Klinken village church
The Protestant village church of Klinken is a Gothic brick church in the Klinken district of the Lewitzrand community in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Klinken in the Parchim provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .
Building history
The village church of Klinken is a brick building begun as a field stone building, which was laid out as a hall church of two bays with an east end of three sides of a hexagon and was dendrochronologically dated to the year 1300. In the second half of the 14th century, the building was expanded into a stepped hall .
Exterior
In 1804 the south aisle was dismantled and the arcade arches on the south side walled up, provided with windows and plastered. In front of the western front there is a belfry covered with boards. The interior is finished with ribbed vaults.
Interior
Extensive wall and vault paintings from the end of the 14th century have survived. Saints, apostles and passion scenes are shown in the choir polygon. On the west wall scenes from the life of Mary, the flight to Egypt and the child murder in Bethlehem are shown. Delicate tendrils were exposed in the vault.
altar
The main part of the furnishings is a medieval carved altar , of which the central shrine with the coronation of Mary , flanked by Anna Selbdritt and Johannes the Evangelist with a finely worked veil has been preserved. On the shrine, the crucified Christ is depicted with St. Andrew and an indeterminable saint.
pulpit
The pulpit from the 17th century comes from the Schelfkirche Schwerin and was transferred to the church Klinken in 1716. The basket is decorated with twisted columns and is carried by a carved figure of St. Simon of Cyrene from around 1500, which probably comes from a group carrying the cross . Another figure from around 1500 depicts the Holy Sorrows and comes from the village church in Domsühl .
The wooden baptism with rich carvings from the second half of the 17th century comes from the church in Hagenow .
organ
The organ with a neo-Gothic prospect was built in 1841 as a masterpiece by Johann Heinrich Runge and bought by the church in Klinken in 1845. It has eight stops on a manual with an attached pedal. A restoration of this organ was funded by the Orgelklang Foundation in 2016 .
Bell jar
In the tower of the church there is only one bell with a diameter of 77 cm, which was cast in Wismar in 1873 by the grand ducal court bell caster and fire engine manufacturer Johann Carl Eduard Albrecht . It bears the slogan: “GET IN TO HIS THORES WITH THANKS, TO HIS COURTS WITH PRIZE: THANK HIM, PRAISE HIS NAME!” The second bell was melted down during the First World War.
literature
- Horst Ende : Village churches in Mecklenburg. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, p. 140.
- Horst Ende: Churches in Schwerin and the surrounding area. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1989, ISBN 3-374-00840-2 , p. 184.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , pp. 303–304.
Web links
- Literature about village church Klinken in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the parish on kirche-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
- ↑ Funded organs - latches. Retrieved October 4, 2018 .
- ↑ Claus Peter: The bells of the Wismar churches and their history. 2016, p. 222.
- ↑ Information on the Klinken Church at kirche-mv.de. Retrieved December 20, 2017 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 43 " N , 11 ° 40 ′ 33.8" E