The Reinberg village church (german: Dorfkirche Reinberg) is a church dating to the 13th century in the West Pomeranian village of Reinberg in the municipality of
Sundhagen
Sundhagen is a municipality in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany, located in Amt Miltzow in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen. Sundhagen was constituted on 7 June 2009 by fusion of the following municipalities:chancel was built first and the nave was added in the first half of the 14th century. At the end of the 14th century and beginning of the 15th, the tower in front of the west wall was built. The
sacristy
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The sacristy is usually located ...
on the north wall of the chancel dates to the 15th century.
Exterior
The building is a triple- aisled brick church. The double
bay
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hall has a set-back, single-bay chancel made of
fieldstone
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The chancel is decorated by a round-arched,
corbel
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frieze that runs all around it. On the west side is a square
church tower
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made of brick. The brick gable on the east side has a staggered group of three windows, a staggered ogival window and an ascending round arch frieze.
The main body of the church has lesenes on the corners and buttresses on the side walls.
Immediately next to the church stands the
Reinberg Lime
The Reinberg Lime (german: Reinberger Linde) is a roughly 1,000-year-old lime tree by the village church in Reinberg in the German district of Vorpommern-Rügen.
The age of the lime tree, which has been designated as a natural monument is ...
, which is estimated to be about 1,000 years and is therefore probably older than the church itself.. Also in the churchyard is an atonement stone, the '' Sühnestein'' dating to the mid-15th century.
File:Reinberg-mordstein.jpg, Sühnestein
File:Reinberg-linde.jpg, 1,000-year-old lime tree