Ludorf village church
The today Protestant village church Ludorf is a listed octagonal church in Ludorf , a district of the municipality of Südmüritz in the Mecklenburg Lake District , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Neustrelitz Propstei of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).
Emergence
The early Gothic brick building was first mentioned on the occasion of the consecration (St. Maria and St. Laurentius) of the main building on May 8, 1346 by Bishop Burchard von Havelberg . According to legend, however, it was built around 150 years earlier. It is said to have been donated by a returned crusader from the local family, Wip (p) ert von Morin, with formal recourse to the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem.
Building description
The main building is provided with a square vestibule in the west and extensions (two chapels) with buttresses on three other sides, the remaining sides are decorated with two rows of German tape . It has a towering tent roof, the eastern round apse a low conical roof. Narrow windows illuminate the interior. The vestibule received an extension later.
In the apse is the neo-Gothic altar with a crucifixion scene , to the side a brick pulpit from the 17th century with evangelist reliefs . Wrought iron coats of arms of the patronage families from the 18th and 19th centuries, candlesticks from the 17th and 18th centuries and cabinet windows from 1680 complete the furnishings.
The Ludorf village church also contains a family crypt of the von Knuth dynasty , lords of Ludorf in the 18th century , which is still documented and is closed by an artistic wrought-iron door . Adam Levin von Knuth, who in 1709 also donated the church bell, which is still in the roof of the front yoke, had the crypt built for himself and his wife in 1736.
organ
The organ was built in 1854 by the Wittstock organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller . The instrument has a two-part case, which is designed in the neo-Gothic style, glazed brown and decorated with gold-plated profiles and a veil board. The purely mechanical grinding loading -instrument has four registers on a Manual (C-d 3 : Gedackt 8 ', Dolce 8', Praestant 4 ', Flute 4'). It has no pedal .
use
The Ludorf village church is now a branch church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Röbel . In 1996/97 restoration work took place on the vestibule and outer walls with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection ; The church can be visited during the daytime during the summer and by appointment in the winter months. Concerts are held regularly.
literature
- Peda art guide No. 587/2005, pp. 28/29.
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature about the village church Ludorf in the state bibliography MV
- More pictures and floor plan of the church
- Parish of Röbel
Coordinates: 53 ° 22 ′ 49 ″ N , 12 ° 40 ′ 8 ″ E