Parish Church St. Marien (Friedland)
The St. Marien Church in Friedland (Mecklenburg) is one of the largest brick churches in northern Germany. Since 2008 it has had the status of the main church of the large parish of St. Marien Friedland. This belongs to the Propstei Neustrelitz of the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).
The steeple, visible from afar, which was built in several phases between 1330 and 1500, is a Gothic brick church, including the cross on the top of the helmet, about 91 meters high. The nave measures about 70 meters in length and has a height of about 17 meters at the apex of the vaults. The three-aisled hall church with eleven bays has a pronounced cross vault.
history
At the beginning of the second half of the 13th century, the basement of the tower was made of field stones as the first sacred building in the city, founded in 1244. From 1330 a Gothic church with initially six bays was built, extended to nine bays from 1340 and expanded to eleven bays in the second half of the 14th century. The ongoing competition for the largest church was decided in favor of Friedland versus Neubrandenburg. In the course of this work, a western double tower facade was planned, but this was not carried out.
In the great city fire in 1703, the church was badly damaged and lost most of its furnishings. The subsequent reconstruction was primarily financed by wealthy Friedland citizens. On the pillars in the choir room there are still panels on which the donors are named. During restoration work in the years 1866 and 1885 to 1889 by Eugen Friedrich Müschen and Georg Daniel as consultants, the stepped east gable, the two side gables and almost all of the architectural decoration were renewed. In addition, the tower was an octagonal spire .
Interior
The pulpit is from the late Renaissance , the singing gallery from the time after the fire of 1703. Two carved figures below the organ herald the death and resurrection of man.
The altarpiece, painted by Georg Kannengießer from Neustrelitz in the style of the Nazarenes, shows Jesus Christ as Savior with the crown of thorns.
In the right basement of the tower is the chapel built in 1248, which is considered the nucleus of today's church and was already there when the city was founded. It contains a medieval fresco of Christian salvation history from the first half of the 15th century, which is unique in this form in northern Germany. It is extremely endangered by strong weather conditions.
The interior also includes two granite baptismal fonts from the 13th and 14th centuries and a relief from the 16th century.
The yarn weaving gallery with allegorical paintings of the four evangelists from the early 18th century and the stalls of the Friedland craft guilds in the left aisle also deserve special mention.
Surroundings
In front of the south side of the tower a memorial commemorates Fritz Reuter , who attended a school of scholars here . Directly opposite the main portal is the former school, one of the oldest buildings in the city.
organ
The church is equipped with an organ made by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer from Schönbeck bei Friedland . The instrument, built in 1905 for the Pauluskirche in Berlin-Zehlendorf , was moved to Friedland in 1934 and is here in David Baumann's baroque prospectus from 1744. The work currently has 41 stops on three manuals and a pedal . The instrument has pneumatic cone chests .
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- Coupling : II / I, III / I, III / II, I / P, II / P, III / P
- Playing aids : 3 free combinations, 3 fixed combinations (Mezzoforte, Forte and Tutti), piano pedal, mezzoforte pedal, roller (register crescendo), storage (tube works, main register, main coupling, roller)
Bells
In the tower of St. Mary's Church there was a medieval ringing of several bells until the town fire in 1703. The Friedland master Ernst Siedenbaum cast the big bell again in 1706. It was brought up to the tower with two small bells in 1708. On April 29 of the same year they rang for the first time at the funeral of Mayor Joachim Schultz. The big bell jumped in 1711 when the mourning ring for Emperor Joseph I , one of the smaller ones in 1715. The new casting that had become necessary was carried out in 1716 by master Michael Beguhn, who had also made the bells for the Nikolaikirche. In 1719 he renewed the big bell. In 1820 it was necessary to cast the second, now larger, bell, which Master Schwenn from Stettin made.
In 1876 the large, now lost bell, weighing 180 quintals, was made anew. It bore the following inscription:
Auxilio fortissimo Dei. Friedrich Wilhelm by God's grace, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg.
I wake the sleepers, I
lament the dead, I frighten the wicked, I say the upright, Mingling the
sound of the brazen voice
In the heavenly hymn of praise:
Glory be to God on high!
On the opposite side it says:
Gustav Horn. Pastor Mar:
Carl Bossart, Pastor Nicol:
Achim Mayer, Pastor Mar:
Hermann Götze, Judex, Oecon.
Carl Hoff, Oecon.
Cast by C. Voss u. Son in Stettin 1876. No. 627
The two bells that remained in the tower were restored in 1994. In 2010 they received a gentle, self-regulating drive.
Pastors
- 1786–1838: Johann Gottlieb Rudolphi
- 1835–1872: Heinrich Arminius Riemann
- 1948–1955: Karl Friedrich Jonat
literature
- Ulrich Hermanns: Medieval town churches of Mecklenburg . In: Monument preservation and construction in the 19th century . Schwerin 1996, ISBN 3-931185-15-X , pp. 242-249, 389-392.
- Achim Mayer (Pastor in Friedland): History of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Strelitz from its creation to the present day together with a chronicle of the city of Friedland from 1244-1896 . Verlag der Barnewitz'sche Hofbuchhandlung Otto Kruse, Neustrelitz 1896.
Web links
- Internet presence of the United Ev.-Luth. Parish of St. Marien Friedland
- Literature about the parish church of St. Marien (Friedland) in the state bibliography MV
- The church at seenplatte-entdecke.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 4.2 ″ N , 13 ° 32 ′ 54.3 ″ E