Glewitz Church
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The Glewitz Church is a church building in the municipality of Glewitz . It comes from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century.
history
At the end of the 13th century the polygonal choir was built, to which the three-bay brick hall was added after 1350 . The west tower was built from field stones in the 15th century.
After a collapse in 1717 the western choir vault was renewed. In 1851 the church was plastered, ten years later a wooden tower with a pyramid roof was placed on top of the tower.
The church is dedicated to St. Margaretha.
layout
The choir has slim, high Gothic proportions. The buttresses are stepped, the three-lane pointed arch windows in the apex of the choir have masonry rosettes in the spandrels. The nave has two-lane windows in pointed arches. The north sacristy was demolished.
The ceiling is designed as a ribbed vault.
Furnishing
The sights in the church include mural friezes in the choir and nave from around 1370/1380, figures of apostles on the pillars, some depictions of saints and biblical scenes.
The neo-Gothic altarpiece dates from 1869 and shows a painting of Christ. The pulpit with sound cover was built in 1786. The oldest pieces of furniture include a crucifix from the end of the 15th century and a relic of the former Marian altar, St. Catherine, from 1425.
organ
The organ was made by Johann Friedrich Schulze in 1844 . It has a three-part, neo-Gothic prospectus.
Peal
The only bell in the church was made in 1370/1380.
local community
The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Demmin parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
Web links
- Literature about the church Glewitz in the state bibliography MV
- Church district Pomerania
- Video and information about the church bell in Glewitz
Coordinates: 54 ° 1 '10 " N , 12 ° 55' 54.8" E