Volkenshagen village church
The Volkenshagen village church is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Bentwisch in the Rostock district , to which the church in Rövershagen also belongs. The community belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The church is first documented on December 23, 1297 with its people priest Ludolf in a bull from Pope Gregory IX. mentioned. In the years 1892 to 1895, at the request of Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. a conversion and restoration by Gotthilf Ludwig Möckel . Another consecration took place on June 8, 1895. After the third arch in the choir collapsed in 1966, it could only be used to a limited extent. In 1985 the slate roof of the tower was repaired and three of the six large windows on the west side were renewed. The congregation had the entire church building restored from 1998 to 2002 through funding and the sale of the rectory. The costs amounted to 200,000 euros, a quarter of which was funded by a special association set up for the preservation of the Volkenshagen Church. V. were contributed. First of all, the vault was rebuilt, followed by the renovation of a supporting pillar. In a further construction phase, the nave was painted and community rooms were created, which enables the church to be used as a community meeting point. In addition to renovation of the tower and roof, the former organ gallery in the west was converted into a winter church. The work was accompanied by the Hamburg architects johannsen und partner .
Building description and equipment
The four-bay church is a field stone church typical of the region . The 47 meter high tower was built from brick in 1892 in place of a previously existing, separate wooden tower and has an octagonal upper floor with a pointed helmet . There are two bells in it. The second south window indicates Christ, the third shows birth, baptism, cross and resurrection. In the interior, parts of the neo-Gothic interior, an organ and a tombstone with an inscription from 1580 have been preserved. The gravestone is decorated with the coats of arms of the von Preen , von Levetzow and von Bützow families . Also worth seeing is a font from 1858 with a brass bowl from 1650, a work by Lengfeld . A plaque with the inscription “In honor of God, this church was built by Grand Duke Friedrich Franz III. in the years 1893–1895 renewed, expanded and richly decorated, out of gratitude for gracious salvation from serious illness, this table donated to us in his presence in the year of mourning for the departed, their beloved, dear gentlemen - retired. ". The great bell from 1584 was cast by Harmen Hogehus .
organ
The organ with two manuals dates from 1862 and was built by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller . The flat, neo-Gothic housing has three gable fields and two lower intermediate fields. From 1924 to 1930, a pneumatic control system was installed by Christian (Carl?) Börger, and the gaming table was relocated at the same time . The keyboard, the wind chest and the bellows were first brought to Schwandt in 1926 and finally to the Malchow Organ Museum in 1999 .
In the course of the renovation work on the church, the organ was also restored and relocated. The Mecklenburg Orgelbau company from Plau am See built it into the former grand ducal box in the south chapel in 2005. At the same time, the console was put back in the original place in front of the organ that Lütkemüller had planned. 55,000 euros were required for the restoration, of which 22,000 euros were again contributed by the friends' association. Further funds were made available from the church patronage , the State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Church. The re-consecration took place in early 2006.
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literature
- Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch: The church to Volkenshagen. In: Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Archeology. 22 (1875), pp. 321-332 ( [1] ).
Web links
- Literature about the village church Volkenshagen in the state bibliography MV
- List of monuments of the Bad Doberan district as of: February 28, 2012 (PDF; 672 kB), page 19, Rostock district website, accessed on July 22, 2012.
- Volkenshagen in the Rostock church district ( Memento from December 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
- Volkenshagen village church. In: arch INFORM .
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Church in Volkenshagen is being renovated further ( memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on July 24, 2012.
- ↑ Parish Volkenshagen ( Memento from December 28, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), website of the Evangelical Church in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, accessed on July 24, 2012.
- ^ Associations in Klein Kussewitz , website of the Carbäk Office, accessed on July 23, 2012.
- ↑ a b Organ in Volkenshagen , website of Kirchenmusik in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, accessed on July 22, 2012.
- ↑ Volkenshagen Church ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the architects johannsen und partner, accessed on July 23, 2012.
- ^ Volkenshagen, Protestant village church , website of the Malchow Organ Museum, accessed on July 23, 2012.
- ↑ Report of the Upper Church Council for the year 2005 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 687 kB), Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg, XIV. Regional Synod, 1st Conference, 2006 Printed matter 4, page 37, (PDF), accessed on July 21, 2012.
Coordinates: 54 ° 8 ′ 58.3 ″ N , 12 ° 15 ′ 49.5 ″ E