Landow village church
The Protestant Church Landow is a hall church from the 14th century in Landow , a district of the municipality Dreschvitz in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is the parish church of the Rambin parish in the south of the island of Rügen . The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
location
The Landow road leads from the southwest in an easterly direction through the village. In the historic center, the church stands east of the village green on a slightly elevated plot of land that is enclosed by a wall .
history
The Wegekirche zu Landow was built around the year 1312, as shown by dendrochronological examinations of the oak wood used in the choir in 2004 . It is one of the oldest churches on the island of Rügen and is likely to be the oldest half-timbered church building in northern Germany and in the entire southeastern Baltic region. The nave was added in the second half of the 15th century. It was originally intended to be bulging; however, the work was not carried out.
The church was on an old salt and herring trade route. The first mention of a priest in Landow ... plebane (priest) in Landaue dates back to 1333. In the year 1369 also was Kalandbruderschaft mentioned, indicating the importance of the Church in the Middle Ages.
The original half-timbered building was walled in with bricks around 1542. The interior received a baroque interior in the 18th century . The altar, baptism and pulpit as well as the painting of the wooden ceiling of the church come from the workshop of the most important Pomeranian sculptor of the baroque era, Elias Kessler from the Hanseatic city of Stralsund . Presumably in 1733 the church received the steeple and a flat beamed ceiling. The sacristy attached to the church was later used as a crypt chapel for the family of the church patron . After 1945 the coffins were removed from the crypt chapel and buried in the cemetery.
During the GDR , major repairs were last carried out on the church roof in 1959. There were no further maintenance measures due to a lack of funding. From the end of the 1960s, the continued preservation of the church building was in question , in 1970 the consistory of the Evangelical Church in Greifswald was no longer able to provide funds for the secluded church building. In 1982 the church was classified as in danger of collapse, in the 1980s it was also removed from the district monument list. The baroque furnishings including the painted wooden ceiling were relocated to the Jakobikirche Stralsund .
From the beginning of the 1990s, private initiatives and donations made it possible to continue the implementation of conservation measures. The restoration and return of the baroque furnishings could be accomplished and the still preserved and usable parts of the painted wooden ceiling were re-installed. The missing parts were deliberately not added. The church has been supported by a development association since 2000. Numerous events take place here, including concerts from the Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania Festival .
gallery
Nave view to the choir
Painting fragments
Consecration cross nave
Building description
The structure was originally built from half-timbering, which was later clad with brick. The lower layers are preferably made of hewn field stones . The two-bay choir has moved in and has a five-eighth closing . Each field is stabilized by a double-stepped buttress , the lower field of which is decorated with a round-arched panel . In each field there are large, double-stepped pointed arch windows; however, the east of this is blocked with bricks.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. A rectangular sacristy is built on its north side at the transition between the choir and nave . Here, too, the windows are pointed arched. On the south side, the nave was divided into two parts by another buttress. In the eastern part there are two ogival windows, also in the western part. However, there is an additional portal between the two windows.
The church can be entered from the west. There is a large and also ogival panel into which a pressed segment arched portal is let. There is a German ribbon at the transition to the gable . The gable itself is decorated with panels several times. Above it rises the church tower from 1733, whose half-timbering is still visible. There is a small wooden door on each side. It ends with a curly hood with a weather vane.
Furnishing
Most of the church furnishings still in existence in 2020 date from the 18th century. Elias Kessler created the altar , the fifth , the pulpit and the patronage stalls. According to an inscription, the altar retable was created in 1733. It is framed between a structure of two double pillars and shows the Lord's Supper . Above it is the crucifixion of Christ , followed by a glory of rays.
The cemetery with some very old grave sites is also worth seeing.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Notice in the church, June 2020.
- ↑ Gerd Liebling: Association evening : Monument protection in rural areas , in Der KreideKreis , issue 1, 2013, Insula Rugia eV, page 2 - online .
See also
literature
- Ulrike Reinfeldt: The village church in Landow. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 1/2012, ISSN 0032-4167 , pp. 16-19.
Web links
Coordinates: 54 ° 24 '14.3 " N , 13 ° 15' 34.2" E