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ChurchMalchin
St.-Johannis-Church
St. John's Church in Malchin is a typical example of North German Brick Gothic architecture. It is located in the Mecklenburgian town of Malchin in the Mecklenburg Lake District and is the church of the Evangelical-Lutheran Cathedral Parish in the Güstrow church district of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg. The church is a replacement for the original Romanesque building, which burned down in 1397. The church formerly belonged to the diocese of Cammin.
The church was built as a three-aisled basilica in the Brick Gothic style. The church consists of the 42-meter-long and 22-meter-high nave with four bays, the choir with a three-sided choir apse (5/8-closure) with one bay, the narthex with five bays, and the west tower. The 67-meter-high church tower can be climbed. It does not stand on the central axis of the church, but at the northwest corner of the church in front of the northern side aisle.
Interior+
Inside there is a large carved altar, a wooden Renaissance pulpit by Hans Boeckler (1571), statues of the four Evangelists in the niches, the large wooden triumphal cross group (around 1400), a Romanesque baptismal font, and the wooden epitaphs in the gallery from 1599 and 1676 respectively.
In a side chapel of the church is the Marian altar from the 15th century, attributed to an unknown master.
Organ+
Behind the Baroque organ case from 1780 is an organ built in 1878 by Friedrich Friese III. The mechanical slider chest instrument has 28 stops on two manuals and pedal.
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