Krien Church
The Krien Church is a church building in the municipality of Krien in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the parish of Krien- Iven in the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Until 2012 she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
history
The place Krien was created in the Middle Ages as a typical round village. The church is in the center of the former Rundling, possibly on the site of an earlier Slavic sanctuary. The oldest part of the Kriener church, the two-bay choir with the north sacristy , is dated around 1280. The now plastered brick hall of the nave was built in the 14th century. The one from 1328. The tower and the southern extension, the former Kindelhaus , were built later.
Until the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania , the Stolpe Monastery held the church patronage, which it was given to Duke Barnim III in 1328, as can be seen from the earliest known mention of the church . left for life. The churches in Wegezin and Steinmocker were branch churches of the Krien mother church. After the secularization of the monastery in the 16th century, the patronage passed to the respective sovereign.
In 1936 a heater was installed. In 1966 the church was extensively renovated.
building
The hall church is a brick Gothic building . The choir that has not been removed has just been completed. In its east wall you can see an attached former stepped three-window group. At the corners of the nave there are stronger, stepped buttresses, two on the south side and three weaker ones on the north side . The windows are ogival. In the gable of the north sacristy there are pairs of diaphragms with lintels. The brick annex on the south side of the choir has a pointed arched step portal and a half-timbered gable.
The west tower has a basement made of field stone with an ogival five-step portal border with inserted pear rods . The upper floor was built in the 18th century in half-timbered construction and paneled around the middle of the 20th century. The tower has a baroque hood with clapboard and pointed helmet .
While the nave has a flat ceiling, the choir is spanned with a ribbed vault. Remnants of wall paintings and consecration crosses have been preserved. The paintings, probably from the beginning of the 15th century, show a mythical animal on the east wall and two saints on the south side. There is a high, ogival niche in the north wall. The southern porch surrounds the former priest's gate, which is designed as a portal with a pointed arch and rich drapery.
Furnishing
The altar has a baroque tower from the second half of the 18th century. In the middle is a carved crucifixion group in front of a painted cityscape , in which the figures of Mary and John are missing. The Lord's Supper is shown in the predella . The altarpiece has sinuous columns on the side. In the vividly carved cheeks with acanthus leaves are oval portraits of Moses and Aaron .
The Renaissance style pulpit is richly decorated with fittings , rests on a column with a leaf capital and was dated 1602. Paintings with scenes and figures in aedical framing show the baptism of Christ and the miracle of Pentecost at the entrance , the evangelists at the pulpit and Jesus Christ in the middle .
A seated Madonna with child carved from oak , the so-called Madonna von Krien , which was probably made in a Lübeck workshop around 1320 , has been lost since the Thirty Years' War . In 1955 she was found again while doing roofing work over the northern sacristy.
The bell dates from the 15th century. On its lower edge there are impressions of bracteates that were struck in Stralsund and Demmin .
The organ with a neo-Gothic prospect was installed in the 19th century.
Baptismal font
When installing a heating system in 1936, a granite block adorned with ornaments was found in front of the southern entrance gate in the chancel. It was lying on its side at a depth of about two meters, partially embedded in clay under the foundation, and was damaged during the recovery. The stone has been the baptismal bowl since 1966 .
This stone is 77 cm high and has the outline of a rounded rectangle 55 cm long and 36 cm wide. On the top there is an almost circular depression with a maximum diameter of 22 cm and 8 cm deep. An 8 cm long and 4 cm deep notch, which is 4 cm wide at the top and tapers sharply towards the bottom, is 4 cm next to the depression.
The stone is carved in relief on the sides. A large Latin cross with several opposing bulges (buds) occupies one side of the stone. A grapevine with grapes is depicted to the left of the cross. There are stylized lilies on either side of the cross. A rooster stands on the tip of a lily. A larger rooster with a star can be seen on the back.
The representations on the stone show it as a Romanesque stone with Christian symbolism . The representation of the larger rooster also gives rise to the assumption that it could originally have been a cult stone of the Slavs . The former Kriener pastor Walter Kusch put forward the thesis that the picture stone initially served the Slavs south of the Peene as a sacrificial stone, before it was provided with Christian symbols and used as a holy water font in the late 12th century. In his opinion, the deep burial of the stone, which he dates to around 1300, suggests that the importance of the object for pagan beliefs was not forgotten even after the rededication.
A smaller pictorial stone with similar symbolism was originally located in Dersewitz, about six kilometers away, and came to the Stralsund Cultural History Museum as a holy water stone in the 20th century .
literature
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1899, pp. 205–209.
- Jana Olschewski: Krien, ev. Church . In: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , pp. 39–40.
- Walter Kusch: A strange font . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 68, NG Elwert, Marburg 1982, pp. 45-50 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature about Krien Church in the state bibliography MV
- Krien, church. In: Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved February 13, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ev. Parishes of Krien and Iven. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
- ^ Hellmuth Heyden : Church history of Pomerania. Vol. 1, 2nd edition, Cologne-Braunsfeld 1957, p. 55.
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 691.
Coordinates: 53 ° 49 ′ 52.1 ″ N , 13 ° 26 ′ 51.1 ″ E