Roga village church
The Protestant village church Roga is a Gothic hall church in the district of Roga in the municipality of Datzetal in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg . It belongs to the Schwanebeck parish in the Neustrelitz Propstei of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church).
History and architecture
Roga is mentioned as a church village as early as 1366. In 1469 Henry received Hahn Roga with several other places as a fief by Duke Ulrich II. The church is located on the Anger of the village and is surrounded by a stone wall.
The Roga Church is a flat-roofed stone church with a rich brick gable from the third quarter of the 13th century; The retracted rectangular choir, set off by a pointed triumphal arch, and the sacristy with pent roof and cloister vault in the corner on the north side were built a little earlier . Stepped, now bricked-up field stone portals are arranged on the sides; to the west the portal is covered by the tower from the late 15th century. At the same time, the southern vestibule of the choir was built with a flat barrel vault and a laterally connected, groin-vaulted room. During a renovation around 1700, the windows were enlarged, with the exception of the eastern group of three, and the tower was removed down to the ground floor. The octagonal neo-Romanesque brick tower was built in 1836. During a restoration in 1846, the top of the wall was renewed and gable clusters were added. A bell is hung on the upper floor of the tower, and a clockwork has been preserved there.
After a long period of deterioration due to neglect during the GDR era, which led to a partial collapse of the ceiling in 1991, the church was restored between 1991 and 1998 with the support of the German Foundation for Monument Protection . After 2003, the previously outsourced equipment was restored and brought back to the church.
Furnishing
The Church in Roga has by foundations of patronage family Hahn "a regionally exceptional and important ensemble of equipment pieces of the late Renaissance."
The altarpiece is a work from the first quarter of the 17th century and consists of a richly carved architectural Renaissance structure with scenic reliefs. In the main field is a crucifixion group, in the predella the Last Supper and in the altar extract the resurrection. The roughly simultaneous pulpit consists of a basket over an angel figure with evangelist reliefs in half-length, a staircase with Peter and Paul on the parapet and the Good Shepherd on the back wall, and the elaborately carved sound cover with a figure of the risen Christ.
A harmonium serves as a musical instrument. A Romanesque font is placed in the churchyard.
Several wooden epitaphs were created at the beginning of the 17th century. An epitaph depicting the deceased L. and M. Hahn in front of the relief of the Annunciation was created in 1629. A three-storey architectural structure with figurative decoration and scenic reliefs was designed in 1659 for the Hereditary Land Marshal Joachim Christoph Hahn and his wife Clara Sophia, née. von Levetzow and shows an architecturally structured back wall with the ancestral sample and the kneeling couple with two children in front of it. On the west gallery there are pictures with biblical scenes from the beginning of the 18th century. Behind the altar there is a coat of arms tombstone for H. Hahn from 1563 and a figural double tombstone from 1609. The sacristy door is fitted with medieval fittings. The surrounding cemetery is accessed through elaborate neo-Gothic brick portals from 1846.
Pastors
In the cemetery is the grave of Pastor Carl Leuschner, who is honored as a sponsor of gymnastics and who worked here from 1818 until his death .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , pp. 494–495.
- Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, pp. 181–182.
Web links
- Literature about the village church Roga in the state bibliography MV
- Website heimat-mecklenburgische-seenplatte.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Website of the parish of Sr. Marien in Friedland with information about the church in Roga. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
- ↑ a b Information on dorfkirchen-in-mv.de. Retrieved May 27, 2020 .
- ↑ Roga Church , Foundation “Church Building in Mecklenburg” , accessed on June 1, 2020
Coordinates: 53 ° 38 ′ 35.6 " N , 13 ° 27 ′ 35.8" E