St. Abundus Church (Lassahn)

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St. Abundus Church in Lassahn
Burial place of the von Bernstorffs
Nave

The St. Abundus Church in Lassahn is the parish church of the parish of Lassahn , which is part of the Parchim parish . The listed building is located about 350 meters east of the Lassahner See, part of the Schaalsee , in the Zarrentin district of Lassahn in the west of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

The first mention of the place Lassahn in the Ratzeburg tithe register comes from 1230. The start of construction of the church consecrated to Saint Abundus is estimated to be between 1190 and 1250. Its oldest surviving part, the square choir with the sacristy made of field stone , dates from around 1240. The windows with the pointed arches, the wall template for the priest's door and the edging of the three-window group in the east wall are made of brick.

The nave from the 17th century was built as a half-timbered structure . The northern side of the nave consists of a plastered brick wall with stepped buttresses .

The lakeside wooden paneled western part in half-timbered with the tower was built around 1740. Above the square tower top with the bell tower is an octagonal, pointed tower helmet .

A gold-colored ball with a cock from 1980 above it forms the top of the church tower. The predecessor was shot from the top at a victory ceremony for British soldiers in 1945.

The village and church historically belonged to the Duchy of Lauenburg , but came into the Soviet-occupied zone with the Barber-Lyashchenko Agreement . The parish still belonged legally to the state superintendent of Lauenburg, but was assigned to the Mecklenburg regional church at the beginning of 1989.

There is a burial place for the von Bernstorff family in the churchyard .

Inside

altar
Two bells in front of the church

The choir is spanned by a painted ribbed vault . The nave has a flat wooden beam ceiling. A striking triumphal arch divides the choir and nave. The galleries on both sides on wooden supports , including the pews and on the gallery since the carved figure of Anna herself from the 15th century.
The three-part altarpiece from 1898 is by Mathilde Block .
The two crucifixes in the chancel date from the 14th (smaller model) and 15th centuries. A carved figure of Anna herself from the end of the 15th century can be found in the master gallery in the chancel.

The pulpit between the chancel and the nave has decorations in the late Renaissance style .
Inside there are memorial plaques for family members of the von Bernstorffs, including a copy donated by Eric M. Warburg for the German diplomat and resistance fighter Albrecht Graf von Bernstorff .

Donations made it possible to cast a new bell inaugurated in November 1993 with the inscription "Glory to God in the heights". Two disused bells are exhibited in the churchyard.

organ

The organ built in 1902 by the Furtwängler and Hammer company in Hanover stands on the south pore .

Parish

The parish belonged to the parish of Neuenkirchen after the construction of the chapel around 1230 and was soon afterwards only temporarily an independent parish church, then a subsidiary church of Neuenkirchen. After 1782 she became self-employed.

The Ev.-Luth. Lassahn parish with 155 parishioners (around 2019) is now part of the Parchim provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The parish includes the places Bernstorf , Hakendorf, Lassahn, Stintenburg, Stintenburginsel , Stintenburger Hütte and Techin ( north church ). The parishes of Döbbersen, Lassahn and Neuenkirchen are connected in a parish district .
The church includes the surrounding cemetery with the small mourning hall and the burial place of Count v. Bernstorff.

The church was named after the patron saint Abundus (also Habundus ), who fought against Islam in Córdoba around 854 and was beheaded ( martyrs of Córdoba ); and St. Abundus in Groden (Cuxhaven) has the same patronage.

See also

Web links

Commons : St. Abundus Church Lassahn  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Village churches in MV: Lassahn village church ...
  2. ↑ a b Zerniner Employment Initiative (ZEBI) e. V. and START e. V. (Ed.): Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Edition Temmen, Bremen / Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-795-2
  3. ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of German Art Monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag, revision, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6
  4. ↑ Information in the display case in front of the church
  5. ^ Klaus Blaschke: Documentation: Allocation of the cathedral parish Ratzeburg and the parish Ziethen to the North Elbian Church. Allocation of the parish of Lassahn to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg. In: Kurt Jürgensen (ed.): The Church in the Duchy of Lauenburg: Contributions to its past and present. (Lauenburg Academy for Science and Culture: Colloquium 5), Neumünster: Wachholtz 1994, ISBN 978-3-529-02005-6 , pp. 152-164
  6. ↑ a b Jens Nielsen: The St. Abundus Church in Lassahn. A church leader .

Coordinates: 53 ° 36 '8.1 "  N , 10 ° 57' 11.7"  E