St. Marien (Gross Salitz)

Gross Salitz Church

The St. Marienkirche Groß Salitz is a brick-Gothic village church in the district Groß Salitz of the municipality of Krembz in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg .

History and architecture

Floor plan (1898)

Round glass window at the west end of the south aisle

The Marienkirche in Groß Salitz is already mentioned in the Ratzeburg tithe register in 1230. The village and later Gut Groß Salitz came into the possession of the von Lützow family at the beginning of the 14th century , who lived here until 1945 and who had been church patrons at least since 1653 . The church was previously dated to the first half of the 14th century; today one assumes a date of origin of around 1280. It is, rather untypical for Mecklenburg village churches, a small three-aisled basilica with two bays and a 5/8 choir . The north and south aisles have five small bays, the east of which encloses up to half of the choir. The two south-eastern bays of the south aisle are divided as the Lützow family's grave chapel, which is walled up and therefore has no access. In the area of ​​this chapel, the outside masonry consists of alternating layers of red and black glazed monastery format stones . In this area there are also decorative bricks with reliefs, the representations of which are only partially preserved; on the south side in the area of ​​this chapel there is a round arch frieze . The first yoke of the vault of the church was destroyed in 1648 when the church tower collapsed. As a boarded-up wooden tower with a shingled pyramid roof, it was rebuilt in front of the west wall of the church and the south aisle was restored.

After an agreement between Pastor Elreich and the clockmaker Greßmann from Neuenkirchen, a complete tower clock was delivered in 1796. In 1876 and 1888 the tower clock was maintained by the master clockmaker F. Dreyer from Schwerin. In 1868 the wall in the churchyard was renewed.

The colored glazing in the three polygonal windows, the figurative glass paintings in the three windows of the south aisle and the round window in the west wall of the south aisle were created in 1871 by the Gadebusch master glazier A. Prangst. They show the apostles John, Peter and James. In the round window there is a cast iron tracery rosette, the inner ring of which shows the thorn-crowned head of Christ after the Ecce homo depiction by Guido Reni (1575–1642) in enamel paint. In the twelve segments of the circle, vines appear as a rising central trunk with branching tendrils in grisaille painting on a white background.

In 1896, the master builder Gustav Hamann from Hagenow drew attention to the increasing damage to the vaults in the church.

The Groß Salitzer church choir, founded in 1906, was dissolved again in 1908. In 1930 the 600th anniversary took place.

In the tower, which was converted into a community center in 1996, the outside of the former west portal can still be seen. The upper aisles , which were concealed up to the end of the 20th century by the high pent roofs of the side aisles that acted like a towing roof over the center and side aisles , were released again in the course of the new roofing in 2008. The earlier roof approach of the aisles can still be seen today on the masonry of the central nave. The upper aisles, however, remained covered, so that the basilica-typical light incidence from above is not given inside the church. They were originally designed as biforic windows and their shape is particularly easy to recognize from the inside on the south side.

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  East view

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  Detail from the northeast with black glazed clover leaf frieze and sun relief

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  East wall of the south aisle and choir

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  Detail relief in black glaze

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  Gothic Eucharist cabinet in the masonry

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  Faced bi-directional window upper storey

On the north inner side of the choir there is a recessed Gothic Eucharist cabinet , which can also be seen in the floor plan of the church (Fig.). The gallery in the north aisle is a later addition and accessed via the northern vestibule, which also serves as the entrance to the church, and a former window with a staircase.

Furnishing

The oldest pieces of equipment are terracottas with figures of saints, which have been taken over from the previous Romanesque building. They are located below the capitals of the pillars of the central nave under small canopies made of clover-leaf arches on consoles and in the area of ​​the choir also on the walls.

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The baroque altarpiece with a two-storey column structure was donated to the church in 1736 by the von Lützow family. His sculpture is made entirely of wood and the renovation is currently (2012) not yet completed, individual sculptures have been removed for restoration and conservation. In the area of ​​the predella the relief of a Last Supper is shown, above it a crucifixion with statues of Mary and John, on the outside left as a side figure of Moses and on the right as Aaron. Above that, burial and resurrection. The work is reminiscent of the baroque altars by the Lübeck sculptor Hieronymus Hassenberg or his workshop.

The pulpit and the wooden hexagonal baptismal font with a canopy cover are in the Renaissance style. The stained glass windows on the south side are more recent.

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  Altarpiece (2012; incomplete due to restoration of the figures)

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  Altar (south side)

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  Wood baptism

Epitaphs

There are two sandstone epitaphs from the early 17th century in the church. They are placed next to each other on the long wall of the Lützow family's grave chapel. One for Lüder von Lützow auf Neuenhof and Dutzow († 1599) and his wife Magdalena von Bülow († 1603), both of whom are shown kneeling under their family crests. The second shows Magnus von Lützow at Neuenhof with his seven sons and his wife Dilliana Behrens with their five daughters. It was probably completed during her lifetime, but the dates of death were not added.

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organ

Friese organ from 1819

The church has on the simple loft above a single-manual organ (I / P / 10) with 10 registers and an attached pedal , which in 1819 by Friedrich Friese I was built. In 1900, the organ builder Marcus Runge from Schwerin carried out various repairs.

Bells

According to Friedrich Schlie in 1898, the church had two bells. The larger one was re-cast in 1845, but retained the inscription of its predecessor, according to which it was cast by the Lübeck bell caster M. BRVN HEMMINKHVSEN in 1594. It was lost in the First World War for armament purposes and was replaced by a new bell in 1926 on the 600th anniversary of the von Lützow family's ownership in Groß Salitz, which is still the only bell that remains in the church today. The smaller, cracked bell was cast in Wismar in 1879 according to a contract dated March 20, 1879 between Pastor Rönneberg and court bell founder E. Albrecht. According to the traditional inscription, its predecessor was cast in Salitz in 1656 by the traveling founders Stephan Wollo and Nikolaus Gage from Lorraine and bore the Lützow coat of arms. The little bell had to be delivered during World War II and was lost in the Hamburg bell cemetery.

local community

The parish of Groß Salitz has been permanently connected to Gadebusch since 2000 . It belongs to the Wismar Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

literature

• Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The church to Gr. Salitz. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 7 (1842), pp. 78–80 full text ( Memento from August 21, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, Neudruck Schwerin 1992, pp. 512-516. ISBN 3-910179-06-1
• Horst Ende: Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1978, pp. 67, 137.
• Dirk Brandt, André Lutz: The village church of St. Marien in Groß Salitz - an architectural and historical testimony to aristocratic relic cults in Mecklenburg? Results of a first historical assessment of the medieval masonry. In: Kulturerbe in Mecklenburg und Vorpommern 4 (2008) pp. 15–22 ISSN  1863-9445
• Reinhard Kuhl: 19th century glass paintings. Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Leipzig 2001, p. 96.

Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Groß Salitz)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about St. Marien (Groß Salitz) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Schlie (Lit.), p. 514
2. ↑ Brandt / Lutz (lit.)
3. ↑ Mecklenburg organ inventory
4. ↑ Membership of the community

Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 0.8 ″  N , 11 ° 2 ′ 51.2 ″  E