Nicolaikirche (Röbel)

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Nicolaikirche in Röbel
Altar with choir stalls
portal

The Nicolaikirche Röbel is a Gothic parish church in the historic town center of Röbel / Müritz in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The parish of Röbel belongs to the Neustrelitz Propstei, Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

History and architecture

Röbel was founded in 1226 and made a town in 1250. In the 13th century the parish church of St. Marien (around 1240) was built in the old town and the parish church of St. Nikolai in the new town.

The town church of St. Nicolai , consecrated around 1275, is an early Gothic brick building and is similar in layout to the St. Marien church in Röbel. The tower, the nave, the sacristy and the choir are placed one behind the other in a cubic manner.

The rectangular choir made of field stones with its two bays and a hanging dome (eight-part domical vault ) was first built in the middle of the 13th century. Three groups of windows are arranged in the east.

The brick nave followed a little later - around the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century - as a three-nave hall church with three bays and almost square vaults. The central nave is a little narrower than the choir.

The groin vault from the 14th / 15th centuries Century was painted and imitated. It stands on octagonal pillars with semicircular upstream bundle pillars and has a late Gothic painting with tendril motifs .

The slim, slightly ogival windows with round bar profiles are arranged in pairs. Slender buttresses support the building.

The exterior is characterized by the decorative frieze as a so-called German band , the arched frieze on the choir, the staircase frieze and the arched frieze with clover leaves on the nave. The choir gable with brick patterns is concise. The choir gate at the extension is also idiosyncratic.

On the south side there is a portal with an early Gothic eyelash , which is strongly profiled with four round bars. A simple north portal and a west portal to the tower vestibule with pinnacles in the flanks and also with an eyelash complement the entrances.

The sacristy at the choir on the north side has a richly decorated stepped gable .

The church was renovated in 1867 and the vault paintings of the 14th / 15th centuries were restored. Century painted over. The overall impression is uniform despite different construction times.

The roof of the ship was re-covered between 1986 and 1987, and necessary clean-up work was carried out at the same time. The leaded glass windows were repaired in 1994, protective glazing was installed in 1995. The floor in the chancel was renewed in 1995, and in 1996 underfloor heating was installed. The chancel was also painted in 1996, the entrance doors were renovated in 1997. Since 1999 the church can be used for exhibitions. The nave was renovated in 1999 and the stairs to the gallery were repaired in 2002.

From 1986 to 1990 Gottfried Timm was pastor of the Nicolaikirche.

tower

The square, somewhat compact west tower made of bricks was probably also built in the 15th century. It has four gables and an eight-sided tower spire over four shield gables with plaster panels. The structure is done by decoration. The tower vestibule was set up during a renovation in the 19th century and is accessible through side doors. The tower hall is cross-vaulted and, unlike the rest of the church, has not been restored and is currently (2012) used as a storage room. The tower roof was re-covered in 1985 with funds from the Bavarian regional church.

Late Gothic paintings

As part of a restoration in 2000, late Gothic paintings in the vault were exposed, scientifically documented and then whitewashed again. A head in the vaulting is exposed again.

Furnishing

Altar structure

High altar

The high altar in the choir was consecrated around 1280. The neo-Gothic altar structure is a work from the period 1867 to 1869. It is made of wood and designed in the form of a Gothic niche. It is flanked by two pairs of buttresses and a few small pinnacles. The pointed arch is crowned with an eyelash. A crucifix carved from wood hangs in the middle of the altar wall. It was created by an artist from Paderborn .

Choir stalls

Choir stalls

The remarkable choir stalls of the Nikolaikirche from 1519 with thirty seats come from the former Dominican monastery Röbel . It was made by Brother Urban Schumann. On the sides are carved women's and men's heads, the cheeks have tendril carvings and on the back wall in the choir stalls (dorsal) are carved inscriptions over round arches. Above the inscriptions, thirteen choir stalls show cities in which there were convents of the Dominican Order in the order province of Saxonia , stating the year of the founding of the respective convent. The stalls are incomplete and have not been placed in their original order.

organ

The organ

The organ was built in Frankfurt (Oder) in 1894 by Wilhelm Sauer for the Johanniskirche in Neubrandenburg. The twenty registers are divided into two manuals and a pedal . The instrument is equipped with a cone drawer with a pneumatic register and mechanical tone action.

The Johanniskirche got a new organ in 1987 and so the congregation bought the instrument. The installation was delayed by the events of the turning point and was realized in 1993.

Baptismal font

The well-preserved baptismal font is decorated with a representation of arched arcade architecture with a leaf frieze. dates from the first half of the 13th century.

Another old font stands in front of the entrance portal.

Tomb slab Kassubius

Tomb slab Kassubius

An iron grave slab from 1673 for the Kassubius family is provided with their coat of arms and symbols of the evangelists , as well as the depiction of pastors from the family. It was cast from iron. Originally it was in the central nave above the grave of Pastor Laurentius Kassubius, he died in Röbel in 1638.

Other equipment

  • On the triumphal arch there is a depiction of the apostles from the end of the 15th century.
  • The sound cover of the neo-Gothic pulpit on the southern pillar is crowned by an openwork spire. It was installed in place of a baroque pulpit from 1667.
  • Only one of the original three bronze bells has survived.

Views

literature

  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Mecklenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 1980.
  • Marianne Mehling (Ed.): Knaurs Kulturführer Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Droemer Knaur, Munich 1991, ISBN 3-426-26490-0 .
  • Verena Friedrich: Röbel at the Müritz St. Marien St. Nikolai. Art publisher Peda, ISBN 3-89643-587-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
  2. ^ History
  3. Schumann, Urban . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 30 : Scheffel – Siemerding . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1936, p. 341 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 38 "  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 22.2"  E