Ankershagen village church

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The village church in Ankershagen
View of the chancel
Floor plan of the village church

The village church Ankershagen is a listed building in Ankershagen , a municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The church is one of the oldest still preserved field stone churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. It stands in the middle of a cemetery surrounded by a field stone wall, opposite the Heinrich Schliemann Museum . The parish Möllenhagen-Ankershagen belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in northern Germany.

History and architecture

The church patronage of Ankershagen was mentioned as belonging to the Broda monastery in a document dated April 24, 1230. The field stone church in Romanesque style is carefully executed, the moldings are made of brick , the field stones are squared. The consecration took place in 1266 by the Bishop of Havelberg, the oldest part of the building is the almost square, recessed choir . Here a domical vault rests on low corner services . The nave is equipped with blind gables . In the nave, cross vaults that rest on square pillars span the interior. A triumphal arch separates the choir and nave. The choir serves as a winter church in the appropriate season. Two massive pillars are attached to the choir and the ship. Striking windows and portals in brick walls structure the walls. The high, ogival windows are mostly diamond-shaped lead glazed. The sound openings of the transversely rectangular west tower with eight-sided truss are boarded up. The curved hood dates from the second half of the 18th century. The small brick extension to the choir has brick panels in the gable and corner turrets on both sides.

Furnishing

  • The altar is designed in a neo-Gothic style.
  • The pulpit and the altar are neo-Gothic.
  • A crucifix with a body from the 15th century hangs to the right of the altar.
  • The simple stalls were installed in 1864.
  • The wooden baptism is marked 1618, it is richly decorated with fittings. The inscription reads: MARCI AM LEHSTEN WOL DA GELOVET UNDE IS DOOFT, DE WILL SALICH; WOL ÖVEEST NOT LOVED; DE WILL BE DOMED
  • The organ is a work by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from 1874 with eight stops on a manual and pedal .

Frescoes

The vault paintings in the choir show demons and saints, remains of ornamental paintings from the second half of the 13th century have been preserved on the eastern nave pillar. On the eastern wall of the nave there is a depiction of St. Georg from the 15th century, this painting was uncovered from 1989 to 1991.

Bells

Two bells hang in the tower. The smaller bell from 1730 was cast by Michael Begun from Friedland, the one from 1746 by Otto Gerhard Meyer.

Views

  • Fresco depicting a Wendish deity who is believed to be an image of the devil

  • Vault paintings

  • crucifix

  • Diamond-shaped lead glazing

  • Exposed wall paintings

  • View of the altar table and the baptism

  • The larger bell cast by Otto Gerhard Meyer in 1746

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann, Gerd Baier, Dietlinde Brugmann, Antje Heling, Barbara Rimpel: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Mecklenburg Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6
  • Friedrich Schlie : Art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. 1902, p. 290 ff. (Digitized version)

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Ankershagen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ One of the oldest stone churches in MV
  2. ↑ dry stone wall
  3. ↑ Membership of the parish
  4. ↑ Consecration of the Church
  5. ↑ a b c d Georg Dehio , edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann, Gerd Baier, Dietlinde Brugmann, Antje Heling, Barbara Rimpel: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Mecklenburg Western Pomerania . Deutscher Kunstverlag , Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , page 14/15
  6. ↑ Extension to the choir.
  7. ↑ a b Friedrich Schlie : Art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district court districts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. 1902, pp. 290ff. (Digitized version) .
  8. ↑ Equipment
  9. ↑ Baptism
  10. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved November 10, 2019 .
  11. ↑ frescoes

Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 3.3 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 30.4 ″  E