Church ruins Schorssow
The church ruins in Schorssow in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania are the ruins of a medieval church that was destroyed as early as 1520 in the course of property disputes.
history
The church was built in the middle of the 14th century as a branch church of the church in Dahmen . The church patronage had the first documented feudal lord of Schorssow, Heinrich von Moltzan. One of his sons had the church expanded to include the choir in the late 14th century . The church was first mentioned in documents in 1403 on the occasion of the inauguration of a vicariate and an atonement altar , which reminded of a Moltzan son who was slain as a robber baron by Malchin citizens in Rottenrost .
The church was built from field stones . According to the findings of the wall, the single-nave hall had an approximately square floor plan and small Romanesque arched windows. The almost equally large choir with a wide triumphal arch already had Gothic windows and a ribbed vault .
In the course of the dispute over the property of Schorssow between Vollrath Preen , Bernd von Moltzan's son-in-law , and his brothers-in-law, Preen had the church torn down around 1520.
Despite the destruction of the church, a belfry with three bells remained in the ruins of the church until the Thirty Years War . The Schorssow landowner Ehrenreich von Moltke and his wife Catharina Hedwig von Voß donated a new bell and a belfry for two bells in 1696, which were set up inside the ruin, as the outside area has now been used as a churchyard again. The bells in the ruins remained there until they had to be delivered for armament purposes in 1944.
In 2001 and 2002 extensive renovation measures took place on the church ruins. A new bell cage was also installed and equipped with a new bell cast at the Bachert bell foundry in Heilbronn .
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and historical monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 5, Schwerin 1902, pp. 65f
Web links
- Literature about church ruins Schorssow in the state bibliography MV
- Church ruins Schorssow
- Reconstruction sketches
Coordinates: 53 ° 40 ′ 55.6 " N , 12 ° 33 ′ 56.8" E