Dargelütz village church

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Tower and churchyard in August 2010
Village church memorial stone
The grave of the windmill Johanna Voss, b. Beitzer († 1845) in the churchyard in June 2008

The village church Dargelütz was a church building of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Mecklenburg in Dargelütz , a current part of the district town Parchim . After the nave was demolished , a free-standing, now unused, neo-Gothic church tower remained in the village. After it has been rebuilt, the nave can be viewed in the open-air museum of the Ribnitz-Damgarten district of Klockenhagen and continues to be used for church purposes.

history

Dargelütz was mentioned for the first time in 1370/71 in a war damage account in disputes between Albrecht von Mecklenburg and the Elector Otto von Brandenburg . There was a village church in Dargelütz as early as 1379. At that time, according to a document, the church was bequeathed a Lübische Mark . The last nave is a half-timbered building from the years around 1790. Friedrich Schliemann describes the church in 1900 as a half-timbered building without jewelery and ornaments . There was a flat wooden ceiling inside. He gave no importance to the altar, the pulpit or the stalls. On the west side of the building there was a free-standing bell tower with a four-sided roof and an eight-sided, pyramid-shaped top, about a foot apart . The tower was equipped with two bells. The larger specimen measured 86 centimeters in diameter and was cast in Wismar in 1863. The second bell with a diameter of 66 centimeters bore the inscription: "AERNDT * VON * MOLLENDORF * DER * ELTER * ANNO * 1662". Forty years later the church still had two bells; one of them was melted down for recycling in the munitions industry towards the end of the Second World War, the second - the one mentioned, donated in 1662 - has been in the tower of the church in Ziegendorf- Drefahl since 1986 . There are no images or detailed descriptions of the tower mentioned.

The original furnishings of the church include the monumental two by four meter donor picture painted on wood - which Schlie imprecisely called an epitaph - from 1652, on which the former owner of the village Arndt von Möllendorff and his wife Elisabeth Wardenberg as full figures in contemporary costume of the 17th century are shown. The church also contained two Alliance coats of arms, but they have disappeared.

The nave was restored in 1908/09, the building was completely dismantled and parts of the framework were renewed. The floor received a new top layer made of industrially manufactured tiles. In the course of the work, the neo-Gothic west tower that remains today was created from bricks with a field stone foundation and individual field stones built into the walls. This replaced the previous building. The church was used until 1978 when it was abandoned. The churchyard became a meeting place for young people and the church was damaged by vandalism. To save it from deterioration, the nave was dismantled in 1992 and rebuilt in the Klockenhagen open-air museum. The base plate , the gable-shaped partially plastered wall of the tower and the bricked gable on the tower still bear witness to the building today . The church tower itself was renovated.

The churchyard in Dargelütz, which is partly delimited by a stone wall, was overgrown by vegetation until 2008. A memorial stone with the inscription "Dorfkirche Dargelütz / 1379–1992 / Rebuilt in Klockenhagen" commemorates the village church . This was set up there by the Heimatbund Parchim eV. The church tower and the tomb of the wind miller Johanna Voss born in 1845. Beitzer (born December 9, 1815 in Parchim; † September 25/26, 1845) are listed in the Parchim city monuments list. On July 7, 2006, the parish council of the parish of St. Georgen Parchim de-dedicated the churchyard as a burial place. An adjacent street was named "Am Kirchturm" after the half-timbered building was demolished. At the end of 2008, the roof of the tower was sealed and the churchyard and the surrounding dry stone wall cleared of weeds and undergrowth. 30,000 euros were made available for this work. Consideration was given to using the site for church events or to display art objects. In 2009 the church tower received a new roof and nesting areas were created at the same time. The churchyard is being transformed into a park by a project group from an employment and qualification society.

Nave in Klockenhagen

Nave in the open-air museum Klockenhagen
Lining the compartments

In the Klockenhagen open-air museum , historical buildings from 18 villages in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania have been brought together, including the Dargelütz village church. When the half-timbered nave was rebuilt in 1993 (another source speaks of 2001), a vestibule was added. The compartments have been lined with bricks with ornamental patterns. The structural condition around 1900 was largely retained; later modifications were not carried out. For example, the brick pavement was exposed and the tiled floor was dispensed with. Neo-Gothic ornamentation of the church was also no longer used. The interior is flat.

Today's furnishings include an altarpiece from 1647, which is on loan from the Gresse-Greven parish, was painted in 1682 and contains the painting Last Supper and Crucifixion as well as the carved figures of Moses and John the Baptist and the evangelists Mark, Luke and John. The altar is crowned by the figure of the risen Christ. The altarpiece was part of the inventory of a half-timbered church in Greven until 1908 , in whose successor building it was no longer used. The stalls in the church consist of two 19th century benches from the village church in Rostocker Wulfshagen , the rest of the stalls are reproduced. The epitaph already in Dargelütz was adopted.

In front of the half-timbered building is a free-standing wooden belfry , covered with hand-made roof tiles , which is a replica of the example of the Zislow village church from 1874 . The bell, consecrated on Easter Sunday in 2003, was cast by the Bachert foundry from Bad Friedrichshall based on a historical model. It is made of bronze, has a diameter of 53 centimeters and weighs 120 kilograms. The inscription reads: "O REX GLORIE CHRISTE VENI CUM PACE" ( Eng .: O Christe, King of Glory, come in peace) . At the bottom there is the inscription: "OPEN AIR MUSEUM KLOCKENHAGEN, CAST BY A.BACHERT IN 2003".

The church in the open-air museum, which today belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Ribnitz, was consecrated and is used for church services, concerts, readings, baptisms and weddings.

  • Altarpiece (loan from Greven)

  • Epitaph (original from Dargelütz)

  • Stools (replica from the village church of Rostocker Wulfshagen)

  • floor

Trivia

The Dargelütz village church is the setting for a legend . Five holes in a large stone called "devil's claw", which is an eighth of a mile from the village of Dargelütz, are interpreted as traces of the hand of the devil. He wanted to hurl the stone from the Granziner Forest in a high arc at the newly built village church. However, the Brocken did not reach the church and has been in the Dargelützer Feldmark ever since.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Dargelütz  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Friedrich Schlie: The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. The district court districts Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau , Schwerin in 1901
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h Museumsverein Klockenhagen e. V .: Houses and stories from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania: Freilichtmuseum Klockenhagen , Ribnitz-Damgarten 2003, pp. 10–13
  3. ↑ a b c Klockenhagen open-air museum - headquarters for teaching media
  4. ↑ Email from the former building pastor of the parish of St. Georgen Parchim on request
  5. ↑ ZEBI e. V. / START e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 .
  6. ↑ a b Celebrate festivals as they come. Dargelützer meet on June 26th for the 640th birthday of the village. , Schweriner Volkszeitung, May 12, 2010
  7. ↑ List of monuments of the city of Parchim (PDF file; 46 kB) ( Memento from June 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Official bulletin Uns Pütt of the city of Parchim from September 9, 2006 (PDF file) ( Memento from April 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ Publication ( Memento from June 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 124 kB) by the association Dorfkirchen in Not
  10. ↑ “Kirchhof awakened from sleep” - Schweriner Volkszeitung, local page Parchim, p. 17, November 15, 2008
  11. ↑ The park is taking shape at the cemetery in Dargelütz , Schweriner Volkszeitung, June 16, 2010
  12. ↑ a b Freilichtmuseum-klockenhagen.de
  13. ↑ a b c d Klockenhagen, Protestant Church - kirche-mv.de
  14. ↑ Klockenhagen open-air museum - agrarkulturerbe.de
  15. ↑ The Devil's Claw - digital library on zeno.org
  16. ^ F. Dümmler: Rheinisches Jahrbuch für Volkskunde . 1954

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 1.3 ″  N , 11 ° 51 ′ 19.8 ″  E