Retzow church ruins
The church ruin Retzow is the former village church of Retzow , a district of Lychen in the Brandenburg district of Uckermark . The stone church was built in the 13th century in the Gothic style, badly damaged around 1440 and not restored.
location
The church ruins are located in the cemetery, surrounded by a stone wall, at the southeast end of the (original) village on the northeast side of Retzower Strasse.
architecture
The church was a rectangular field stone building with a small sacristy on the north side of the choir area, which probably belonged to the original building . The surrounding walls almost to the top of the wall and both gables have been preserved. The walls of the portals have been torn off except for small parts, the window walls, on the other hand, have largely been preserved.
The building is 19.05 meters long and 10 meters wide. The masonry consists of square , isodomic layered (streaked in the middle) field stones . Inside, the masonry is irregular and plastered. A low, narrow and beveled plinth runs around the entire building. The parish portal and the priest portal are on the south side; the west side had another portal. The opening for the locking beam with which the door could be locked from the inside has still been preserved on the west portal. The sacristy was only accessible through a small door from the interior of the church. The south side has three originally pointed arched windows, the north side two windows. On the east side there are two closely spaced windows, rather atypical in comparison with the usual three-window group of many early Gothic village churches. A long slot-like opening has been preserved in each of the gables.
history
The church building was erected in the 13th century, as evidenced by its masonry made of well-squared field stones and the pointed arched windows with field stone walls. The building was designed without a church tower , and there is no evidence of a gable tower in the west gable either.
The church was badly damaged in the Pomeranian-Brandenburg War when Lychen was conquered in 1440 and has not been rebuilt since then. The village fell desolate ; the fields were cultivated by farmers from Rutenberg and Lychen. It was not until 1701 that the village was repopulated (contract between the town of Lychen and Peter and Mathis Fischmann on the cultivation of the desert Retzow field ). The Feldmark had remained undeveloped and completely overgrown since the Thirty Years War .
literature
- Georg Dehio (editor Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments Brandenburg. 1207 pp., Deutscher Kunstverlag 2000 ISBN 3-422-03054-9
- Lieselott Enders : Historical local dictionary for Brandenburg. Part VIII Uckermark. 1210 p., Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1986 ISBN 3-7400-0042-2
- Heinrich Jerchel (with preliminary work by Paul Eichholz, collaborators: Eberhard Küster, Richard Moderhack and Karl H. Marschallek): The art monuments of the province of Brandenburg. Volume III, 2. The art monuments of the Templin district. 277 pp., Berlin, Deutscher Kunstverlag, 1937.
Web links
- Church ruins in Retzow
- Information on the church ruins in Retzow on the Uckermark-Kirchen homepage
- Entry 09130598 in Brandenburg's monument database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Presentation of the isodomic stratification on google.books; S. 19. Josef Maier: Handbuch Historisches Mauerwerk: Investigation methods and repair procedures (construction manual) , Birkhäuser Basel, ISBN 3764364211
Coordinates: 53 ° 13 '43.3 " N , 13 ° 16' 4.6" E