Neuenkirchen Church (near Greifswald)
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The Neuenkirchen church is from the 13th / 14th centuries. Century church in the community of Neuenkirchen near Greifswald. It belongs to the parish of Gristow-Neuenkirchen in the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
location
The Alwine-Wuthenow-Ring runs through the town, which splits into two streets when coming from the north, only to reunite in the south. It spans an elliptical plot on which the church stands. The area is fenced in with a wall made of reddish brick .
history
The church patronage of the parish church was Eldena monastery in the Middle Ages . With the help of the Cistercians , the choir was first built around 1280/1290 , and the nave was extended to the west in the third quarter of the 14th century . In the 14th century, craftsmen built the basement of the west tower . It was not completed until 1694 with the upper storeys made of half-timbered buildings with the pyramid roof . In 1651 craftsmen tore down the children's home on the south side of the choir. The window tracery was installed during a restoration by Gustav EB Müller in 1863/1864.
Building description
The choir is straight, not drawn in, and almost square. It was built of reddish brick over a base of carefully layered and hewn granite stones. The east wall is dominated by a large lancet triple window ; the corners are profiled with pilaster strips . The gable is lavishly decorated with a staggered, ascending and pointed arch-shaped panel , several diamond panels and a panel cross. On the southern side of the choir is a raised, three-part tracery window with a polygon in an ogival opening . To the west below this window is a priest's gate with a quadruple stepped, alternately red and black glazed drapery and a profiled warrior . It's added in the 21st century. The remains of the demolished children's house can be seen over the entire facade. In the western area you can see the beginnings of a roof over a broken buttress . The remains of two coupled arches can be seen in the masonry below. On the north side of the choir is the sacristy , which also has an approximately square floor plan. There is a window on the east side and two clogged openings on the north side.
The nave is two bays long and was also built from reddish brick. On the north and south sides, another lancet window with a quatrefoil is installed to the east. To the west there is a large, ogival gate on each side, followed by another window. This consists of two coupled lancet windows with an overlying cross, which is framed by a common quatrefoil. At the transition to the eaves is a circumferential, stepped Carnies . Both the choir and the sacristy have a cross vault , the nave has eight-part vaults with ribbon ribs.
The massive basement of the rectangular west tower is decorated with corner pilaster strips. Individual, still existing teeth on the northwest corner allow the conclusion that it was originally planned in the width of the ship. Several unhewn boulders are built into the base; above it also bricks. The tower can be entered from the west through a large portal with six steps. Left and right are two massive buttresses. The two upper floors were built from timber framing. On the upper floor there are two small, rectangular sound arcades on each side. The pyramid roof ends with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The altar and crucifix are from the redesign of the choir in 1968. On the north side of the choir hangs a painting from the 17th century depicting the Adoration of the Magi , a copy of Rubens from the collection of general superintendent Johann Friedrich Mayer . The painting was integrated into a neo-Gothic altarpiece in 1863/1864 and was given its current location when it was redesigned in 1968. The glass window on the east gable with the title Praise of Creation comes from the workshop of Lothar Mannewitz in 1968, the wrought iron candlesticks and the altar cross by Achim Kühn . There is a sacrament niche on the eastern wall of the choir . The fifth was made in 1968 from shell limestone.
Other church furnishings include the grave slabs of Jacobus Volquin (1378), Hermann von Wampen (1383) and Petrus Warschow (fragment, 1402). You can also see the remains of the wall and vault paintings with Low German minus inscriptions, which were made in the middle of the 15th century and uncovered in 1968 . They show figures in contemporary costume and the toasts “her den nap”, “ghif her drinke”, “sich vor dik dat rade ik” and “gheit ghut wol (l). oh got wol ”. The writings are accompanied by drolleries and tendrils.
The organ was made in 1836 by Johann Friedrich Nerlich from Stralsund . The bellows was built into a baroque confessional .
The two steel bells from 1921, weighing approx. 950 kg, were shut down in 2002 due to severe corrosion.
In the churchyard include Georg Wilhelm Overkamp († 1790) and Thomas Thorild buried († 1808). The rectory is the birthplace of Alwine Wuthenow , whose grandparents were also buried in the churchyard.
literature
- Landurlaub Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (Ed.): Open Churches II - From Greifswalder Bodden to Peene , Thomas Helms Verlag, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , p. 60
- 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 .
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 .
Web links
- Literature about the church in Neuenkirchen (near Greifswald) in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Volker Gummelt: A rediscovered Rubens copy from the estate of General Superintendent Johann Friedrich Mayer. In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 2/2012, ISSN 0032-4167 , pp. 26-28.
Coordinates: 54 ° 7 ′ 7.9 ″ N , 13 ° 22 ′ 30.9 ″ E