Bergholz Church
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The Bergholz Church is a listed neo-Gothic church building in Bergholz , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
History and architecture
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The neo-Gothic brick building in elaborate forms was built between 1862 and 1864 with a polygonal choir on a high plinth made of layered granite blocks, which probably comes from an earlier medieval church. The nave has blinded structured stepped gables and wimpergartig , so ogival, übergiebelte tracery windows , each by a finial be crowned. On the east gable there are circular screens above the polygonal choir, which has a stepped granite portal in the base zone. The front, square and groin-vaulted brick tower on the west side is bricked up to the top and has a gabled stepped portal , in the tympanum of which there is a sandstone relief of the head of Christ.
The churchyard is surrounded by a stone wall, in which there is a brick churchyard portal from the beginning of the 17th century with a round arched passage and curved gable in the north. In 2000 the church was repaired and covered with a copper roof.
The interior of the church is spanned by a broken wooden barrel vault resting on consoles . The choir, on the other hand, is spanned by a ribbed vault resting on leaf consoles , the wooden keystone of which has been replaced.
Interior
The decor of the entire interior, with an eight-sided pulpit and a baptismal font with tracery forms, the stalls with cheeks that are pierced with pointed arches, and the surrounding gallery resting on consoles with pierced ornaments on the parapet, are in the neo-Gothic style.
The entire wooden furnishings are of the age of the construction. The half-timbered altar wall is clad with pointed arch arcades that were designed in neo-Gothic shapes. The likewise neo-Gothic altar structure with eyelash crowns is covered by a large altarpiece with the crucifixion motif, which was painted by Caspar Wirth around 1703. It originally hung in St. Mary's Church in Stettin and has only been in Bergholz since the 1970s.
The organ with a five-part prospectus in partly openwork, neo-Gothic forms, was built in 1864 by Emil Kaltschmidt from Stettin. The only bell was cast by Dinnies Droyse from Greifswald in 1615 and was originally the baptismal bell of the local St. Nikolai Church .
Parish
The Bergholz parish belongs to the Evangelical Parish Office in Löcknitz , where the main sermon post and the office of the Evangelical pastor are also located. Until 2012 it was part of the Pasewalk parish (seat of the superintendent in Pasewalk) of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church (seat of the bishop in Greifswald). Since May 2012 it has belonged to 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 .
In addition, with the settlement of Huguenot religious refugees from France , there has been a French Reformed congregation in Bergholz since 1687 , which today belongs to the Reformed Church District of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The French Reformed Congregation Bergholz as the main sermon point includes the congregations and places Boock, Caselow, Fahrenwalde, Grimme, Löcknitz, Menkin, Plöwen, Polzow, Rossow and Zerrenthin.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Eginhard Dräger: The crucifixion painting by Caspar W. in Bergholz, Pasewalk district: reference to its possible identity with the altarpiece of St. Marien zu Stettin. In: Baltic Studies 75 (1989), pp. 104-114
- ↑ Evangelical Church Bergholz Cultural Churches
- ^ Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Bergholz village church (with numerous pictures).
- ↑ Huguenots in the Uckermark. Churches in the Uckermark 1: Bergholz.
- ^ Culture portal Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Project village churches in MV. Bergholz Church. ( Memento of the original from September 12, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany. Evangelical parish of Löcknitz.
- ↑ Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Evangelical Parish of Löcknitz: Parish of Löcknitz.
- ^ Reformed Church District.
- ^ French Reformed Congregation Bergholz.
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '34.6 " N , 14 ° 10' 5.1" E