Sarnow Church
The Evangelical Church of Sarnow is a listed building in Sarnow , a municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Pasewalk provost in the Pomerania parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The three-part ensemble of church, village school and poor house (hospital) under one roof is unique in German-speaking countries.
location
The federal highway 197 leads from the south-west in a north-easterly direction through the place. In the historic center of the village, the Schwerinsburger Damm branches off to the east. The building ensemble stands southeast of this junction on a plot of land with a surrounding church cemetery , which is only fenced in on the southern side .
history
The new building in place of a previous building was built between 1752 and 1755 with funds from the parish and a grant from the manor. The craftsmen used the field stone foundations of the previous building in the eastern area of the building . For the landlords, the von Schwerin family , this facility was a testament to their pietistic spirit. The total cost was a little more than 2,110 thalers. Sophia Juliane von Schwerin (1694–1755), the sister of Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin , oversaw the construction, but did not see the consecration on March 14, 1756. In 1810 the school was integrated.
In 1900 Victor von Schwerin transferred the school and hospital part of the Sarnow school community. At the beginning of the 20th century, the area of the previous poor house was rebuilt. The ceiling was raised, a classroom and a teacher's apartment were set up. Only one of the 17 chambers remained. Despite multiple interventions and alterations, even in the 20th century, a large part of the original substance was preserved. This also includes remnants of the plaster structure in the form of pilasters and profiled cornices and inside the roof structure that was built during the construction period.
After a new school was built in the village in the 1960s, the school kitchen and dining room were housed in the building in 1965 and used until the school closed in 2008.
From 1968 there were no more services in the church. It was not until 1993/1994 that an emergency backup was made due to the deteriorating structural condition. The wooden construction of the tower in danger of collapsing was renewed in 1999. In the following years, extensive renovation work was carried out with the assistance of the Sarnow community. The work was financially supported by the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany and the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation . Since 2009 the church has been used for church services again.
Building description
The building is divided into three parts. The elongated plastered building stands in the east on an older field stone foundation. The east wall is straight and not drawn in. In the center there is a small, square opening, and above it in the gable another small, high-angle opening. On the north side in the eastern area on the lower floor there are two small windows, followed by a door and a much larger window. Another door and three rectangular windows of equal size follow to the west. To the west is another, smaller window. On the upper floor there are initially five small, square windows. Another one is blocked, followed by two windows and another blocked window. There are four large windows on the south side and four significantly smaller ones on the lower floor facing east. There are four more square windows on the upper floor. In the two-storey middle section there were three rooms and 17 chambers in which old subjects and those in need of care found accommodation and supplies. It also housed the school teacher's apartment.
The western part forms the actual late baroque church with the gable tower with three axes . It was built with brick and field stones, the drawn-in west tower in half-timbered construction with a gable roof . The nave and steeple are structured with pilaster strips and have segment-arched openings. The church space takes up both floors of the two-story building and is clearly different from the other functions in the building. The west portal is surrounded by a rectangular template with a segmented arch gable . Next to it are each a segment-arched window. The south portal is emphasized by plaster framing. In the spire there is a segmented arcade of sound on each side . The eight-fold pointed spire of the tower is covered with slate and ends with a tower ball and cross.
Due to the unusual combination of church, school and poor house, the monument is a unique testimony to the social understanding of the builder at the time and therefore of national social and historical importance.
The church furnishings include a pulpit altar , which is described in the Dehio manual as "simple". It was created in the middle of the 18th century. The bell was cast in 1844.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 77.
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, p. 238.
- Dirk Handorf: Introduced. Three houses under one roof - church, poor house and school in Sarnow, Ostvorpommern district. In: Monument Protection and Preservation , Issue 9 Schwerin 2002.
- 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 Sarnow Church in the State Bibliography MV
- Friends of the Church-Hospital-School Sarnow. Retrieved on September 27, 2012 (including photos from the time before the renovation and from the interior).
- Sarnow, Protestant Church. Retrieved September 27, 2012 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d History and significance of the building. Friends of the Church-Spital-School Sarnow, accessed on September 27, 2012 .
- ↑ a b The projects of the German Foundation for Monument Protection. Retrieved September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Sarnow Church-Hospital School. Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany, accessed on September 28, 2012 .
- ↑ Claudia Müller: Sarnower Elan impresses monument friends. In: Nordkurier . September 19, 2011 ( Online ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ).
- ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Vol. 1, Dietze, Anklam 1865, p. 358 ( Google Books )
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 3.8 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 34.1" E