Marienkirche (Strausberg)
The Marienkirche , also known as the parish church of St. Marien , is a medieval church in Strausberg ( Märkisch-Oderland district , Brandenburg ). It is considered to be the oldest and tallest building in the city and one of the largest preserved stone churches in the Mark Brandenburg .
location
The Marienkirche is located on Predigerstraße, a side street of Große Straße, in the center of the city of Strausberg , not far from the eastern bank of the Straussee and the city wall .
construction
The no-frills church building, built from field and brick at the transition between Romanesque and Gothic, has the shape of a three-nave pillar basilica . The massive, high tower of the building and the small Annenkapelle on the south side of the choir are striking .
history
In the 13th century, many settlements in Barnim were officially named cities. In the course of the granting of city rights , Strausberg was also equipped with a parish , which received its associated parish church with the construction of the Marienkirche around 1250.
After the construction of St. Marien as a parish church in the middle of the 13th century. In 1341/42, after a fire, the church was renovated and partially vaulted. In 1432 the church was on fire again, parts of its interior collapsed. From 1448 a reconstruction of the church followed. a. included the construction of the choir with a star vault, the rib vaulting of the originally flat roof of the nave and the establishment of a bell chamber and a round arched window in the tower. The vault paintings were also completed in 1448. In 1549 the vault of the Annenkapelle was removed. In 1747 the tower was supplemented with a 50 m high, baroque wooden tower with a lantern, sphere and cross. In 1815 the Annenkapelle was decorated with a classical portal, in 1922 the wooden tower top was demolished again. In 2004 the city of Strausberg celebrated the 750th anniversary of the Marienkirche.
Furnishing
The interior of the Marienkirche houses a baroque wooden pulpit from the beginning of the 18th century and a winged altar carved from rosewood from the 16th century. In the middle of the altar there is a figure of Mary with a baby Jesus and a halo, with various figures of saints enthroned to the side. The wings contain replicas of the twelve apostles . The vault of the church is decorated with extensive late Gothic vault paintings.
In the church there is also the epitaph of Andreas Angelus , the chronicler of the medieval history of the Mark Brandenburg.
There is also a penitent cell , which is extremely rare for the shape of the parish church .
organ
The first organ from St. Marien was a small positive from 1534. In 1594 St. Marien received a new organ from the organ builder Martin Voigt (Coburg). This instrument was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and was not restored until 1707. Between 1773 and 1774, the organ builder Ernst Julius Marx (Berlin) built a new organ. The instrument cost 1430 thalers; it had 27 main and 7 secondary registers with a total of 1,451 pipes ; For lack of money, the five highest notes and the lowest note were omitted. The organ front was richly carved; the eye of God and the two putti have been preserved from him to this day. During the First World War, the large prospect pipes had to be handed in for armament purposes. After the war, the organ building company W. Sauer Orgelbau Frankfurt (Oder) built a new instrument with 37 registers (2,460 pipes) on three manual works and a pedal in 1929 ; the organ case was retained, but was laterally expanded. The organ remained intact during World War II. It was last renovated in 2015 by organ builder Christian Scheffel (Sieversdorf).
|
|
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Pairing :
Bells
St. Marien has a five-part bell. It consists of two bronze bells from the years 1928 and 1950, which are rung electrically, and three steel bells from 1960. The steel bells were cast for the St. Matthew parish in Berlin-Tiergarten and were given away in 1989 to the St. Marien parish , and have been housed in the tower since 1994. As is still the case in a few churches, these are rung by hand. Up until 2016, the steel bells were only rung on special occasions, but were then integrated into the main bell and now also ring with the bronze bells.
| No. |
Surname |
Casting year |
Caster |
material |
Weight (kg) |
Diameter (cm) |
Chime |
inscription |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resurrection | 1950 | Schilling and Sons (Apolda) | bronze | 1181 | 128 | it 1 | Peace be with you Joh 20.19 |
| 2 | Praise to god | 1928 | Carl Voss (Szczecin) | bronze | 800 | 110 | ges 1 | Sacrificed for Germany's defense, newly acquired for God's honor - 1928 - Cast by C. Voss & Sohn Stettin |
| 3 | compassion | 1960 | Bochum Association | steel | 2084 | 160 | d 1 | All of you who are troublesome and burdened are Mt. |
| 4th | grace | 1960 | Bochum Association | steel | 1125 | 130 | f 1 | Seek first of all for the kingdom of God Mt. 6.33 |
| 5 | blessing | 1960 | Bochum Association | steel | 440 | 80 | g 1 | I am with you every day until the end of Mt. 28:20 |
literature
- Ernst Badstübner : City churches of the Mark Brandenburg. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1982, p. 203.
- Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment. Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2001 (Churches in Rural Areas, Vol. 1), ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
Web links
- City wiki page Strausberg
- Parish of St. Marien Strausberg
- Cara Schweizer, Lambrecht Kuhn, Hartmut Kühne from the Chair of Christian Archeology, Monument Studies and Cultural History at the Humboldt University Berlin ( Memento from June 17, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - parish church of St. Marien Strausberg
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ and the disposition on the website of the municipality
- ↑ Information about the bells
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 48.6 ″ N , 13 ° 52 ′ 49.6 ″ E