Altwigshagen Church

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Altwigshagen Church
Epitaph for Matzke von Borcke
Belfry

The Altwigshagen church , in the Altwigshagen community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , belongs to the Leopoldshagen parish of the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

Already in the Middle Ages there was a church in Altwigshagen. A document from 1313 shows that the Stolpe monastery held the church patronage . An altar in the church was dedicated to the holy body. The pastor Joachim Luckow was named in 1492 as the successor to Hermann Prauest. The churches in Lübs and Neuendorf A were branch churches of Altwigshagen until the 20th century .

The plastered church building was erected as a field stone building with a rectangular floor plan. In the second half of the 17th century the church was extensively rebuilt. The west gable was later covered with boards. There are three windows in the north wall and four windows with basket arches in the south wall . The towerless church has a gable roof .

The pulpit and the altarpiece with barriers date from the 17th century. In the predella there is a painting of the Last Supper , above it a representation of the crucifixion of Christ .

There are two epitaphs in the church that were restored in the mid-1990s on behalf of the von Borcke family association :

  • The older one for Matzke von Borcke († 1689), royal Swedish district administrator and heir on Altwigshagen, was made of wood. In a shield is the carved and colored coat of arms of the Borcke, surrounded on both sides by geniuses with hourglass and skull .
  • The epitaph for Lieutenant General Georg Heinrich von Borcke († 1747) is an S-shaped plaque carved from wood in Rococo shapes with rich gilding and a portrait of the general.

The bell was cast by Ernst Voss in Stettin in 1888 . It is located in a free-standing wooden belfry in front of the west gable.

In the 1930s or 1940s a wooden group of figures was found in the attic of the church, which the landowner and church patron von Borcke gave to the Pomeranian State Museum in Stettin. The sculpture with three figures, carved from poplar wood, was identified as Anna selbdritt and dated as a Swabian work around 1500. It is possible that it is a Pomeranian work from the first half of the 16th century. The fragment of a larger fourth figure in the center of the group is believed to represent Emerentia, the mother of St. Anne . After the Second World War , the sculpture was taken over by the National Museum in Szczecin , where it is still located today.

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 428.

Web links

Commons : Altwigshagen Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 686.
  2. ↑ a b c Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, pp. 256-257.
  3. ↑ Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 1: The district of Szczecin. Paul Niekammer, Stettin 1903, p. 19.
  4. ^ Paul Viering:  Preservation of monuments in Pomerania 1936–1945 . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series, vol. 46, von der Ropp, Hamburg 1959, p. 120 ( digitized version ).
  5. ↑ Hartwig-K. Neuwald: old, neat and rare. In: Nordkurier . November 16, 2012 ( Online  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.nordkurier.de  

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 11.4 "  N , 13 ° 50 ′ 0.2"  E