Suckow village church
The evangelical village church Suckow is a hall church in Suckow , a district of the municipality Ruhner Berge in the south of the district Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Parchim Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).
location
The church is located on Bundesstraße 321 , which when coming from the south leads as Putlitzer Straße to the Suckow junction of Bundesautobahn 24 . At the level of the church, the federal road branches off in a westerly direction and continues eastwards as a village road . To the north of this intersection, the building and the surrounding church cemetery stand on an elevation, which is enclosed by a wall made of unevenly layered and poorly hewn granite blocks . Access is on the south side via a portal made of reddish brick. Schulstrasse runs east to the north; in the west the Bahnhofstrasse also to the north.
history
There are different details about the construction date. While the Dehio manual puts the building in the second quarter of the 16th century, other sources give the year Suckow was mentioned in a document, 1328, which also mentions a church. The parish also mentions the first mention of a Gothic stone church in an information board on the building in 1328. It is therefore possible that a sacred building already existed in the 14th century , which was expanded or rebuilt two centuries later. Dendrochronological studies on a beam dated 1588 showed that the wood must have been felled around 1587. This could mean that the church tower was added to the previously towerless structure during this period . In the 1860s, the parish repaired the building. Parts of the equipment were also replaced. Other items were exchanged between 1963 and 1966. In 1964 she re-covered the tower with slate. In 1997, the roof was covered again with shingles made from Canadian white cedar .
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. It was built from field stones that were not hewn or layered. On the choir wall are two large, ogival windows, the two-tier reveals of which are framed with reddish brick. Both windows were designed by Christoph Grüger , they show motifs from Easter and Christmas . Below the two windows is a small niche that is closed with brick. The gable , also made of reddish brick, is adorned with a rich base frieze and strongly structured with eleven white plastered panels . Above are several smaller branch towers. The corners of the choir were probably reinforced with trapezoidal bricks at a later date. The nave was also built from field stones that were neither hewn nor layered. On the southern wall in the western area there are two, in the direction of the choir, another, raised and beehive-shaped window. The upper edges run into a frieze at the transition to the eaves , which could indicate a baroque renovation at a later time. In the center is a mighty, quadruple stepped portal made of semicircular bricks. On the north wall there are two similarly designed windows with a buttress clad with sheet metal in between. A slightly drawn-in, square and mighty west tower connects to the west . It is clad in dark wood. The first floor has a gable roof , on which a recessed, also square second floor with two sound arcades and a central clock tower is placed. Behind it are two cast iron bells from 1969 and one from 1726. This is followed by an elongated helmet with a tower ball and cross. The saddle roof of the nave is covered with a red beaver tail and has two bat dormers on both sides .
Furnishing
The neo-Gothic altarpiece was made by the painter Th. Fischer in 1867 and shows the crucifixion of Christ . The other furnishings come from the 1860s or from the middle of the 20th century. The inside of the structure is flat covered. The organ was built by Wolfgang Nussbücker from Plau am See in 1979 using an organ brochure from 1867.
To the southeast in front of the portal on the southern wall of the nave there is a war memorial for the fallen from the First World War ; to the southwest is the grave of Pastor Karsten and his family. In the western area of the church cemetery, a boulder commemorates the fallen from World War II .
At the nearby intersection of Schulstrasse and Dorfstrasse, a memorial stone made of red brick commemorates the death march of prisoners from the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in April 1945.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dorfkirche Suckow , website Dorfkirchen in MV with reference to the village and town churches in the Parchim parish, ZEBI u. START eV, Edition Temmen, 2001, accessed on March 1, 2017.
- ↑ Information board : Church zu Suckow , south portal of the church, March 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 18 ′ 34.6 " N , 11 ° 58 ′ 12.3" E