Landow Cultural and Pilgrimage Church
● Landow
The church in Landow on the Kubitzer Bodden—a cultural and pilgrimage church.
The Landow church, first mentioned in 1333, was abandoned as a place of worship about 30 years ago, as the small parish of Landow was unable to maintain the building during the GDR era, and church construction was made difficult or even impossible by political circumstances. The entire interior, including the wooden ceiling, was dismantled; some parts were moved to other churches, while others were lost. Nevertheless, the church possesses a distinctive, somewhat forlorn charm and a special atmosphere in its idyllic seclusion. Since 2000, the parish has once again been using the village church for worship services and as a “cultural and pilgrimage church.” In 2000, the Evangelical parish of Samtens founded the “Friends of the Landow Church” association and has since regularly organized the “Landow Music Summer” with great success. Thanks to the dedication of artists in the 1980s and the support of the Friends’ Association, the church’s deterioration was halted, and extensive renovations were carried out in 1994 and 2002 to preserve the building’s structural integrity.