Zarnekow Church
The Zarnekow Church is located in the Zarnekow district of the Karlsburg municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . The field stone church belongs to the parish of Züssow -Zarnekow- Ranzin , which has been part of the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
The church was built in the second half of the 13th century. At the end of the 19th century a renovation took place under the direction of the architect Theodor Prüfer , who also designed the church tower.
building
The field stone hall and the northern sacristy annex were built at the end of the 13th century. The rectangular building with a straight closed choir consists of hewn field stone blocks , which were arranged in layers offset. Windows and portals have brick walls . In the 19th century, the late Gothic windows were made smaller with neo - Gothic cast iron tracery . The northern portal was bricked up. In the gable of the sacristy there is a clover-leaf cross on a deepened ground above two diamond-shaped panels . The sacristy has a ribbed vault , the arched passage between it and the nave is walled up.
Five staggered two-part pointed arch panels are arranged on the east gable. In the south side there are two portals with flaps in the combat area . The eastern portal within the late Gothic porch is richly profiled and equipped with black shaped stones. The western portal has green shaped stones. In the middle of the south wall there is a large round window. A smaller round window is located next to the western portal.
The west tower in neo-Gothic form was built in 1892 based on a design by Theodor Prüfer . The basement is made of field stone and has a cross vault inside . The two upper floors are made of brick . The octagonal pointed helmet is covered with lead .
Inside the church is prepared for the installation of a vault , for which flat wall supports were provided in the corners as supports. In the east wall there is an ogival sacraments niche. The church has a flat wooden ceiling.
Furnishing
The altarpiece of sandstone dates from 1622. It shows a Last Supper relief , framed with angels with cross, scourge pillars of the Passion of Christ and founder of arms, pinna work and inscriptions. The sacrament cabinet with a wrought iron lattice door and a wooden outer door with iron straps on the outside dates from the first half of the 15th century . A standing Man of Sorrows and late Gothic tendrils are painted in the cupboard . The pulpit and the wooden baptismal font are from the 19th century.
In the east window there is a glass painting that was made in 1890 at the Royal Institute for Glass Painting in Berlin. It shows the transfiguration of Christ on Mount Tabor as a detail after the painting by Raphael .
The ringing consists of three bells. The older one was cast by Gottlieb Metzger in Stralsund in 1765 . The other two are from 1937.
The organ with a neo-Gothic prospect was built in the middle of the 19th century.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 375-376.
Web links
- Literature about the church Zarnekow in the state bibliography MV
- Zarnekow, Protestant Church. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 8.8 ″ N , 13 ° 36 ′ 3.8 ″ E