Bugenhagen Church (Greifswald-Wieck)

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Bugenhagenkirche viewed from the south

The Bugenhagenkirche is a neo-Romanesque church in the Greifswald district of Wieck . It was named after the Pomeranian reformer Johannes Bugenhagen . The three-bay hall church belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Wieck-Eldena-Ladebow.

history

In the 13th century, a church was first mentioned in Wieck on today's Dorfstrasse in the center of the village. According to tradition, it was a simple half-timbered building . It was used by the congregation for worship in the centuries to come. In the mid-19th century, however, the population rose sharply and was parish therefore become too small, however: The funds for a new building stood until the end of the 19th century are available. In addition, there was a storm surge in 1872, which also caused considerable damage in the church. Friedrich Adler and Friedrich Schulze built the building in the neo-Romanesque style in the years 1881–1883 ​​with the participation of Pastor Carl Rollenhagen . On June 5, 1883, the organ was removed; the church was consecrated on June 26, 1883 . In 1904 and 1913, the church was hit again by storm surges when the water penetrated into the chancel.

During the Nazi era, the parish had to shorten the tower by around seven meters in 1935 in order to facilitate air traffic at the airfield operated by the Wehrmacht in the neighboring Ladebow . During the Second World War , the community had to drop one of the two bells. In 1949 the congregation restored the altar . In 1958, on the 75th anniversary of the consecration of the church and the 400th anniversary of Bugenhagen's death, the parish council decided to rename the church to Bugenhagen church . At the end of the 1960s, the church was painted in a light shade, whitewashing the original color scheme. In 1983 the 100th anniversary of the church consecration was celebrated with a large community festival.

Several renovation work has been carried out since 1995. They started with the installation of new functional rooms and new doors. In 2000, the ringing was extended to include two more bronze bells . They come from the Albert Bachert company in Heilbronn . They complement the existing bells made by C. Voss & Sohn from Stettin in 1882. In November 2001, a memorial was erected in front of the church to commemorate the victims of the wars and violence. It is intended to remember the people who died as a result of acts of war and are buried in the Wieck cemetery. In October 2003 the largest solar system on a church roof in Pomerania was inaugurated here. The plant has an area of ​​206 m² and with a nominal output of 27.54 kilowatts, around 24.5 tons of carbon dioxide should be avoided annually . In 2010 a winter church was built . A renovation of the interior is planned, in which the original color scheme in a gray-greenish shade is to be restored. The windows, cornices and the vault ribs are to receive the originally existing accompanying strips again. The vaults themselves should be given a lighter shade than the wall surfaces. The parish intends to use this to reconstruct the painting that was made in 1883, without further colored ornaments.

Furnishing

Inside the church

The three-bay hall church has a nave with a ribbed vault . The choir polygon is lined in its apse with a half, five-part rib vault, while the aisles have a barrel vault. The west tower is complemented by side staircases.

The altar probably dates from the beginning of the 17th century by a hitherto unknown artist. The altarpiece is a holdover from the previous church and shows maritime biblical scenes. In the middle you can see the Lord's Supper . In the upper left inner wing there is a picture of the Flood and Noah's Ark . Including the rescue of is Jonah from the belly of Wales displayed. In the right inner wing above the painter depicted the calming of the storm by Jesus from the Gospel according to Luke . Below it is shown how Jesus saves Simon Peter . The left outer wing shows two crowned stockfish and three crowned herrings , the coat of arms of the Bergen and Skåne driver companies. Below is the passage through the Red Sea . The right outer wing shows the sea sermon at the top as well as two coats of arms of Greifswald patrician families and below the shipwreck of Paul on Malta .

The simple interior is adorned by three ships: the paddle steamer “Barussia” was a gift from the chief foreman to the Greifswald ship carpenters H. Will in 1866. Two more ships were built by former pastor Gerhard Dallmann . He donated a Zeesboot to the community in 2001 and a three-masted topsail schooner in 2012 . The octagonal, wooden pulpit as well as the octagonal, wooden fifth are from the year 1883. All three models are not votive ships , but “remind of great epochs of the Wieck seafaring”.

In the winter church there is a cast of a stone statue by Bertel Thorvaldsen with the title "The blessing Christ". Heinrich Zenichowski from Wieck restored the work, which must have been made between 1822 and 1840, in 2002.

organ

The organ on the gallery was made by Friedrich Albert Mehmel from Stralsund . The work from 1883 comprises 13 stops on two manuals and pedal . Their disposition was changed in 1893 and 1964. In 2010 and 2011 the company Hermann Eule Orgelbau Bautzen restored the original condition. A special challenge was a hanging valve drawer, which was only used in a few organs in the 1880s. Furthermore, the registers were brought back to the version originally intended by Mehmel.

I Manual
1. Principal 8th'
2. Drone 16 ′
3. Hollow flute 8th'
4th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
5. Octave 4 ′
6th Octave 2 ′
7th Mixture III
II manual
8th. Schwiegel 2 ′
9. Dumped 8th'
10. Flauto dolce 4 ′
pedal
11. Sub-bass 16 ′
12. Chorale bass 8th'
13. Flute bass 8th'

Coupling: II / I (train), I / P (step) Tutti (step), calcantenrufer, evacuant

Remarks
  1. ↑ reworking of the viola da gamba 8 ′
  2. ↑ new composition
  3. ^ Reworking the viola
  4. ↑ revision of the violon 16 ′

literature

  • Evangelical Church Community Wieck-Eldena: Stories from the Sea - The altarpieces in the Bugenhagen Church in Greifswald-Wieck Flyer, without date.
  • Detlef Witt: Stories from the Sea - The altarpieces in the Bugenhagen Church in Greifswald-Wieck. Evangelical Church Community Wieck-Eldena, 2012, p. 81.
  • Eckhard Oberdörfer: East Western Pomerania. Edition Temmen, Bremen, 1st edition 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , p. 304.
  • F. Fassbinder: The Bugenhagen Church in Greifswald-Wieck. Flyer, without date, display in the church.

Web links

Commons : Bugenhagenkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Burkhard Kunkel: Reception - Renovation. Reformation design of medieval furnishings in Pomeranian churches between aesthetics and catechesis . In: Gerhard Eimer, Ernst Gierlich, Matthias Müller (eds.): Ecclesiae ornatae . Bonn 2009, p. 269–290, here p. 278 .
  2. ↑ The ship models in the Wieck church. Evangelical Church Community Greifswald-Wieck / Eldena, accessed on January 31, 2016 .
  3. ^ According to Markus T. Funck: The organs of the Hanseatic city of Greifswald: a contribution to the history of Pomeranian organ building. Helms, Schwerin 2009, ISBN 978-3-935749-93-0 (= contributions to architectural history and monument preservation in Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania 8) Zugl. Greifswald, Univ., Diss., 2005 ISBN 3-935749-93-7 , p. 191; there also the following disposition.

Coordinates: 54 ° 5 ′ 48.4 ″  N , 13 ° 26 ′ 51.6 ″  E