St. Marien (Gützkow)
The Catholic Church of St. Marien in Gützkow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district belongs to the Deanery of Vorpommern in the Archdiocese of Berlin .
The Marienkirche was built in 1910 at the instigation of the Greifswald pastor Paul Jütner for the Polish seasonal workers who worked as reapers on the surrounding goods during the harvest and helped to finance the construction. At that time the church was on the eastern outskirts of Gützkow. The plans came from the architect Joseph K. Tietz from Greifswald . Until the 1940s, the divine service was usually held once a month by the Greifswald clergy.
After the Second World War , the number of Catholics in Gützkow and the surrounding area rose sharply due to the settlement of war refugees and, above all, those who were expelled from their homeland from the Sudetenland . In 1947 a pub was set up and a local clergyman was appointed. The congregation, which had around 1000 Catholic believers in 1953, became financially independent in 1955. Since 1985 the parish has again been without its own clergy and since 1999 it has belonged to the Greifswald mother parish of St. Joseph .
The church is a rectangular brick building in Gothic style . The building has pointed arch windows and a recessed low choir . The gables are structured by panels . There is a portal porch on the west gable. The original bell tower had to be replaced by a gable top in 1957 because of the risk of collapse. A round stair tower adjoins the gallery at the northwest corner . On the south side there is a chapel-like extension with the baptismal font .
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 289.
Web links
- Literature about St. Marien (Gützkow) in the state bibliography MV
- Catholic Church in Western Pomerania. ( RTF ; 164 kB) Catholic parish of St. Joseph, accessed on February 14, 2012 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '5.2 " N , 13 ° 25' 6.4" E