Bugewitz Church
The Evangelical Church of Bugewitz is a 15th-century stone church in Bugewitz in Western Pomerania . The Protestant parish has been part of the Pasewalk provost 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
The central connecting element in the village is the Dorfstrasse , which opens up the district from the west . It branches off in the north as a village road to the north. To the east of this intersection, the building stands on a raised surface that is enclosed by unevenly layered and unhewn field stones .
history
The sacred building was probably built in the 15th century and was badly damaged in the Thirty Years War . Then the built church , the building in 1718 again. The eastern gable was plastered and the windows changed. In 1784, craftsmen built the church tower . In 2000 the tile-roofed church was extensively renovated; In 2008 it received a new exterior plaster.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the plastered east wall are two pressed-segment arched windows. To the right of each, the parish erected two powerful buttresses covered with a red beaver tail . The gable is richly structured: In the lower area there are eight plastered panels , of which the two outer panels are shortened in height. Above this is a plaster tape and three further, ascendingly larger panels. In addition, five pinnacles adorn the gable.
The north and south walls of the nave are largely divided equally. Three large windows dominate here, the shape of which is accentuated with a light colored glass . At the northeast corner is another, two-tiered buttress. On the south side, to the right of the middle window, a clogged, arched gate can be seen. To the west is another buttress on either side.
The west wall of the nave is essentially divided by a large wooden portal and two pointed arches arranged in pairs on the sides. The gable above has no openings. It leads into the compact tower tower, which was built from half-timbering . The compartment consists of reddish bricks with a small sound arcade built into each of the three accessible sides . The tower ends with a pyramid roof with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The church furnishings are uniform with neo-Gothic decor and dates from 1880. This includes a pulpit altar with a semicircular basket, which is decorated with friezes and ogival panels. Its entrance and the sacristy are decorated with ornaments and passages . The altar enclosure is adorned with round arches; the stalls were designed with pinnacles, quatrefoils and slender three-leaves, which can also be found in the coffered fields of the gallery . A wooden candlestick was formed in 1879. The organ was in 1886 by Barnim Green mountain with a neo - Prospectus and structured pilasters made. The interior shows a cove ceiling and a stepped, round-arched niche in the southern part of the west wall, which extends almost the entire height of the building.
The only bell in the church is made of bronze and was made in 1450 by the same master as that of the Ducherow church .
To the southwest of the building there is a small boulder in the churchyard that commemorates “The Unknown Soldier”.
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 .
- Landurlaub Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ed.): Open Churches II - From Greifswalder Bodden to Peene , Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , p. 60
Web links
- Literature about the Bugewitz Church in the State Bibliography MV
- Information about the church on the website of the regional church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board : Bugewitz Church , attached to the nave, July 2017.
- ↑ Bugewitz Church , website kirchentour.de, accessed on August 11, 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 27.2 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 49.1" E