Dankeskirche (Sehlen)

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The Dankeskirche is a church building from 1866 in the municipality of Sehlen on the island of Rügen .

history

The church was built from 1864 to 1866 and consecrated on December 14, 1866. In 1887 Friedrich Albert Mehmel from Stralsund built the organ .

In 1947 the church windows were destroyed when the former ammunition bunker in the Sehlener Forst was blown up. They were repaired in 1948.

From 1976 the church was no longer used, and a service was not held again until 1991. In 1993/1994 extensive repairs were carried out and a community room was built. In 1999 the organ was renovated. In 2002 the church received two new Bachert bells.

description

The neo-Gothic brick church is located on a hill, surrounded by the cemetery . The church measures 18.50 meters in length and 11.80 meters in width. The ridge height is 12 meters. The four-story west tower is 19 meters high. He wears a gable roof .

A polygonal apse is attached to the nave . The choir and nave are supported by buttresses . Pointed arch windows let light into the church interior.

Furnishing

The apse has a six-part vault with round bar ribs. The nave has a wooden ceiling. On the west wall there is still one of the originally two stairways to the galleries .

The church has an oak altar . The octagonal pulpit of the pulpit from 1866 has an octagonal base. The artificial stone baptismal font is also octagonal . The altar candlesticks, baptismal bowls, paten and the communion jug date from the middle of the 19th century.

organ

The organ with a manual and pedal was made in 1887 by Friedrich Albert Mehmel . It has five sounding voices . Since the restoration in 1998 by the Rainer Wolter company , the instrument has been playable again after 30 years of inactivity. The prospectus is neo-Gothic.

local community

The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

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Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 40.7 "  N , 13 ° 23 ′ 22.4"  E