Serrahn village church

Serrahn village church

View from the northeast

View from the southeast

The evangelical village church Serrahn is a later rebuilt Gothic brick church in the Serrahn district of Kuchelmiß in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the parish of Klaber-Serrahn in the church region of Güstrow in the Rostock provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) .

History and architecture

The Serrahn village church was built in the 2nd half of the 13th century as a rectangular brick building with corner pilasters on a carefully executed granite base. It later received a ribbed vault over trumpets and was probably extended at the border between the 14th and 15th centuries by a cross-ribbed vaulted cross-rectangular yoke and a brick tower with an irregular fieldstone base.

In the years 1872/73, Theodor Krüger expanded the church to include the choir, a northern side chapel and a southern sacristy to form a cross-shaped floor plan, with the windows unified and supporting pillars added.

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is the altar with a high quality crucifixion painting by Carl Gottfried Pfannschmidt , which is signed with the artist's initials on 1874. On the north wall there are some wall paintings with a section of the Last Judgment, which probably date from the 14th century. They show John the Baptist , angels with instruments of passion and a representation of hell.

During a renovation in 1963, the rear side galleries and the carved pulpit were removed, the altar plinth from 1872 was exposed and a new pulpit and a baptismal font were installed. In 2005 another mural depicting Christ at Gethsemane was uncovered. The 19th century altarpiece and baptism were placed in the north side chapel. A glassed-in manor of the von Hahn family in the southern part of the church has also been preserved.

The organ with a richly decorated prospectus depicting King David and angels making music from 1738/40 is originally a work by Johann Andreas Orre . The work was rebuilt by Friedrich Wilhelm Winzer in 1863 and has 13 stops on two manuals and pedal .

I. Manual C-c 3 Drone 16 ′ Wood Principal 8th' Hollow flute 8th' Wood, covered / open Octave 4 ′ Fifth flute 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Wood, covered / open Octave 2 ′

II. Manual C – c 3 Viola di gamba 8th' Wood, open / metal Flauto traverso 8th' from gis wood, open Gedact 8th' Wood Hollow flute 4 ′ Wood, open

Pedal C – c 1 Sub-bass 16 ′ (1740) Bass principal 8th' Wood, open Gedactbass 8th' Wood

Couple

(as registers)

• Pedal coupler (valve coupler)
• Manual coupling

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. 612–613.

Web links

Commons : Serrahn village church  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Literature about the Serrahn village church in the state bibliography MV
• Website of the parish on nordkirche.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Information on the Serrahn village church at dorfkirchen-in-mv.de. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved February 9, 2018 . 
3. ^ Frank Hösel: Baroque gem: the organ prospect in the Serrahn church. In: kulturwerte-mv.de. August 2008, accessed August 27, 2019 . 

Coordinates: 53 ° 39 '54.8 "  N , 12 ° 20' 44"  E