Alt Kosenow Church
The Protestant Church Alt Kosenow , also called Marienkirche and St. Marien Church , is a church building from the 14th century in the Alt Kosenow district of the Neu Kosenow community . The Protestant parish of Ducherow has been part of the Pasewalk Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
location
Alt Kosenow can be reached via the federal road 109 , which runs past the site to the west of the district approximately in a north-south direction. From there the Dorfstraße branches off to the east as Alt Kosnow and branches off several times in the village, including to the sacred building . The church stands on a small hill east of the main road on a site that is fenced in with a wall of unlayered and unhewn field stones .
history
There are different details about the date of construction. In a brief description of the church on its website, the Evangelical Church states that it was built in 1308 and, among other things, expanded in the 15th century. The Dehio manual does not specify a year, but states that the building was built in the 15th century. The consecration took place in honor of the Virgin Mary . Further, unspecified work took place in the 18th century. It is certain that craftsmen changed the panels in the eastern gable in the 18th or 19th century . In 1862 the building received an organ ; In 1878, brickworkers built the square church tower , the copper helmet covering of which dates from 1992. In the course of the metal donation by the German people , the parish had to give up one of the two bells during World War II . She got lost. From 1989 to 1998 the Marienkirche was completely restored.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. The wall is dominated by two segment-arched windows. In the middle there is a much smaller opening that is blocked. Above it is a gable that was built from brick and is decorated with panels .
The north and south sides of the nave are symmetrical. Here are four windows of the same type, also in the shape of segmental arches, the edges of which are accentuated by smooth plaster . A buttress is striking between the first window to the west and the rest of the building. Another buttress, which supports the choir wall and the nave in the southeast corner, is unusual. It enlarges downwards like a pyramid; a counterpart at the northeast corner is missing. There are also no traces of demolition there. The ship is brightly plastered and has a simple gable roof .
To the west is the square, recessed, 27.5 meter high church tower . It was built from reddish brick in neo-Gothic shapes. Access is via a likewise segmental arch-shaped west portal, which is embedded in a double-stepped small porch. It is crowned by a pediment with a cross. On the north and south side there is a window with a wall made of brick. A cornice separates the middle floor from the lower structure. Here, on each of the three accessible sides, there is a segment-arched window in a large panel, each of which is decorated with a frieze at the top. From now on, the corners of the building are emphasized by pilaster strips . The bell storey is above another cornice. It consists of two coupled, small and segment-arched sound arcades with a circular opening in the middle above. These fields are also decorated with a frieze. The pointed helmet ends with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar and the stalls are comparatively simple and were built in 1880 from dark wood. A panel painting of the Descent from the Cross with a decorative frame from the 16th century, which refugees from Western Pomerania brought with them in 1945 and restored in 2000, has been on loan in the bishopric in Greifswald since 2005 . In the west gallery is an organ that Friedrich Wilhelm Kaltschmidt from Stettin made in 1862 ; it is not playable in 2017. The interior was painted in Art Nouveau style in 1904 by Otto Bartelt from Berlin .
The church furnishings also include two colorful choir windows with lead glazing from 1910. They are made by the Berlin artist Paul Förster and show five candlesticks with burning candles standing in front of a carpet. The archangels Gabriel and Michael are depicted on the east wall ; on the ceiling there is a representation of Jesus Christ on the cross and the four evangelists . The only remaining bell dates from 1879.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
- Christina Nehrkorn-Stege: The conservation and restoration of the framed wooden panel painting »Descent from the Cross«, presumably at the beginning of the 17th century, from St. Marienkirche Alt Kosenow , diploma thesis, Dresden University of Fine Arts, 2003
Web links
- Literature about the church Alt Kosenow in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church on the website of the regional church
Individual evidence
- ^ Church Alt Kosenow, Marienkirche , website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 8, 2017.
- ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 39.5 " N , 13 ° 45 ′ 21.2" E