Kreckow Church
The Evangelical Church Kreckow is a stone church from the end of the 13th century in Kreckow , a district of the community Groß Miltzow in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The church belongs to the provost Neustrelitz in the parish of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
location
The street Kreckow leads from the northwest into the village. There it runs in a slight arc around the historic village center and leads out of the village in a south-westerly direction. The church stands southwest of this street on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The sacred building was built at the end of the 13th century. At that time the church was an independent parish and only became a branch church of Helpt in 1541 . In the Thirty Years' War destroyed, Wilhelm Ludwig set of Bissing (1682-1762) and his wife Christine Sophie von Lehsten one (1700-1753) in 1752 for reconstruction. In 1749 craftsmen built a west tower , three years later a two- bay crypt in the northeast corner , in which the mortal remains of the church patron found their final resting place. It is possible that at this time the windows were enlarged in a “ baroque ” style. In 1930, experts moved the coffins from the crypt in front of the altar and from then on used the extension as a winter church . Extensive renovations took place in 1935 and 1977. From 1992 Kreckow received pastoral care from Groß Daberkow . In 2008, for the 700th anniversary of the place, the tower clock could be put back into operation. However, it no longer exists in 2019.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones that were layered and carefully hewn. The choir is straight and not moved in. In the center is a pressed-segment arched window that was subsequently inserted into a large round arch. Above that, there are three ogival panels in the gable as well as a small, tall rectangular recess in the middle.
The two-bay extension dominates the north wall of the nave . Its east wall is closed; on the north wall in the lower area there are two retrospectively inserted windows. In each of the gables above there is an arched gate. The extension can be entered from the west through a wooden gate. To the west, the remaining wall of the nave joins with a pressed-segment arch-shaped window, while to the east the remains of a clogged window can be seen, which should come from the construction period. Two of these openings are built on the south side, with a pointed arched portal in between, slightly off-center to the east, which is likely to date from the construction period. The ship and annex have a simple gable roof .
The north and south walls of the west tower were made from fieldstones that were hardly hewn and hardly layered. Craftsmen use reddish brick on the west wall; occasional uncut field stones. The wall was plastered flat earlier . The surface is visually stretched by two pilaster strips . In the center is a rectangular gate that was worked into a pressed segment arch-shaped opening. Above it is a baroque cornice with protruding plaster fillings as well as an ox-eye made from brick . The north and south sides have no windows. The middle floor is optically separated from the rest of the building by another cornice. The tower tapers at this point; the corners are provided with a square plaster . In the middle are two arched openings, one above the other, of which the upper one serves as a sound arcade . It is supplemented by two further sound arcades on the north and south sides. Above it is an octagonal attachment made of reddish brick. A circular panel on the north and south side could have served to accommodate a tower clock. The curved tower spire merges into an octagonal attachment. It closes with a tower ball and a weather vane with the year 1749 and the coat of arms of those of Bissing and those of Lehsten. Above is a star.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar is referred to in the Dehio manual as "large" and "simple". Like the box stalls, it dates from the middle of the 18th century. There are two epitaphs on the floor in front of the altar , which were written to Wilhelm Ludwig von Bissing and his wife Christina Sophia, nee. Remember Lehsten. In the tower there is a semicircular niche with a cast-iron grave monument for the Prussian Colonel Wilhelm Graf von Schwerin (born March 16, 1773 in Wolfshagen ; ⚔ June 18, 1815 in Lasne ), who fell in the battle of Waterloo .
The building has a flat beamed ceiling inside. The shield arches of the former ribbed vault can be seen on the walls in the nave .
Two bells hang in the tower. The larger one was cast by the Schwenn brothers from Stettin in 1827 and was donated by the Count of Schwerin. The second bell is much smaller, dates from 1498 and bears the inscription: Anno MCCCCXCVIII [1498] help anna sulf drydde . To the south-west of the structure is a lime tree that is around 200 years old.
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
- Literature about Kreckow Church in the state bibliography MV
- List of monuments of the Mecklenburg Lake District district
- Church , Kreckow website, accessed August 22, 2019
- Church Kreckow / community Groß Miltzow , website Heimat Mecklenburgische Seenplatte, accessed on August 22, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ Church zu Kreckow , website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, accessed on August 22, 2019.
Coordinates: 53 ° 31 '2.2 " N , 13 ° 38' 29.9" E