St. Marien (Gramzow)

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Marienkirche Gramzow (Uckermark)
Northeast view

The Protestant Church of St. Marien is an early Gothic hall church in Gramzow in the Uckermark district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Gramzow in the Uckermark parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The ruins of the former Gramzow monastery church are in the immediate vicinity .

History and architecture

The church is a stately elongated hall church made of field stone masonry with a high west transverse tower from the second half of the 13th century, the upper part of the tower probably dates from the 14th century. After being destroyed in the Thirty Years War , the church was restored in 1686; a restoration took place in 1969/1970. The roofs of the tower and ship were covered in the 1990s. The building is accessed through three south portals and formerly through a walled up north portal; the windows have been enlarged in an ogival shape, and a group of three windows is arranged in the east wall. There is a stepped portal on the south side of the tower; in the upper floor of the tower there are wide openings with brick edging and simple tracery ; the gable roof lies between brick gables with a circumferential tooth frieze and three stepped pointed arched openings, of which the large central one is again provided with tracery. Inside, the tower hall is closed off by a ribbed brick vault between narrow side barrels from the 19th century, on the upper floor pointed arched shield walls from an original cross vault have been preserved; the pointed arch opening to the ship is walled up. In the nave there is a renewed beam ceiling and a horseshoe gallery from 1686, the parapet paintings and some of the furnishings date from 1937–1941.

Furnishing

The simple wooden altarpiece with fluted pilasters and the semicircular pulpit were created around 1830 and originally belonged together as a pulpit altar . The oldest bell dates from 1379 and was a gift from the monks of the Gramzow monastery. After the bell of the church in Tornow, it is the second oldest bell in the Uckermark. Another bell was cast in the 15th century. Baptism dates from the beginning of the 18th century. A silver chalice was created at the beginning of the 19th century, a brass bowl dates from the 18th century, as well as a brass chandelier,

The organ with a two-part organ front is a work by Alexander Schuke from the years 1937–1941 with 20 stops on two manuals and a pedal , which was restored in 1993 by the same company.

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Web links

Commons : St. Marien (Gramzow)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on the Gramzow Church at uckermark-kirchen.de. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Gerd Baier, Horst Ende, Brigitte Oltmanns, Wolfgang Rechlin: The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 288.
  3. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved July 2, 2020 .

Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 45.3 "  N , 14 ° 0 ′ 14.7"  E