St. Salvator (Anklam)
The Salvator Parish Church is a Roman Catholic church in Anklam in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district , Friedländer Straße 37. It was built between 1900 and 1901 and is a listed building .
history
The Salvator Church was built for the Polish and Silesian seasonal workers who worked as reapers on the surrounding estates during the harvest season . The Berlin architect Engelbert Seibertz designed a spacious, neo-Romanesque basilica . The then affordable building site lies on a silted branch of the Peene ; the planned tower could not be built because of the complex pile foundation required for it, a roof turret was erected.
In 1910 and 1935 the church received extensive painting of the apse , which was whitewashed in 1964. Instead, a five-meter high fresco of the Pantocrator was created as the only decoration .
In 2006 the Salvator Church was extensively renovated and a new altar was consecrated.
architecture
The six jochige nave of the three aisled basilica has in the nave, a barrel vault and in the aisles groin vault . In the east, after a short intermediate bay , the chancel is closed by a high apse with the Pantocrator depiction. The south aisle closes with a small windowless apse in which there is a Pietà as a figure of Mary . A spacious sacristy adjoins the north aisle in the east .
The exterior is structured by decorative arches and pilasters made of brick , with plastered wall surfaces in between. Instead of a tower, the location of which was left out in the north-west corner of the church, the church has a copper-clad roof turret with two small bells. On the west facade there is a deep stepped round arch portal. Above the three large west windows there is a cast-iron lettering in a semicircle, which reads: "Christ vincit - Christ regnat - Christ imperat" (Christ wins - Christ rules - Christ rules). It is taken from the liturgy of the Feast of Christ the King .
local community
The Roman Catholic Church is part of the Deanery of Western Pomerania in the Archdiocese of Berlin . The Herz-Jesu-Kirche in Wolgast has also been part of the parish since 2004 .
After 1945, the Catholic parish initially received growth through refugees and resettlers , so that the number of parish members rose to up to 4,600. Due to the demographic change in the region, the number of Catholics has also decreased sharply in the last 20 years. The entire municipality has an area of about 1200 km² with 1200 Catholics.
literature
- Hans-Friedrich Feldmann (arrangement): Dehio manual of German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 20.
Web links
- Literature about St. Salvator (Anklam) in the state bibliography MV
- Internet presence of the Catholic parish Salvator Anklam and Wolgast
- Catholic churches in Western Pomerania: Texts on the history of the parishes (RTF file; 164 kB)
Coordinates: 53 ° 51 '7.6 " N , 13 ° 41" 32.7 " E