Hohenmocker Church

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Hohenmocker Church
South side
South portal
East gable
Remnants of the tower substructure

The Hohenmocker Church is a Gothic church building in the Western Pomeranian community of Hohenmocker . It is the oldest known church that was given to the Verchen monastery . Its two portals are unusually richly structured for a village church.

history

The church in Mokere was first mentioned in a document in 1239, when Duke Wartislaw III. von Pomerania and the widow of his former chamberlain Dobislaw awarded it to the Sankt-Marien-Kloster in Klatzow . This makes it the oldest known church that was owned by the monastery. Nothing is known about the building at that time, the building that exists today is dated to the end of the 13th century. A pastor named Heinrich was named in 1300. Possibly he was identical with the pastor Heinrich Pinnow mentioned in 1305. In 1342 the pastor was called Johann von Walsleben.

During the church visit in 1571 the building was classified as dilapidated. In 1835 the interior of the church was redesigned. In his booklet published in 1898 on the monuments in the Demmin district , Hugo Lemcke described the condition of the building as "very poor".

The Protestant parish has been part of the Demmin Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Demmin parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . The churches in Utzedel, Roidin , Hohenbüssow , Letzin and Gnevkow are currently amalgamated to form the Hohenmocker parish.

architecture

The church, which was built on a hill overlooking the town, was mainly made of field stone, the ornamental links and gables are made of brick . The rectangular nave, 28 meters long and nearly 14 meters wide, was originally two-bay and domed . On the north and south side there is an ogival portal and ogive, wide windows. The fighters in the reveal of the south portal are highlighted by capitals . In the 19th century the portals were coated with a lime paint . Hugo Lemcke counted them among the most beautiful village church portals in Pomerania . The art historian Franz Kugler saw an equivalent to its components in the Anklam Marienkirche .

The brick east gable was built later. He is by pointed arches, plaster friesen framed aperture divided and two windows. An originally existing church tower in the west was demolished except for remains of the field stone foundation. A cross and two wooden memorial plaques are attached to the west gable .

Interior

The furnishings include a pulpit altar from 1756 with the coat of arms of the von Normann family , the choir stalls and barriers come from the same period . In 1835 the rest of the equipment was installed. The organ was built in 1854 by Nikolaus Fischer from Demmin. It has 8 registers with a manual and a pedal . In 1999 a restoration was carried out by Rainer Wolter . Further repairs are to follow in 2019.

Cemetery with a belfry

In the cemetery north of the church there is a free-standing belfry . The older of the two bells was cast in the workshop of Michael Begun in Friedland in 1730 . The second bell, which was cast by Gottlieb Becker in Stettin in 1800 , had to be handed in as armaments material in the 20th century and was replaced by a steel bell.

Various grave steles from the 18th and 19th centuries are set up south of the church.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Pomeranian Document Book I, No. 368
  2. ^ A b Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Stettin 1925, p. 810.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the province of Pomerania. Part 2 The administrative district of Szczecin. Vol. I, Book I: The Demmin District. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1898, pp. 37–38.
  4. ↑ Evangelical Parish Office Hohemocker. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
  5. ^ Franz Kugler : Pomeranian Art History. Depicted after the preserved monuments. Stettin 1840, p. 51 ( Google books ).
  6. ^ Organ renovations in the Hohenmocker parish office
  7. ^ Photo of the organ of the Hohenmocker parish office
  8. ↑ a b Hohenmocker. (No longer available online.) In: Orte in MV. Archived from the original on August 17, 2012 ; Retrieved March 6, 2012 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.orte-in-mv.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 12.8 "  N , 13 ° 10 ′ 42.3"  E