Dahmen village church

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Dahmen village church

The Protestant village church Dahmen is an early Gothic brick church in Dahmen in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Bülow-Rambow in the Rostock provost in the Rostock parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .

Bell jar

History and architecture

The village church of Dahmen is a towerless, rectangular brick building from around 1300 with two bays, which is finished with busted cross rib vaults. The cross-vaulted sacristy is built on the north side. The gables of the tiled gable roof are decorated with panels; In addition to the panels, a central panel with a cross is arranged on the east side. A three-part pointed arch window is inserted in the east wall, the remaining pointed arch windows are two-part and one-part. A sundial is carved into the south wall of the church . In addition to a simple step portal in the west, there is also a smaller walled-up priest gate on the south wall.

A wooden belfry with a bell from 1614 is set up in the churchyard south of the church . This bell was stolen between October and November 2015, but was found and returned in 2016.

Furnishing

altar

In the altar retable there are six panel pictures with passion scenes from a late Gothic altar from the late 15th century. The following Gothic carved wooden sculptures should also be mentioned: a seated Madonna from around 1300, a depiction of Anna the third of herself and a relief with the crucifixion from the 15th century.

A silver-gilt chalice from the 18th century serves as the liturgical equipment . There are two pewter candlesticks from 1648 and 1729.

literature

  • Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 416.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , p. 109.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Dahmen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Report on the theft of bells on kirche-mv.de. Retrieved August 31, 2017 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ′ 30.1 ″  N , 12 ° 34 ′ 42.5 ″  E