Kröslin Church
The Evangelical Church of Kröslin (also: Christophorus Church ) is a Gothic church building from the 13th century in Kröslin in Western Pomerania . The parish has been part of the Demmin provost 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 . It is the Christopher ordained .
location
The Freester road runs from the north as the Bahnhofstrasse in north-south direction as the central town road through the village. In front of the historic village green, the Platz der Einheit branches off to the west , which as Kirchstrasse leads south onto Gartenstrasse . This finally runs in an easterly direction onto Bahnhofstrasse. In the property enclosed in this way, the church stands on a slightly elevated surface, which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
In 1300, Duke Bogislaw IV set the number of hooves for the church at 15. At the beginning of the 14th century ownership of the village changed. In 1302 Wulfoldus de Below, until then owner of Kröslin, sold the village to the Eldena monastery . The canon law issues were not finally clarified with the purchase. Dendrochronological examination of the roof structure showed that the sacred building was built in two construction phases. In a first construction phase, the hall church was made of brick with a length of four bays in 1322 . In the second phase of construction in 1334, craftsmen erected the stepped buttresses and the eastern gable . At the same time, the sacristy and the west tower were built in the north of the building .
The church in Kröslin continued to belong to the church in Wolgast . Three years after the sale, Bishop Heinrich von Cammin agreed to separate the church from the mother church in Wolgast. Only then was it possible for the monks of the Eldena Monastery to have a direct influence on the history of Kröslin. In 1331, Bishop Friedrich von Cammin confirmed the new parish and the right of the abbot of the Eldena monastery to appoint a clergyman for the newly built church.
In the middle of the 18th century, the parish erected the wooden tower tower with the tail dome. In 1878 and 1947 the interior of the tile-roofed church was renovated. During the renovation in 1878 which was Renaissance - pulpit largely destroyed, the Gothic winged altar from Stralsund Provincial Museum of Neuvorpommern and complaints given and the Gotland font for five marks to the farmers Lüdtke sold as rainwater tanks; it was later returned to the church. Shortly after the end of the Second World War , in 1947, the interior of the church was restored. On June 16, 1995, craftsmen dismantled the bells from the tower. They have been standing next to the building since then.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. The eastern choir wall is dominated by two large, double lancet triple windows with a raised pointed arch, which are embedded in a double tiered wall. The east gable is richly decorated in the lower area with seven coupled and also ogival panels . Above that there is a diaphragm cross and another diaphragm each.
The nave is - except for the north sacristy - constructed axially symmetrical. Four more lancet windows each dominate the facade, each between a two-tiered buttress. On the southern, third yoke, the remains of a pointed arch-shaped, five-stepped priest's gate can be seen, which was bordered with an alternating red-black glazed garment. The portal is covered in reddish brick. Another, much larger, but also clogged gate is on the first yoke on the north side. The sacristy was built from brick, but unevenly hewn field stones were also used in the base. The north wall is rich with stops over a cross bow fries decorated.
The square and retracted west tower is based on a base made of little hewn, large field stones. Above it, it is built entirely from reddish brick. On the west side is a triple stepped, pointed arch portal with a wooden door. In the height of the pointed arch, all-round repair work with lighter layers of bricks can be seen. On the north and south side there is a small lancet window, above it in the two floors an opening in the shape of a segmental arch. This is followed by a curved hood and a wooden octagon in which boarded sound arcades can be recognized. Above it is another curved hood that merges into a pyramid roof , which ends with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The original altarpiece from the 15th century is now in the Stralsund Museum . An altar carpet knotted in Freest hangs above the modern altar . It shows the crucifixion of Jesus and, with a length of four meters and a width of two meters, is considered to be one of the largest Pomeranian fishing carpets in the region . It shows Jesus on the cross, believers and unbelievers at his feet. The carpet is framed with folkloric symbols such as the tree of life and the tri-fish as a symbol for the Trinity . The carpet was created in 1947 and 1948 by the Freester fisher women Erna Pagenkopf , Dorchen Dannenfeld and Gertrud Lenz based on a design by Rudolf Stundl (1897–1990). The neo-Gothic pulpit was built around 1878, while the remains of a previous pulpit from the 17th century are in the tower. Other church furnishings include an octagonal, Gotland baptismal font with clover-leaf-shaped decoration from around 1330.
Also noteworthy are the two epitaphs for Chr. Masdorp, who died in 1587, and Chr. Schmidt, who died in 1599. The nave has a ribbed vault , as does the north sacristy.
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 .
- Christine Senkbeil: “A hundredweight of coal for the knotters” - How the Kröslin Altar Carpet was made. In: Mecklenburgische & Pommersche Kirchenzeitung from August 11, 2008.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Burkhard Kunkel: work and process. The visual arts equipment of the Stralsund churches in the late Middle Ages - a work history . Berlin 2008, p. 173-174 .
- ^ Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 '2.4 " N , 13 ° 45' 7.2" E