Ahlbeck Church
The Ahlbeck Church is a Protestant church in the Seebad Ahlbeck district on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
It was built from brick in the style of historicism with elements of neo-Gothic and completed in 1895. The church has been part of the Pasewalk Provostry in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
history
The history of the church in Ahlbeck, like that of the church in the forest in neighboring Heringsdorf, is closely linked to the development of the place into a seaside resort. The cantor and teacher Johann Koch, who came to Ahlbeck in 1847, is considered to be the founder of the church. Ahlbeck's first bathers lived in his house in 1852. Because Ahlbeck did not have a church of its own, the residents and their guests had to attend church services in Heringsdorf to the west or in Swinoujscie to the east .
On July 28, 1865, Koch founded the committee for the construction of a Protestant church . Koch did not live to see the laying of the foundation stone on June 1, 1894; he had died a few weeks earlier. The money for the church building came together in three decades through collections among the residents and bathers.
The church was planned by the Prussian Royal Government Builder Werner. The hall building has a wooden pointed barrel vault. A wooden gallery runs along the long and west sides. In the middle of the narrow gallery side is an oil painting from 1900 showing Johann Koch. It is signed with Th. Ziegler and is probably a work by Theodor Ziegler from Berlin. The interior was painted with ornaments. The organ with 15 registers and two manuals was built in 1895 by the Grünberg organ building company in Stettin and overhauled in 1992. The sandstone altar and baptism, like the octagonal wooden pulpit, date from the time it was built. The three bells that were replaced by steel bells in 1956 have not been preserved. The church was consecrated on August 29, 1895.
The roof and windows were damaged during World War II . Moisture penetrated. Between 1970 and 1975 the church was renovated; the ornaments were painted over in white. The church tower was re-covered with slate in 1981. In 1991 the roof of the church was re-covered, the roof structure was renovated and the interior was again painted white.
literature
- Karin Hösch: Seebad Ahlbeck - Evangelical Church. In: Ahlbeck - Heringsdorf - Bansin , Ev. Parish offices in Heringsdorf, Ahlbeck, Bansin (ed.), Peda art guide. Passau 1994, ISBN 3-930102-36-6 , pp. 13-23
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Coordinates: 53 ° 56 '22.1 " N , 14 ° 11' 24.5" E