Marienkirche (Stargard)

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Marienkirche in 1923
Layout
Marienkirche and Altmarkt in Stargard
Vault of communication
Main altar
Renaissance pulpit
Rectory at the Marienkirche

The Marienkirche in Stargard , actually collegiate church of the Holy Virgin Mary, Queen of the World ( Polish : Kolegiata Najświętszej Marii Panny Królowej Świata ), is a Gothic brick church of the type of the Hanseatic city ​​cathedral and the older of the two Stargard churches built inside the city gates of the old town. The once largest brick church in Pomerania stands on the market square next to the town hall and the old guard.

Building description and history

The cornerstone of the two-tower church with a chapel wreath in the ambulatory was laid in 1292 , the current shape dates from the 14th and 15th centuries. It was built as a hall church and completed in 1350. Only in the 15th century was the church expanded as a basilica . Hinrich Brunsberg is said to have created the impressive common choir . The triforium between the choir arcades and the upper cladding windows is striking and is considered to be unprecedented in north German brick architecture . The buttresses were pulled inwards and provided space for the construction of chapels and galleries . The nave was extended around 1500. Its height is 30 meters. The star vaults were renovated after a fire in 1635. The twin towers received their middle floors in the 15th and 16th centuries. Only the north tower (height: 84 meters) was given a crenellated wreath, corner turrets and an octagonal storey, and it was crowned in 1723 with an openwork baroque dome.

The vaults, chapels and the sacristy are adorned with late Gothic figural frescoes, including a Man of Sorrows . Inside there is an altar from 1663, wall paintings from the 15th to 18th centuries, epitaphs , chapel entrance frames from the 18th century and stained glass from the 19th and 20th centuries. The Renaissance pulpit from 1683 is remarkable .

In 1945 the church was badly damaged and has been restored since 1960. Two bells by the foundryman Friedrich Gruhl from 1862 with the chimes g 0 and c 1 survived the two world wars and were discovered in a bell cemetery. The larger bell is now in the Nördlinger Georgskirche , the smaller one on St. Lukas in Munich.

Marienkirche parish

Parish

A church in Stargard was first mentioned in 1248, but it soon turned out to be too small for the rapidly growing city. In 1524, the former Franciscan Johannes Knipstro , who was on the run from Pyritz to Stralsund , gave the first Lutheran sermon in St. Mary's Church. The church was a Protestant house of worship until 1945, after which it became a Roman Catholic Church in Poland again.

Until 1945, the Marienkirche parish was the third largest congregation alongside the Johanniskirchengemeinde, the Heilig-Geist-Kirchengemeinde and the Reformed Parish. It belonged to the Stargard parish in the church province of Pomerania of the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union . In 1940 there were 10,500 parishioners in the Marienkirche parish. The city's magistrate had church patronage . Two clergy looked after the believers. The superintendent of the church district was connected with the first pastoral position . The owner of the second parish office had to provide the Klempin branch with 563 parishioners.

After Stargard was placed under Polish administration after the Second World War in 1945 and the mostly Protestant German population had fled or expelled, the Stargard-Wschód deanery took over the church. It has been a collegiate church since 1995.

The Protestant Christians of today's city belong to the diocese of Wroclaw of the Polish Evangelical-Augsburg Church . The responsible parish office is that of the St. Trinity Church in Stettin .

Pastor from the Reformation to 1945

Pastor primarius

  1. until 1556: Hermann Ricke
  2. until 1584: Anton Remmelding (Nemling)
  3. 1585–1588: Otto Zander
  4. 1589–1612: Konrad Bredenbach
  5. 1613–1638: Petrus Regast
  6. 1652–1658: Anton Vivenest
  7. 1660–1683: Wilhelm Engelken
  8. 1684–1687: Franz Julius Lütcke
  9. 1687–1695: Georg Schwarz
  10. 1695–1713: Johann Georg Seld
  11. 1713–1731: Johann Wilhelm Zierold
  12. 1732–1736: Friedrich Wagner
  13. 1736–1782: Simon Heinrich Oldenbruch
  14. 1782–1786: Karl Tesmar
  15. 1786–1801: Martin Gottlieb Zollner
  16. 1801–1823: Friedrich Peter Adolf Tobias Stumpf
  17. 1825–1849: Johann Samuel Succow
  18. 1849–1881: Friedrich Gustav Höppner
  19. 1881–1899: Wilhelm Haupt
  20. 1900– ?: Heinrich Brück
  21. 1926–1939: Johannes Rathke

Archdeacon

  1. ?: Hermann Ricke
  2. until 1557: Jakob Fuhrmann d. Ä.
  3. ?: Lukas Dannenberg
  4. ?: Christoph habenicht
  5. 1574–1577: Jakob Faber
  6. until 1613: Jakob Fuhrmann
  7. until 1626: Friedrich Crüger
  8. 1626–1632: Christoph Bohm (tree)
  9. 1632-1635: Urban Lehmann
  10. 1641–1652: Anton Vivenest
  11. 1658–1660: Wilhelm Engelken
  12. 1660–1686: Tobias Engelken
  13. 1687–1723: Johann Gerdes
  14. 1723–1746: Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt
  15. 1746–1757: Samuel Gottfried Rübner
  16. 1758–1771: Andreas Petrus Hecker
  17. 1771–1782: Karl Tesmar
  18. 1783–1786: Samuel Gottfried Sperling
  19. 1788–1813: Christian Gottfried Gerstmeyer
  20. 1824–1839: Wilhelm Christian Pökel
  21. 1839–1884: Heinrich Koser
  22. 1884–1899: Ulrich August Redlin
  23. 1899– ?: Wilhelm Kiesow
  24. 1940–1945: Karl Boenke

Deacon

  1. ?: Joachim Balke
  2. ?: Christian Kligge
  3. ?: Daniel Radebrecht
  4. 1600–1613: Petrus Regast
  5. 1614–1625: Adam Schacht
  6. 1626–1641: Anton Vivenest
  7. 1641–1652: Daniel Rüel (Rühl)
  8. 1652–1658: Wilhelm Engelken
  9. 1658–1660: Tobias Engelken
  10. 1688–1693: Christian Schmidt
  11. 1694–1723: Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt
  12. 1724-1737: Aegydius Bohm
  13. 1737–1746: Samuel Gottfried Rübner
  14. 1746–1758: Andreas Petrus Hecker
  15. 1758–1783: Samuel Gottfried Sperling
  16. 1783–1788: Christian Gottfried Gerstmeyer
  17. 1787–1801: Friedrich Peter Tobias Adolf Stumpf
  18. 1803–1812: Johann Samuel Succow
  19. 1812–1823: Karl David Krause (from 1823 to 1856 the positions of archdeacon and deacon were merged)
  20. 1856–1862: Johann Friedrich Bernhard Otto Vogel
  21. 1862–1866: Ernst Karl Otto Bindemann
  22. 1866–1872: Karl Ludwig Friedrich Theodor Möhring
  23. 1874–1882: Karl August Wilhelm Kober
  24. 1883–1884: Ulrich August Redlin
  25. 1885–1895: Franz Karl Onrad Polzenhagen
  26. 1896–1899: Wilhelm Heinrich Eduard Kiesow
  27. 1900– ?: Konrad Sendke

literature

  • Hans Moderow : The evangelical clergy of Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part 1. Paul Niekammer, Stettin 1903, pp. 411–421.
  • Johannes Hinz : Pomerania. Lexicon , Würzburg 2001, ISBN 3-88189-394-6

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 12.3 "  N , 15 ° 2 ′ 47.7"  E