Sophienhof Church
The Sophienhof Church is the parish church in Sophienhof, a district of the town of Loitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district south of the Peene . The churches in Kletzin and Ückeritz belong to the evangelical parish of Sophienhof .
Duke Barnim I of the Duchy of Pomerania donated the church patronage over the church of St. Pankratius , in the place then called Cirbrezin , to the Ivenack monastery . After the introduction of the Reformation, the patronage passed to the respective sovereign.
The church was built from field stone on a rectangular floor plan. Structural changes were made in 1766. There are stepped buttresses at the corners and to the right of the south portal . There are three segment-arched windows on each side . The roof of the building cleaning is on the east gable hipped .
Inside the church has a flat beamed ceiling. A panel from 1707 shows Jesus Christ in Gethsemane . The organ was built around the middle of the 19th century in the workshop of Friedrich Albert Mehmel .
There is a free-standing belfry in the churchyard .
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 118.
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the province of Pomerania. Part 2 The administrative district of Szczecin. Vol. I, Book I: The Demmin District. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1898, p. 46.
Web links
- Evangelical parish Sophienhof. Church district Pomerania, accessed on June 10, 2012 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 19 ″ N , 13 ° 10 ′ 17.5 ″ E