Ducherow Church
The Protestant Church Ducherow is a field stone church in Ducherow in Western Pomerania, probably from the 15th century . The parish has belonged to 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 main street runs through the village in a west-east direction. Of her branches to the south back street , which leads in an arc around the building. To the east of the area enclosed in this way, the official route branches off from Hinterstrasse in a northerly direction, thus connecting the main road in turn. In the middle of this area, the church stands on a plot of land that is fenced in with field stones .
history
In 1307 a Nicolaus Kerchere (Kirchherr) in Ducherow was named as pastor. At that time, the Stolpe monastery held the church patronage, which it gave to Duke Barnim III for life in 1328 . left. Originally it was the mother church of Busow and Bugewitz . However, both the parish and the Dehio manual give the construction date "probably" the 15th century. However, neither comment on whether the church was possibly built on a previous building. An information board in front of the church, however, indicates that it is supposed to be a medieval boulder building from the 13th century. In the Thirty Years' War - according to other information in the Second Northern War - it was destroyed and rebuilt in 1718. In 1744 craftsmen under the direction of the building director Andreas Christoph Neumann increased the church tower to three storeys and provided it with a Welsch hood . During this time the Prussian field marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin held the church patronage. Presumably the church furnishings were also renewed at this time . In 1914, the then patron saint, Count Ulrich von Schwerin, donated a carillon to confirm his daughter . The tower clock factory Rochlitz in Berlin made eight bells from bronze. During the Second World War , the parish had to deliver all bells as part of a metal donation from the German people . Only the oldest and largest from 1472 remained. In 1990 the interior of the church was repainted. In 1991 it was given a new tower and roof covering made of bricks and in 2002 it was newly plastered in white.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. The east wall is dominated by two large round arched windows, the delimitation of which is emphasized by light colored bezels . The same applies to the corners of the building, which are highlighted with pilaster strips . Above it is a plastered pediment decorated with pinnacles with six ascending panels .
The shape of the choir windows can also be found on the north side of the nave . Here, two windows grouped in pairs are installed on the otherwise simple facade. On the south side there are also two windows in the western area. To the right of it is a classicist epitaph from that of Schwerin. To the right of it is a small, pointed arch-shaped and clogged gate, followed by a carefully exposed, rectangular area that reveals a view of the masonry (monument protection?). The wall closes to the east with another large arched window.
The transverse rectangular west tower takes up the full width of the nave. Its corners are structured with a square plaster ; On the lower floor, further pilaster strips adorn the western facade. In between there is a small, pressed segment arch-shaped gate with a narrow canopy. A verse from Deuteronomy can be seen about it: “You will be blessed when you come in / and you will be blessed when you go out” (Deuteronomy 28: 6). There is an arched window on the north and south walls. The middle tower floor is tapered by a small, all-round roof. On the west facade there are again square corners, which in the middle area comprise an arched panel, an overlying sound arcade and a tower clock. This ashlar plaster is missing on the north and south sides. Here are each a window as well as a sound arcade and clock. The Welsche Haube ends with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit , which dates from the 17th century, was placed over the altar in 1860 . The polygonal pulpit was decorated with leaf tendrils; the cassettes are decorated with paintings of Jesus Christ and the apostles James , John , Paul and Peter . The sound cover is provided with a sculptural group of figures with Jesus Christ and that of the four evangelists ; the pulpit foot - originally carried by Moses - with the scene from the Lord's Supper . The Dehio manual describes the structure as "of good quality". On the south side of the chancel there is a round tombstone of Henricus Schulte, who was pastor from 1569. Another epitaph is reminiscent of R. Heise and dates from the beginning of the 16th century. Below the sanctuary there is a crypt that has been closed since 1860.
The organ on the west gallery was manufactured in 1850 by the FW Kaltschmidt company from Stettin and restored in 2006. The inside of the building is flat covered and has a cove at the transition . Individual pieces of the originally painted beam ceiling were reused by the craftsmen in the tower.
On the outer, southern nave is a wall grave of those von Schwerin. It is modeled on an aedicula and dates from the beginning of the 19th century.
The church bells initially consist of a large bronze bell from 1472. The Latin prayer of consecration is stamped on it: O Rex gloriae tuae, veni cum pace. aD MCCCCLXXII. ("O King of your glory, come with peace. In the year of the Lord 1471.") After the Second World War, the parish had two more cast-iron bells made in 1957. In 1997, the eight previously dismantled bells were added. Three melodies are played every day: in the morning at 8:00 am "Wake up to my heart and sing" by Paul Gerhardt , at noon at 12:00 pm "Jesus walk ahead on the path of life" and "Now all forests rest" at 7:00 pm or in winter at 5:00 p.m.
To the east of the choir there is a boulder with a memorial plaque bearing the inscription: "In memory of / of victims of / violence, war, / flight and / displacement". A dove of peace is depicted above. To the north of this stone is a small plaque with the inscription: "In 1945/4 soldiers and / 2 women / were buried here."
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
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 .
Web links
- Literature about the church Ducherow in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church on the website of the regional church
- Information about the church at www.kirchentour.de
- The website of the Ducherower Glockenspiel on glocken-ducherow.de
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 692.
- ↑ Information board : The church in Ducherow , erected on the building, July 2017.
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 51.8 ″ N , 13 ° 47 ′ 1 ″ E