Gross Spiegelberg Church
The Protestant church Groß Spiegelberg is a plastered field stone church from the 15th / 16th centuries. Century in Groß Spiegelberg , a district of the municipality Jatznick 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 Spiegelberg street is a central connecting axis, coming from the northwest towards the historic village center. There it surrounds a trapezoidal plot of land on which the church and the surrounding cemetery stands. The area is fenced in with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The exact construction date is not yet known. Experts assume that the sacred building was built in the 15th or 16th century. In the 18th century, the parish had to renew the south wall of the nave. In 1839 they expanded the structure to include a crypt for those of Winterfeldt and built the upper storey of the church tower from bricks .
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones, most of which were plastered. A crypt adjoins the sacred building to the east. It has a rectangular floor plan and can be entered from the east through a wooden gate. Above the rectangular opening is a semicircular window. The east wall was made of uncut and not layered field stones, while the corners and the edging of the portal were made of reddish brick . In the gable is a small circular screen with a square opening. On the plastered north and south walls there is an ox eye in the middle , which is framed in reddish brick. The area below was also made of brick. The north side is badly damaged in 2019. The vault is partially exposed; an emergency roof secures the crypt.
The nave of the nave adjoins the crypt to the west . The east wall is not visible due to the extension. In the gable , a large, ogival panel made of bricks can be seen. The north and south sides of the nave are comparatively simple. There are two tall rectangular windows on each side. The ship has a simple gable roof .
The square west tower is slightly drawn in opposite the ship. It can be entered from the west through an arched gate. The shape is emphasized again by a lightly painted bottle . There are no other openings on the lower floor . On the upper floor there are two pointed arch-shaped, coupled sound arcades on the three accessible sides ; above it two transverse, rectangular panels. The corners facing west are decorated with a square plaster . Above is the bent spire , which ends with the tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The church equipment is described by the parish as "extremely simple". It consists of a simple altar with a bronze candlestick , which was worked in the style of the Empire . The pulpit from the 18th century in the Renaissance style now stands on a small base. The original foot now serves as the fifth . In the tower hangs a bell made by the Schwenn brothers from Stettin , which was made in 1796 and is decorated with Jesus Christ , among other things .
In the cemetery there is an iron grave memorial to General Christian Johann Friedrich Otto von Zieten (1747–1817), who died in 1817 and who was General von Bülow's adjudicator in the wars of liberation .
local community
The church in Groß Spiegelberg is now looked after by the rectory in Strasburg (Uckermark) . Groß Spiegelberg is one of the seven parishes of the affiliated parishes 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 (edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church Groß Spiegelberg , website of the parish of Strasburg (Um.), Accessed on August 13, 2019.
- ^ Rectory of Strasburg , accessed on September 18, 2019
- ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Regional Church Greifswald, No. 1, 1974 , p. 2.
Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 30.5 ″ N , 13 ° 53 ′ 13.3 ″ E