Twelve Apostles Church (Züssow)

The Twelve Apostles Church in Züssow (2009)

The Twelve Apostles Church is a late Gothic church building from the 14th century in the community of Züssow .

The tile-roofed church with a small field stone hall with a three-sided east end and details in brick was built at the end of the 14th century. The walls surrounding the choir are made of field stones. The end of the choir shows stepped buttresses, the windows at the end of the choir and on the south side of the nave are three-lane, those on the north wall are two-lane. The grave slab of Dorothea von Seeckt, who died in 1806, was walled in at the added north portal . The eaves cornice was renewed in 1887, as was the west gable. In 1946 a north extension with a pent roof was built in place of the sacristy . The west wall was plastered in the third quarter of the 20th century.

During the Seven Years' War the bell tower was badly damaged, so that it was demolished in 1765; two spheres walled into the south wall, which are said to have destroyed the tower, remind of this. In front of the church a separate belfry was built in 1853, which was renewed in 1997. He wears two bells , one from 1880 and one from 1962.

The church has a beamed ceiling, there are supports for a vault.

On the altar from 1946 is a four-wing carved retable from the 15th century, which shows the 12 apostles in the wings and a crucifixion group (1946) in the center shrine. The back shows remains of the original painting. The pulpit dates from 1687. The organ was made around 1860 by Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin and its sound was redesigned in 1944 by W. Sauer . In the 1980s, a Christophorus wall painting was discovered and uncovered.

The Protestant parish of Züssow-Zarnekow-Ranzin has been part of the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

Web links

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Individual evidence

^ Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformation design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis . In: Gerhard Eimer; Ernst Gierlich; Matthias Müller (Ed.): Ecclesiae ornatae. Church furnishings from the Middle Ages and the early modern period between monument value and functionality . Bonn 2009, p. 257-278, here 274,287 .

53.981805555556 13.546583333333Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 54.5 " N , 13 ° 32 ′ 47.7" E

[1] Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformation design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis . In: Gerhard Eimer; Ernst Gierlich; Matthias Müller (Ed.): Ecclesiae ornatae. Church furnishings from the Middle Ages and the early modern period between monument value and functionality . Bonn 2009, p. 257-278, here 274,287 .