Ivenack Church

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Ivenack Church, west gable

The church in Ivenack in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania goes back to the monastery church of the former Cistercian monastery from the 13th century and after the dissolution of the monastery belonged to the Ivenack Castle, which was built in its place . After being destroyed in the Thirty Years' War, the church received its present appearance mainly through reconstruction in the early 18th century. Today the community belongs to the Neustrelitz provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).

history

The church was built as a monastery church of a Cistercian convent founded in 1252. In the course of the Reformation , the monastery was secularized around 1555 and came into the possession of the Mecklenburg dukes , who also built a first mansion there towards the end of the 16th century, but later mostly leased the property. During the Thirty Years War , monastery buildings, churches and mansions were destroyed. After further leases, the estate came to Ernst Christoph von Koppelow (1659–1721) through an exchange of goods in 1709 , who had Ivenack Castle and the associated church rebuilt. After a restoration from 1752, from which an old weathercock has been preserved, and the addition of a sacristy to the south of the entrance, the church was given its current appearance in 1867/68 through modifications to the west gable, the windows and the northern extensions (sacristy, morgue).

To the north of the church was the cemetery of the estate until the late 18th century, which was then moved further east to the outskirts. However, until 1945 the church remained the burial place for the landowners, the Ivenack line of the Barons von Maltzahn (Counts of Plessen ).

The last major renovation of the church was completed in 2004.

description

North side with tower stump

architecture

The church is a single-nave rectangular brick building with a polygonal east end. On the west gable of the church, which is structured with pilasters and niches, is a half-retracted four-story tower from the early 18th century. On the north side of the church, access is through an old, two-story square extension, which is probably the stump of the church's medieval tower. The sacristy and the former morgue are built to the side of this remains of the tower .

Inside the church, which is covered by a flat ceiling, the altar is set up in the east, the pulpit is on the south wall, the patron's box on the north wall and the organ gallery in the west . The church has three historical bells, the oldest of which dates from 1555.

Furnishing

Looking east to the altar
View to the west to the organ gallery

The altar and the altar frames date from the 18th century. The altar barriers show four ornate coats of arms of former tenants: Peccatel , Moltke , Helpte and Stralendorff . The altarpiece was decorated with angels and foliage during the renovation in 1867/68 and received the painting of Jesus kneeling on the Mount of Olives by Franz August Schubert .

The Renaissance style pulpit dates from 1589 and is inscribed with quotations from the Bible. Pastor Joachim Schultze, who had the pulpit restored in 1716, is named in the sound cover.

The covered and glazed patron s lodge was built around 1740. The client was probably Helmuth von Plessen after his appointment as imperial count.

Organ loft
Wrought iron gate

The parapet of the organ gallery is decorated with a number of emblemata . Their respective signatures (subscriptio), which explained their meaning, were once read in gold letters on a black background under the respective images, but this lettering was later painted over in white and has now only been exposed again in a few tiny places. The motifs are taken from an edition of the Paradiesgärtlein enriched with emblems , an edification by Johann Arndt . On the gallery is a historic church organ (15 registers , two manuals and an attached pedal ) from the early 18th century, which, according to an inscription, was repaired by organ builder Friedrich Friese I in 1790 and expanded by Julius Schwarz in 1898 while retaining its organ prospect has been modernized.

North of the altar is the ornate epitaph of Ernst Christoph von Koppelow, who received the Ivenack estate in 1709 through an exchange of goods and to whom the restoration of the castle and church in the early 18th century can be traced back. The epitaph was created around 1721 by Heinrich Johann Bülle as an elaborate marble work with a portrait medallion of the deceased, several putti, heraldic decorations and other decorations.

Other decorations in the church include a memorial to the east of the altar, created by Fritz Behn around 1925 for the participants in the First World War, old coffin fittings from the former hereditary burial above the north portal, which was renovated as an ornate oak door in 1907, and old grave slabs on the north wall. Other old grave monuments are to the north outside the church, on the site of the former cemetery. There is also a memorial stone for the von Plessen family, who committed suicide in May 1945. The old cemetery wall was preserved until the 1970s, of which only an old wrought-iron gate at an offset location testifies today.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. See the description of the emblems in Katarzyna Cieslak: Embleme in Arndts Paradiesgärtlein , in: Pietismus und Neuzeit 25 (1999) ISBN 978-3-525-55897-3 , pp. 11-30

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 39 "  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 28.1"  E