Christ Church (Velgast)
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The Protestant Christ Church is a sacred building from the 13th century in Velgast , a municipality in the district of Vorpommern-Rügen in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The ev. Parish Starkow and Velgast belongs to the provost Stralsund in the Pomeranian Protestant parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
location
The Ernst-Thälmann-Straße leads from the northwest in a southeast direction through the village. In the historic center of the village, the Green Way branches first to the east and finally to the south in the direction of Ernst-Thälmann-Straße. The church stands on the plot spanned in this way in a surrounding church cemetery , which is enclosed by a wall made of reddish bricks .
history
In some cases, different information existed about the origins of the building. According to information in the Dehio manual , the church was built around 1400 by monks from the nearby Neuenkamp monastery - in the 21st century it was the municipality of Franzburg . The parish, however, states in a flyer that the building was built on behalf of the Schwerin bishop in the 13th or 14th century. In 1695 the wooden church tower was demolished because it was in disrepair. In 1828 a belfry was built in front of the church.
Building description
The two-bay building was essentially made of reddish brick and is based on a foundation of uncut and non-layered field stones . The polygonal choir has not been drawn in and is stabilized by a mighty buttress at each of its four corners. In the middle is a large, three-lane pointed arch window.
This is followed by the nave . On its north side there are also three large pointed arch windows; on the south side two. In the center there is also an ogival gate, above it a smaller window. Here, too, the walls were stabilized with a total of three buttresses on each side.
After the church tower was torn down, craftsmen redesigned the west facade. In the center is a clogged, ogival panel , in which the passage to the tower was previously. The lower third of the wall consists of field stones, and above it, bricks were used. A magnificently designed stepped gable rises above a rectangular, brightly plastered panel. It consists of three multi-part and coupled panels, which are supplemented by additional panel fields on the side. In addition, four pinnacles adorn the gable, which ends with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
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The baroque pulpit altar was created in Michael Müller's workshop in Stralsund and has been in storage since the 1980s. In the first half of the 18th century he created matching semicircular altar cabinets and a wooden fifth with carved putti heads . The church has a Gothic ribbed vault , which is completed by console stones from the 15th century. These nine stones represent six human faces and three animals. The rib arches are decorated with ornaments, as are the window reveals.
Twelve consecration crosses laid out in color are carved into the walls. The north wall also shows the representation of Christophorus , on the stairway to the gallery two people are depicted at the barrel. In the vault, Jesus Christ is still depicted as the judge of the world . The wall paintings from the construction period were exposed during restoration work in 1984. Other church furnishings include a fifth and an altar grille from the 18th century. Also in storage is a large painting from the second half of the 18th century showing a crucifix with a prayer. The eagle-crowned chandelier is dated to 1737. The two-flame wall sconces date from around the same time.
The organ with a manual dating from 1844 was built by Carl August Buchholz . It was restored from 1994 to 1996 for 63,000 DM by the Rainer Wolter company from Zudar .
The wooden belfry with two bells to the west of the church dates from 1924. The larger bell bears the inscription: “Forget my people, the faithful dead not - 1914–1918 / Glory to God in the highest”, while on the smaller one Bell reads: "Peace on earth".
Web links
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Hans-Christian Feldmann et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich, 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-03128-9 .
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 54 ° 16 ′ 24.6 " N , 12 ° 48 ′ 35.9" E