St. Mary's Church (Usedom)
The St. Marien Church is the only surviving parish church in the town of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
history
The Marienkirche was first mentioned in 1337 as the third church in Usedom after the Pauls Church, to which it was initially subordinate, and the church of the Grobe monastery , both of which no longer exist today. The pastor of St. Mary's Church usually belonged to the monastery. In 1475 the church was destroyed in a city fire. The north wall of the nave , the substructure of the tower and the shape of the windows in the nave come from the four-bay new building erected at the end of the 15th century .
The tower was given an octagonal pyramid spire in 1673 . In 1699 a belt arch of the brick vault collapsed . A major renovation began in 1726 and was completed around 1743. Because of the weak foundations, the brick pillars had to be replaced by oak logs that support the new beam ceiling .
After the Reformation, the respective Usedom pastor headed the Synod of the island of Usedom as Praepositus , from 1806 as Superintendent . The former preposition (superintendent) a half-timbered building , stands opposite the west portal of the Marienkirche.
Between 1891 and 1893, the tower and the chancel were given their present-day appearance following a necessary restoration. According to a design by Ludwig Böttger , the church was largely rebuilt on the original floor plan. The choir was considerably reduced in size and the preserved north side faced . The tower was redesigned in a neo-Gothic style. The altar of Mary was given to the then Pomeranian State Museum in Stettin , today Muzeum Narodowe w Szczecinie , where parts of it and the statue of Mary are located.
architecture
The Marienkirche is a three-aisled hall church made of brick with six bays. The eastern stepped gable has pointed arches as decoration. The church has a recessed polygonal choir. The square west tower has side halls. There are buttresses on the choir and nave . A square sacristy with a hipped roof is built on the south-east corner between the nave and the choir.
The tower integrated into the nave has a transverse saddle roof in north-south direction, which is crowned by a ridge turret with a high pointed helmet. This is framed by two gables with fial towers , pointed arches and a central dial. There is a three-lane window above the west portal. To the southwest of it there is a stair tower with a conical roof .
The interior of the nave has a flat wooden beam ceiling. It is divided into three naves by wooden pillars with an arcade. In the choir there is a rib vault with pear rod profiles .
Furnishing
The altar design, pulpit, stalls and west gallery date from the time of the renovation at the end of the 19th century. On the carved altar barrier from 1743 are the coats of arms of a lieutenant von Massow and his wife, a born von Alemann. Presumably the woman is a daughter of Johann Ernst von Alemann .
In the church are the grave slabs of the Pomeranian Duke Ratibor I and his wife Pribislawa as well as the mayor J. Rohner and HO Volcmar.
The organ was built in 1904 by Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin. In 1969 the organ builder Günter Bahr from Apolda redesigned the sound.
The glass paintings in the choir were made in 1893 at the Royal Institute for Glass Painting in Berlin-Charlottenburg.
Peal
The ringing consists of four bells, the oldest of which was cast by Peter Barner in Greifswald in 1639 . Another bell was cast in 1964. The two steel bells date from 1956.
literature
- Brigitte Metz: Churches on Usedom. Baltic-Verlagsagentur, Greifswald 1993, pp. 35–37.
- 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. 352-354.
- Jana Olschewski: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 . Pp. 48-49
Individual evidence
- ^ Metz: Churches on Usedom. P. 19
- ^ Metz: Churches on Usedom. P. 23
- ^ Brigitte Metz: Churches on Usedom. Baltic-Verlagsagentur, Greifswald 1993. p. 35
Web links
- Literature about St. Marien Church (Usedom) in the state bibliography MV
- Ev. Parishes of Usedom / Stolpe / Mönchow-Zecherin
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '21.4 " N , 13 ° 55' 10.9" E