St. Laurentius (Ziethen)
St. Laurentius is a Renaissance church building protected as a cultural monument in Ziethen , Duchy of Lauenburg . The parish of the same name is now part of the Lübeck-Lauenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
History and architecture
Ziethen was part of the basic equipment ( table goods ) of the Ratzeburg monastery by Heinrich the Lion in 1158. When the monastery property was divided in 1194, Ziethen was assigned to the cathedral chapter . Here was a chapel under the patronage of the holy deacon Laurentius , which was initially assigned to the church of St. Georg auf dem Berge , then from 1230 to the Ratzeburg city church of St. Petri .
In 1481 it fell into disrepair and was rebuilt with the help of a letter of indulgence . At the end of the 16th century the chapel was again in a dilapidated condition. The cathedral provost Ludolf von Schack had it demolished in 1591 and built a larger new building at his own expense by 1595. According to his will, this should be both his burial place and his own parish church. For this purpose, a separate parish was formed by 1599 from Ziethen, Hof and Dorf Mechow , Wietingsbek and part of the Bäk , where von Schack Mühlen had set up . With the monastery area, Ziethen became part of the Principality of Ratzeburg and came to Mecklenburg-Strelitz in 1701 .
The church on the village green is an elongated, single-nave field stone building with a round choir closure, which is rare in this area . The choir was once vaulted, but like the nave, it now has a wooden beam ceiling. In front of the south portal there is a small vestibule and on the western end of the roof there is a small square tower as a roof turret . The nave is 18.85 m long and between 8.35 m (in the west) and 8.75 m (in the east) wide and has a ceiling height of 5 m. The choir is 6.80 m long and 6.62 m wide. The north wall had to be renewed after massive damage in the Thirty Years' War , where the church was used as a stable for Swedish troops passing through in 1644, and the choir vault, which was apparently also damaged, was removed in 1651. By 1655 the pulpit was also renewed and a new altar panel was erected. At the end of the 18th century, the church received two stabilizing buttresses on the south side.
In 1976 the church was restored.
Furnishing
The oldest piece of equipment is a wood-carved statue of Saint Ansverus from the 15th century. The three stones symbolize his stoning at Einhaus .
A retable by Gebhard Jürgen Titge or from his workshop was placed on the probably still Gothic, bricked altar table in 1651 . The main picture shows the crucifixion, above it the resurrection and in the predella the Lord's Supper , each framed by a pair of Tuscan columns and cartilage-style decorations .
The pulpit from the time the church was built was given a new sound cover in 1655 , which has not been preserved, and has been revised and painted over several times. It is adorned with Bible verses.
The hexagonal marble font was erected in 1651. Its foot and the barriers surrounding it were destroyed in 1806/07. The baptismal font includes a brass baptismal bowl, which was probably made in the brass mill on the bakery.
The chandelier made of Venetian glass, which was donated to the church by the wife of the Lübeck wine merchant Jacob Ludwig Bruhns, also dates from the 19th century .
Ludolf Schack was buried in front of the altar under a stone tombstone with his full figure and a surrounding inscription. The tombstone is now erected next to the pulpit.
Ansverus statue
altar
pulpit
Grave slab Schack
Baptismal font
crucifix
chandelier
Stained glass
Several coats of arms are incorporated into the windows : five from 1594, one from 1650 and a pair from 1641. In 2009 the church received a cycle of nine new glass windows by Jochem Poensgen . In the course of this, the coats of arms were drawn together in the western windows of the nave. The old windows were given to Reichenbach in Silesia for reuse .
organ
The penultimate organ was built in 1881 by the Stralsund organ builder Friedrich Albert Mehmel - together with his non-preserved organ in the Ratzeburg Cathedral . In the course of the church renovation in 1987, it was replaced by a Rieger organ with ten sounding voices on a manual and a pedal behind the old prospectus of the Mehmel organ. Rieger used parts of the Mehmel organ as a loan instrument . As a result, their gaming table became a prop for the Vorarlberg village organ in the film Schlafes Bruder in 1994 .
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- Coupling : Pedal coupling
Bells
One of the three bells in the tower was cast as a bronze bell in 1729 by Lübeck council founder Lorenz Strahlborn . It has a diameter of 42 cm and is decorated with an acanthus frieze and inscriptions.
local community
In addition to Ziethen, the parish also includes Mechow, Wietingsbek and parts of Bäk. With the Barber-Lyaschtschenko Agreement , the municipal area and thus also the area of the parish was separated from Mecklenburg and came under the administration of the Duchy of Lauenburg. The parish of Ziethen, together with the Ratzeburg Cathedral, remained part of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg , which, however, was prevented from administering it after the founding of the GDR and therefore created the administrative district of Ratzeburg by church law in 1954 and transferred its administration to the Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein . During this time the pastor's office was connected with that of the cathedral provost.
The real church patronage with the responsibility for the construction work of the church, church and rectory lay with the Mechow domain and its owners, most recently the state of Mecklenburg. The continuation of the patronage with its duties was determined by the Federal Republic of Germany at the time of the trust administration of the domain.
After the formation of the North Elbe Church a contract between the two churches was September 23, 1980 closed, the Cathedral parish and the community Ziethen Nordelbische Church assigns e without changing their legal status. After reunification , this assignment was initially retained; After years of discussion, the Ziethen parish was completely removed from Mecklenburg on January 1, 1998 under canon law and incorporated into the North Elbian Church.
The parish of Ziethen is the owner of the Garrensee , which was part of the initial equipment in 1595 and was supposed to ensure the supply of fish as a Lent.
Churchyard and rectory
The churchyard is enclosed by a stone wall made of dry stone , which was built around 1600 by the then cathedral provost Bernhard von Danneberg.
The rectory is a listed ensemble with the pastorate, the former cattle house, a thatched half-timbered barn from the beginning of the 19th century, the coach house behind the barn and the remains of a farm garden from this time. The entire facility was renovated in 2003 and today contains a hay shelter and a café in the old cattle house .
literature
- Gottlieb Matthias Carl Masch : History of the diocese of Ratzeburg. F. Aschenfeldt, Lübeck 1835 ( digitized version )
- 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. 376-386
- Hartwig Beseler (ed.): Art topography Schleswig-Holstein. Neumünster 1974, pp. 399-400
- Heiko Seidel (Ed.): Poensgen • Ziethen. Contemporary glass art in churches in the north of the Elbe. Kiel 2012
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Glaswerkstätten Schneemelcher ( Memento from September 8, 2012 in the web archive archive.today )
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the builder company
- ^ Karl-Heinz Göttert, Eckhard Isenberg: Organs! Organs !: Concepts, curiosities, continents. Bärenreiter 2002 ISBN 978-3-7618-1566-3 , p. 140
- ↑ On the continuation of a real paronate of the former state of Mecklenburg at the church in Ziethen. In: Axel von Campenhausen , Joachim E. Christoph: Göttingen expert opinion: canonical expert opinion in the years 1980–1990, submitted by the Canon Law Institute of the Evangelical Church in Germany. (Jus ecclesiasticum 48) Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck 1994. ISBN 3-16146194-0 , p. 169ff.
- ↑ Church law on the approval of the contract relating to the assignment of the cathedral parish of Ratzeburg and the parish of Ziethen to the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church of November 29, 1980 ( Memento of the original of February 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ See ZEIT article Dom-Wirrwarr from 1996, accessed on February 10, 2009.
- ↑ Church law on the connection of the parish of Ziethen to the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church and on the connection of the parish of Lassahn to the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Mecklenburg ( memento of the original from October 24, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ The Ziethen vicarage ( Memento from September 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 36.6 " N , 10 ° 48 ′ 44.8" E