Varchentin village church

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Protestant church

The village church Varchenthin is a listed building in Varchentin , a district of the community Groß Plasten in the Mecklenburg Lake District ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).

History and architecture

Varchentin was an independent pastorate with its own rectory until 1982 and has been administered by Groß Varchow since then . The parsonage was sold to a farmer, and the parish rented a room in the former parsonage as a community center. The church stands in the middle of a cemetery .

The building was in 1250, with no tower , in brick masonry, the choir gable of the 18th century in half-timbered held. The east wall of the rectangular choir is divided by a group of three windows. Instead of the triumphal arch , two pointed arches were drawn in towards the nave. The nave was probably originally arched over a central pillar because of the still-preserved shield arches ; a flat wooden ceiling was put in place. Both the north and the south portal are embedded in a wall protrusion. The south wall is divided by lead glass windows from around 1920, they show Martin Luther and Christ. There are two galleries in the church , one of them in the choir. During renovations in 2002, the church was repainted; old wall paintings were uncovered.

The boarded-up west tower made of wood was added around 1815, in it hangs a bell with a diameter of about one meter.

Furnishing

  • The organ from 1850 was extensively renovated in 2002, it is the largest instrument made by the organ builder Johann Gottlieb Wolfsteller from Hamburg.
  • The altarpiece with a painting of Christ was made in 1851.
  • The neo-Gothic stalls and galleries also date from 1851 .
  • The pulpit's sermon chair is made of stone. The sound cover is a work of the 17th century, it is decorated with the Ferber coat of arms.
  • The paintings depicting the resurrection and adoration of the child were painted at the end of the 17th century. The painting with the flagellation of Christ is probably from the end of the 18th century and the portrait of Luther was probably made in the 19th century.
  • The figures of a saint and the apocalyptic Madonna were carved around 1500; they were originally figures from a Catholic altar.
  • The baptismal font was cast in iron after 1850.

literature

  • Georg Dehio , edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann, Gerd Baier, Dietlinde Brugmann, Antje Heling, Barbara Rimpel: Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 .
  • Churches in the Mecklenburg Lake District, northern Müritz region , with illustrations by Arnfried Metelka, publisher BNH Müritz-Elde eV of the church leaders, Beyer printing company in Röbel.

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Coordinates: 53 ° 35 ′ 10.8 ″  N , 12 ° 51 ′ 12.4 ″  E