Meesiger Church
The Meesiger Church is a church building in Meesiger in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It belongs to the Verchen parish of the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
Duke Wartislaw III. von Pommern-Demmin donated the village of Meesiger to the Verchen monastery in 1255 . In 1415, Heinrich Selfeld (Zelvelt) was named a pastor in Meesiger who owned a vicarie in the Verchen monastery church . After the abolition of the monasteries in the Duchy of Pomerania , church patronage went to the sovereign. The Meesiger Church was a daughter of the Wolkwitzer Church before it was rejoined in the Verchen parish.
building
The late Gothic west tower is the oldest surviving part of the church. It was built from field stone on a square floor plan. The upper floor is made of brick with pointed arched sound openings, panels and decorative friezes combined in pairs . A brick ledge closes off the tower spire. The ogival west portal of the tower is three-tiered.
The simple nave was built from field stone in the 17th century, the eastern gable in half-timbered construction. The walls are partially plastered. The buttresses on the east gable and on the north side were added later. There are four segment-arched windows in the north side, three in the south side and two in the east gable. A south portal was bricked up.
Interior
The altarpiece , decorated with carved decorations and figural decorations, was made around 1700 . In the main field there is a plastic crucifix , below a representation of the Last Supper , above Christ enthroned as King. The pulpit from the end of the 17th century is carried by a figure of Moses . In the fillings of the basket there are pictures of the evangelists . Allegorical figures are painted on the 17th century galleries.
The organ was made in 1973 by the Jehmlich company from Dresden as Opus 911 and has four stops with a manual and attached pedal .
The ringing consists of a bell from 1619, which resembles a bell cast by Dietrich Lamprecht for the Verchen church, although the name of the bell founder is not known. The governor Henning von der Osten, the pastor and two community leaders are named as donors. The provincial curator Hugo Lemcke described another larger bell at the end of the 19th century, which was dated to 1587. This was donated by the governor Jürgen Köthe, the rent master Bartholomäus Peper and the pastor Johannes Cordes.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 103.
- 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. 36–37.
Web links
- Meesiger village church. In: Village churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
- Meesiger Church. In: Heimat Mecklenburgische Seenplatte. Accessed August 31, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Verchen Evangelical Church Community. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved February 13, 2013 . ( Page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Stettin 1925, p. 773.
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2, Stettin 1925, p. 811.
- ↑ Directory of organs manufactured by companies based in the GDR for the territory of the GDR from 1945 to 1990 by Markus Voigt, p. 46 (PDF)
Coordinates: 53 ° 48 ′ 41.8 " N , 12 ° 54 ′ 57.4" E