped, the municipality had a large one poured out of it, which is no longer there in the 21st century. In 1858 the congregation purchased an organ from Wilhelm Sauer and placed it on the west gallery . In 1863 craftsmen built the neo-Gothic west tower from reddish brick on a field stone base . It was a donation from the then landowner Carl Gless . A restoration took place in 1950; 1970 a redesign of the interior. During an appraisal in 2004 on the tower, which was covered with zinc sheet in an emergency operation in 1999 , considerable damage was found to the bearings at the top and the church was then closed. The hood was put back on after a restoration.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. The corners are accentuated by wide pilaster strips , and in the center are two small, segment-arched lattice windows. Above a surrounding cornice, there are two additional, smaller windows in the gable, which is also plastered . In between is a square panel , on which there could have been a coat of arms at an earlier time.
On the south wall of the nave there are only two more, also comparatively small windows. One is on the western structure, the second in the choir. To the left of the choir is a small, rectangular extension with an opening in the shape of a segmented arch that leads to a gate on the building. It has a gable roof and a plastered gable. There is also a window on the choir on the north side of the nave. In a westerly direction there is a double stepped buttress and another window, which, however, is not in an axis to the south ship wall. The ship is also equipped with a simple gable roof.
The west tower is square and strongly drawn in. Its lower storey was built of reddish brick into which hewn boulders were worked. The corners of the structure stand out clearly. Access is via a large, arched portal with a double stepped wall . Above that, as on the north and south sides, is a narrow and arched window. The middle tower floor is separated from the ground floor by a cornice and was built entirely from brick. On each of the three accessible sides there is a round arch-shaped panel, above it a circular one on all four sides, which was probably installed as a preparation for a tower clock. The bell storey is also separated by another cornice. While two coupled sound arcades can be seen on the west and east sides , there are two panels each on the north and south sides. The bell of the church consists of a medieval bell from the workshop of the master Albertus. This is followed by a surrounding frieze and the eight-fold kinked spire, which ends with a cross.
Furnishing
On the north wall there is a wooden altarpiece from around 1720/1730 with richly decorated, carved cheeks and allegorical figures as caryatids , which replace the columns commonly used. The simple main field with Alpha and Omega was added in 1949. An epitaph from around 1400 still stands on the north side and commemorates those of Lepel with its coat of arms and inscription . The second grave slab dates from 1586 and is decorated with two double coats of arms. It is reminiscent of Alexander von Eickstedt . In the tower hall there is another, wooden coat of arms epitaph that reminds of Philipp Bogislaw von Eickstedt , who died in 1719.
The pulpit was part of a pulpit altar from 1778 to 1949. Other church furnishings include a baptismal font from the 14th century and a late Gothic crucifix . The stalls, like the west gallery, date from the 17th century. The components were re-carpentry in the Baroque era using existing components. In the nave there are still two plaques that commemorate those who fell from the Wars of Liberation and those who died from the First World War . The interior has a flat beamed ceiling.
Since 2009 a granite cross with a bronze plaque has been in the cemetery to commemorate an excess in which a total of 32 children and women were killed in the days after April 29, 1945.
To the east of the church is the mausoleum of the Müggenburg estate owners, the Gless family, built around 1850 . The building with a rectangular floor plan was built from hewn boulders. The pointed arch-shaped, neo-Gothic openings are, like the corners of the building, made of red brick. Up until the 1950s there were a total of seven coffins in the building, including that of Carl Gless, who provided the financial means for the tower.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 .
Web links
- Literature about the Church of Old Teterin in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church on the website of the regional church ( Memento from April 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ The community of Butzow , website of the Anklam Land Office, accessed on August 10, 2017.
- ^ "Collapse prevented: tower dome removed from church tower in Alt Teterin", report from April 20, 2004 at www.kirche-mv.de, accessed on May 26, 2016. ( Memento from August 3, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ^ Volksbund Deutsche Kriegsgräberfürsorge e. V. (Ed.): Das Ende des Schweigens published in Voice and Path , April 2010 edition, 86th volume, ( PDF file , accessed on August 11, 2017).
- ↑ Florian Huber: Child, promise me that you will shoot yourself: The downfall of the little people in 1945 . eBook Berlin Verlag, February 16, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8270-7788-2 , pp. 79f.
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 51 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 16.1 ″ E