Vilz village church
The Vilz village church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Vilz in the Rostock district . The community belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Vilz is a district of the city of Ticino .
history
The village of Vilz, or Vylistiz in older documents , was probably a donation from the Pomeranian Duke Casimir I to Bishop Berno von Schwerin in 1178. The church, which was consecrated to the Apostle Jacobus , dates from the first half of the 13th century. The consecration of the altar by the Bishop of Cammin took place in 1232 according to a copy of a protocol made in 1560. It is questionable whether the church already had the current form. Since 1247 she has belonged to the archdeacon Altkalen in the Camminer Sprengel. The von Moltke family had patronage until the 19th century. The von Koss family, who owned the Vilz estate from 1648 to 1855, also had patronage. Then Carl Baron Waitz von Eschen took over the estate and patronage.
Building description
The church is a towerless building made of boulders. Bricks were only used in the window and portal reveals, as well as in the design of the gables. The choir , which ends flat in the east, is raised by one step and covered with an eight-part vaulted helmet. The nave , on the other hand, is closed with a flat wooden ceiling. The shape of the window points to a time of origin in the transition from Romanesque to Gothic and suggests that the current shape of the church was only achieved at the end of the 13th century. In the west there are two strong buttresses, another one on the southeast corner of the choir and two on the east wall. The gables are decorated with remarkable dazzling decorations. On the south side there are two portals with soffits with edges and bulges made of brick. The portal in the wall of the nave is bricked up. The main portal in the western gable with a hall in front dates from the 19th century. A sacristy is added to the north of the choir. The bell hangs in a belfry to the south of the church.
Interior decoration
A gallery is built into the church on the west and north sides of the nave. An organ stands in the middle above the western portal. The winged altar is late Gothic. In the middle is the crucifixion scene, in the right wing above the scene in Gethsemane, below Pontius Pilate washing his hands. The left wing shows the coronation with the crown of thorns below and the carrying of the cross above. In 1730 the altar was renovated. The rococo-style pulpit is from 1755 and is decorated with carvings of the four evangelists. In the church there are two cheeks from 1575 with coats of arms u. a. those of Moltke.
altar
Pilate
Crowning of thorns
Carrying the Cross
Community rooms
Directly next to the church, a new, modern functional building was inaugurated in 2008, in which diverse activities of the parish take place and worship is celebrated in winter.
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : Art and historical monuments of Mecklenburg , 1899
Web links and sources
Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ 29.2 ″ N , 12 ° 29 ′ 11.2 ″ E