Woosten village church

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Village church Woosten 2015
West gable with half-timbered tower 2015

The Woosten village church is an early Gothic brick church from the 13th century in the Woosten district of the town of Goldberg in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Building history

In the directory of parishioners fief and churches of the Schwerin pin parish was Wutzen already in 1234 the Archdeacon of the Benedictine monastery Dobbertin duly noted more documentary mention, even in the Rostock city book is Woosten 1269 by the will of the gardener Johann Friese, of there the church in Woceten a contribution of four Solidas leaves behind. Accordingly, the church must have been under construction as a knightly foundation of the von Woosten family as early as 1269. From 1296 Woosten and the surrounding villages belonged to the possessions of the Pomeranian Cistercian monastery Neuenkamp , where it remained until 1455. Then the archdeacon came back to the Dobbertin monastery with its provost Nicolaus Behringer. The building owner of the parish and church Woosten was a knightly foundation of the family von Woosten. The family had their ancestral home there and covered their possessions with their district. Already in 1307 a clergyman Johann von Woosten was named as Lord of the Church of Woosten.

The first major repairs were carried out on the roof of the nave at the end of the 14th century. The dendrochronological dating of the joists in the nave roof resulted in a renewal of the entire joist in 1398.

In the middle of the 16th century, von Grabow stayed in Woosten and had the church patronage. After Elar von Grabow died in 1607, Johann von Grabow had to give up his goods in Woosten, Finkenwerder and Klein Poserin in 1649. When the Grabow family property was pledged at the end of the Thirty Years' War , church patronage also went to the commandant Major Christoph Trappmann and Anna Sophia, widow Jürgen von Linstow, in 1649 . In the church visit protocol of 1649 the church is described as follows: The church is well built, and a good building, the choir vaulted, and otherwise covered with a good wooden floor, on the tower a beautiful long spitz covered with mockery, the sermon stool, The altar and baptismal font are good, but the church table is bad and the Patroni want to have it repaired. Also in 1662 the visitation protocol describes the church as in fair condition, the choir vaulted, the rest of the walls covered with boards . The church roof was still leaking, the tower covered with wooden shingles and all the pews burned in the war.

In the 17th and 18th centuries there were several repairs to the roof structure and the tower. So in 1667 on the roof of the choir. In 1719 two new ceiling beams were installed to reinforce the roof structure. The current two-story lattice tower that protrudes from the roof was only erected in 1774. The oak struts, which were made into a St. Andrew's cross, were felled in winter 1773/74. The belfry is much older. The oak stands of the substructure are based on dendro samples of 1590 ± 10.

As captain a. D. Trappman shot a farmer in Wendisch Waren and fled, Levin Heinrich von Linstow Woosten took over. It was not until 1681, when the church was very dilapidated, that makeshift repairs appeared to be being carried out. In 1698, Georg von Linstow, Braunschweig-Lüneburg colonel and commander of the Hamburg Fortress, is said to have owned the goods in Woosten and Diestelow in the Goldberg office . In 1707 the Goldberg governor Christoph Hans von Grabow bought Woosten back and in 1726 Friedrich Wilhelm von Grabow was heir to Woosten and patron of the church. In 1721 Woosten went to von Plessen and in 1752 from chamberlain Engelke von Plessen to the ducal chamber.

On June 11th, 1781 Pastor Hane wrote to the Duke "The roof of the local church is beginning to be very damaged, and if it is not remedied this summer, the damage will be even greater." On August 3rd, 1781 the master carpenter Lufft came from Güstrow for inspection and issued an invoice of 4 thalers and 32 shillings. For this purpose he made a cost estimate and a colored drawing. In March 1782 the pastor complained about the repairs not being carried out, which were approved again in 1783. Now the repair of the windows was also under discussion, but the duke initially refused financing on the grounds that "The number of windows was given too large that the intention seemed to be to decorate the entire church with new windows."

During the tenure of Pastor Johann Christoph Carl Zander there were significant improvements in the church. After both bells were able to ring again in 1838, there were again changes in the interior of the church from 1841 to 1843, including painting and in 1859 the purchase of an organ. The embellishments in the interior of the church concerned the construction of three new chairs for the Woosten court, for the Dutchman and the church lawyers to the right of the altar. There were also 17 new pews on both sides of the central nave. In 1842, bricks were torn from the compartments of the lattice tower by a strong wind and fell on the church roof, the damage of which was only repaired three years later after severe criticism by the Grand Ducal Chamber of the Goldberg authorities. On April 15, 1850, the rectory burned down. From 1878 to 1880 there were further repairs, as the church now looked ruined again . When the church tower visibly swayed when the bells began to ring in 1912, the repairs to the framework were quite time-consuming.

After the renovation in November 2019

After Pastor Bosinski the parish had left Woosten early 1945 towards Güstrow, which was abandoned parish became poor and desolate after the war. 12 families now lived in the rectory, including seven settlers. The windows were boarded up, the roofs leaky and the living room was dirty, everything was dilapidated and teeming with cattle, dunk and dirt, only the church interior was not violated.

In the years 2000 to 2003, necessary, previously only minor, security and renovation work was carried out on the roof, the lattice tower, the sacristy and the facades. The roofs and the wooden structure of the tower, nave, choir and annex were still in poor condition. The Parchimer architecture office Lemke-Uphaus was commissioned with the planning and construction management. The static security concept was drawn up by Mr. Holger Hacker, the wood protection report by Mr. Jörg Baschista and the structural historical analysis of the entire church with building survey and damage mapping by Mr. Ralf Gastzky, all from Schwerin. The extensive construction work on the tower and roofs was carried out from 2018 to 2019. The tower helmet was removed on March 13, 2019 with ball and weather valve and was renewed at ground level. On April 15, 2019, the refurbished tower helmet with slate cover could be put back on the tower.

Building description

The church in Woosten is one of the oldest churches that was shaped by the formal language of the quarter Gothic style in Mecklenburg. In Woosten it is the shaped stones used as edge profiles for the window frames and for the priest portal. The sequence can also be seen at the town church of Goldberg .

Exterior

Ceiling beam inscription to the lattice tower

The church is a simple buttressless brick building with a field stone base, which was built in two phases as a single-nave hall structure. The rectangular choir with its ribbed vault was completed as the oldest part of church 106 with the roof structure dendrochronologically dated between 1303/1305.

The nave was completed in 1311. The planned extension of the nave was prepared by the toothing of the wall connection on the nave gable, as the construction seam clearly shows. The west and east gables are decorated with coupled twin panels. There are round arches on the east gable. The wall crowns of the choir and nave are provided on the outside with a simple mural made of two-tiered bricks.

The saddle roofs of the chancel and the nave are covered with hand-made plain tile roofing tiles. The two three-lane pointed arch windows with leaded diamond glass on the north and south sides of the nave and one window each on the choir were designed in the Gothic style. The step portals also have a mixed form of Gothic and Romanesque elements. The priest's gate on the vestibule that was added later on the south side of the choir is provided with round bar profiles.

The lattice tower on the west side of the nave is divided into four components. The substructure made of four mighty octagonal oak stands, the middle frame construction, the two-story half-timbered construction with the pyramid helmet and the independent belfry construction. According to the inscription in a crossbeam between the eastern posts, the substructure of the tower dates from 1618. So far, it has been assumed that this year indicates the completion of the current tower construction. Dendrochronological studies have shown that the current two-story lattice tower was only built in 1774. The tent roof of the spire has a slate covering.

Interior

The roof of the nave and the choir is a cross-braced collar beam roof with collar and hook beams. The raised collar beam is a sign that the nave was originally designed to be arched. The oak roof consists of 13 bundles and is marked with symbolic signs that were used in Mecklenburg until 1330.

Choir with altar, 2013

The nave has a flat wooden beam ceiling with board formwork. The crossbeams rest on the side walls and are additionally secured by curved and decorated headbands.

The organ gallery is supported in the middle by four eight-sided wooden columns. On the west side of the organ gallery hangs an epitaph from 1669 belonging to the Levin Heinrich von Linstow family and his first wife Maria Dorothea, née Maria Dorothea, who died on May 4, 1669. from Zülow . The inscription is framed by the coats of arms of the families who once lived here and were related to the von Linstow family. Many coats of arms and the corresponding lettering can no longer be deciphered.

In 1880 the church was extensively renovated. But the new slim, neo-Gothic pulpit altar darkened the east window and the stone-visible painting of the choir up to the parapet gave the church a strange impression. The baptismal font was in the middle in front of the altar and on both sides the patronage and pastor's chairs. The grave slab from 1607 in front of the altar was removed and placed on the north side of the triumphal arch. The stalls in the nave no longer had a central aisle.

The bad habit, also widespread in Mecklenburg, of removing the neo-Gothic furnishings from Gothic village churches when renovating, also happened in Woosten after 1960. The Rostock painter and restorer Lothar Mannewitz made a radical proposal on November 19, 1959 for a new design of the church. The pulpit altar with both side passages was demolished, the choir stalls removed from the chancel and the triumphal cross, which was painted with oil paint, was removed from the north wall. The objection of the Institute for the Preservation of Monuments before work began in 1961 meant that the pulpit and altar cross were preserved.

But the neo-Gothic interior was almost completely replaced and the altar was redesigned. The pulpit with the current paintwork is now on the north side of the altar. The church consecration took place on April 8, 1962, the regional bishop Niklot Beste .

altar

The altar has been in its current form since 1962. The altar table was built as a block with bricks and on it stands a carved communion relief from the 17th century in a new frame. Next to it stand as full figures the evangelists Luke and John. A triumphal cross with a body of Christ carved from oak rises above the altar table , probably 14th century. It dates from the time the church was built and once hung in the triumphal arch between the choir and the nave.

Baptismal font

Baptismal font from 1612

The baptismal fonts of high artificial quality, which were made in well-known workshops at the end of the 16th century, were mostly commissioned by noble church patrons, as was the case in Woosten. This sandstone baptismal font, made in 1612 in the Wismar workshop of the Dutch sculptor Philipp Brandin , undoubtedly has the signature of a less talented sculptor, as all known masters had died in 1612. The two baptismal fonts created in the Brandin workshop for the Dobbertiner monastery church and for the Güstrow cathedral can be regarded as precursors . In 1586 the court marshal and monastery captain Joachim von der Lühe donated the Dobbertiner and in 1592 the Mecklenburg duke Ulrich founded the Güstrow baptismal font. The Dobbertiner baptismal font can be seen as a model for the Güstrower with a cantilevered Herme and caryation. The baptismal font in Woosten takes the form of the Güstrow basin, but no longer has a solid base, instead it is held by four bearer putti. What is striking in Woosten is the almost fragile-looking shape of the sandstone baptismal font.

The founder Elar von Grabow and the year of origin 1612 are recorded in the inscription in the upper edge of the baptismal font: GESETZT ANNO 1612 THE 8TH JANUARY ELAR GRABOW S. DOROTHEA V. STRALENDORFF MARC. I 10 LET THE CHILD COME TO ME AND DO NOT PROTECT THEM THAT SUCH IS THE REALM OF GOD.

Grave slab

On the northern triumphal arch in the nave there is the more than two-meter-high grave slab made of sandstone with a frame and a bronze coat of arms for Elar von Grabow. After the church visit of 1591, Elar von Grabow on Woosten also had eight hooves on Lütten Poserin.

The inscription: ANNO 1607 THE 16 OCTOBRIS IS THE NOBLE | ESTRENGE VND EHRENTVESTE ELAR GRABOW AVFF WVSTEN PEAS IN GOD THE LORD SELICHLICH | SLEEPING VND NOVEMBRIS 12 VNTER THIS STONE CHRISTIAN VND HONEST ZV THE EARTH CONFIRMED SINES AGE IN THE 75TH JHARE. At each of the four corners there are four coats of arms in a round picture, DER STRAHLENDORFFER at top left, DER GRABOWEN at top right, DE VAN DER LUE at bottom left, DER OLDENBORGER at bottom right. In the middle of the grave slab the larger coats of arms of the von Grabow and von Strahlendorf families.

organ

Organ, wooden pipes, 2013

By February 1858 the parish had already collected 122 thalers and 16 shillings for the purchase of an organ . At the request of Pastor Zander, Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II added 277 thalers and 32 shillings.

The organ was built in 1859 by the Wittstock organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller and is located on the west gallery, which was built in 1618 in the Renaissance style with flat carvings. It is a neo-Gothic series brochure with five pipe fields and a console on the right. The single manual organ with pedal has the following disposition:

Manual C – d 3
Principal 8th'
Salicional 8th'
Dumped 8th'
Praestant 4 ′
flute 4 ′
Octave 2 ′
Pedal C – c 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Remarks

  1. ↑ C – H from Principal 8 ′

In 1917 35 prospect pipes were removed for war purposes and in 1920 they were reinstalled by the organ builder Marcus Runge from Schwerin, where Octave 2 ′ was exchanged for Aeoline 8 ′. In 1958 the organ was overhauled, the last repair and cleaning then in 1980. The Gotha company Rudolph Böhm made the organ electrically playable in 1966. In 2015 an extensive restoration was carried out by the Rostock company historic keyboard instruments Johann Gottfried Schmidt . The Aeoline 8 'was exchanged for the Octave 2' again.

Stained glass window

In the middle panels of the three-lane pointed arch windows there are clover-leaf crosses in a halo below the arch. In the arched areas of the side panels , four-passages made from etched and cut overlaid glass can be seen, four-stars in the spandrels. The rest of the window has simple diamond glazing.

Bells

Bell, 2013
Bell, 2019

Since the second half of the 17th century, two bronze bells have hung in the Zweifelder bell cage in the tower , which were cast in Rostock in 1838. The inscription reads: MOLDED IN 1838 BEY FE HAACK IN ROSTOCK IN GLORIAM DEI. The larger bell was delivered for war purposes in 1917, replaced in 1937 and melted down again in 1942. Today only the small bell with a diameter of 0.75 meters and a weight of 194 kg hangs in the middle yoke in the tower, sounds on the c sharp tone and is operated by a bell system.

In the east gable of the nave there was a small bell as a Vesper bell with a Pomeranian double eagle in the wreath . It could possibly come from the 14th century, when Woosten belonged to the Sonnenkamp monastery . Today she is on the gallery. Since the late summer of 2019, the prayer bell has been hanging back in its original place, provided with a new clapper and can be rung by hand.

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1308 - Provost 0000of Vredeberno.
  • 1541 0000Paul Wigand.
  • 1552–1557 Johann Habelmann, then technician .
  • 1568 0000Johann Dabberzin.
  • 1574 0000Peter Warten / Petrus von der Warten, previously in Unter Brütz.
  • 1585–1629 Johann Sehusen.
  • 1630–1679 Christian Honert. (Honertus)
  • 1680–1709 Heinrich Honert. (Henricus Honertus)
  • 1710–1717 Cajus Lorentzen.
  • 1718–1750 Christian Georg Wendt, 1753–1770 prepositus.
  • 1750–1772 Ehren (t) rich Joachim Krauel.
  • 1773–1792 Heinrich Hane.
  • 1792–1805 Carl Conradi.
  • 1805–1827 Andreas David Heinrich Fredenhageen.
  • 1828–1872 Carl Johann Christoph Carl Zander, 1846–1872 prepositus, 1856 representation in Dobbertin, spoke only Low German.
  • 1872–1892 Johann Friedrich Adolph Eckhardt, 1864 teacher at the secondary school for girls in Schwerin.
  • 1893–1912 Carl Ernst Theodor Sothmann, 1884 teacher at the community school in Schwerin.
  • 1912–1927 Johannes Christian Conrad Adolf Schliemann, 1897 rector in Warin .
  • Managed by Brütz from 1927–1938.
  • 1928–1931 Hermann Wilhelm Schilbe, 1903 rector in Neustadt , 1907 pastor in Brüz.
  • 1931–1934 Gottfried Holtz (also pastor in Brüz)
  • 1936–1945 Gerhard Ernst Bosinski, vicar, after 1945 cathedral preacher in Güstrow .
  • 1945–1955 managed from Goldberg, from December 1948 looked after by Curt Buchholz.
  • 1951– 0000Karl Wurster, 1948 state youth warden in Mecklenburg.
  • 1952–1953 Günther Bahr.
  • 1955 – Wolfgang Schmidt.
  • 1965 Egon Wulf.
  • 1998– 0000Christian Banek.

Parish

The parish of Woosten belongs to the Parchim provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the North Church . She has looked after and managed Groß Poserin since 1955 and has been associated with Brüz since 1979 . Woosten and Groß Poserin have been united since April 1, 1999, Woosten and Brüz since 2007. In 2004 the parish of Woosten merged with the parish of Kuppentin. On October 1, 2015, the union with the Kuppentin parish took place to form the Woosten-Kuppentin parish.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume IV The district court districts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau . Schwerin 1901. Reprint 1993 ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 396-400.
  • Gustav Willgeroth : The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parish since the Thirty Years' War. Wismar, 1925. First volume.
  • Franz Engel: German and Slavic influences in the Dobbertiner cultural landscape. Settlement geography and economic development of a Mecklenburg sand area. Kiel 1934, writings of the Geographical Institute of the University of Kiel, Volume II. Issue 3.
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000. ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 717.
  • Fred Ruchhöft : The development of the cultural landscape in the Plau-Goldberg area in the Middle Ages. , Ed .: Kersten Krüger / Stefan Kroll In: Rostocker Studies for Regional History. Volume 5, Rostock 2001 ISBN 3-935319-17-7
  • ZEBI, START: Village and town churches in the Parchim parish. Bremen, Rostock, 2001 ISBN 3-86108-795-2 , p. 215.
  • Fred Beckendorff, Reinhard Schaugstat: Woosten. In: The village, town and monastery churches in the Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide nature park and its surroundings. Issue 3. (From culture and science) Karow 2003 pp. 68–69.
  • Ralf Berg: Between Stegbach and Serrahn. A chronicle of the Wendisch Waren community. Goldberg 2014.
  • Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Trave and Peene. Berlin 2014 ISBN 978-3-86732-131-0 .
  • Ralf Gesatzky: The church in Woosten. Historical study of the church and construction of the choir. Schwerin, March 2018.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin (LHAS)
    • LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery. Regesten.
    • LHAS 2.22-10 / 18 Domanialamt Lübz.
    • LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry for Art, Spiritual and Medical Affairs. No. 4635, 4636 Küsterei and parish in Woosten 1791–1887.
    • LHAS 9.1-1 Reichskammergericht , case files (1495–1806) No. 41 Woosten, Kirche und See, 1492.
  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Dept. 2. Goldberg, Woosten.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia, Dept. 4. Woosten, No. 30 Repair of the church in Woosten and investigation of the property of the church there 1781–1841.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, personnel and exams.
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (LAKD)
    • Dept. of Monument Preservation, Archive, Woosten Church Files, 1959–2003.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Woosten  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 425.
  2. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 1153.
  3. ↑ MUB XV. (1890) No. 8924.
  4. ↑ LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery. Regesten No. 152, 163-167, 169.
  5. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014 p. 224.
  6. ↑ Fred Ruchhöft: The development of the cultural landscape in the Plau-Goldberg area in the Middle Ages. 2001 p. 151.
  7. ↑ a b Friedrich Schlie: The church village Woosten. 1993 p. 397.
  8. ↑ Ralf Gesatzky: The Church Woosten. 2018, p. 8, 19.
  9. ↑ Ralf Gesatzky: The Church Woosten. 2018, pp. 9-10.
  10. ↑ Ralf Gesatzky: The Church Woosten. 2018, p. 10.
  11. ↑ LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court . No. 724.
  12. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, file 30, repairs of the church in Woosten.
  13. ^ Ralf Berg: The church in Woosten. 2014 pp. 160–161.
  14. ^ Curt Buchholz: To the church chronicle of Goldberg in Mecklenburg. 1949 (unpublished).
  15. ↑ Site visit on March 15, 2019.
  16. ↑ Niels Troelenberg: Helmet will come on again soon. SVZ Goldberg-Lübz-Plau, March 8th, 2019. In this article the editor made the church 300 years younger: "For a few days now the church in Woosten, which was built in 1612, has been sawing, gluing and grouting again."
  17. ^ Franziska Gutt: Renovation of the spire. Church complete again. SVZ LÜbz - Goldberg - Plau, April 16, 2019.
  18. ↑ Ralf Gesatky: The Church Woosten. 2018, p. 16.
  19. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, pp. 111–113, 134.
  20. ↑ a b Tilo Schöfbeck: Dendrodata from churches between Trave and Peene. 2014, p. 364.
  21. ↑ Ralf Gesatzky: The Church Woosten. 2018, p. 9.
  22. ↑ Joining marks. Inscription and date on the crossbeam between the eastern posts in the framework.
  23. ↑ Ralf Gesatzky: The Church Woosten. 2018, p. 16.
  24. ↑ Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Travelodge and Peene. 2014, pp. 303-307.
  25. ^ Report on the visit to the church in Woosten near Goldberg on November 19. 1959 by the painter and restorer Lothar Mannewitz from Rostock on December 2nd, 59th.
  26. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin, May 14, 1960 to Lothar Mannewitz and April 29, 1961 to the Woosten rectory.
  27. ^ German-Dutch Society: Traces of the Dutch in Northern Germany. Historic Sites in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Dobbertin, monastery church. 2001 pp. 96-97.
  28. ^ Carsten Neumann: The baptismal font of the Dobbertiner monastery church from the year 1586. In: Kloster Dobbertin. History - building - living. 2012 pp. 207–213.
  29. ↑ Organ and bell. In: woosten.de. Parish of Woosten-Kuppentin, accessed on March 19, 2019 .
  30. ^ Friedrich Drese: The organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller and his work in Mecklenburg. Malchow 2010, p. 65.
  31. ^ Reinhard Kuhl: Glass paintings of the 19th century. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Leipzig 2001, ISBN 3-361-00536-1 , p. 228.
  32. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin Parish since the Thirty Years' War. 1925.
  33. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village Woosten. 1901, pp. 397-398.
  34. ↑ Willgeroth aktuell: The parishes of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg since 1933. Schwerin, March 2019.
  35. ↑ MUB V. (1869) No. 3205.
  36. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina Z 003.
  37. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina E 016.
  38. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina S 299.
  39. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina S 83.
  40. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina S 060.
  41. ↑ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina B 275.
  42. ^ LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Personalia and Examina W 207.

Coordinates: 53 ° 33 ′ 54.9 ″  N , 12 ° 6 ′ 38.2 ″  E