Lindenberg Church (Western Pomerania)
The Lindenberg Church is a church building in the municipality of Lindenberg (Western Pomerania) in the Mecklenburg Lake District . It belongs to the parish Hohenbollentin- Lindenberg of the Demmin Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The church was built after 1584 by order of Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern (1545–1592), who owned a castle in the Lindenberg office at that time, over the foundation walls of a previous building. At that time the parish was moved from Kentzlin to Lindenberg.
In 1920 the wooden church tower burned down after a lightning strike. In the 1930s there were first efforts to rebuild the tower. The design by the Demmin architect Bauckmeier, which included a lower tower, was not approved, however. The remains of the basement of the tower were covered with a makeshift roof. In 1956, wall paintings from the end of the 16th century were discovered during restoration work. In 1996 a support association was founded, which took on the task of renovating the church and the steeple. Half of the costs were covered by the Pomeranian Evangelical Church , the other half was collected through donations by the Friends' Association. In March 2012 the church received a new tower. A winter church is to be set up in the basement .
Buildings and equipment
The church is a partially plastered, rectangular building made of field stone with high-lying small segment-arched windows. There is an unadorned gate on the south side. The entrance on the north side is in a small porch.
The church tower has a substructure made of field stone. Up until 1920 there was a wooden tower with vertical walls, which carried the imperial stem of the sloping helmet . When the tower was rebuilt in 2011/2012, a seven-meter-high base made of sand-lime brick was built on the refurbished fieldstone base and covered with boards. The 24 meter high spire placed on top of it has a steel frame that supports its wooden structure. The outside of the tower is clad with sheet copper.
On the walls of the nave there are paintings with biblical scenes in architecturally framed fields. These can be dated to 1597 through inscriptions.
The altarpiece from the second half of the 17th century is designed in the Renaissance style. In the predella the Lord's Supper is depicted in carved figures. In the middle is a carved figure of Jesus Christ above which two angels are arranged. The middle field is framed by winding columns that are wreathed with vine leaves and have putti heads in the Corinthian capitals. In the side pieces there are allegorical female figures. Above there is a strongly projecting cranked cornice, above it is depicted the Ascension of Christ between unscrambled columns. To the side of this are the parts of an openwork pediment on the slopes of which two more female allegorical figures rest. The upper end, on which there was originally a gilded God the Father , was sawed off because it was too high at the installation site. The altarpiece probably came from another, larger church.
The renaissance style altar frames as the altarpiece have six winding balusters, wreathed with vine leaves and grapes . They are divided into two groups of three by pillars decorated with the figures of the apostles. Some of the church stalls have other carvings in the same style. The pulpit is carried by a figure of Moses .
The organ was built in the workshop of Barnim Grüneberg in Stettin in 1867 .
The ringing consisted of two bells until the 20th century, the larger of which was cast in the mid-15th century and the smaller in 1521. A free-standing belfry was removed in the course of the new tower construction. A new belfry is to be built inside the church tower.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 99.
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the province of Pomerania. Part 2 The administrative district of Szczecin. Vol. I, Book I: The Demmin District. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1898, pp. 33–34.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical parish Hohenbollentin-Lindenberg. Retrieved March 28, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Joachim Zdrenka: The lost glass paintings and inscriptions of the 16th century from the church in Gnevezow / Demmin district . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 85, NG Elwert, Marburg 1999, p. 47 ( digitized version ).
- ↑ a b Construction of a new church tower. Friends of the “Church Lindenberg” e. V., accessed on February 16, 2013 .
- ↑ Jana Otto: The spire attracts many onlookers. In: Nordkurier , Demminer Zeitung , March 22, 2012 ( online on the Förderverein's website).
- ↑ Jana Otto: The tower should bring the church back into the village. In: Nordkurier , Demminer Zeitung , November 24, 2011 ( online on the Förderverein's website).
- ↑ Jana Otto: The spire gets copper sheet - Nordkurier reports. In: Nordkurier , Demminer Zeitung , February 15, 2012 ( online on the Förderverein's website).
- ↑ Jana Otto: Church tower throws itself into shell. In: Nordkurier , Demminer Zeitung , March 13, 2012 ( online on the sponsoring association's website).
- ↑ Jana Otto: But not retired - bell comes in the tower. In: Nordkurier , Demminer Zeitung , August 17, 2012 ( online on the sponsoring association's website).
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 46.4 " N , 13 ° 1 ′ 18.6" E