Sassen Church
The Protestant church Sassen is a sacred building from the 13th century in Sassen , a district of the community Sassen-Trantow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Gülzowshof parish in the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Until 2012 she belonged to the Demmin parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
history
The fieldstone choir , the oldest part of the church, dates from around 1270/1280 . Presumably in the 15th century, an equally wide nave made of reddish brick was added to the west. In 1876 Friedrich Albert Mehmel from Stralsund built an organ that was partially restored by Rainer Wolter from 2003 to 2005 and restored in 2009 by the Schmidt workshop for historical keyboard instruments from Rostock .
architecture
The choir is a yoke long, has a rectangular floor plan and was built from field stones, which were only slightly carved except for the corner stones. Locations are only partially recognizable. Boulders were also used in the base, in particular . On the south side of the choir there is a pointed arch-shaped priest gate in the western area . It was decorated with a garment made of quadruple stepped and alternately glazed quarter rod profiles. The three-part window to the right above the gate and the group of three windows in the choir are similarly elaborate . At this opening, however, the viewer can see considerable repair work below the window. On the northern choir wall, a few hewn field stones form the remains of a corresponding window. However, the opening is comparatively ply and carefully clogged. Underneath, further remains of a pressed, ogival shape with a rectangular opening in it can be seen, which are clogged with bricks and partially plastered. The choir gable is made of brick and decorated with five staggered panels . There is a cross-shaped opening in the top panel. The choir is adjoined by the two-bay nave, made of stone on a field stone base . At the construction seam, one smaller and one directly adjoining, higher buttress stabilize the structure. On the north wall, below the eaves, are the remains of a cloverleaf arch frieze . The remains of another buttress can be seen between the two windows, which was dismantled. The connection was filled in the upper area with bricks, in the lower area with uncut, small field stones. The north and south walls are each designed with a pointed arch-shaped, stepped, three-part window. The two windows to the west are set smaller and higher to create space for a gate below, with the northern gate being blocked with red bricks. A comparable, albeit open, gate can also be found on the western wall of the nave. It is stabilized at each corner with a double-stepped buttress. On the left is a pentagonal stair tower that allows access to the upper floor . Above the gate is a pointed arch-shaped panel, added with bricks, followed by a gable also decorated with panels. According to Ernst von Haselberg's records, there was a tower made of field stones at an earlier time, parts of which must have been preserved in the 19th century. He specifies the length of the church as 26.97 meters and a width of 12.55 meters. The choir is 7.31 meters wide and 9.60 meters long.
Furnishing
The fifth made of limestone is structured with 16 round-arched panels and was probably built around 1300. It was heavily painted over in the 21st century. In the choir there is a stone altar and the remains of a medieval wall painting, on the north wall there is a coat of arms from the time the church was built. Haselberg describes a three-part, 2.45-high altar shrine that no longer exists in the 21st century. Additional features include a late Gothic, 16.5 cm high chalice from the 16th century, a conical beaker and a bell bag from the 18th century. The window in the choir shows the Good Shepherd between Peter and Paul of Tarsus and probably dates from the 19th century from the Ferdinand Müller glass painting establishment in Quedlinburg . The choir used to be vaulted, but in the 21st century it has a flat beamed ceiling, as does the nave , which is separated by a pointed arched triumphal arch . On its north side, towards the choir, hangs a plaque commemorating the victims of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Further west is a plaque for the victims of the First World War . The wooden west gallery is based on twisted columns and is decorated with coffers that show a coat of arms in the middle . On it stands an organ with a three-part, neo-Gothic prospectus from 1885. It has a manual and nine stops .
A bronze bell from 1479 hangs in the free-standing belfry. The simple wooden construction is located a few meters to the east in the cemetery and is covered with a simple gable roof made of beaver tail. On the south wall of the nave is a granite cheek with a carved crucifix and the heading INRI from the 16th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-422-03081-7 .
- Ernst von Haselberg : Monuments of the Stralsund Administrative Region , Volume 2, Greifswald District 1885
- Working group for Pomeranian Church History eV: From Greifswalder Bodden to Peene - Open Churches II , Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin, 2006
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church of Sassen , website of the church tour, accessed on August 12, 2016.
- ^ Pfarramt Gülzowshof , website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on August 11, 2016.
Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′ 21.9 ″ N , 13 ° 11 ′ 14.6 ″ E