Marienkirche (Stargard)
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
- until 1556: Hermann Ricke
- until 1584: Anton Remmelding (Nemling)
- 1585–1588: Otto Zander
- 1589–1612: Konrad Bredenbach
- 1613–1638: Petrus Regast
- 1652–1658: Anton Vivenest
- 1660–1683: Wilhelm Engelken
- 1684–1687: Franz Julius Lütcke
- 1687–1695: Georg Schwarz
- 1695–1713: Johann Georg Seld
- 1713–1731: Johann Wilhelm Zierold
- 1732–1736: Friedrich Wagner
- 1736–1782: Simon Heinrich Oldenbruch
- 1782–1786: Karl Tesmar
- 1786–1801: Martin Gottlieb Zollner
- 1801–1823: Friedrich Peter Adolf Tobias Stumpf
- 1825–1849: Johann Samuel Succow
- 1849–1881: Friedrich Gustav Höppner
- 1881–1899: Wilhelm Haupt
- 1900– ?: Heinrich Brück
- 1926–1939: Johannes Rathke
Archdeacon
- ?: Hermann Ricke
- until 1557: Jakob Fuhrmann d. Ä.
- ?: Lukas Dannenberg
- ?: Christoph habenicht
- 1574–1577: Jakob Faber
- until 1613: Jakob Fuhrmann
- until 1626: Friedrich Crüger
- 1626–1632: Christoph Bohm (tree)
- 1632-1635: Urban Lehmann
- 1641–1652: Anton Vivenest
- 1658–1660: Wilhelm Engelken
- 1660–1686: Tobias Engelken
- 1687–1723: Johann Gerdes
- 1723–1746: Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt
- 1746–1757: Samuel Gottfried Rübner
- 1758–1771: Andreas Petrus Hecker
- 1771–1782: Karl Tesmar
- 1783–1786: Samuel Gottfried Sperling
- 1788–1813: Christian Gottfried Gerstmeyer
- 1824–1839: Wilhelm Christian Pökel
- 1839–1884: Heinrich Koser
- 1884–1899: Ulrich August Redlin
- 1899– ?: Wilhelm Kiesow
- 1940–1945: Karl Boenke
Deacon
- ?: Joachim Balke
- ?: Christian Kligge
- ?: Daniel Radebrecht
- 1600–1613: Petrus Regast
- 1614–1625: Adam Schacht
- 1626–1641: Anton Vivenest
- 1641–1652: Daniel Rüel (Rühl)
- 1652–1658: Wilhelm Engelken
- 1658–1660: Tobias Engelken
- 1688–1693: Christian Schmidt
- 1694–1723: Jodocus Andreas Hiltebrandt
- 1724-1737: Aegydius Bohm
- 1737–1746: Samuel Gottfried Rübner
- 1746–1758: Andreas Petrus Hecker
- 1758–1783: Samuel Gottfried Sperling
- 1783–1788: Christian Gottfried Gerstmeyer
- 1787–1801: Friedrich Peter Tobias Adolf Stumpf
- 1803–1812: Johann Samuel Succow
- 1812–1823: Karl David Krause (from 1823 to 1856 the positions of archdeacon and deacon were merged)
- 1856–1862: Johann Friedrich Bernhard Otto Vogel
- 1862–1866: Ernst Karl Otto Bindemann
- 1866–1872: Karl Ludwig Friedrich Theodor Möhring
- 1874–1882: Karl August Wilhelm Kober
- 1883–1884: Ulrich August Redlin
- 1885–1895: Franz Karl Onrad Polzenhagen
- 1896–1899: Wilhelm Heinrich Eduard Kiesow
- 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
- Homepage of the Marienkirche parish Stargard
- History of the former big bell of the Marienkirche Stargard
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 12.3 " N , 15 ° 2 ′ 47.7" E