Saint Andreas Church (Lancken-Granitz)
The Sankt-Andreas-Kirche is the Protestant church in the village of Lancken-Granitz on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen .
architecture
The brick and field stone church was built in the 15th century. At the beginning of this century the three-bay nave and the two-bay rectangular choir , which was inserted into the nave, were built. The square tower to the west of the nave, also indented into the nave, was built at the end of the 15th century. The sacristy is located north of the choir . The doors and windows of the building are designed as pointed arches.
There is a stone tabernacle on the east wall of the choir . In this wall there is also a sacrament niche with an iron-studded door . Inside the church has ribbed vaults .
Furnishing
From the time the church was built and thus from the beginning of the 15th century, there are still wall paintings in the building, in the eastern choir vault the veil of Veronica and in the vaults drolleries .
Also from the 15th century comes a wooden altar cross and a slim bronze bell without decorations. The wooden choir stalls date from 1522. The pulpit dates from 1598. It is made of wood. A polygonal basket is framed by a parapet structured by arched fields. In the fields there are painted half-figures of Christ , John the Baptist , evangelists and pastor, but also coats of arms , such as that of Putbus , house brands, monograms and biblical quotations in Low German . At the door there is a full figure depicting Saint Andrew . The arcades of the parapet of the entrance to the pulpit are decorated with depictions of Paul and the Evangelist John. The pulpit is crowned by a star-shaped sound cover with acroteria . Portraits of Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon are on the pillar of the pulpit.
Three cabinet disks in the church were made in the 17th century. They show Hercules with the lion, name and the coat of arms Smieterlöw .
In the cemetery surrounding the church there are various tombstones made of limestone at the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century.
organ
The organ was built in 1865 by an unknown organ builder. In 1909 the instrument was rebuilt and expanded by the organ builder Barnim Grüneberg (Stettin). In 2001 it was restored by Rainer Wolter from Zudar. The cone store instrument has seven manual registers and one pedal register (subbass 16 ′, transmission from drone 16 ′). The actions are pneumatic.
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local community
The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
See also: List of churches on Rügen
literature
- Dehio, Handbook of German Art Monuments , Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , page 300
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature about Sankt-Andreas-Kirche (Lancken-Granitz) in the state bibliography MV
- Dorfkirche Sankt Andreas on the website of the Foundation for the Preservation of Church Monuments in Germany (Stiftung KiBa)
Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 3.2 ″ N , 13 ° 37 ′ 54.9 ″ E