Late Gothic church in Jarszewo near Kamień Pomorski with almost complete 17th-century furnishings, polychromes by Joachim Sellin of 1681 and a painting of the Last Judgement.
The Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Jarszewo near Kamień Pomorski is a late Gothic church whose furnishings have survived almost entirely from the 17th century. The altar, pulpit, pews and paintings make up a coherent Baroque interior here.
The first mention of the church dates from 1534. In 1634 a fire consumed the building together with its Gothic furnishings and tower, and rebuilding took place in 1645. In 1681 Joachim Sellin of Wolin covered the interior with polychromes. In 1750 the church was widened to the south and east and a sacristy was added, and in 1913 a major renovation was carried out, with conservation of the polychromes. Until 1945 it served as a Protestant church, and on 14 October 1945 it was consecrated as a Catholic one.
The ceiling has a false barrel vault decorated with paintings, and Sellin's paintings also cover the choir stalls and pews. The sides of the pews are decorated with images of Pomeranian flowers, which have interested botanists, because they show which plants were known in Pomerania in the 17th century. The high altar and the pulpit were made by Georg Beckmann (joinery) and Chrystian Basche (painting) of Trzebiatów. The largest of Sellin's paintings, the Last Judgement of 1680, is according to Wikipedia the largest painting on panel in Pomerania. There are also paintings of the Annunciation and the Nativity, a gallery with polychrome decoration, and an organ of 1885 built by the Szczecin organ builder Barnim Grüneberg, now unused because of its poor condition.
The church has a rectangular plan, at the west a wooden boarded tower topped with an octagonal helm, a gable roof with an eyebrow dormer, and windows with semicircular heads.
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