Semlow village church
The village church of Semlow is a village church from the beginning of the 13th century in the Western Pomeranian community of Semlow and is one of the oldest stone churches in the lower Recknitz valley.
Building history
The construction of the choir of today's church began around 1190 . It was completed around 1220. The west tower was also started at this time. In 1790 it was given an upper floor tower with a curved hood, the top of which is crowned by a weather vane in the shape of a bear. The copper roofing took place during the comprehensive renovation of the church since 1996.
Carl Julius Milde was commissioned by Count Ulrich von Behr-Negendank in 1860 to carry out the complete repainting of the interior of the church. In the work carried out from 1861 to 1863, the wooden coffered ceiling, the galleries, the baptism of 1576 and the glass windows were also included.
Also worth seeing is the brick cemetery portal with a pointed arched passage, built at the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century.
Exterior
The church is an early Gothic, single-nave field stone building with a retracted square choir and south sacristy as well as a square west tower, originally with a gable roof . On some of the plastered areas on the tower there are still scratches on the joints and red joint painting and white joint tape. On the west side of the square church tower , which has a fully functioning clock mechanism from 1856, a large inscription stone reminds of the renewal of the church in the 19th century and its sponsor, Ulrich Graf von Behr-Negendank. On the east gable, a dazzling rosette and rising round arch frieze in brick were added in 1861, while the northern extension was added. On the nave narrow arched windows in brick, arranged in pairs on the choir.
Interior
Inside, the chancel with a domed groin vault is open to the flat-roofed nave through a pointed triumphal arch. After the church was renovated in 1857, the Lübeck painter, glass painter and restorer Carl Julius Milde carried out high-quality late Nazarene wall and ceiling paintings in the ship from 1861 to 1863 and is still fully preserved today. Arcades painted on the walls with scenes from the Old Testament and individual figures, archangels enthroned in the upper wall zone, pairs of angels playing music on the west wall, medallions of the prophets and John the Baptist in the triumphal arch reveal . Last judgment on the wooden coffered ceiling. The half-length portraits of Pomeranian missionaries and reformers from 1863 are also attributed to mildness.
Remnants of the choir windows with stained glass created by Milde were removed in 1952 and replaced by blank glazing. In 1998 an inventory and professional landfilling was carried out by the Reinhard Kuhl company from Potthagen with financial support from the Cologne cathedral building administration . The colored design boxes for the stained glass windows are now being kept with Milde's estate in the St. Anne's Museum of the Hanseatic City of Lübeck .
As part of a project of the German Federal Environment Foundation in close cooperation with the State Office for Nature Conservation and the State Office for Environment and Nature, the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania was able to secure the bats in replacement roosts in the church tower in 1999 after three years of relocation of the bats Moisture-damaged and salt-contaminated wall paintings begin. The first conservation and restoration phases were completed in 2002. Until 2012, further restorations were carried out on the tower, choir and wall paintings with support from the German Foundation for Monument Protection . The valuable epitaphs were restored in 2017/18.
Furnishing
The church's remarkable furnishings include the crucifix with carved evangelist symbols from the second half of the 15th century above the triumphal arch, the baptismal and reading desk on a three-legged volute foot, created by Elias Keßler in 1727, and the grave monuments of the Behr family. The wood epitaph with bust in elaborate framing for Christoph von Behr († 1706) was made by D. Hartich from Rostock .
altar
The wooden altarpiece was made in 1723 by Elias Keßler from Stralsund . The three-storey column structure with the three reliefs on top of each other, the Last Supper, the crucifixion group and the eye of God in the glory of rays are completed by the carved figures of Moses and Arion on the side and by Christ, John the Baptist and the Trumpet Angel in the top part. The patronage gallery from 1595 was covered in the middle by the later installation of the altarpiece. The von Behr-Negendank family's coats of arms are in the parapet.
pulpit
The pulpit from 1590 with fluted columns, angel heads and reliefs, the erection of the brazen serpent, Christ with the flag of victory, John the Baptist and Paul. There is a bearded male figure on the cover .
baptism
The eight-sided, chalice-shaped wooden baptism from 1575 was redesigned by Carl Julius Milde in 1863, the four painted scenes related to the baptism and the von Behr family's coat of arms on the cup .
organ
The organ with a simple, three-part prospectus was built in 1913 by Karl Barnim Theodor Grüneberg and restored in 1999.
Funerary monuments
There are three grave monuments of the von Behr family .
The sandstone wall grave for Adam von Behr († 1599) and Ilse von Krakewitz († 1612) was probably made by Claus Midow at the beginning of the 17th century . Above a tumba with the almost life-size reclining figures of the deceased, the epitaph-like structure with a relief depiction of the deceased under the crucifix.
The sandstone tomb for their son Christoph von Behr († 1638) and Hedwig von Ribbeck was made by Claus Midow as early as 1605. It stands in the middle of the south wall of the choir, incorporating the two-window group in the splendid architectural structure in Renaissance forms, the deceased kneeling at the prayer desk as full-blown, life-size figures . Above it is a resurrection relief on the window pillar and coats of arms on the window reveals as well as the wall figures of Peter and Paul.
The baroque wooden epitaph for Christoph von Behr († 1706) with the bust in elaborate framing was made by D. Hartich from Rostock.
Bells
The church tower is still three bells from the end of the 14th century, from 1467 with the inscription: help. got. vnbe. Maria. m. ccc. (1467) and from 1611.
local community
The Protestant parish of Semlow is connected to the parish of Eixen -Leplow-Behrenwalde and has been part of the Propstei Stralsund 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 .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , pp. 562-563.
- Reinhard Kuhl: 19th century glass paintings. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The churches. Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-361-00536-1 , pp. 203-204.
- Elke Kuhnert: Semlow, district of North Western Pomerania, village church. In: KulturERBE in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Volume 1, Schwerin 2006, ISBN 3-935770-14-6 , pp. 130-131.
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State Main Archive Schwerin
- LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court case files 1495–1806, No. 283, 413, 418
- State Archives Greifswald
- Stralsund Government No. 06503
- Wismar City Archives
- Wismar Tribunal No. 0249, 0250, 0254
Web links
- Literature about the village church Semlow in the state bibliography MV
- Semlow Church
- Stralsund church district
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard Kuhl: Glass paintings of the 19th century Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Semlow village church. 2001, pp. 203-204.
- ↑ Elke Kuhnert: Heritage in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. 2006, pp. 130-131.
- ↑ Julia Greipl: Bats in the tower, prophets on the walls. In: Monuments 05/2018, pp. 28–29.
- ^ Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German Art Monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2000, p. 563.
- ^ Mecklenburgisches Jahrbuch MJB 23 (1858) Friedrich Lisch : The Church of Semlow. Pp. 318-320.
Coordinates: 54 ° 10 ′ 48.2 ″ N , 12 ° 39 ′ 14.7 ″ E