St. Mary's Parish Church Angermünde

One of the most important churches in the Uckermark and the oldest building in Angermünde is St. Marienkirche. Visible from afar, the Marienkirche rises on the highest point in the city with its imposing west work. The church originally had up to 17 side altars, a large triumphal cross with nine figures of saints, a Renaissance altar from 1600, in addition to the Marienkapelle on the north side, a south chapel that was demolished before 1730, several galleries and probably a large number of paintings and tombstones.

The large parish church of Angermünde can look back on almost 800 years of history. Even from the outside, you can see the different sections of the different types of masonry well. The original construction consisted of cuboid boulders. From the 17th century, various additions were made in the style of the brick Gothic. The most striking feature is the impressive church tower. In addition, the old, much smaller windows on the nave were replaced by tall arched windows.

The St. Marienkirche Angermünde was completed around 1250 as a parish church and is still largely in its original state. Since the north of Brandenburg (Uckermark and Prignitz) is "rich in stones", the building material used for the church was Feldstein (granite), a building material that was abundant on site. It was deposited here in the Ice Age. For the construction of the church, the granite was bricked up to roughly the same size as a regular cube and in layers of the same height. Granite is a very stable and resistant material that was often used for the construction of fortified churches. What Martin Luther described with the chant "A solid castle is our God" was also understood by the church or its tower. The Angermünd church was also built in this preferred style and in the Romanesque style with the nave and choir in the 1st half of the 13th century. The Gothicization of the building began about 100 years later: the vaulting and the larger windows still testify to this today.