Lexow village church

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Lexow village church
Lexow village church

The village church is a listed church building in Lexow , a district of the Walow municipality in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).

history

Since the first mention of the village Lexow in 1298, it has been closely connected to the Malchow Monastery and the Dobbertin Monastery .

Building history

The Protestant church is a hall church that was probably built from field stones around 1400 . It has an externally semicircular, but inside polygonal choir closure . The walls are divided by ogival windows with brick frames and leaded glazing . There is a small mansard-like window in the choir roof . A brick frieze can be seen all around the eaves area . The brick entrance portal is decorated with an embedded cross, and there are step-like brick panels on the side. During the renovation until 1888, the west wall and the tower were made of brick. At the same time, a wooden barrel vault was drawn into the interior . The consecration took place on October 16, 1888.

The field stone church is surrounded by a well-tended cemetery with a field stone wall.

tower

When it was redesigned in 1887/88, the church received the rectangular west tower built in brick . The upper floor is structured by ogival sound openings. Above that, the pointed gables lead to the crowning hood with a weather vane. A small bell without an inscription hangs in the tower. Before that, the bells hung in an oak belfry next to the church.

Furnishing

  • The altarpiece shows a Christ carrying a cross, it is signed F. Knaut.
  • The pulpit is a work from the end of the 17th century, the foot was added in 1887.
  • Also noteworthy is the carved baptismal angel from 1726, which has been hanging south of the altar again since 1996 after its restoration.
  • The altar, baptism, stalls and neo-Gothic wooden furnishings are from the period after 1850.
  • The small organ to the right of the altar with I / - manuals and three registers (I / - / 3) was built in 1875 by the organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller . For organ dedication in 1875 it was still on the west gallery. The original pipes of the Praestant 4 'form a chromatic field of vision in the neo-Gothic housing. A tracery frieze strip, crowned by a cross, forms the top of the housing. Above the prospect area is a triangular veil board with rich neo-Gothic decor. Typical keyboard and music stand. On this organ there is only one limestone step in the front for the organist. The installation in the chancel took place in 1982 by the organ building company Arno Voigt from Bad Liebenwerda . Another repair was carried out in 1992 by organ builder Wolfgang Nußbücker from Plau am See .

Parish

The Lexow village church was a branch church of Malchow. The Malchow Monastery held the church patronage until 1920 , but the property in the village belonged to the Dobbertin Monastery . Today it belongs with the churches in Grüssow , Walow , Satow and Zislow to the affiliated parish of Grüssow / Satow of the Neustrelitz provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5: The district courts of Teterow, Malchin, Stavenhagen, Penzlin, Waren, Malchow and Röbel. Schwerin 1902, ISBN 3-910179-09-6 , pp. 414-415.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 307.
  • Churches in the Mecklenburg Lake District, southern Müritz region. with illustrations by Werner Schinko, publisher IG of the church leaders Mecklenburg Lake District, Beyer printing company in Röbel.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin.
    • LHAS 3.2-4 Knightly fire insurance company.
    • LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag assembly, Landtag negotiations , Landtag minutes and Landtag committee.
    • LHAS 5.12-4 / 2 Mecklenburg Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS. OKR Schwerin, Specialia Church Lexow.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 3. Organ Lexow 1875.
  2. ^ Friedrich Drese: The organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller and his work in Mecklenburg. Malchow 2010.
  3. ↑ Schlie: Die Kunst- und Geschistordenkmäler ... 1902, p. 414.
  4. ↑ Information on the community

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 57.5 ″  N , 12 ° 30 ′ 2 ″  E