Rathebur Church
The Rathebur Church is a 13th-century church building in the Rathebur district of the Ducherow community in Western Pomerania .
The first mention of a church in Rathebur comes from the year 1271. The Stolpe monastery owned the church patronage , but left it to Duke Barnim III for life in 1328 . The rectangular, plastered field stone building with the retracted, just closed choir was changed several times, most recently in 1935. The upper floor of a church tower built in 1637 on a medieval field stone basement was severely damaged and demolished in 1953 by a fire in a neighboring barn where ammunition was blown up.
The church's furnishings include a pulpit altar from the first half of the 18th century, a life-size crucifix, the cup of a very old baptismal font and three paintings: Ecce homo (1699, H. Eisfeld), an epitaph (1711), a pastor's picture by JG Häger († 1782).
The church has a bell from the 15th century .
The Protestant parish has been part of the Pasewalk 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 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Hermann Hoogeweg : The founders and monasteries of the province of Pomerania. Vol. 2. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1925, p. 700.
Web links
- Literature about the church Rathebur in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
Coordinates: 53 ° 44 ′ 26.9 " N , 13 ° 47 ′ 8.9" E