St. Michael (Zemitz)
The Church of St. Michael is a neo-baroque hall church in the municipality of Zemitz in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the parish of Katzow, Hohendorf and Neu Boltenhagen of the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The patronage rests with the Archangel Michael .
location
Anklamer Straße leads into the village from the southwest and runs from there in a north-easterly direction as a village street back out of Zemitz. At this crossing, the street Weiblitz also leads in a south-easterly direction out of the village. A few meters east of a tributary to the Brebowbach , the church stands south of the road on a piece of land that is fenced in with a hedge .
history
The church was built as a chapel in the 18th century . In 1913 it was converted into a hall church with a west tower. During this time, the extension on the north side was also built. In 1999 extensive renovation measures took place. This was followed by the name St. Michael in Advent in 2000 .
Building description
The church was built on a field stone plinth as a single-nave plastered building with a three-sided choir in the width of the nave. On each side of the choir is a simple arched window.
This is followed by the nave to the west . The southern wall is kept comparatively simple. There are three more arched windows on the facade. Another of these windows is installed on the north wall to the west. Towards the choir is a sacristy with a rectangular floor plan and an east gate. On the north side of the extension are two small, also rectangular windows. In the saddle roof of the nave there is a bat dormer on each side .
The massive plastered west tower has a square floor plan and is half integrated into the nave. The west portal is also rounded. It also has a square, wooden top with a curved copper-clad hood and a closed lantern, giving it Baroque forms . Behind the two simple wood-clad sound arcades on each side of the tower is a bell from the year 2000.
Furnishing
The church stalls , the pulpit and the gallery are from modern times, as is the eight-sided fifth . The eponymous figure is a baroque wooden representation of the Archangel Michael. Half of it was paid for by the community. There is also a wooden relief inside of a woman adorned with a laurel wreath , commemorating the fallen from the First World War . Other crosses commemorate the fallen from World War II . Inside the church has a wooden barrel vault . In the choir this merges into three dome segments, which are separated from the nave by an anchor . Then a psalm is quoted: "Lord, I love the place of your house and the place where your honor dwells" ( Ps 26 : 8 EU ). Towards the tower there is an arched opening above the gallery.
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 377.
- 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 .
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , p. 304
Web links
- Literature about St. Michael (Zemitz) in the state bibliography MV
- Zemitz Church of St. Michael. In: Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved August 29, 2017 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 36.5 ″ N , 13 ° 45 ′ 30.4 ″ E