Karwe village church
The village church Karwe is a Protestant church in Neuruppin district Karwe in Ostprignitz-Ruppin in Brandenburg . The church is a listed building. The church is located south of Bahnhofstrasse on the corner with Lange Strasse in the center of Karwe. The church is surrounded by a churchyard. It belongs to the community Protzen-Wustrau-Radensleben in the church district Wittstock-Ruppin of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
The church
The oldest part of the church, the eastern part of the church, dates from around 1300. The western part of the church was built in the Middle Ages, it is slightly wider. If the eastern part had been built from staggered field stones , the western part consists of field stone and brick, these are arranged irregularly. A half-timbered west tower is integrated into the hall building, this is boarded up and has an octagonal pointed helmet as a roof. Around 1770 a patronage box was added on the south side . In the walls of the ship, segment-arched windows in the Baroque style are built.
Inside there is a plastered flat ceiling. The interior is dominated by a pulpit altar on the east side from 1748. The pulpit is flanked by pilasters , and above it is a round sound cover. In the north and west of the church there are galleries from the 17th century, on the western gallery is the organ, the organ front in the neo-Renaissance style dates from the second half of the 19th century. In the choir wall you can see a small sacrament niche with a door from the Middle Ages.
The churchyard
The churchyard is surrounded by a stone wall, this wall has a brick cover. The gate system to the churchyard was built in three parts and in the neo-Gothic style. The middle gate is higher than the other passages, there is an inscription panel here. The portal walls and the blind arch friezes are made of brick. At the west portal there was a bell from around 1300 and a memorial cross. The bell was restored in 2007 and has been ringing at 12 noon and 6 p.m. ever since. There are graves of the von der Knesebeck family in the churchyard , as well as a plaque on the south side of the church. In the northeast part of the churchyard there is a morgue made of field stone.
literature
- Matthias Metzler (edit.): City of Neuruppin. ( Monument topography of the Federal Republic of Germany , Monuments in Brandenburg, Volume 13, Ostprignitz-Ruppin District , Part 1.) Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms 1996, ISBN 3-88462-135-1 , pages 298-300
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , page 252
Web links
- Information about the church on the website of the church district
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
Coordinates: 52 ° 51 ′ 47.5 " N , 12 ° 51 ′ 42.6" E