St. Johannis (Boek)
The St. John's Church is a listed church building in Boek, a district of the municipality of Rechlin in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish Rechlin in the Propstei Neustrelitz, Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The village of Boek on the east bank of the Müritz once formed the north-western border of the old country of Turne with the Mirow commandery . As early as the 13th century, significant parts of Boek were owned by the Knights of Havelberg . Until the 14th century the von Havelberg family owned and owned the village of Boek. The Neuenkamp monastery had jurisdiction over the Boeker Mühle . In 1392 the squire Henneke Hardnacke sold the two villages Seedorf and Boek in the Vogtei Waren to the Dobbertin monastery . In the course of time, the von Holstein residents of the Müritz area also came into the possession of Boek. Ownership changes frequently during the Thirty Years' War . After von Holstein, the estate and the mill went to von Raven , von Schorlemer , von Pentz and von Oertzen for the next two hundred years . In 1842, the Dobbertiner monastery captain Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort acquired the Boek estate from Vice-Landmarschall Adolf Friedrich Karl von Oertzen . Le Forts descendants owned the estate and the church until the 20th century. From 1935 the Reich Association of the German Aviation Industry managed the Boek estate in the restricted military area. Boek can only be reached again after the Rechlin military base was closed in 1990 and the Müritz National Park was established .
The church patronage belonged since the 16th century to the possession of the goods. From 1815 to 1851 the parish was associated with Rechlin, from 1917 Boek belonged alternately to the parishes of Vipperow , Lärz , Schwarz , Mirow and Schillersdorf . After 77 years of vacancy, the Rechlin parish was reoccupied on September 1, 1994.
Building history
A church was mentioned in Boek as early as the 13th century. Badly damaged after the Thirty Years' War, a new sacred building is said to have been built west of the manor house in 1758. Parton was Chamberlain Christoph von Raven .
The remains of the second wooden church were removed after the village fire of 1837. The new church location was consecrated in 1841 and the new Friedhofsplatz in 1845. The estate partially used the former, leveled church square as a path and as a vegetable patch. With the acquisition of the estate in 1842, the very active Dobbertiner monastery captain Carl Johann von Le Fort also took over the patronage of the Boeker church. The draft for the new church was provided in 1844 by the Schinkel school student and Schwerin master builder and architect Carl Anton Hermes. The construction of the church was the responsibility of the building manager Hennemann and the church patron was in charge of supervision. The grand-ducal approval was given with the remark that the massive construction of the church in Boek you intended, according to the drawing submitted to us, which is followed by the drawing, is satisfactory to us. The foundation stone of today's third church was laid on August 20, 1844. As patron, Le Fort paid almost 5,000 marks from the submitted building bills and donated various small works of art.
Consecration in 1847
The inauguration ceremony took place on June 20, 1847 and was very popular in fine weather. The program was worked out by the patron Carl Peter von Le Fort with the elderly local preacher Hast from Rechlin. At the request of the preacher Hast, the patron took over the execution of the liturgy and the Dobbertiner monastery pastor Christian Heinrich Mahn helped with the sermons.
The parish with its guests gathered in the garden hall of the manor house of the von Le Fort family, which has been used for services since the church fire. From there the pageant went to the new church. First six trombonists and thirteen seminarians as singers from Mirow. Then two men followed with the new altar candles, in between the sexton with the cast-iron altar cross. Accompanied by the patron Le Fort, the local preacher Hast with the Bible and the monastery pastor Mahn with the new cup of communion. Then the Le Fort family and the community followed, first the men and then the women.
After the handover of the church keys by the now court architect Hermes to the patron Le Fort, he gave the key with a speech to the local preacher to unlock it. Honorable gentlemen! As the preachers charged with it, I open this church, which I have had anew built, so that you may consecrate it to the glory of the Triune God, in order to serve him anew in the spirit of our holy, Christian religion and according to the prescription of the evangelical, Lutheran regional church. I then hand over the building, which has been consecrated as a house of God, to the Böcker congregation in order to hold their common prayer in it.
During the entry into the church, the vasa sacra were placed on the altar with trumpet accompaniment. The festive consecration speech was then held from the altar by the Dobbertiner monastery pastor Mahn.
In 1970 parts of the ceiling collapsed and also damaged the organ. The restoration work began in early 1995 and on May 28, 1995 the first service took place in the church again after years.
The outer
The rectangular brick building in neo-Gothic style with a polygonal choir closure was erected at a new location from 1844. The outer walls of the nave are structured by rectangular lead glass windows with pointed arches and stepped supporting pillars with a crowning cross. The roof is covered with Eternit roof panels. On the west side a square tower, tapering towards the top, with a hipped pointed helmet and smooth gable walls was placed in front. On the upper floor of the tower, the double pointed arch windows were designed as sound hatches for the bells.
Two small bells, 66 and 44 centimeters in diameter, hung in the tower. They were donated by Carl Peter von Le Fort and cast in goods by Carl Jllies in 1847 . The larger bell had been melted down in 1915 for war purposes.
Above the pointed arched windows is the church tower clock, which has been showing the time since 2009 with the chiming of the little bell. The octagonal, top, is covered with slate spire is surmounted by a copper ball.
Above the pointed arched entrance to the church tower, the coat of arms of the von Le Fort family refers to the builders of the church.
The inner
Parts of the interior from the time it was built are said to come from Dobbertin Monastery. Because the patron and founder of the Boeker St. Johannis Church, Carl Peter Johann von Le Fort, was the monastery captain from 1836 to 1854. The old altar and pulpit are no longer there . A simple cross with the crucified Jesus hangs on the choir wall .
organ
The organ (I / P / 6 = 6 registers distributed on a manual and pedal ) on the west gallery was built in 1853 by the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer and is the oldest surviving instrument. The neo-Gothic prospect consists of four pipe fields with double arches and a gable crown.
The cost and disposition offer from W. Sauer, master organ builder from Friedland & Deutsch Crone / West Prussia, currently in Lychen, September 7, 1852. was checked on September 29, 1852 by George Hepworth from Güstrow. The organ building contract between Wilhelm Sauer and the Dobbertiner monastery captain Carl Peter Baron Le Fort was concluded on October 24, 1832. The acceptance after installation took place on August 8, 1853 in the church in Boek by the court music director, director of the singing academy and organist of the town church in Neustrelitz , Carl Ernst Friedrich Weingärtner with great praise .
Karl Adolf Wilhelm Krick, the tenant of the Boeker subsidiary Amalienhof, who died in 1851, bequeathed 400 thalers in gold from his estate to build an organ in the church in Boeck. Since the suspended sum was insufficient, Carl Peter paid Baron Le Fort as church patron the remaining sum. According to Krick's will, a further 800 thalers in gold were available for training an organist and later paying the Boek organ player.
After 1900 the pedal keyboard and a pneumatic pedal tray for sub-bass 16 were installed in the right side of the case. It was probably built by Carl Börger . In 1970 part of the ceiling fell on the organ and severely damaged it. In 2003 the organ building company Christian Scheffler from Sieversdorf carried out the restoration .
Furnishing
According to the inventory of the Vasa Sacra, church and parish writings in Boek, taken on May 9 and 10, 1852 by Pastor C. Lemcke and Superintendent W. Schmidt, the following small works of art were available in the church in 1852:
- a silver Communion chalice from 1844 with a paten, a gift from Carl Peter von Le Fort
- a heavily silver-plated (smoothed) goblet with paten, gilded inside, made in 1847 by Hossauer in Berlin
- a similar wine jug of antique form, made in 1847 by Hossauer in Berlin
- two white altar chalice cloths with gold fringes and gold embroidered inscriptions. Gift from the conventual women of the Dobbertin monastery
- two large silver-plated (smoothed) new altar candlesticks, made in 1847 by Hossauer in Berlin. Gift from Carl Peter von Le Fort
- a simple cast-iron altar cross with crucifix, a gift from the Baroness von Le Fort
- Altar ceilings and pulpit ceilings together with the lectern ceiling made of black cloth with gilded borders and lump fringes
- a lectern and a bell bag
- an old revised church order
- an altar bible with a silver cover, a gift from the conventual nuns of Dobbertin at the inauguration of the church in 1847
- the Boeker church book from April 1793 until now (1852), a new church book must be created
- Hymn books, Bible and epistle book, gifts from the Baroness von Le Fort
In addition to church bills from the most recent times and the contract between Pastor Lemcke and the Patronage von Boek, there were no other files or documents.
Noteworthy are the Thanksgiving pictures, which are made every year by parishioners from seeds and grains.
graveyard
The family grave of the patron saint, District Administrator Carl Peter Johann Baroness of Le Fort, his wife Henriette Marie Baroness von Le Fort, née Splitgerber, and the two unmarried sons David Johann Peter Baron of Le Fort and Ludwig Friedrich Peter Baron of Le Fort are still located today the Boek cemetery.
Pastors
Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.
- 1994–2015 Arnim Schmersow (Rechlin)
- 2015–2016 Melanie Ludwig
- 2016– Verena Häggberg (Rechlin)
Parish
In the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Rechlin are the places Boek (with St. John's Church), Kotzow , Rechlin (with church ), Vietzen (with church) and Retzow . The KG Rechlin is today connected with the KG Vipperow (with church ).
swell
Printed sources
- Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
- Mecklenburg Yearbooks (MJB)
Unprinted sources
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State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
- LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery.
- LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
- LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance.
- State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
- LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Abt. 1. No. 7 Boek, new organ, 1845–1897.
- LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Section 1. No. 9 Boek, churchyard, demolished church, new church in 1845 by the landlord, 1806–1962.
- LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Lärz parish archive with Boek, buildings and inventory, 1873–1951.
- LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Lärz parish archives with Boek, historical reports to the Baron von Le Fort about the construction of the new churches, 1765 and 1837.
- LKAS, OKR Schwerin, parish archive Lärz with Boek, parish chronicle, archive and registry, 1541–1951.
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. V. Volume The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, goods, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902, ISBN 3-910179-09-6 , pp. 353-355.
- Churches in the Mecklenburg Lake District, southern Müritz region , with illustrations by Werner Schinko. Publisher IG of the church leaders Mecklenburg Lake District, Beyer print shop in Röbel
- Gerhild Meßner: Gutsdörfer around the Müritz. Schwerin 2008.
Web links
Coordinates: 53 ° 23 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 12 ° 47 ′ 39.2 ″ E
Individual evidence
- ↑ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
- ↑ MUB XX. (1900) No. 1449.
- ^ Friedrich Stuhr : The church books of Mecklenburg . In: MJB 60 (1895) pp. 18., 76.
- ↑ State Church Archives Schwerin: Specialia Abt. 1. No. 009 Boek, demolished church.
- ↑ LKA, OKR Specialia Section 1. No. 9 Boek, Kirchhof.
- ↑ LKA, OKR Specialia Abt. 1. No. 9 Boek, new church 1845 by the landlord.
- ↑ LKA, OKR Specialia Abt. 1. No. 7 Boek, organ.
- ↑ Armin Schmersow: Report by the patron Carl Peter von Le Fort on the inauguration of the Boeker Church on June 20, 1847 to the superintendent W. Schmidt. Rechlin, February 23, 1998.
- ^ Friedrich Drese: Description of the condition of the organ in the church in Boek near Rechlin. Röbel December 15, 1994.
- ^ Archives for regional studies in the Grand Duchies of Mecklenburg and Agricultural Review. Schwerin 1853.
- ↑ Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar 1925.