Lüssow Church (Gützkow)

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Lüssow Church, south side

The Lüssow Evangelical Church , also known as the Lüssow Chapel , is a Gothic church building in Lüssow , a district of the town of Gützkow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the parish of Züssow - Zarnekow - Ranzin in the church district of Pomerania.

location

The Alte Dorfstraße runs in a west-east direction as a central connecting road through the village. In the historical center, the building stands north of this axis on a slightly elevated surface, which is enclosed with uncut and non-layered field stones .

history

The Dehio manual assumes that the church "probably" originated in the 15th century. This corresponds to an indication of the municipality on an information board west of the building. The church patronage could therefore have been with the families of the von Owstin and the von Horn families . After the introduction of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania , she became the daughter of the Ranziner Church . After the Thirty Years War , in the second half of the 17th century, the building fell into disrepair. In 1665 Hermann von Wolffradt had the church rebuilt from his own resources. Presumably around 1725 the building was given a baroque church interior

In 1822/1823 the building had to be renovated at a cost of 400 thalers. In 1843 a manorial crypt was placed in front of the west gable as a hereditary burial for the von Wolffradt family . From 1877 to 1878, Achim von Voss-Wolffradt, as patron, had the church extensively renovated and redesigned inside and out. The three-storey tower with a pointed helmet was built by Georg Daniel from 1877 to 1878 as head of the Mecklenburg-Strelitz building administration at the time. Because of the crypt in front of the west wall, the tower had to stand on the southern long side.

In 1961 the crypt was converted into a winter church. The coffins from Wolffradt's hereditary burial were buried in the cemetery. Extensive renovation work took place from 1972 to 1978.

Building description

North side

The hall church was essentially built from reddish brick . The choir is three-sided and slightly drawn in. On each side there are three coupled, lancet triple windows and one stepped buttress .

Those to the west form the transition to the nave . On the south side the three-storey, neo-Gothic south tower dominates , which can be entered through a richly decorated, ogival portal with a pressed segment arched gate. On the left and right on the ground are the coats of arms of the von Wolffradt family, another coat of arms of the family is located above the stepped west portal of the extension. Above it is a triangular gable with staggered pointed arch openings. In the upper floor of the tower there is an ogival panel on each side , into which two coupled sound arcades with a circular panel above were built. The cover itself is decorated with a frieze at the top . This is followed by the pyramid roof that ends with a tower ball and cross.

In the west wall there is a bricked-up Gothic pointed arch window. In the west gable there are five staggered tracery panels with pointed arches, coupled inner panels and circular panels in the gusset. The windows were given their shape during the renovation work in 1878. The western neo-Gothic extension is rectangular, the western gable is richly decorated with pinnacles and panels.

Furnishing

West portal

The baroque furnishings from 1724/1725 come from the workshop of the Stralsund sculptor Elias Keßler . These include the two-storey altarpiece with, presumably, renewed in 1878, depictions of the Last Supper in the predella , the Ascension of Christ in the crown and a plastic crucifix in front of a painted cloudy sky. On the plinths of the pillars are the initials CG v. W. (for Carl Gustav von Wolfradt) and MS v. E. carved. Further furnishings include a baptismal angel with a shell-shaped baptismal bowl as well as the staircase and sound cover of the pulpit . Another decorative element of Kessler is the wooden desk angel. The angel figure in a blue robe, holding a book in one hand, supports a lectern for the pastor. The desk angel has been extensively restored and has been part of the interior furnishings again since 2017. The altar panel , also made by Keßler, has carved balusters , fruit hangings and foliage . The pulpit with pilaster structure is dated from 1630 to 1650. On the parapet there are scenes from the life of Jesus Christ , which are believed to date from the 19th century. Several boards with skulls are from the years 1757 to 1812.

The inside of the church has a heavy coffered ceiling and wooden wall paneling from 1878, the crypt extension has a groin vault .

The organ was built in 1878 by Friedrich Friese III . It has 1 manual and 4 registers (octave 4 ', drone 8', flute 8 'and principal 8'). Its neo-Gothic prospect was restored in 1998.

The ringing consists of two bells. The older bell was given to the Lüssow Chapel in 1702 by Christina Rehnskiöld, Hermann von Wolffradt's widow. Carl Gustav von Wolffradt had it recast in 1724. Finally, in 1829, it was cast for the last time in the Zach bell foundry in Stralsund. The second bell was cast in 1925.

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , page 334.
  • Norbert Buske , Gerd Baier: Village churches in the Greifswald regional church. Berlin 1984, p. 127, 193.
  • 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 .
  • Jana Olschewski: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , pp. 35–36.

Web links

Commons : Church in Lüssow  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ev. Parish of Züssow-Zarnekow-Ranzin. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved August 19, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-mv.de  
  2. ↑ Information board : Village and historic Lüssow estate , on Alte Dorfstraße, July 2017.
  3. ^ A b Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 4, Vol. 2, W. Dietze, Anklam 1868, p. 532 ( Google books ).
  4. ↑ a b c Ortschronik Lüssow 1228–1945. (PDF) Retrieved August 21, 2015 .
  5. ^ Ortschronik Lüssow 1946–1989. (PDF) Retrieved August 21, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Carola Nathan: His gentle smile is back . Saved: the desk angel in the village church of Lüssow. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 6 . Monuments publications, 2017, ISSN  0941-7125 , p. 32, 33 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 54 ′ 48.2 "  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 56.2"  E