Levitzow village church

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Village church in Levitzow, view from the south
Choir area with pulpit altar

The Levitzow village church is a medieval village church in the Levitzow district of the Sukow-Levitzow community in the east of the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is one of the churches of the Thürkow-Warnkenhagen parish in the Rostock provost, Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

The village church in Levitzow, the ancestral seat of the von Lowtzow family , was built, according to building findings, essentially in the transition period between Romanesque and Gothic in the late 13th century and should have existed when the place was first mentioned in 1304. The rectangular brick building with the east-facing choir area was provided with an east gable with a panel structure in the 15th century. In 1604 a burial chapel of the von Lowtzow family was added to the north, and a vestibule to the south in 1619. Both extensions have gable decorations in the Renaissance style as well as terracotta alliance coats of arms of the donors Joachim von Lowtzow and Margreta von Winterfeldt with the date 1604. In the 17th or 18th century, the square lattice tower, which is now boarded up, was built on the western gable side. During a renovation in 1915, a wooden barrel vault was drawn into the church interior.

Immediately after the end of the war in 1945, the interior of the church was devastated, as Soviet soldiers suspected that after finding some rifles in the roof structure there were other weapons hiding places in the church. The entire choir stalls, the wooden ceiling and the interior of the Lowtzow grave chapel were destroyed and looted. The last remains of the Lowtzow grave goods were later brought to the State Museum before the remains from the burial chapel and the remains of the demolished facility were burned. Only an alliance coat of arms from 1732 remained of the choir stalls, which was later hung opposite an older stone alliance coat of arms from 1620 that was embedded in the wall. The devastated burial chapel was later converted into a sacristy . The destroyed wooden ceiling was temporarily replaced by a temporary structure and renewed during a renovation in the second half of the 20th century. The pulpit altar from the 18th century has stood the test of time and has recently been repainted. The historical church treasure also includes two candlesticks and a pewter vase, each from the 18th century. The church bell was cast by Laurentius Strahlborn in Lübeck in 1733 .

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR - Neubrandenburg district , Henschelverlag, Berlin 1986

Sister projects

Commons : Dorfkirche Levitzow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany

Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 18.2 "  N , 12 ° 35 ′ 13.7"  E