Klempenow Church

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Klempenow Church, south side with entrance

The Klempenow Church (also Kapelle Klempenow ) is a half-timbered church on the western edge of the former outer bailey of Klempenow Castle in the municipality of Breest in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It was built at the end of the 17th century and has been sloping since 2017. Considerable financial resources are required to save the listed building.

The church belongs to the parish Daberkow in the Demmin provost of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

The oldest documented mention of a chapel in the outer bailey of Klempenow Castle dates from 1494. Heinrich von Heydebreck praised the reading of a perpetual mass for the transfer of the Klein Basepohl estate by his cousin Joachim (Achim) von Heydebreck. In 1570 a new chapel should have been planned. Possibly no chapel existed at that time. Klempenow was parish in the Golchen church .

The current building was erected around 1690, as dendrochronological studies have shown. Renovation work was carried out in 1755, 1825 and 1866, among others. Between 1780 and 1790 the interior was redesigned and the two window openings on the east side were closed.

After Christmas Eve 1989, due to the poor structural condition, no more services were celebrated in the church, which was finally closed in 1995 by the building inspectorate . In December of the same year, a support association for the renovation of the half-timbered church in Klempenow was founded. From 1997 to 2000 the church was extensively renovated and restored with funds from the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , the Demmin district , the Breest community and from private donations. The church was rededicated on July 9, 2000 .

The church has been tilting and locked since 2017. A repair costs around 700,000 euros. The parish absolutely wants to preserve the valuable church.

building

The Klempenow Church is a rectangular, simple half-timbered building 13 m long and 8 m wide. Because of the subsidence of the subsoil on the northwest side, it is no longer level. At the west gable there is a boarded-up square roof tower with a pyramid roof . The southern portal porch was built in 1825.

Interior

Altar and patronage stalls

The interior with the west gallery, church and patronage stalls comes mainly from the end of the 17th century. The altar, which was built around 1700, was joined to the pulpit originally on the south side in 1788 to form a pulpit altar , as can be seen from a text found in 1996 on the underside of the pedestal in the pulpit cage. The altar enclosure is rectangular with simple grid fields. In the middle is a carved parapet with curved shapes. The altar table was made of bricks. The parapets of the octagonal pulpit are painted with floral motifs. Two columns with leaf capitals flank the pulpit and support the sound cover in the cornice, on the underside of which a carved dove hangs. On the rear cheeks of the altar there is a vegetable carving with rose motifs. The back wall is sawn out.

There has been a chest organ by Matthias Beckmann from Friesack since 2017 .

The bell in the church tower consists of a bell that was cast in 1610. It bears the inscription ALEXANDER WALSLEBE F CAPITAN CLEMPEN NICOLAVS MACHT F RENTMEISTER CLEMPE MARTINVS LAMPERT PASTOR GOLCH BL ANNO 1610 .

literature

  • Roland Lange: Klempenow Castle. Friends of Palaces and Gardens in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Berlin 2004.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b 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, p. 29.
  2. ^ Julius Theodor Bagmihl : Pommersches Wappenbuch . Stettin 1843, Volume 1, p. 58 ( digitized version ).
  3. ↑ Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 1: The administrative district of Szczecin. Paul Niekammer, Stettin 1903, p. 547 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ The congregation does not want to give up the crooked church in Klempenow. In: Nordkurier of October 29, 2019. Retrieved on December 31, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Klempenow Chapel (community Breest). In: village churches in MV. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .
  6. ↑ Klempenow Chapel (community Breest), interior view - pulpit altar. In: village churches in MV. Retrieved December 14, 2014 .

Web links

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Coordinates: 53 ° 47 ′ 28.3 "  N , 13 ° 18 ′ 39.2"  E