Morgenitz Church
The Morgenitz Church is a church in the Morgenitz district of the municipality of Mellenthin on the island of Usedom . A Morgenitz church was first mentioned in a document in 1318. Presumably nothing has survived from this original building. The current church was built around 1500, the furnishings are significantly more recent.
description
The Morgenitz village church is a simple, single-nave church. It was built around 1500 as a late Gothic brick building without a bell tower. The pointed gable of the west facade is structured by prominent high blind arches. On the east wall of the church there is a grave slab made of Swedish limestone. On the south side of the church there is a wooden belfry that was built in 1820 and renewed in 1928.
The altar is a simple baroque composition with paintings from the 18th century, turned columns and statues. An organ was only installed in 1894.
The paintings on the baroque altarpiece depict the Lord's Supper , the Resurrection and Ascension, as well as the apostles Peter and Paul to the side. The two medieval carved figures that have survived were also placed in the altarpiece.
The death boards (18th century) on the walls of the church were used to store the bridal and death crowns . Under the altar there is a crypt with cross vaults, inside the copper coffin of the Swedish Colonel Paul Weediger von Borcke († 1699). The pewter crucifix and other pewter jewelry originally belonged to the coffin of the Colonel's wife, Sophie Juliane, née. v. Rehnskiöld († 1715). In the sacristy there is a tombstone from 1654.
No more burials were carried out in the old churchyard adjacent to the church after 1876. Mulberry trees that still grow on the cemetery grounds, document the failed attempt of Frederick II. , As well as here in Liepe a sericulture to establish.
In the cemetery, between the graves from the 19th century, there are some Bronze Age millstone troughs that Pastor Wilhelm Hörstel found together with other stone finds before the Second World War. B. from megalithic graves . Such a megalithic tombstone bears the font from the 13th century in front of the church. The big boulder in front of the belfry was brought from Gothensee with 16 horses and pulleys . The many cast-iron grave crosses from the 19th century, which were made in Swinoujscie and Ueckermünde , are also a special feature .
history
In 1270 Morgenitz came into the possession of the Grobe monastery . In 1318 a chapel was built. It has not been established whether the portal in the north wall is a remnant of this chapel. The current church dates from the 15th century. The large windows in the east wall were torn out by a heavy storm in 1702, the remaining openings were later bricked up. In 1747 the roof was covered by a hurricane, the new roof collapsed as early as 1764, smashed the flat ceiling of the church and tore down the upper half of the east gable. At that time the galleries, altar and pulpit, baptismal font, chandelier, stalls and the old wood carvings, including several votive ships , were smashed. The church was rebuilt in 1771. The baroque altarpiece also dates from this year.
The painting of the church was assigned to the Usedom painter Christoph Peter Hirt in 1777 . He also painted the pictures of the evangelists in the pulpit, the altarpieces and the flowers on the stalls. The organ was installed in 1894, but the flat beamed ceiling had to give way to a barrel vault. After the church was last renovated in 1933, the most recent renovation was made in 1977. The community raised the necessary funds itself.
Web links
- Literature about Morgenitz Church in the State Bibliography MV
- Information about the church on the common website of the Usedom parishes
Individual evidence
- ↑ Burkhard Kunkel: Baptismal font from Morgenitz, cat.no.584 . In: Stiegemann, C., Kroker, M., Walter, W. (Eds.): CREDO. Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages . tape 2 . Petersberg 2013, p. 634 .
- ^ Evangelical rectory in Morgenitz: Mellenthin - Morgenitz - Liepe. PEDA art guide No. 118, Passau 1994
Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 33.9 ″ N , 13 ° 57 ′ 52.1 ″ E