Gorke Church
The Görke Church is a 14th-century church building in the Görke district of the Postlow community in Western Pomerania .
The tile-roofed hall building made of subsequently plastered brick with three-sided east end and buttresses was built in the middle of the 14th century. In a restoration in 1861, the western gable aperture and emerged tower of brick, the three-piece lancet windows were replaced. The stepped walls of the two large pointed arch portals on the north and south sides have an inserted round and pear-shaped staff. The west gable and tower show grouped, narrow panels. The two-part gable with apex circle is divided by pinnacles . The pyramid roof of the church tower is made of brick.
The flat-roofed interior has neo-Gothic wooden furnishings with a block altar , pulpit , choir screens , stalls and west gallery . The altar is adorned with cloverleaf arches, the choir screens have an openwork parapet and a large eyelash between pinnacles as a closure to the longitudinal wall. Openwork cloverleaf tracery is attached to the stairway parapet of the pulpit, the west gallery shows a four-leaf motif. The organ with a neo-Gothic prospect was made in 1882 by Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin. In 1990 the interior was renovated.
The only bell in the church was cast by Johann Heinrich Scheel from Stettin in 1769.
The Protestant parish 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 .
Web links
- Literature about the Church of Görke in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
- Information about the church at www.kirchentour.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 50 ′ 50.8 " N , 13 ° 38 ′ 19.7" E