Gross Bünzow Church
The Groß Bünzow church is a late Gothic church building from the 15th century in the Groß Bünzow district of the Klein Bünzow community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
Church building
The rectangular, tile-roofed hall church was built from field stones . Individual molded parts are made of brick . The east and west gables have two-part panels, the south portal a three-tiered wall . The sacristy with piscina also dates from the time of construction . An originally existing church tower was demolished in the Thirty Years War . In the north-east of the church a crypt was added for the landlord of Groß Bünzow and Hohensee , who died in 1738 , the Royal Swedish Major General Andreas von Fürstenberg and his family. The gable of the extension is half- timbered. The door that leads from the church into the crypt annex is adorned with the Swedish barons coat of arms of the von Fürstenberg family .
Interior
The interior, which has a flat wooden ceiling, includes a wooden pulpit from 1769 , a baptismal font with acanthus carving , a life-size wooden crucifix from the first half of the 16th century and a western gallery (17th or 18th century) with carved ones Evangelist reliefs and two coats of arms, Buggenhagen and Eickstedt , probably the two wives of Christoph von Owstin . The organ loft was restored in 1957.
organ
The organ by Carl August Buchholz from 1840 has been in the church since 1980 and was expanded and rebuilt from the church in Leplow in 1971 on the advice of church music director Dietrich Prost . The organ has not been playable since 2008 and was restored by the organ builder Christian Scheffler (Jacobsdorf) until 2011 . The instrument has 8 registers (6 manual registers and 2 pedal registers ) and a calcant bell . The disposition is as follows:
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- Playing aid : Calcanten bell
Bells
The wooden belfry standing in front of the gable of the church in the churchyard bears two bells from around 1900.
Parish
The Protestant parish has been part of the Demmin 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 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Fürstenberg history: a representation of the family von Fürstenberg and its Westphalian, Baltic and other lines through eight centuries , in connection with Wenemar Count von Fürstenberg-Herdringen and Hermann Freiherrn von Fürstenberg-Körtlinghausen ed. by Friedrich von Klocke , Münster i. W .; Friedrich von Klocke, The Origin of the Swedish and Pomeranian v. Fürstenberg , in: Zeitschrift für Niedersächsische Familienkunde 29 (1954), pp. 89–95
- ↑ More information about the organ on the website of the restoring organ building company
Web links
- Literature about church Groß Bünzow in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
- Information about the church at www.kirchentour.de
- Website of the parish
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 3.7 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 32.2" E