St. Laurentius Church (Groß Kiesow)
The Protestant St. Laurentius Church is a 13th century church building in the community of Groß Kiesow in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The parish 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 . It is dedicated to Lawrence of Rome .
location
From the south, the main street leads to the historic town center and branches off there in a north-easterly direction into Bahnhofstrasse and west into Schulstrasse . There the building stands on a hill, which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
The choir was built in the third quarter of the 13th century from hewn and layered field stones . In the lower third, the stones are very carefully layered, with the lines running above them. In addition, the beginning of the wall for the later construction of the nave can already be seen from this time . This was made of brick around the end of the 13th century at about the same time as the basement of the church tower . The upper floor of the copper- clad tower, originally built in half-timbered construction in 1653 , was encased in neo-Gothic bricks in the 19th century .
The fate of Joachim Pfannschmidt (1896–1945) in particular has been handed down from the numerous pastors of the past centuries . From 1930 he was responsible for the church. When the Red Army marched in on May 1, 1945, he was shot dead on the night he refused to reveal his daughters' hiding place.
architecture
The rectangular, tile-roofed early Gothic choir is one yoke long and indented. On the east side are three pointed arch-shaped lancet windows , of which the middle one is elevated. The triple-tiered walls were made of alternating reddish-black glazed bricks in half and three-quarter bars. This design language can also be found on two pointed arch-shaped, coupled windows on the north and south side of the choir and on a gate to the west of it on the south side of the choir. The gable of the choir, separated by a semicircular frieze that opens downwards, is provided with four double-coupled panels, each accompanied by two-part panels on each side. Above the row of panels, a panel cross closes the gable, which was also designed by the builder of the church with two-part panels on each side.
The two-bay nave was built from bricks over a granite ashlar base. On the north and south sides there are two ogival windows with double-tiered walls, which also take up the shape of the group of three windows. On the south side of the nave there is still a massive portal, also in the shape of a pointed arch, which is stepped four times and which is also framed with alternating glazed bricks. The visible part of the gable on the nave is decorated with a total of eleven panels of different heights made of brick. Parts of the arch can be seen at the transition to the choir. Between the nave and the gable roof , craftsmen installed a comparatively rare frieze of raised runners on the south side .
The massive west tower with a high base made of granite ashlar is attached to the ship. It is only slightly drawn in opposite the nave and is transversely rectangular. On the north side of the tower, an originally arched, elongated window was added two-thirds of the way with bricks. The upper floor , originally built in half-timbered construction in 1653, was clad in neo-Gothic style after a lightning strike in the 19th century. Two stepped buttresses on the north and south sides contribute to stability. In between there are two coupled, pointed arched openings on each of the three accessible sides, each of which contains two pointed arched sound arcades with a circular window above. Above this is another floor with three significantly smaller, pointed arch-shaped sound arcades on all four sides of the tower, which in turn is closed off by a cross frieze. The tower closes with a Welschen hood with an open lantern on which a tower ball and a weathercock sit.
Haselberg states that the total length of the church is 33.56 meters and its width is 12.85 meters.
Furnishing
The choir has a dome-shaped cross vault with painted ribbon ribs and crabs accompanying the ribs from the construction period. It was probably also built around 1300. The nave has a flat roof; Existing shield arches suggest a preparation for a bulge. The arches were probably painted with floral elements in the first half of the 17th century.
The furnishings include a former altar painting, a copy of the crucifixion according to Anton van Dyck , from around 1700. The remains of a baroque altar can be seen in the church floor. Four coats of arms , among them for Maria Katarina Horn and the pastor Zacharias Ahrens, from the 17th century in the north-eastern window and a glass window with a crucifix as a tribute to the fallen from 1920 are also part of the furnishings. In direct contrast to this are the modern works of the artist Hans-Volker Mixsa . In 1988 he created the altar table from wood and iron and a memorial for the victims of the wars directly below the aforementioned glass window. The Fuente made Rainer Fest in 1997; the baptismal font is made of polished Silesian marble and is from 1859. The pulpit was built of wood in the 17th century; the basket is decorated with aedicular framing and fittings. A gilded silver goblet is also included. It is 19 cm high and 12.5 cm in diameter, a conical cup with a six-part knob with the numbers 16 and 07 and the inscription “E. Marten Merkan Pastor tho Kisow ”. A 10 cm smaller goblet with the inscription “Er Marten tho Kisow” dates from the same period.
The wall paintings, made in the second half of the 16th century, show scenes from the life of Jesus. On the north side the Annunciation , the birth and the adoration of the kings can be seen. On the south side there is a painting showing the sacrifice of Isaac and the crucifixion of Christ . In the spandrels of the shield arches two female figures in contemporary costume can be seen. On the eastern wall of the nave, below the northern triumphal arch, there is a copy of a painting by Anthony van Dyck showing the crucifixion. It was made around 1700.
The organ , probably made by M. Fernau from Stralsund in 1862 , was tonally redesigned in 1963. It has a neo-Gothic prospect and is structured with pinnacles .
The church bell consists of two bells, the older one made of bronze with a diameter of 1.02 meters was made by Simon Zach from Stralsund in 1830 , the younger of the two made of steel dates from 1929 and has a diameter of 82 cm.
In the churchyard there are several grave cheeks from the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as cast-iron and wrought-iron crosses. A gravestone commemorates Carl Felix Bernhard von Behr on Schlagtow and Bestland with the words: “Oh, the joy of life disappears so quickly! But take it easy and hope! The way that leads to God ”. Another gravestone commemorates the Sanz artist Horst Leifer (1939–2001) with a full-body sculpture he created himself.
The churchyard is bordered by a dry stone wall. The late Gothic churchyard portal with segmented arched passage and gate was built from brick. It is decorated with several plaster panels and a frieze of teeth.
Pilgrimage
A pilgrimage route starts at the church and is designed as a circular route with eight stations. Each station is marked by a boulder on which an Our Father's request has been engraved. The stones were designed by the artist Rainer Fest.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-422-03081-7
- Ernst von Haselberg : Monuments of the Stralsund administrative region , Volume 2, Greifswald district
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ MV-Verlag & Marketing: VorpommernMagazin , August 2011, page 6.
Web links
- Literature about St. Laurentius Church (Groß Kiesow) in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de
Coordinates: 54 ° 0 ′ 56.3 " N , 13 ° 28 ′ 25.3" E