St. Johannis (Katzow)

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St. Johannis

The St. Johannis Church in Katzow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district is a church building that was built around 1300. The interior of the church, restored after a fire in the early 1990s, is designed in the style of a Swedish village church. It has been part of the Demmin Propstei 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 .

location

The Dorfstraße runs through the town as a central connecting axis in a west-east direction. The church stands in the historic center of the village south of this street on a piece of land that is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .

history

The brick hall of the church was built around 1300 probably under the influence of the Eldena monastery . The tower, the substructure of which is probably a little younger, was described as dilapidated in 1581. In the 15th century, artists added murals that were plastered over at a later date. Because it was used as a Samaritan Church during the Thirty Years War , it was spared from destruction during this time. In 1879 a comprehensive restoration took place under the direction of the Berlin architect Theodor Prüfer . The neo-Gothic south sacristy was built and the north vestibule demolished. The church received a uniform neo-Gothic interior with figurative and ornamental glass paintings, which were made according to the designs of Prüfer. This included the east window Christ Triumphator of the church from the workshop of Franz Xaver Zettler in Munich , which also served as an altarpiece, and black plumbing paintings with colored friezes in the side and upper windows by Oidtmann from Linnich .

In 1990 workers secured the historic glass windows from 1879 with protective glass. In the same year, on December 24, 1990, the main nave burned out completely and also destroyed the glass windows. The surrounding fire brigades could only prevent the bell tower from also being destroyed. So the two bells from 1921 could be saved. The cause of the fire was found to be an old chimney that had ignited a neighboring beam. The damage amounted to 1.2 million marks. The remains of the windows were deposited. Also lost was the organ of Friedrich Albert Mehmel . The reconstruction of the interior took place with the help of donations in the years 1991 to 1993 according to the design of the architect Jerk Alton from Kumla . The new east window, inaugurated in 2009, was created by the glass designer Ralf Udo Slama using the remains of the old east window that was destroyed in the fire.

Building description

View from the west

The structure was essentially made of reddish brick on a foundation of field stones. The choir is straight and has not moved in. In the middle of the east wall of the choir is a large, ogival window with a chamfered reveal . On the east gable there is a blind cross below which two rows of blinds and two double German bands were built. In the middle three of the five panels is a coupled and ogival window. During the reconstruction, the gable was built on the model of the medieval west gable.

At the transition to the nave there are two stepped buttresses at the corners of the choir . The ship has a rectangular floor plan. On the north side there are three pointed arch windows between each buttress, which are also stepped. The south side is constructed identically in the western area. On the south-east side is a sacristy, which can be entered from the south through a pointed arched portal. Next to the portal are two pointed arches that have been painted white. The extension is decorated with a gable richly decorated with panels with a small pinnacle .

The area of ​​the earlier church tower has a rectangular floor plan and is slightly indented opposite the nave. On the north and south side there is an ogival window, which is however much smaller than the openings on the ship. The main entrance is through a large, triple-stepped portal from the west side. Above it is a gable also decorated with panels and a cross. On the simple gable roof at the transition from the church tower to the nave sits a Cistercian roof turret with a high rectangular sound arcade on each side. Behind is an hour bell, a gift from the North Elbian Church .

Furnishing

The interior and furnishings are furnished in the style of a modern Swedish village church using natural materials. The floors are made of limestone and the altar table is made of gray and red limestone.

The organ was built in 1993 by Hinrich Otto Paschen from Kiel . It has a three-part prospectus made of oak with a crowning segment gable, cut -out quadrangles and an overlaid climbing gable.

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , page 313.
  • Georg Dehio (edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
  • Jana Olschewski: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms Verlag Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , p. 14.

Web links

Commons : Katzow Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Reinhard Kuhl: I am the resurrection [and] the L [even] . In: Pomerania. Journal of Culture and History. Issue 2/2010, ISSN  0032-4167 , pp. 14-17.
  2. ↑ Cornelia Meerkatz: The misfortune of Katzow . In: Ostsee-Zeitung , December 24, 2015, accessed on November 29, 2018.

Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 55.1 ″  N , 13 ° 40 ′ 15.7 ″  E