Ranzin Church

The church in Ranzin (2009)

The Ranzin Church is a 13th century church building in the Ranzin district of the Züssow community in Western Pomerania .

history

The construction of a single-nave , rectangular stone church began around 1249 . In 1850 and 1966/1967 restorations of the church took place.

The church tower was built from brick in 1861 according to plans by Eduard Knoblauch from Berlin on a late Gothic field stone substructure and renovated in 1999. The tower has an eight-sided pointed copper helmet, the current roofing dates from 1989 to 1993.

From 1999, basic work was done in the church, so the church received a new tile roof, a new ceiling and a new floor, and the chairs were replaced.

The choir has a ribbed vault . The wall paintings from the beginning of the 14th century, which were uncovered in 1966/67 and show the creation of Eve, the fall of man and the expulsion from paradise, can be seen in three niches. The community hall has a flat wooden beam ceiling paneled in 1850.

The preserved grave slabs with coats of arms and inscriptions from 1315, 1357 and 1407 for members of the Horn family are among the oldest preserved grave monuments in Western Pomerania. The baptism with tracery forms dates from 1872, the altar and pulpit are modern . The organ was manufactured in Barnim Grüneberg's workshop in 1911 and general overhaul in 1996.

Parish

The Protestant parish has been part of the Demmin Propstei 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 .

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  Grave slab v. Horn 1315

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  Grave slab v. Horn 1357

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  Grave slab v. Horn 1407

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  View to the altar

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  Anna v. Horn, b. Lepel 1733

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  Memorial plaques church patron

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  War Memorial First World War

Web links

Commons : Kirche Ranzin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature about the church Ranzin in the state bibliography MV
• Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
• Information about the church at www.kirchentour.de
• Information on the grave slabs in the church at www.vonhorn.info

Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 58.7 ″  N , 13 ° 31 ′ 32.5 ″  E