Wismar village church

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Wismar village church

The Protestant village church of Wismar is a stone church in Wismar , a district of the municipality of Uckerland in the district of Uckermark in the state of Brandenburg .

location

The road Wismar leads from the west to the east of the historic village green to. This is divided by another road coming from the north in a southerly direction. The church stands east of this intersection on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones .

history

The building was built in the second half of the 13th century. In 1825 the three-storey west tower was built, the east gable was renewed and a vestibule was added on the south side. At the beginning of the 21st century, experts restored the baptismal angel from 1788, which has been hanging in the building again since 2010.

Building description

West portal

The church was essentially made of field stones that were moderately hewn and mostly layered. The choir is straight and has not moved in. Traces of repair work at the end of the choir indicate that there was originally a group of three windows . The middle, previously arched window is blocked and plastered . Are on each side a large arched windows with a wide also plastered Fasche . In the upper area they merge into a plastered, later added floor , in which there are two further, high rectangular windows.

This is followed by the nave . On the north side of the nave there are a total of four large arched windows that were evenly distributed over the facade. In the eastern area the broken off remains of an extension, possibly a sacristy , can be seen. There is also a large arched gate on the facade, which has now also been blocked. It was built between the third and fourth windows - seen from the east - and is closed with field stones and bricks . There are also four large arched windows on the south side. In place of the gate there is a small rectangular vestibule, which can be entered from the south via a pressed-segment arched door. Above it is a semicircular aperture that opens downwards . While the porch of a simple gable roof bears the nave is of a mansard roof covered.

The church tower connects to the west. It is a little wider than the ship and was made of little hewn and no longer layered field stones. On the west side is a round arched gate, which is emphasized with a fascia. The arch is made of reddish brick. Above is a semicircular window, above it an ox-eye , also set in brick. On the north and south sides there is a further gate, above it a semicircular window. The tower floor rises above it in baroque forms. The gable is lightly plastered and there is a rectangular opening on each of the three accessible sides. An octagonal half-timbered tower rises above it . On all four sides there is a sound arcade , which was supplemented by a tower clock on the east and west. A small spire extends above a curved tower dome , which ends with a tower ball and weather vane .

Furnishing

The pulpit altar from 1741 comes from the church in Schwarzensee in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . After the half-timbered church there had become dilapidated and was demolished, the plant came to Wismar. The altar there was infected with woodworm. The column structure is richly decorated with acanthus ; a glory of rays on the sound cover . The altar was restored in 2005.

The baptismal angel was purchased in 1788 for 40 Reichstaler. The 1.43 m tall figure was in the cultural history museum in Prenzlau from around 1910 until the 1960s and was restored in 2010. The figure, acquired by the von Armin and von Stülpnagel families, is holding a laurel wreath wrapped with ribbons in its hands. In the 1960s the work came back to the church and was hung there above the gallery. It was severely damaged in a crash and unprofessionally overhauled in the mid-1980s. In 2004 it turned out that the figure was infected by the woodworm, which was fought with nitrogen. Then experts injected a synthetic resin solution into the figure and were able to stabilize it. After the original color was restored, the baptismal angel returned to the church in 2010 and has been hanging in front of the pulpit altar ever since.

Other church furnishings include a wooden baptism from the 18th century, a chest from the 17th century and a wooden door with iron fittings from the 18th century, which closes the tower room. A plaque commemorates two brothers who died in 1866 and 1870. The table was decorated with two iron crosses that had to be removed during the GDR era .

The west gallery dates from the 19th century. On it stands an organ that Friedrich Wilhelm Kaltschmidt created in 1840 according to the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) . The instrument has two manuals and twelve registers .

To the west of the church there is another monument made of field stones. The fallen of the Wars of Liberation and the fallen from the First and Second World Wars are commemorated on a black marble slab .

Parish

The parish of Wismar belonged to the Strasburg parish of the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg or the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg until 1974 and then to the Pasewalk parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . Since May 2012 she has been part of the Strasburg rectory in the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Sprengel Mecklenburg and Pomerania (seat of the Sprengel Bishop in Greifswald) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

literature

Web links

Commons : Church in Wismar (Uckermark)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Church accounting book
  2. ↑ Uckerland-Wismar, Uckermark district, Brandenburg , website denkmalprojekt.org, accessed on September 15, 2019.
  3. ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Church in Greifswald, No. 1, 1974 , p. 3.

Coordinates: 53 ° 31'22.3 "  N , 13 ° 47'35.1"  E