Bentzin village church
The village church of Bentzin is a neo-Gothic church built in 1862 in Bentzin in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . The Johanniskirche is one of seven churches and chapels of the parish Jarmen - Tutow in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District and is a listed building .
history
The rectangular hall was built from hewn field stone from the middle of the 19th century .
The west gallery and stalls date from the construction period and have tracery jewelry. The organ was built in 1840 by A. Fischer in Demmin . The eastern part of the nave, which was separated off in the 1960s, serves as a winter church. During the renovation, a neo-Gothic triptych altar with a predella was demolished, four of which were originally five oil paintings on the west side of the partition. The paintings were made around 1871 by Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt on behalf of the then church patron Wilhelm von Sobeck . The main picture shows the birth of Christ and the adoration of the Magi. The picture on the left originally on the left shows Abraham leading Isaac to sacrifice, while the earlier picture on the right shows John the Evangelist , whose patronage is the Church. The predella shows Christ carrying the cross on the way to Golgotha. The image of Christ as the conqueror in glory , which was formerly arranged in an essay above the center shrine of the altar, is no longer in the church . The bell was manufactured in the Schwenn brothers' foundry in Stettin in 1827 and therefore comes from a previous building.
architecture
The two-part windows are equipped with iron tracery. The windowless east gable has two high, pointed plaster panels. Smaller panels are located on the stepped gable, which is offset by a tooth cut . Windows and panels have chamfered jambs . A basket arched portal was imitated with brick on the north side of the nave .
The gabled stepped portals on the west side of the square west tower and on the south side of the nave are flanked by pillars and also have chamfered walls. The upper tower floors, made of brick, are set off by double toothed friezes. Wooden shingles cover the drawn-in pyramid helmet.
literature
- Jana Olschewski: Bentzin, ev. Church . In: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , p. 29.
- Reinhard Kuhl: "... not painted by human hands, but seem to have been created." The altarpieces of the church in Bentzin in Western Pomerania by Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt (1819–1887). In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Vol. 46, Issue 3, 2008, ISSN 0032-4167 , pp. 41-44.
Web links
- Literature about the village church Bentzin in the state bibliography MV
- Bentzin Church near churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 57 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 26 ″ E