The village church of Brohm is an early Gothic fieldstone church with Baroque furnishings
The church in Brohm is a hall building with a recessed rectangular choir in carefully executed fieldstone masonry from the late 13th century. The east gable of the chancel features a blind gable in brickwork. A barrel-vaulted sacristy is attached to the north of the choir.
The building is accessed via an ogival stepped portal to the west and south. There is also a smaller priest's door on the south side of the choir. The portals in the south are decorated with profiled transoms and incised drawings.
The chancel wall has a group of three windows in a screen. The other windows were probably enlarged in the 15th century. Although the pointed arches on the portals and windows and the date of origin suggest that the building is Gothic in style, this can only be considered a rough categorization for such rural-archaic buildings. In 1716, the church was fitted with a half-timbered roof tower with a tent roof, which was reduced to the belfry in 1949.
The interior of the building was also redesigned in the Baroque style around 1716. A stuccoed mirror vault with scrollwork decoration and allegorical figures as well as a ceiling painting with angels and the eye of God above an illusionistically painted balustrade were installed in the choir, while the nave was fitted with a wooden barrel vault depicting the Ascension of Christ.
Brohm village church - early Gothic fieldstone church near the Baltic Sea
The village church of Brohm is one of the most remarkable medieval religious buildings in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. The church was built in the late 13th century as a hall building with a recessed rectangular choir in carefully crafted fieldstone masonry. Like many village churches in the region between Rostock, Stralsund and Greifswald, it displays the rural-archaic brick architecture typical of northern Germany, with Gothic elements such as ogival stepped portals and stepped windows characterizing its appearance.
Gothic architecture and baroque interior of Brohm Church
The blind brick gable on the east gable of the choir and the barrel-vaulted sacristy on the north side are particularly striking. The portals in the south are decorated with profiled imposts and incised drawings. In 1716, the church was redesigned in the Baroque style: The choir was given a stuccoed mirror vault with scrollwork decoration, allegorical figures and a ceiling painting with angels and the eye of God. The nave was fitted with a wooden barrel vault depicting the Ascension of Christ. The church was also given a half-timbered roof tower in 1716, which was reduced to the belfry in 1949.