City church Laage
The Protestant town church Laage is an early Gothic brick building in Laage in the Rostock district . It is used by the municipality of Laage in the Rostock provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Northern Church) , which also includes the village churches in Recknitz and Polchow .
History and architecture
The Laage town church consists of the nave from around 1310, the choir from around 1280 and the tower from the 15th century. It was damaged by fire in 1569 and 1637, and restoration dragged on until 1669 because of the Thirty Years War . After repairs in the 17th and 18th centuries, a major restoration was carried out from 1848 to 1851, which determines the appearance of the church to this day.
The church is a three-aisled, three-bay hall church made of brick with a rectangular choir . During the restoration, the long sides of the choir and nave were provided with uniformly enlarged windows and new friezes, so that today only the east wall of the choir with a group of three lancet windows , corner pilasters and a double German ribbon reminds of the first construction period. The portals in the west and on the central nave yoke were also renewed during the restoration.
Inside, the choir has eight-capped ribbed vaults on multi-part services that rest on leaf and bud capitals, which are decorated with two human masks. The nave is divided by four octagonal pillars, which are structured with semicircular corner bars. For structural reasons, the vaults had to be built in wood during the restoration. The lower parts of the mighty west tower on a square floor plan consist of mixed masonry made of field stone with brick and is closed off by a tent roof from 1720.
Furnishing
Of the equipment, the classicist organ prospect should be mentioned, which comes from an organ built by Friedrich Friese I in 1795 . The work was built by Wolfgang Nussbücker in 1997 and has 24 stops on two manuals and a pedal.
The neo-Gothic altarpiece shows a painting by Gaston Lenthe from 1850, which was donated by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II . Also to be mentioned are some stained glass by H. Krause from the years 1897–1899, especially the four large pictorial representations in the north and south choir windows. They show the Annunciation , the Three Wise Men , the youth of Naïn and the crucifixion.
A communion chalice from 1603 by Master HS from a Regensburg workshop is particularly precious . It has a six-pass foot with embossed figures of saints and coats of arms, a nodus with angel heads and tendrils and a cupa in an openwork basket with symbols of Christ and Mary.
altar
Organ prospectus
Stained glass from the choir
Capitals on the north side of the choir
Wooden vaults in the nave
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. 2nd Edition. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 , p. 322.
- Horst Ende : Town churches in Mecklenburg. 1st edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1984.
Web links
- Literature about the town church Laage in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the parish of St. Christophorus in Laage
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Malchow Organ Museum. Retrieved June 27, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 55 ′ 41.9 ″ N , 12 ° 20 ′ 38.5 ″ E