Village church Schönermark, Religious monument in Schönermark, Germany.
The Village Church Schönermark is a rectangular, flat-roofed fieldstone hall church with an unfinished west cross tower, built in the second half of the 13th century. Its east wall has a staggered group of three windows and twin blind arcades set in two rows around a small circular window, all framed in brick. A checkerboard-patterned stone is set into the southeast corner.
Built in the second half of the 13th century as a rectangular fieldstone hall church with an unfinished west cross tower, it was restored in 1876, when the windows and neo-Gothic west portal were added. The timber-framed roof turret was restored in 1965 and the interior after 1979. Two bells cast by Gregor Borgstede in Hamburg in 1513 and 1553 survive.
The church belongs to the Evangelische Gesamtkirchengemeinde Angermünder Land within the Kirchenkreis Uckermark. Its checkerboard-patterned stone at the southeast corner recurs at the churches of Dobberzin, Schmargendorf and Serwest, a regional building mark. Two bells cast by Gregor Borgstede in Hamburg in 1513 and 1553 still carry the parish's late-medieval sound.
The church stands in Schönermark, a village part of Schwedt/Oder in the Uckermark district. The flat-roofed nave and the west tower are fieldstone; the openings of the east wall have brick surrounds. The west portal is neo-Gothic, from the 1876 restoration, and the timber-framed roof turret was restored in 1965.
Look for the checkerboard-patterned stone set into the southeast corner, a mason's mark also found at the churches of Dobberzin, Schmargendorf and Serwest. The east gable's twin brick blinds and small circular window, plus painted brick frames on the interior east windows, are easy to miss from the village road.
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