Gnevkow Church
The Gnevkow Church is a church building in Gnevkow in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It belongs to the Hohenmocker parish of the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The church was built in the 15th century. At that time Gnevkow belonged to the Ivenack Monastery in Mecklenburg . After the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania and the secularization of the monastery property, the place came to the office of Klempenow . The church patronage went to the sovereign. The Gnevkower Church was since then a branch church of Hohenmocker . From 1970 to 1996 it belonged to the Vicarage of Validz . The west gable was renewed in the 18th century. In 1757 the wooden west tower was removed.
An expansion of the church to the west planned in 1866 was rejected by the then building inspector Nikolai from Demmin because the church had to be renovated for security reasons. Between 1999 and 2002 extensive renovation work was carried out on the foundation, walls and roof and new windows were installed.
building
The building was constructed from field stone on a rectangular floor plan . The east gable is made of brick and is structured by panels . The church is plastered today.
The entrance portal on the south side has a pointed arch in front. A closed, arched portal can be seen in the plaster to the right. Another pointed arch portal on the west gable was also bricked up. In the long sides there are two segment-arched windows. The ogival window in the east gable is the only one that has been preserved in its original form. To the south of this there is a niche in the gable that was reopened during earlier renovation work. There was probably a figure of a saint in it.
Furnishing
The interior walls of the church were originally richly decorated. During an exploration in 1997, individual sample areas were uncovered under the up to eleven layers of lime plaster.
The altar comes from the Hohenmocker Church and was installed in Gnevkow in 1757. The altar wall consists of the wings of an earlier carved altar from the first half of the 16th century with figures of saints. Above is the pulpit from the 17th century, for which the central shrine was removed when it was installed in Gnevkow. It is flanked by two figures of Mary with a child from the 14th century and kneeling figures of the donors of the altar from the first half of the 16th century, which were originally located in the central shrine.
A stone mill is used as a holy water font from before the Reformation.
The bell is in a free-standing belfry in the churchyard. It was cast in 1827 by the Schwenn foundry in Stettin and was restored in 2006.
The organ was built in the workshop of Barnim Grüneberg in Stettin in 1882 . It has 270 pipes, a neo-Gothic case and bears the factory number 327. During the restoration in 2002, the sounding prospect pipes were reproduced true to the original, as the tin pipes were used for ammunition production in the Second World War .
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, pp. 26-27.
Web links
- Literature about Gnevkow Church in the state bibliography MV
- Gnevkow Church. Hohenmocker rectory, accessed on March 25, 2017 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hohenmocker parish office. Retrieved July 29, 2015 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 47 '24 " N , 13 ° 10' 4.3" E