Marienkirche (Demmin)
The Marienkirche was a church in the Hanseatic city of Demmin . In 1630 it was destroyed during the Thirty Years War . Two representations from the 1610s provide clues as to their appearance. At the former location of the Marienkirche is today the Demminer Marienhain - the former churchyard.
history
The Marienkirche was located east of Demmin outside the Demmin city fortifications . Assumptions that the Marienkirche already existed before 1295 and is possibly the oldest church in Demmin are not proven. It was a parochial church for the villages of Vorwerk , Buschmühl , Brünzow , Quitzerow and Pensin, which belonged to the city and some of which had their own chapels as branches. As a parochial church (" ecclesia parochialis beatae Mariae Virginis prope Muros Demyn ") it was expressly differentiated from the city's hospital churches in a document in 1390.
Possibly after the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania , from 1578 at the latest, the Demmin parish church of St. Bartholomew and the Marienkirche had joint property management and joint heads. 1588 took place a first visitation of the church, more found in 1602, 1619 and 1626 instead.
In 1602 it was found that the asset management had not consistently collected the interest and rent due to the churches. Between 1578 and 1601 there were outstanding debts of 14,074 marks and 15 Schillings Sundisch . The condition inside the Marienkirche was also objected to in 1602 and the church council commissioned to have a new floor installed. There were also complaints about parishioners and clergy.
In the Stralsund illuminated manuscript from the middle of the 1610s and on the Great Lubin map of Pomerania from 1618, the Marienkirche is shown with its slender tower on the far right edge of the townscape of Demmin.
After the revision of 1619 showed that the incumbent pastor Schlüter was no longer up to his tasks, the visitors initially ordered a representation by the chaplain and the cantor. Finally, in 1624, the pastor was finally retired because of his old age. The visitors set a pension for him, which, in addition to an apartment and natural goods, provided for the annual payment of 100 guilders by the parish. The apartment should be designed in such a way "that he can comfortably get around in it". After the last visit in 1626, the roof of the church was repaired and the churchyard was surrounded with a stone wall.
In 1630 the Marienkirche was demolished on the orders of Federigo Savelli , the commander of the imperial troops. Because of its proximity to the city's fortifications, Savelli's view was that the church posed a risk to the city's defense.
The Marienkirche cemetery was used for burials until the second half of the 19th century. The parish was parish at the St. Bartholomew Church. But she still had her own pastor. One of these pastors was the preacher and chronicler Wilhelm Karl Stolle in the 18th century . He had the foundations of the Marienkirche measured. Accordingly, it was around 28 meters long and 10.3 meters wide with the tower. Around 1770 the tower foundations were still visible.
literature
- Karl Goetze: History of the city of Demmin edited on the basis of the Demmin Council Archives, the Stollesche Chronik and other sources . Demmin 1903, reprint 1997, ISBN 3-89557-077-X , pp. 137f.
- Wolfgang Fuhrmann: The Hanseatic City of Demmin in old and new views. GEROS Verlag, Neubrandenburg 1998.
Coordinates: 53 ° 54 '18 " N , 13 ° 2' 26.3" E