Gross Luckow Church
The Evangelical Church of Groß Luckow is a stone church from the second half of the 13th century in Groß Luckow , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The church belongs to the provost Pasewalk in the parish of Pomerania of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
location
The village road leading from the north to the historic village green. At the northwest corner it branches off to the west, but also runs south past the village green. There the church stands in the middle on a slightly elevated plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The place had been owned by the von Raven since the late 12th century . They also held the church patronage and had a village church built at the end of the 13th century . In 1918 there was a fire in the building, which was then extensively renovated. Craftsmen replaced the upper story of the church tower and renewed the interior painting. However, the church furnishings from the 17th century were almost completely saved.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones, which were layered in layers and relatively carefully carved. The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east wall there are two pressed, segment-arched windows, the chamfers of which are emphasized by a light, rectangular plaster . The remains of a narrow pointed arch window can be seen in the center. Repair work on the two existing windows shows that there was originally a group of three windows on the east wall . In the gable , which is also made of field stones, there are three pointed arch-shaped, brightly painted panels .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. Here, too, there are two pressed-segment arched windows that show signs of repair. It is likely that pointed arched windows were also installed here at an earlier point in time. A walled gate is slightly off-center to the west. It is still in its original state on the south side. A clogged pointed arch window can still be seen in the western area.
The church tower takes up the full width of the ship in the lower area. The entrance is from the west via a large and also ogival portal. There are no other openings on the lower floor. In contrast to the choir, the gable is plastered. In the center is a large round arch-shaped screen, into which a semicircular window is let in in the upper area. The bell storey extends above it. On the three accessible sides there is initially a rectangular planking, which was probably intended for a tower clock. Above it are two arched sound arcades on all four sides . An octagonal tower spire extends above a curved tower dome , which merges into a spire with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The altarpiece is described in the Dehio manual as "complex". It was created in 1625 and is decorated with ribbon work . The patron had figurative jewelry added in 1918. The top is crowned by a crescent moon Madonna from the beginning of the 16th century. Other church furnishings include a pulpit from the first half of the 17th century, which is decorated with images of the evangelists in the basket cheeks. Jesus Christ can be seen on the back wall . Next to the pulpit there is an epitaph on the north wall that commemorates the church patron and his wife. After the fire in 1918, a box prospect with round arcades probably came into the building. The painting shows, among other things, the Holy Spirit , symbolized by a dove with a halo . As a further part of the painting, there is a plaque on the north wall that commemorates the fallen from the Wars of Liberation and the First World War . There is an organ on the gallery , which the organ builders Schlag & Söhne probably built around 1920.
In the cemetery, a double tombstone commemorates the patron H. v., Who died in 1602. Raven. Outside the church cemetery to the south is a memorial stone with a relief of a steel helmet over crossed swords. Below is the inscription: “The empire will never be destroyed / if you are united and loyal!” - a quote from the poem Spring Greetings to the Fatherland by Max von Schenkendorf , which can also be found on the monumental Deutsches Eck in Koblenz and far was common.
local community
Today the church in Groß Luckow is looked after by the parish office in Strasburg (Uckermark) . Groß Luckow is one of the seven parishes belonging to the parishes of Strasburg, Blumenhagen and Wismar: Strasburg (St. Marien), Blumenhagen, Groß Luckow, Klein Luckow, Groß Spiegelberg, Wismar and Schwarzensee. The entire parish, which had long belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Mark Brandenburg , was not handed over to the Pomeranian Evangelical Church until 1974 by the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg .
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German art monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Dorfkirche Groß Luckow , website Dorfkirchen in MV, accessed on August 11, 2019.
- ^ Rectory of Strasburg , accessed on September 18, 2019
- ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Regional Church Greifswald, No. 1, 1974 , p. 2.
Coordinates: 53 ° 32 ′ 7.9 " N , 13 ° 49 ′ 47.1" E