Village church Storkow (Templin)

Southeast view

portal

The Storkow village church is a stone church in the Storkow district of the city of Templin in the Uckermark district of Brandenburg . It belongs to the Hammelspring parish in the Oberes Havelland parish of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

The flat-roofed rectangular hall church made of field stone with a nave-wide west tower on a sloping base made of field stone dates from the second half of the 13th century, the square tower upper floor made of brick from 1836. A two-tiered west portal opens up the building; the east side windows are original, the middle one walled up; the other windows were enlarged in the first half of the 18th century, and the upper part of the nave walls also rebuilt.

The square tower top floor made of brick was built in 1836. The large pointed arch opening between the tower and the nave was partially walled up.

Inside the hall there is a horseshoe gallery with an organ, it is a work by Albert Hollenbach from 1888 with eight stops on a manual and pedal . The pulpit altar dates from the 18th century. A silver-gilded chalice dates from 1700. A pewter baptismal bowl was created in the 18th century, a pair of candlesticks also made of pewter around 1680.

The churchyard is enclosed by a field stone wall with a brick portal from the 17th century.

Web links

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

Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
Website of the responsible municipality Hammelspring
Storkow (Uckermark). In: AskanierWelten - time travel in the Mark Brandenburg
Peter and Paul Church in Storkow. In: Uckermark churches from A – Z.

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. 1081-1082.

Individual evidence

↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .
↑ Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 383.

53.047627 13.442738Coordinates: 53 ° 2 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 33.9 ″ E

[1] Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved July 18, 2020 .

[2] Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 383.