City Church Lübz
The Protestant town church Lübz is a post-Gothic brick church in Lübz in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Lübz in the Parchim provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .
History and architecture
The current building of the town church in Lübz was built as the successor to a medieval church building destroyed by fire in the years 1568 to 1574. The building is an elongated rectangular brick building with a western tower in front, still strongly reminiscent of the late Gothic style. The four-story tower, structured with flat-arched panels, shows economical decorative forms of the Renaissance in the form of decorative and arched friezes and closes with a transverse hipped roof.
The window structure and buttresses suggest a four-bay room; the interior, however, turns out to be a spacious, light hall church , which is closed off by a flat wooden barrel vault with a painted system of ribs. A large gallery is built into the west; above this is the organ gallery. Two portals open up the church on the south side; Another is arranged in the west tower and one on the north side. A restoration took place in 1963; further renovation work took place in the years after 1990.
Furnishing
An altarpiece by Gaston Lenthe from 1848 depicting the baptism of Christ is in the vestibule.
The wooden pulpit with sound cover from the first half of the 17th century shows allegorical figures of the virtues with an architectural frame on the polygonal basket between herms pilasters .
The wooden baptism from 1605 is decorated with fittings on all surfaces ; the corresponding baptismal bowl is made of brass.
Also worth mentioning is the valuable tomb of Sophia von Schleswig-Holstein-Gottorf († 1634), her daughter Anna († 1600) and her granddaughter Hedwig († 1631) from 1630, probably that of Franz Julius Döteber and his assistant Daniel Werner was made. The monument originally intended for three figures shows only the Duchess and her daughter; a third figure is missing, as is the originally planned crowning of the architectural structure adorned with columns and pedestals. The tomb is made of sandstone using marble for heads and hands.
The corresponding coats of arms in the east window above show the family tree of the houses of Schleswig-Holstein and Mecklenburg, which is continued in the stucco coats of arms on the east wall. The other windows also show coats of arms with the family trees of the Mecklenburg nobility from 1630.
Several epitaphs in the style of the Renaissance and early Baroque complete the furnishings. Mention should be made of the sandstone epitaph for H. von Stralendorf († 1605), his wife and sons, which shows a tablet between a column architecture and a coat of arms on the entablature and top. The epitaph for Oelgard von Passow († 1654) from 1666 shows a painting depicting Christ with Mary and Martha, Mary's sister. A third epitaph for Christian von Bülow from 1697 shows a painted portrait of the deceased, which is framed by a column and entablature with warlike emblems, allegorical figures and richly carved ornamentation.
A tombstone of the Preceptor Johann Kran († 1524) of the Antonite monastery Tempzin is provided with a figurative incised drawing. Finally, there is a tombstone of A. Schmillen from 1634.
A historic offering box with wrought iron fittings has also been preserved. A chandelier was added in the 18th century.
The well-proportioned organ front comes from a new organ built in 1633. The organ is a work by Marcus Runge from 1915 with 21 stops on two manuals and pedal .
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- Coupling: II / I (also as sub- and super-octave coupling), I / P, II / P
A bell from 1760 was cast by Johann Valentin Schultz in Rostock and is tuned to the tone c sharp 2 +3.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , pp. 353–354.
- Horst Ende (art historian) : City churches in Mecklenburg. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1984, pp. 166–167.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume IV, Schwerin 1901, pp. 518-533, ( digitized version , accessed on November 13, 2019).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved September 3, 2017 .
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Coordinates: 53 ° 27 ′ 38.5 ″ N , 12 ° 1 ′ 40.6 ″ E