St. Mary's Church (Selmsdorf)
The St. Marien Church is a neo-Gothic church building in Selmsdorf . It is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Selmsdorf in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
A pastor is first attested for Selmsdorf in 1386. The community belonged to the diocese of Ratzeburg , and the pastors were mostly members of the Ratzeburg cathedral chapter. In 1424 and 1426 two vicarages were donated to the church . In 1493 a dispute between the cathedral chapter and the council of the city of Lübeck over the churchyard profaned in a fight by the Schlutupers is on record. After the Reformation there was a visitation by Superintendent Nicolaus Peträus in 1599 and another in 1620. During this visit the church looked desolate and untidy .
Little is known about the brick-Gothic village church. It had a square box choir typical of this area of western Mecklenburg in Gothic times. The square, low tower had a tiled roof.
The old church, which was dilapidated and too small for the growing community, was demolished in 1862. A new neo-Gothic building was erected in its place by 1864. The design, which is based on buildings by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel , came from the Schönberg master builder Fritz Rickmann. He also had the technical construction management, while the administrative supervision was in the hands of the Schönberger Landdrosten Fritz von Eyben . The Marienkirche is the only new church in the history of the Principality of Ratzeburg .
The inauguration of the new church, which cost 11,165 thalers to build, was celebrated on the third Sunday in Advent , December 11, 1864.
West and East View (1867)
Floor plan (1867)
Elevation of the choir room (1867)
Building description
The church is made of yellowish brick and has a rectangular nave with a recessed, polygonal choir closure. The narrow rectangular tower is like a Westwerk the nave in front across from bars. The main nave is divided into five bays by wall templates. In each yoke, in the ground floor zone, which is closed off by a zigzag frieze, there are two smaller pointed arch windows, above which a high, two-part pointed arch window. Portal porches are attached to both sides of the choir. The elaborately designed west porch is characteristic. The actual tower with the clock and bell storey and an octagonal pointed helmet rises above two three-storey side parts accented with corner pillars. Above the west portal two shaped stone fields with fish bubble ornaments. The roof of the ship was covered with red roof tiles, while the tower was covered with slate .
The interior is not vaulted, but shows a wooden beamed ceiling, the only decoration of which is an additional beam between the nave and the choir with carved tracery ornamentation . Behind the altar is a sacristy that can also be used as a confessional room . The south, west and north sides of the ship were provided with galleries .
Furnishing
St. Marien has a uniform neo-Gothic interior from the time it was built. The altar is in neo-Gothic architectural forms, with tracery decoration and pinnacles; in the middle part the altar painting of Christ blessing comes from 1885.
The dome of a baptismal font made of Gotland limestone from the end of the 13th century, which is decorated with cloverleaf-shaped arcades, has been preserved from the previous church . It was first taken to the cemetery and then broken in pieces back to the church. In the winter of 2011/2012 it was restored with the help of several donors and was given a new place in the church choir.
Also from the old church are some gravestones, a wooden tomb from 1658, and the 16-arm Lübeck brass chandelier from 1653.
In 1869 the church received a romantic organ from the Szczecin organ builder Barnim Grüneberg (op. 114, Schleiflade , II + P / 13). In 2009 the organ and the case were completely restored by W. Sauer Orgelbau .
The glass paintings in the choir windows were done by the art and glass painter Rudolf Carl Koenigsberg from Schwerin. The donor was the widow of the parish tenant Hans Engell. According to records in the church chronicle, the windows were consecrated on Thanksgiving Sunday in 1910. In 1998/99 the Wismar glassworks Thomas Biebernick in cooperation with the glass workshop Wilfried Osten from Schwerin-Wickendorf carried out the restoration with large-scale additions.
Three bronze bells originally hung in the church tower. The largest with a diameter of 1.32 m was cast by Lübeck council founder Lorenz Strahlborn in 1742, the other two by Lübeck council founder Johann Georg Wilhelm Landré . These were delivered and melted down during the First World War . In 1929 the church received a new bell.
local community
The villages of Bardowiek (now Wüstung ), Lauen, Schwanbeck (now part of Dassow ), Sülsdorf , Teschow, Zarnewenz, the Dassower infirmary and the Hohenmeile forestry department used to be parish off to Selmsdorf. Today, in addition to Selmsdorf, the parish of Selmsdorf also includes the districts of Zarnewenz, Sülsdorf, Teschow, Lauen and Hof Selmsdorf, which have now all been incorporated into the Selmdorf municipal parish.
During the GDR era, the community was severely restricted in its work due to the border location. In 1989 she still had around 200 parishioners. Immigrants after the opening of the border and reunification, especially young families, allowed the parish to grow to almost 700 members. Today the parish is co-administered from Herrnburg .
Clergy
- 1706–1739 Christoph Wichmann
- 1738–1767 August Friedrich Felbaum
- 1767–1819 Jacob Friedrich Rüdinger
- 1817–1823 Johann Christian Ludwig Christlieb
- 1825–1848 Johann Georg Rußwurm
- 1850-1851 Georg Hamann
- 1851–1867 Karl August Rüdiger
- 1868–1880 Hermann Ohl
- 1880–1907 Alfred Horn
literature
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Alfred Horn : On the history of the parish Selmstorf in the Principality of Ratzeburg.
- Volume 1, 1909
- Volume 2, ed. by Fritz Buddin 1925
- Volume 3, ed. by Heinrich Sterley 1934
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( digitized version ).
- Johannes Rußwurm: The new church in Selmsdorf in the Principality of Ratzeburg. In: Christliches Kunstblatt für Kirche, Schule und Haus 9 (1867), No. 11, pp. 161–165 (with 5 woodcuts) ( digitized ).
- Georg Krüger (edit.): Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Volume II: The Land of Ratzeburg, Neubrandenburg 1934; Reprint Stock & Stein, Schwerin 1994, ISBN 3-910179-28-2 , pp. 319-323.
- The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region (= The architectural and art monuments in the GDR 5). Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-362-00457-1 , pp. 80–82.
- Reinhard Kuhl: 19th century glass paintings. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Leipzig 2001, pp. 202-203.
- Beatrix Dräger: Cultural HERITAGE in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Selmsdorf church, organ. Schwerin 2010, pp. 176-177.
Web links
- Literature about St. Marien Church (Selmsdorf) in the state bibliography MV
- Parish Selmsdorf on the website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Individual evidence
- ↑ Membership of the community
- ↑ Krüger (Lit.), p. 318
- ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 331
- ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 408
- ↑ Masch (lit.), p. 681
- ↑ A picture can be found in Alfred Horn: Zur Geschichte des Kirchspiels Selmsdorf. Volume 1, Schönberg iM: 1909, p. 201.
- ↑ Detailed list of the costs and the assumption of costs by Rußwurm (lit.), p. 164f
- ↑ Drawings from Rußwurm (lit.)
- ↑ Sankt Marien has Tauffünte again , report of the Ostsee-Zeitung of February 15, 2012, accessed on February 29, 2012; Illustration in the March 2012 community letter
- ↑ W. Sauer ( Memento of the original from December 25, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Description in Theodor Hach : Lübecker Glockenkunde. Lübeck 1913, p. 175f
- ↑ Krüger (Lit.), p. 318
- ↑ Selmsdorf
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 44.7 " N , 10 ° 51 ′ 46.2" E