Altenkirchen (Ruegen)

Basic data
State :	Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
County :	Western Pomerania-Ruegen
Office :	North Ruegen
Height :	10 m above sea level NHN
Area :	22.66 km 2
Residents:	924 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density :	41 inhabitants per km 2
Postal code :	18556
Area code :	038391
License plate :	VR, GMN, NVP, RDG, RÜG
Community key :	13 0 73 004
LOCODE :	DE AYU
Office administration address:	Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse 37 ; 18551 Sagard
Website :	Altenkirchen community
Mayoress :	Jutta Sill
Location of the community Altenkirchen in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen

Altenkirchen ( pronunciation ^?^/^I ) is a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen on the Wittow peninsula in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, which belongs to Rügen . It is administered by the North Rügen Office based in the municipality of Sagard . Well known is the parish church in Altenkirchen , which gave the place its name.

Geography and localization

Altenkirchen lies between the Tromper Wiek in the east and the open Baltic Sea in the north. The municipality covers the central part of the Wittow peninsula . Except for the coastal forests in the north and east, the slightly hilly municipal area is almost free of forests and is largely used for agriculture.

In the north of the municipality a high bank path runs along the Baltic Sea coast to Cape Arkona . This path touches the Bakenberg recreation area with a sandy beach below the cliffs and the coastal forest.

In addition to Altenkirchen, the municipality includes the following districts:

history

The construction of the church probably began as early as 1185. A stone from the Jaromarsburg , the sanctuary of Svantovit from Cape Arkona, was built into it . The stone is called the priest stone or svantevite stone . Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten was pastor at this church from 1792 to 1808.

The place was part of the Principality of Rügen until 1326 and then the Duchy of Pomerania . With the Peace of Westphalia of 1648, Rügen and thus also the area of Altenkirchen became part of Swedish Pomerania . In 1815 Altenkirchen came to the Prussian province of Pomerania as part of New Western Pomerania .

From 1818 Altenkirchen belonged to the district of Rügen . Only in the years from 1952 to 1955 was it part of the Bergen district. The community then belonged to the Rügen district in the Rostock district until 1990 and became part of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania in the same year. The district of Rügen, which has been called this again since 1990, was merged in 2011 in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen.

For the preacher and forger Gottlieb Samuel Pristaff in the 18th century, the remote district of Drewoldke was the location for the alleged rune stone by Drewoldke based on the Swedish model, which Pristaff brought into circulation with drawings and text on Rügen and in Western Pomerania. The counterfeit product was considered genuine by Greifswald scholars at the time.

Coat of arms, flag, official seal

The municipality has no officially approved national emblem, neither a coat of arms nor a flag . The official seal is the small state seal with the coat of arms of the region of Western Pomerania . It shows an upright griffin with a raised tail and the inscription "GEMEINDE ALTENKIRCHEN * LANDKREIS VORPOMMERN-RÜGEN".

Attractions

Parish church Altenkirchen : A Romanesque , three-aisled pillar basilica from 1168, next to the St. Mary's Church in Bergen the oldest church on Rügen. The apse and choir were completed around 1200. The six-bay, originally flat-roofed nave was givena rib vault in the late Gothic period . The church's free-standing belfry dates from the 17th century. The grave of the poet, pastor and professor Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten is located under the existing old grave cheeks in the cemetery.

Lanckensburg was originally called Zützitz. In the 14th century the village was owned by the von Platen family , in the 16th century by the Normanns , followed by the Bohlen family and finally, before 1742, by the von der Lancken family , who were named after them by renaming in 1742. The manor house was demolished in the 1960s. Nothing can be seen of the English landscape park, which was created at the end of the 19th century. The mighty barn was preserved from the estate, but it is falling into disrepair.

Altenkirchen
Parish church Altenkirchen
Church and churchyard Altenkirchen with the grave cheeks
Clock and bell tower Altenkirchen
Houses in Altenkirchen
Gutspeicher in Lanckensburg
Drewoldke ion probe station with transmitting antenna
Fishermen's houses in Gudderitz 1962/63
Afterglow over the Drewoldke campsite

Personalities

Sons and daughters of the church

Barthold von Krakevitz (1582–1642), from Presenke, theologian, general superintendent in Pomerania
Gottfried Kosegarten (1792–1860), German orientalist and linguist
Alwill Baier (1811-1892), German philosopher and theologian
Georg Julius Berling (1817–1873), German doctor, Low German writer
Otto Fock (1819–1872), from Schwarbe, German theologian and historian
Paul Bader (1865–1945), German politician (SPD) and member of the Reichstag
Paul Lockenvitz (1876–1961), German politician (DDP)

Personalities who have worked on site

Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1758–1818), pastor at the parish church
Friedrich Wilhelm von Schubert (1788–1856), pastor at the parish church
Oskar von Sydow (1811–1886), pastor at the parish church
Richard Kabisch (1868–1914), theologian, assistant preacher and rector

Web links

Commons : Altenkirchen - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature about Altenkirchen (Rügen) in the state bibliography MV

Individual evidence

↑ Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).

↑ Main statute § 2 (PDF).

↑ Günter Krieg, Lutz Mohr : The "Runestone from Drewoldke" on the island of Rügen - the product of a forger from the 18th century and its Swedish model in Tullstorp / Skåne province. In: Rainer H. Schmeissner (Hrsg.): Contributions to rune stone research. Special issue of the Steinkreuzforschung series . Studies on German and international land monument research. No. 10, Regensburg 1999, pp. 39-49, fig., Sources, literature u. Remarks.

↑ Main Statute, Section 1, Paragraph 1 (PDF).

[Metadaten_Einwohnerzahl_DE-MV-1] Statistisches Amt MV - population status of the districts, offices and municipalities 2019 (XLS file) (official population figures in the update of the 2011 census) ( help ).

[2] Main statute § 2 (PDF).