Rakow Church
The Rakow Church is a church building from the middle of the 13th century in the district of Rakow in the Western Pomeranian community of Süderholz .
The church was built mainly from field stone, only the southern wall of the nave and the western church tower with its sloping walls are made of brick . The square choir and the two-bay nave are tiled. The gable of the choir has three-part panels and a cross and is plastered over. The tower has a pyramid roof.
The choir bears an eight-ribbed dome , the nave with retracted buttresses has a ribbed vault.
The furnishings include remains of a late Gothic wall painting, a wooden altar structure , a wooden epitaph from the 17th century and a late Gothic crucifix . The pulpit was made in Elias Keßler's workshop in 1728 .
On December 3, 2017, the new bell, which was cast by the Bachert bell foundry in Karlsruhe, was rung for the first time. The bell weighs 740 kilograms and the total cost was 25,000 euros, the majority of which was raised by donations. The inscription on the bell reads: “I sound the happy to give thanks, the sad to comfort and to glory to God.” This saying combines the inscriptions of the former baptismal bell, the death bell and the main bell. These iron bells from 1992 could not be rung since 2012 because of their poor condition.
The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Demmin parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
literature
- Dehio , Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1980, page 297
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ The new bell came in the carriage in www.evangelische-zeitung.de, accessed on December 27, 2017
Coordinates: 54 ° 2 '53.4 " N , 13 ° 2' 58.4" E