Landow Village Church
The village church of Landow (Template:Lang-de) is the Evangelical parish church of the parish of Rambin in the south of the German island of Rügen. It is located in the village of Landow in the municipality of Dreschvitz.
It was built as a Wegekirche in Landow around the year 1312. A Wegekirche is a church which is designed so that where the priest and congregation stand gives the impression that they are on their way to the Lord, facing the Christ, usually in the symbolic form of a cross or painting.
In 2004, dendrochronological research of the oak timber-framing was carried out. This demonstrated that the church is one of the oldest on the island of Rügen and may be the oldest timber-framed church in North Germany and the entire southeast Baltic Sea region.
The church was sited on an old salt and herring trading route. It was first mentioned in the records when reference was made to a priest at Landow ...plebane (Priester) in Landaue dating to the year 1333.
See also
Literature
- Ulrike Reinfeldt: Die Dorfkirche zu Landow. In: Pommern. Zeitschrift für Kultur und Geschichte. Heft 1/2012, ISSN 0032-4167, p. 16–19.
External blinks
Literature about Landow Village Church in the State Bibliography (Landesbibliographie) of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
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