St. Mary's Church (Neu Boltenhagen)
The Protestant St. Mary's Church in Neu Boltenhagen in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district is a Gothic brick building from the second half of the 13th century. The parish of Neu Boltenhagen has been part of the Demmin Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
location
The central connecting axis from Neu Boltenhagen in a west-east direction is the Alte Dorfstraße . From here the ring road branches off to the north and the Karbower Weg to the south in the middle of the village . The sacred building stands west of the intersection on a gently sloping terrain that is fenced in with a wall made of uncut and only slightly layered field stones .
history
The building was probably built before 1280 under the church patronage of the Eldena Monastery . The choir and the north sacristy date from around 1300. In the 14th century, craftsmen built the nave on a granite plinth . A half-timbered porch on the south side dates from 1605. The windows, like the added portals, are pointed arches. The wooden west tower has planking and an octagonal clapboard spire. It was reinforced in 1490/1491 and around 1728. In 1766 there was a fire in the church, in which the vault collapsed and a barrel ceiling was then put in place. In addition, craftsmen simplified the east gable and made the ship windows smaller. The architect of the main university building in Greifswald, Andreas Mayer , took on the further design of the building. Under his direction and with the financial means of the church patron Charlotte Louise von Wakenitz (1719–1774), he built a new organ and a pulpit altar, among other things . He continued to simplify the east gable and reduced the size of the windows on the nave. In the late 1960s, experts uncovered the remains of medieval wall paintings showing scenes from the Stations of the Cross . After a comprehensive restoration of the organ, which was completed in 1992, the sacred building was renamed to the name of the Mother of God Maria .
architecture
The two yoke choir is slightly drawn in and just closes. The north sacristy is equipped with a ribbed vault, which is decorated with round bars and ribbon ribs. The nave is two yokes long and was built from brick on a granite base. In the gable there is a large cross in the form of a screen . The ship has stepped buttresses with plaster panels, which are inclined at the corners. On the north side there is a pointed arched portal, the walls of which are framed in alternating greenish colors. On the south side there is a half-timbered porch and a priest gate . The windows, like the blocked ship portals, are pointed arches. The wooden west tower has planking and is based on a square truncated pyramid. Dendrochronological investigations showed that individual pieces of wood were felled in 1267. According to the Dehio handbook , it is the oldest known wooden church tower in Germany, "if not Central Europe". An octagonal clapboard stump with a lantern and point sits on top.
Ernst von Haselberg states in his documentation the total length of the structure at 24 meters with a width of 15.33 meters including the buttresses.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar was built in 1767 by Andreas Pahlmann based on a design by Mayer. In the basket it shows a rather seldom used tetragram in a halo as an iconographic symbol and is decorated with pilasters and a triangular gable. The galleries , two pewter altar candles and two patron saints also date from this period . On the east wall next to a sacrament niche, experts in the 20th century were able to uncover wall paintings from around 1400 showing saints and angels. Scenes from the Passion are depicted on the south wall . They date from the beginning of the 15th century. The panel painting "Christ crowned with thorns" from the first quarter of the 19th century is attributed to the painter Wilhelm Titel from Neu Boltenhagen . The granite baptismal font dates from around 1260 and was originally in the Eldena Monastery . The stone is decorated with three heads as a symbol of the Trinity , which rest on a ten-sided foot. It is 86 cm high and 48 cm in diameter. The wall is up to seven centimeters thick.
A silver chalice belongs to the other church furnishings . It is gold-plated, 21 cm high and at its widest point 10.5 cm in diameter. It dates from the 18th century, has six parts and is decorated with tracery. Another, also gold-plated, silver chalice dates from 1782. There is also a silver wafer box. It has a diameter of 10 cm and a coat of arms with the inscription HSVG in the lid. The work probably dates from the end of the 17th century.
The organ with a classicist prospect was made in the workshop of Carl August Buchholz & Sohn in 1868 . It has eight registers on two manuals and a pedal .
The wooden segmented arch ceiling was installed after the fire in 1767. The choir has a semicircular barrel ceiling.
The existence of three bells has been handed down from 1592. In the 19th century, three bells are also documented: the largest dates from the middle of the 18th century, the middle from the 19th century and the smallest from 1870, which had a crack at the time of the survey by Haselberg.
There are grave cheeks from the 18th and 19th centuries in the cemetery . The grave slab of pastor Friedrich Andreas Gotthilf Titel (1748–1819), father of Wilhelm Titel , is in front of the choir. From 1780 until his death he was pastor in Neu Boltenhagen. A few meters from the grave slab is the patronage grave of the von Wakenitz family.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 341–342.
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 .
- Georg Dehio (arr. Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German art monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
- Ernst von Haselberg : Architectural monuments of the administrative district Stralsund. Volume 2: Greifswald district. Saunier, Stettin 1885.
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: East Western Pomerania. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 .
Web links
- Literature about St. Marien Church (Neu Boltenhagen) in the state bibliography MV
- Pfarramt Katzow , website of the Protestant Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on September 14, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfarramt Katzow , website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 19, 2017.
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 55 ″ N , 13 ° 36 ′ 43 ″ E