City church Neustrelitz
The Stadtkirche Neustrelitz is the main church in Neustrelitz on the town's market square . In the course of several construction phases in the 18th and 19th centuries and after considerable changes to the furnishings in 1968, it received its present form. The community belongs to the Neustrelitz Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).
history
The church was built from 1768 to 1778 according to plans by the court doctor Johann Christian Wilhelm Verpoorten as a rectangular brick hall with surrounding galleries. The internal dimensions of the church are 20 × 37 meters. The building was characterized by a structure of pilasters , a hipped roof and risalits with staircases gabled on the narrow sides . Construction began on July 29, 1768, and was consecrated as a town church on November 4, 1778. The master builder Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel added the massive tower and the exterior plaster from 1828 to 1831 and thus shaped the current appearance of the church.
Furnishing
The town church houses an altar from the transition period between late baroque and classicism . Originally it was a pulpit altar ; however, the pulpit was removed from the altar in the middle of the 19th century and a newly made, adapted to the previous style was placed to the side of it. Since then, the center of the altar has been decorated with a copy of the painting “ Carrying the Cross ” by Raphael , which Grand Duchess Marie made in 1856 and donated to the church. In January 2009, an altar cross from 1968 was replaced by an older cross donated to the city church by the court goldsmith von Behmen. He had it made for the town church in 1899. The valuable silver altar candlesticks used on special occasions are on loan from the Neustrelitz Castle Church and were donated by King George V and Queen Marie of Hanover in 1860. The church received the Luther carpet in front of the altar for the 400th anniversary of Martin Luther's birth on November 10, 1883. The baptismal stand is the work of the local carpenter Bengelstorff, who also created the organ front .
organ
The three-manual Grüneberg organ , equipped with 45 stops and a mechanical action, was made by the company of the organ builder Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin. It was consecrated on June 28, 1893 and, after thorough restoration, has been restored as it was designed by the Grüneberg company.
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- Coupling : I / II, III / I, III / II, coupling pedal
- Playing aids : manual tutti for each manual, shelf, crescendo roller.
Their much smaller predecessors stood above the altar on the top gallery. Today there are four allegorical figures (Faith, Hope, Love and Mercy) by the Neustrelitz master Simon Gehle . The lead-glazed windows to the right and left of the chancel date from 1931 and depict the birth, baptism, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus. In the back of the church there is a Luther window by Gerd Tolzien , a gift from the Käthe Luther Association from 1930.
Tower and bells
Of the three bells in the town church, the middle one is made of bronze. It was cast in 1521 and originally comes from Stargard Castle; The two larger ones are chill cast bells and were donated in 1955 to replace older bells that were melted down for armament purposes by the Wagner couple in Neustrelitz in memory of their two sons who died in World War II.
Historic bell from 1521
Chilled cast iron bell from 1955
Chilled cast iron bell from 1955
After extensive work for access in the 1930s and multiple maintenance measures, visitors can use the tower as a viewing platform and look over the streets and the surrounding lakes from a height of around 45 m.
Renovation of the outer facade
The town church was extensively renovated between 2013 and 2015. The renovation took place in two construction phases. In the first section, the north side of the church was drained, the damaged base plaster removed, the masonry desalinated, the sandstone base plates renewed and the window panes and frames renovated. In the second section, the church tower was completely scaffolded and the outer facade was renovated. Repairs to the external plaster and the brick surfaces were carried out and a new facade paint was applied. The renovation cost a total of 1.25 million euros and was financed with funds from the North Church (around 43%), federal and urban development funds and a contribution from the community of around 6%. On October 18, 2015, the successful completion of the renovation was celebrated with a festive church service and a town church festival.
Pastors
- 1756–1807: Gottlieb Masch , Superintendent
- 1789–1820: Johann Friedrich Zander
- 1790–1795: Carl Martin Retslag
- 1809–1837: Andreas Friedrich Gottlieb Glaser , Superintendent
- 1814–1822: Johann Heinrich Ludwig Fischer
- 1821–1841: Johan Christian Carl Visbeck
- 1831–1885: Hermann Leberecht Ohl , from 1848 superintendent
- 1838–1846: Andreas Heinrich Johann Carl Kaempffer, Superintendent
- 1851–1844: Johannes Alexander Bickel
- 1842–1844: Josef Martin Dautwitz
- 1844–1846: Carl August Rüdiger
- 1846–1865: Johann Heinrich August Ludwig Genzke
- 1848–1878: Rudolf Werner
- 1865–1876: Johannes August Rüdiger
- 1870–1877: Herman Naumann
- 1878–1917: Victor Praefcke
- 1880–1884: Ernst Ahlers (see below)
- 1885–1876: Ludwig Franz Gustav Horn
- 1917–1920: Ernst Ahlers
- 1886–1904: Gustav Langbein , Superintendent
- 1887-1892: Carl Runge
- 1892-1896: Max Schmidt
- 1896–1900: Nathanael Fischer
- 1897–1910: Hans Reinhold
- 1900–1941: Otto Rütz
- 1902–1916: Carl Horn , Superintendent
- 1925–1934: Georg Krüger-Haye
- 1906–1917: Ludwig Meyer
- 1907–1916: Albert Schmidt
- 1910–1937: Wilhelm Martins
- 1916–1925: Hugo Flemming
- 1916–1933: Gerhard Tolzien , superintendent, 1921 regional bishop
- 1926–1951: Ernst Michaelis
- 1933–1934: Johannes Heepe
- 1934-1936: Herbert Propp
- 1934–1937: Walter Zierke
- 1936–1945: Hans-Heinrich Fölsch
- 1937–1938: Werner Falke
- 1937–1941: Paul Brückner
- 1938–1938: Otto Detmer
- 1938–1948: Hans Lohse
- 1938–1940: Hans-Joachim Mützke
- 1941–1946: Siegfried Müller
- 1945–1945: Walter Sterke
- 1946–1958: Georg Steinbrecher
- 1950–1974: Gerhard Möwius
- 1950–1971: Fritz Cleve
- 1952–1956: Paul Lange
- 1956–1965: Hans Hermann Dziedo
- 1959–1968: Gerhard Bosinski
- 1965–1970: Hans-Ulrich Giebner
- 1966–1968: Waltraud Wedemeyer
- 1968–1978: Gotthard Stegen
- 1970-1976: Hartwig Bull
- 1972–1995: Arnold Zarft
- 1976–1995: Winfried Wegener
- 1978–1996: Kurt Winkelmann
- 1990–1998: Christiane Körner
- 1996–2011: Reinhard Scholl
- 1997–2004: Christoph Stier
- 2004–2016: Christiane Körner
- since 2012: Christoph Feldkamp
Individual evidence
- ↑ More information on the Grüneberg organ
- ↑ Construction activity - comparison old / new. In: Website about the construction work on the city church . Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
- ↑ The renovation in detail. In: Website about the construction work on the city church. Retrieved March 15, 2018 .
Web links
- Photo of the Neustrelitz town church (before 1937, view from the northeast). In: Deutsche Fotothek , accessed on March 14, 2018.
- Literature about Stadtkirche Neustrelitz in the state bibliography MV
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 '49.4 " N , 13 ° 3' 45.9" E