Steffenshagen village church

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2009 Steffenshagen Church.jpg
Molded stone friezes on the choir
Motifs of the friezes

The village church of Steffenshagen is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Steffenshagen in the Rostock district . The community belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).

Building description

The church is a three-aisled hall church made of brick . The choir is square and dates from the end of the 13th century. The choir has a ribbed vault . Interesting are the bricks worked into the outer walls with bas-reliefs of heraldic stylized animals (lion, griffin, leopard and tiger), as well as vine tendrils. The decoration of the southern choir portal consists of an alternation of glazed and unglazed bricks. The longhouse is a little younger. Octagonal pillars support a ribbed vault in all three naves, the central nave is significantly higher. The three western yokes are separated from the eastern by a wide rectangular belt and were only built in the second half of the 19th century, at the same time as the tower.

In 1966 the church was restored.

Interior decoration

Inside the church there is a carved altar from the second half of the 15th century. It shows in the middle, standing on a crescent moon, Mary with the Christ child, kneeling at her feet, the donors of the altar, right and left various saints and Moses with the tablets of the law .

The wooden pulpit without a sound cover was recovered in 1962 from the profaned Weitendorf chapel near Proseken and placed on the first south pillar in 1966. It is said to come from the Dominican Church of the Black Monastery in Wismar .

The furnishings also include a triumphal cross group from the 14th century and a Romanesque granite baptism in the shape of a chalice.

In 1866 a new altarpiece with a painting by the Schwerin painter Theodor Fischer was erected and the Gothic altar, together with the crucifix of the triumphal cross, was relegated to the sacristy, following the taste of the times. At that time, the granite funnel was moved into the tower and a new baptismal font was also purchased, which is in use today in the Lambrechtshagen village church .

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Otto-Hubert Kost : Contemplation and return home. Cistercian monk theology and art at the choir and priest gate of the church in Steffenshagen in Mecklenburg. Bernardus Verlag, 2009, ISBN 978-3-8107-9312-6 .
  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. III. Volume: The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubuckow, Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin 1899. (Reprint: 1993, ISBN 3-910179-14-2 , pp. 523-530)
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 570.
  • Horst Ende: Village churches in Mecklenburg. Berlin 1975, pp. 42-46, 147.

Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
    • Department of Monument Preservation, Archive, Steffenshagen Church Files.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Note from May 5, 1966 on the building conference in Steffenshagen, item 1.55.
  2. ↑ Weitendorf Chapel, building description. Friedrich Schlie: The church village Weitendorf. 1898, p. 332.

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 19.1 ″  N , 11 ° 49 ′ 20.8 ″  E