Levenhagen Church
The Levenhagen Church (also: Church of St. Maria and Johannes ) is a late Gothic church building from the 14th century in the municipality of Levenhagen in Western Pomerania .
The polygonal choir of the brick building dates from the second half of the 14th century. The community hall with two side chapels on each side was built at the beginning of the 15th century. After the pilgrimage portal had been walled up, the boarded, copper-roofed church tower was added.
In the interior there is a ribbed vault and ornamental vault painting from around 1500. The wall painting comes from the beginning of the 15th century.
The furnishings include an altarpiece from 1646 depicting the Manna miracle in the desert and carved figures. The twelve-sided baptismal font was made from Gotland limestone in the first half of the 14th century and shows the twelve apostles in scratches in the fields .
Two bells belong to the ringing of the church: the older one, from 1668, was made by Peter Barner from Greifswald, the younger one is from 1968.
In the churchyard there are numerous well-preserved gravestones from the 18th century. One of them is reminiscent of a child by the name of Beata Christin von Scheven . The front is inscribed with: "Born blind on Jan 11, 1784. Learned neither to walk nor to speak and died of emaciation on March 2, 1792." On the back is the inscription "Here in the dark, there in the light I see God." Face ".
There is a former pilgrimage chapel next to the church. It is considered to be the smallest free-standing chapel from the Middle Ages in Northern Europe that has survived after the Reformation .
The Protestant parish of Dersekow-Levenhagen and Görmin 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 .
Web links
- Literature about Levenhagen Church in the state bibliography MV
- Parish of Dersekow-Levenhagen and Görmin
- Information about the church at www.kirchentour.de
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ^ S. Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformatory design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis, in: Gerhard Eimer, Ernst Gierlich, Matthias Müller, eds., Ecclesiae ornatae, Bonn 2009, pp. 269–290, here pp. 272–273, with literature.
Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 16.1 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 20.3 ″ E