Rollwitz Church
The Evangelical Church of Rollwitz is a stone church from the 13th century in Rollwitz , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The parish of Zerrenthin and Rollwitz is part of the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
location
Prenzlauer Chaussee runs through the town in a northeast-southwest direction as part of the federal highway 109 . From here the village road branches off to the east and spans the historic village green with manor house and pond to the south. The church stands northeast of the two streets on a site that is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
Starting with the choir , the sacred building was erected in the 13th century. The original plan was to add a wider nave to the west. However, these plans were never realized. Around 1429 the church patronage was with those of Lindstedt . The place was badly devastated during the Thirty Years War . The Rittmeister von Winterfeldt campaigned to rebuild the badly damaged church in 1730. In 1840 a lower western extension with a boarded tower was added. From 1994 to 1998, the renovated church the building.
Building description
The choir is straight and was built in the lower area from carefully hewn and layered granite blocks. On its eastern side are three lancet windows that date from the time it was built. Changes or distortions in the masonry cannot be seen. The eastern gable , on the other hand, was built from uncut, comparatively smaller stones. On the southern wall of the choir are two large, segment-arched windows that extend almost over the entire facade. The bottles are brightly plastered and therefore stand out clearly. To the left is an added, pressed-segment arched priests gate whose soffit was repeated with reddish brick. On the north side of the choir, on the other hand, there is a small lancet window and to the west a larger ogival window, also accentuated with a bezel. Among them are the remains of a broken sacristy from the time the choir was built. Parts of the planned, much wider ship can also be seen to the west. Below the eaves , the masonry was repaired with reddish bricks. The simple gable roof is covered with beaver tail .
The retracted nave connects to the west . It was also built from field stones; the facade, however, is lightly plastered. There are two smaller, beehive-shaped windows on each side with plastered bottles.
The west tower takes up the full width of the nave. There are no openings on the north and south sides. It can be entered from the west through a segment arched portal and was built from brick. An arch can be seen in the masonry above the gate (arching?). The west gable, like the upper tower floor , was clad with boards. The top is square with small, star-shaped sound arcades . This is followed by the kinked spire , which ends with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar is dated to 1731. It consists of a large column structure and a pulpit , which is decorated with images of Jesus Christ and the evangelists as well as several putti . Above it is a blown gable with a ray glory and other putti. The crucifixion of Christ is depicted in the main field . The stalls and the gallery are decorated with scenic paintings from the 18th century. For example, they show the parable of the prodigal son . The metal fifth was made in the 18th century and is decorated with acanthus . On the east wall there is a niche with a wooden beam which, according to a dendrochronological examination , could be dated to around 1235. It is still unclear whether this can also be used to narrow down the construction period of the choir. It is also conceivable that the construction of the church has been delayed.
The organ with a prospectus in neo-renaissance forms comes from the Kaltschmidt family of organ builders from Stettin .
The interior of the building is flat covered; the triumphal arch pointed. The church originally had two bells that were cast in 1350. The smaller one with a diameter of 85 cm is still there. The larger, 88 cm in diameter, had to be given by the parish as part of a metal donation by the German people . It first came to the St. Jacobi Church in Prenzlau and from there to the bell foundry in Apolda . It was rediscovered in Leipzig in 2000 ; the parish has been trying to get a repatriation since then.
To the south-west is a boulder that commemorates the fallen from World War I.
Community house extension
After the sale of the rectory , which has been vacant since 2003, the parish has an extension for a parish hall built on the north side of the church . In 2019 construction work on the multifunctional building made of wood and glass could begin. Completion is planned for winter 2020, so that church services can be celebrated in the ship-shaped new building and the hall can be used for village events.
literature
- 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 .
Web links
- Literature about the Church of Rollwitz in the state bibliography MV
- Church Rollwitz , Kirchentour MV, accessed on August 20, 2017.
- UMtv contribution: A special parish hall. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Matthias Friske: The medieval churches in the northern and eastern Uckermark: history - architecture - equipment . Lukas Verlag, December 31, 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-196-9 , p. 351–.
- ^ History of the municipality of Rollwitz , website of the municipality of Rollwitz, accessed on August 20, 2017.
- ↑ A special parish hall. Retrieved June 14, 2020 .
- ^ Community letter Jatznick, Rollwitz and Zerrenthin 2019, p. 13. Retrieved on June 14, 2020 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 28 ′ 24.4 " N , 13 ° 58 ′ 45.7" E