Niepars village church

The village church Niepars is a native of the 13th century village church in Vorpommern place Niepars .

The village church in Niepars

The village church in Niepars

history

The church building , which dates from the late 13th century, was built by several master builders; these came from Stralsund and Rostock , but mostly they were locals.

The wooden belfry comes from the Middle Ages . A south aisle was demolished in earlier times and the pointed arch arcades walled up. In 1786 the dilapidated church tower was demolished and a half-timbered extension was built in its place . A three-part window, through which light from the east originally fell into the two-bay, rectangular choir , was walled up in 1726 in favor of a baroque altarpiece from the workshop of the Stralsund master builder Elias Kessler . The choir and nave were provided with galleries.

The church was threatened with collapse in the early 21st century. There was a deep crack in the walls between the nave and the westwork. When the roof was covered in 1987, neither the gutters nor the roof beams were replaced for cost reasons. The walls and the wood were streaked with moisture; the southern outer walls were only bricked up when the southern aisle was dismantled and were never designed as outer walls. In addition to the community and an association, the German Foundation for Monument Protection was committed to saving the village church. In 1996, with the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection and the Lübeck Rotarian Association, the entrance hall, the sacristy and the north vestibule were repaired. Further work was carried out in 1998 and 2001. From 2007 the west vestibule, west gable and the north aisle were renovated.

layout

The two-aisled church is one of brick built three-bay basilica and representative of the North German brick Gothic .

Furnishing

Mehmel organ

The church houses a baptismal font , a three-part panel painting from the 15th century as an altarpiece and a baroque pulpit made in Elias Keßler's workshop in 1726 .

In 1996 a carpenter donated the green portal.

organ

The organ , built in 1867 by the Stralsund organ builder Friedrich Albert Mehmel , was restored in 1999 by Rainer Wolter . The purely mechanical instrument has 10 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I main work C – f 3 1. Drone 16 ′ 2. Principal 8th' 3. Dumped 8th' 4th octave 8th' 5. Progressive harmonica II-III 1'

II Hinterwerk C – f 3 6th Flauto Dolce 8th' 7th Salicional 8th' 8th. Reed flute 4 ′

Pedal C– 9. Sub bass 16 ′ 10. Principal bass 8th'

• Coupling : manual coupling, pedal coupling

local community

The Protestant parish of Pütte / Niepars 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 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ editorial Kirche-Mv.de: provost Stralsund - Local and Regional Authorities - Pomerania - kirche-mv.de. Retrieved March 25, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Information on the organ

Web links

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

• Literature about the village church of Niepar in the state bibliography MV
• Information from the Pomeranian Church District
• Friends of the ev. Churches Pütte and Niepars eV

Coordinates: 54 ° 18 ′ 51.7 ″  N , 12 ° 55 ′ 26.5 ″  E