Elmenhorst village church (Kalkhorst)

This article describes the church of Elmenhorst in the Klützer Winkel (district of Northwest Mecklenburg). For the church of Elmenhorst in Western Pomerania see Elmenhorst church

View of the tower of the Elmenhorst village church

The village church from the south

Interior towards the organ gallery

The listed village church of Elmenhorst is located in the village of Elmenhorst , which belongs to Kalkhorst ( district of Northwest Mecklenburg ) , approx. 30 km northwest of Wismar . It belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Kalkhorst St. Laurentius in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

History and building history

The early Gothic brick church on a cross-shaped floor plan was first mentioned in writing in the Ratzeburg tithe register of the diocese in 1230 . To the east, the rectangular central nave is connected to the also rectangular choir, both closed with ribbed vaults . The choir is probably the oldest part of the church. On both sides of the central nave there are narrow, rectangular transepts with barrel vaults , the southern one with an additional sacristy . The square tower in the west is now provided with a flat ceiling and is particularly noteworthy because it is covered with a twisted octagonal wooden clapboard helmet. Outside, corner pilaster strips , lancet windows and toothed friezes decorate the simple brick building.

Wall and vault paintings, some from the 14th century, depicting evangelists and Christ as the judge of the world , were discovered in 1901 and restored as faithfully as possible in 1904. An altarpiece with carved figures (mid-15th century), the Bülowsche gallery (1697) with the coat of arms of the von Bülow family , who had settled here since 1362 when Heinrich von Bülow was enfeoffed , a classicist pulpit and other vault paintings from the 19th century complete the Equipment .

Restoration work

The Elmenhorst village church was last renovated in 1853. By the 1990s, there had been considerable damage to the masonry, the wooden construction of the roof and the tower. Leaks caused damage to the interior.

In 1995, urgent security work was carried out initially from private funds, followed by further renovation work on the nave and tower in 1999. The village church fund of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the association Dorfkirchen in Not , the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and private initiatives have supported the outdoor work with over 350,000 euros so far. The altarpiece has yet to be restored.

literature

• Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II: The district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, Neuruck Schwerin 1992, pp. 375-379. ISBN 3-910179-06-1

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Elmenhorst (Kalkhorst)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Website on several village churches, including Elmenhorst ( Memento from August 24, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
• Elmenhorst village church in the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania cultural portal, with address and opening times
• Association of Dorfkirchen in Not ( Memento from March 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Membership of the community
2. ↑ Schlie describes it as an "oven vault" (p. 376)
3. ↑ Schlie, p. 377, presumed a work from the Lübeck workshop.

Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 39.7 ″  N , 11 ° 6 ′ 15 ″  E