West Bruges Church
The West Bruges Church is a late Gothic church building in West Bruges .
The single-nave church was mainly made of brick , with field stones also being used. The three-bay nave has a three-sided eastern end and extensions in the style of a transept; the southern cruciform structure has a three-part stepped gable with battlements. In the west there is a square church tower with a pyramid roof.
The tile-roofed nave has ribbed vaults .
The furnishings include a baroque altar retable , for which the remains of a late Gothic carved altar were used, with the central Madonna figure being replaced by an Agnus Dei . The heads of the 12 apostle figures originally standing on the side were partially added; in 1977 the figurines were stolen. A large crucifix hangs over the altar . The baroque pulpit has ornamentally framed figural grisaille painting .
The ringing of the church is a bell cast in 1384 with depictions of the Virgin Mary and the crucifixion - these are rare, art-historically significant carved bell drawings that are honored in a work by the art historian Ingrid Schulze in a separate chapter. The bell is operated by hand.
The Evangelical Lutheran Parish of West Bruges, connected with the parish of Neubukow , belongs to the Wismar Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
Printed sources
- Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000, p. 676.
- ZEBI e V., START e V .: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBH 3-86108-753-7, p. 26.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Ingrid Schulze: Incised drawings by lay hands - drawings by medieval sculptors and painters? Figural bell scratch drawings from the late 13th century to around 1500 in central and northern Germany. Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-939404-95-8
- ↑ Membership of the community
Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 11 ° 43 ′ 57.5 ″ E