Association for the Preservation of the Church of Pinnow/Vorpommern, Germany


The building history of the Village-Church


Most impressive are the constructive periods and details especially regarding the window- and doorbreaches in the brick-layered walls during the centuries.

The constructive periods:
(source: expertreport Reinhard Labs, Restaurator - „Restaurators Analysis of the Follow-up of the Wallfronts Refering to Architectural Colours and the Examination of the Construction of the Church of Pinnow“, Greifswald 7.7.1993)

  1. Version (medieval, late 14th Jhdt): rectangular ground-plan and 3 portals at the southern, western and northern side, brick-layered front and 2 windows at the southern and northern side.
  2. Version (Renaissance 17th/18th century): reduction of the western portal, the northern and western portal were walled up, 4 unconnected buttresses were built up against the exterior wall.
    The church got its exterior rough-cast .
  3. Version (18th/19thcentury): multiple alterations regarding the windows:. The medieval window-ledge ( 1 ½ brick) was moved away and the windows were enlarged. Two sham-recesses were transformed into 2 additinal windows in the southern wall, and with the remaining wall material the north-western window was walled-up. 2 additional buttresses were built up against the exterior northern wall.
  4. Version (19th/20thcentury): the wall of the western and eastern gable-triangles were renewed and the southern buttress was set up.
  5. Version (after 1945): cement-plaster of the entire facade
    6. Perhaps the blocking of the northern portal (sometimes called the „womens portal“) happend already as a consequence to the resolutions of the Trient Concile (1545-1563) when some counter-reformatory directions refering to the architectural outfit of churches became liable.