Gnevezow Church
The Gnevezow Church , also known as the Gnevezow Chapel , is a church building in the Gnevezow district of the Borrentin community in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It belongs to the parish Hohenbollentin - Lindenberg in the Demmin provost of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District .
history
The village of Gnevezow belonged to the Verchen monastery since 1286 . A church in Gnevezow was first mentioned in a document in 1309 when a dispute between the priest Hermann Deken and Lutgard von Artlenburg about the church was settled. In 1342 Lutgardis von Hertenburg handed over the Gnevezow church to the priest Albert. The donation of three Hufen to the church in the same year was made in 1354 by Duke Barnim III. approved.
After the introduction of the Reformation in Pomerania and the secularization of the monasteries, the church, now known as the Gnevezow chapel, was a branch church of Wolkwitz . In 1584 Gnevezow came to the ducal office of Lindenberg . Duke Ernst Ludwig exercised the right of patronage over the Wolkwitz mother church and the branch churches in Meesiger and Gnevezow. In 1612 his successor, Duke Philipp Julius, ceded the right of patronage against justice on a Gnevezow farm to Georg von Maltzan.
building
The church was rebuilt in the 16th century from field stone with brick surrounds without a tower. The two half-timbered gables and the roof were renewed when the church was renovated. The roof gables were boarded up vertically.
Two segmented arched windows with lead glass are located high in the long sides and the east gable. A gate in the south side is bricked up today. There is a small rectangular window above it. The west portal still shows a pointed arch niche.
Furnishing
The pulpit with images of the Evangelists as well as the Apostle Paul and Jesus Christ on the stairs, the altar cabinets and the choir stalls with landscape paintings on the parapets are dated to the beginning of the 18th century.
The altar shrine with carved relief scenes of the life and passion of Christ as well as a three-dimensional figure of Christ probably dates from the 17th century. Hugo Lemcke dated the tracery and carvings to the 16th century. The following groups of carved figures are arranged in the altar shrine:
| Left wing | Center shrine | Right wing | ||
|
Annunciation The Holy Communion |
The Three Kings Baptism in the Jordan |
Two writing evangelists Jesus Christ |
Burial of Jesus, resurrection of Jesus Christ |
Jesus blesses the little children The last judgment |
The bell was cast by Ernst Siebenbaum in Rostock in 1697. It is located in a belfry on the east side of the church.
Lost stained glass
In 1842, the then Superintendent of Demmin, Franz Hermann Lengerich (1805–1881), presented the Society for Pomeranian History and Antiquity with messages and drawings of four glass paintings that were in the church. Lengerich's letter and the drawings that Wolkwitz pastor Heinrich Ferdinand Severin († 1850) commissioned are now in the Greifswald State Archives . The traces are those of the coats of arms of Duke Ernst Ludwig (only fragments), his wife Sophia Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , the ducal governor of Verchen and Lindenberg, Jürgen Köthe, and his wife, Anna von (der) Marwitz. The coat of arms ascribed to Anna von Marwitz fits neither with the von der Marwitz family nor with that of her second husband, Claus von Buckow. It may be the mistakenly assembled remains of two glass paintings. Another coat of arms on the same drawing sheet, above a sitting dove, below three flower branches growing out of the earth, could not yet be assigned. The ducal coats of arms were probably donated before Ernst Ludwig's death in 1592, those of the governor and his wife in 1597.
Since Hugo Lemcke did not mention the stained glass in his series The Architectural and Art Monuments of the Province of Pomerania , it can be assumed that these were no longer available towards the end of the 19th century.
literature
- Joachim Zdrenka: The lost glass paintings and inscriptions of the 16th century from the church at Gnevezow / Demmin district . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series, vol. 85, NG Elwert, Marburg 1999, pp. 39-48 ( digitized version ).
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 93.
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the province of Pomerania. Part 2 The administrative district of Szczecin. Vol. I, Book I: The Demmin District. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1898, pp. 20–21.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hohenbollentin-Lindenberg parish. Retrieved March 28, 2013 .
- ^ Pomeranian document book . Vol. 4, Part 2, No. 2570.
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '25.7 " N , 12 ° 57' 50.2" E