Stargarder cover
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The monumental west tower of the Marienkirche in Stargard , which is believed to be a work by Hinrich Brunsberg , shows a Stargard cover as a special feature . This high, four-part panel , with large circles at its apex, was characteristic of the late Gothic architecture of Pomerania and the neighboring countries.
The towers of St. Mary's Church have been built since around 1380. The north tower must have been finished as early as 1410 so that its structure could be imitated for the first time, namely in the tower of St. John's Church in Stargard and in the Mühlentorturm there . The panels from the north tower of the Marienkirche were then repeated so often that one can speak of a Stargarder type of panel, although the shape of the panel itself actually originated a little earlier on the tower of the Marienkirche in Greifswald .
The motif has been taken on several urban and rural church towers (including in Stettin , Pasewalk , Chociwel , Gryfice and Drawsko ) as well as on some fortifications (in Brandenburg ad Havel , Tangermünde and Stargard). Around the middle of the 15th century, Stargard screens were attached to the gable triangle of a hall church in the town of Suchań . Quite a few gables with Stargarder panels can also be found in cities - in town houses in Anklam and Stargard as well as in the Marienkapelle at the Jakobikirche in Stettin .
Thanks to the donation of the Scandinavian King and Pomeranian Duke Erik XIV , these panels were brought to Denmark , where they structure the gables of the Carmelite Church in Helsingør and form patterns for a whole group of nave and tower gables on neighboring country churches, so that the Danish researchers called this type " Helsingør Gable ”. In the course of their numerous imitations, the panels of the Stargarder type were removed from their original context, the structure of the tower, and became a universal, independent motif. The aperture was simplified and reduced several times, the division twice instead of four times, the apex circle was reduced and finally the outer ogival outline has been completely dispensed with.
literature
- Marek Ober: O blendzie typu stargardzkiego. In: Terra Transoderana , 2004, pp. 89-99.
Coordinates: 53 ° 20 ′ 12.2 " N , 15 ° 2 ′ 46.7" E