Evangelical Church at Paulshöhe
The Evangelical Church at Paulshöhe , originally a chapel , is a listed church building in Boltenhagen in the district of Northwest Mecklenburg ( Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania ).
History and architecture
The building stands at the end of a dune on Paulshöhe, it was built from 1872 to 1873 according to plans by Helmuth Brunswig. The neo-Gothic rectangular brick building closes on three sides.
The original equipment has been preserved:
- the altar painting with the crucifixion scene (1873).
- the baptismal bowl (1948) represents the cloud of witnesses .
- the bell in the west gable, cast in 1879, and the bell in the roof turret from the 1950s.
- the gilded silver chalice (early 17th century)
- the gilded silver paten (1679).
A memorial stone to the northeast of the chapel commemorates the floods of November 12th and 13th, 1872 . Almost the entire place was destroyed. Another memorial stone commemorates the Wismar pastor Johann Joachim Hartwig Meyer , who has been on vacation in Boltenhagen since 1830 and is of great importance for Boltenhagen's development into a seaside resort and also for the building of churches.
local community
The Boltenhagen chapel initially belonged to the parish church in Klütz . Later an independent parish, the parishes of Klütz and Boltenhagen are now permanently connected again and belong to the church region Grevesmühlen, Propstei Wismar in the parish of Mecklenburg of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
literature
- Johann Joachim Hartwig Meyer: Brief history of the Boltenhäger chapel building. 1873
- Gerd Baier, Horst Ende , Brigitte Oltmans, General Editor Heinrich Trost: The architectural and art monuments in the Mecklenburg coastal region with the cities of Rostock and Wismar. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1900, ISBN 3-362-00523-3
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Individual evidence
Coordinates: 53 ° 59 ′ 18.5 ″ N , 11 ° 12 ′ 4.4 ″ E