Franzburg Church

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Franzburg Church

The Franzburg Church is a church building in the town of Franzburg in the Vorpommern-Rügen district . It emerged from a side wing of the former abbey church of the Cistercian monastery Neuenkamp , which was converted into a castle church in the second half of the 16th century . Today it belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Franzburg in the Propstei Stralsund of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

View of Franzburg around 1615 in the Stralsund illuminated manuscript . The church can be recognized by the buttresses.

The monastery church of the Neuenkamp monastery, built between 1280 and 1330, was largely demolished after the monastery was secularized from 1535 to 1561. Duke Bogislaw XIII. had a four-wing palace built in place of the monastery church from 1580. The remaining southern transept of the monastery church formed the eastern part of the south wing and was expanded into a Protestant castle church from 1583. The castle church in Stettin served as a model . Initially, only the ducal court had access to the castle church. The respective pastor of Wolfsdorf became court preacher. A few years later a craftsmen's settlement was founded nearby, called Franzburg, which was given town charter in 1587. Until 1618, the town community used a chapel in front of the former monastery for services, more and more rarely. After the duke had given up Franzburg as a permanent residence in 1605, after which the town began to decline, the town and court parish had merged. During the Thirty Years' War , Franzburg Castle, which was occupied by imperial troops from 1628, was destroyed and finally dismantled around 1660 for the extraction of building materials. Only the castle church remained, which in the meantime had become the town church.

During the Great Northern War , the church suffered severe damage in 1712 when the city was sacked and devastated.

After the occupation of Swedish Pomerania by Napoleonic troops in 1806, they used the church as a straw and hay store. In 1816 the Franzburg Church was designated the mother church of the Wolfsdorf Church. Repair work began, with the church receiving a new pulpit .

In the years 1876/1877, under Michael Lübke, a repair was carried out with extensive redesign of the exterior in neo-Gothic forms. The previous seven parallel flat roofs, which were previously covered by the upper, now demolished wall wreath, were replaced by a high gable roof. As part of the work, construction manager Walter presented the first attempts at reconstruction of the former transept facility.

A necessary extensive renovation, which had already been planned in detail, was prevented in 1939 by the beginning of the Second World War . By 1968 the damage, especially to the roof, had become so great that the services had to be relocated to the parish hall.

In autumn 1970 restoration work could begin, for which the Volkswerft Stralsund provided scaffolding free of charge. The masonry with the buttresses and the cornice was renovated. The new roofing was completed in July 1972 and the renovation of the two gables in 1972. The glazing work on the windows lasted until 1976. In 1978, the restoration and redesign of the interior began, with the neo-Gothic furnishings from the 19th century being removed. In 1981 the arcades under the side galleries were opened on the ground floor. The renovation work was completed on May 5, 1985 with a festive service.

In the 1990s the structural condition of the church deteriorated noticeably. In 2003 and 2006 the roof was renewed. Extensive renovation work was carried out between 2010 and 2012, which was largely financed by the Economic Stimulus Package II because the church was classified as a monument of national importance.

building

View inside the church

The church is a rectangular brick building, the outer walls of which are structured by buttresses. The north side was closed between the preserved octagonal pillars of the monastery church in Renaissance forms. On the narrow sides in the west and east there are neo-Gothic gables crowned by pinnacles with staggered two-part pointed arch panels above tracery friezes .

The pointed arched windows in the west with profiled reveals are blocked. Based on this, the pointed arched windows were reconstructed on the south and east sides during the restoration in 1876/1877. The windows of the north wall, which received neo-Gothic tracery, were shaped analogously. The east windows were redesigned in 2012 by the Berlin glass designer Ralf-Udo Slama.

The western pointed arch portal is walled up, the northern one is in a wall template from the middle of the 19th century.

A stair tower protrudes semicircularly on the west side.

A two-storey sacristy extension is located on the east side. It probably dates from the 17th century and was heavily modified when it was redesigned in 1876/1877.

In front of the longitudinal walls there are two superimposed rows of massive galleries with segmental arched openings on the first and upper floors and a transverse barrel. The arched passages in the short partition walls have moved outwards. There is a barrel vault with stitch caps above the nave.

Furnishing

Epitaph of the Berglasen couple
  • The pulpit was made in the early 17th century. It comes from the Deyelsdorf church and has fluted Tuscan pilasters on the edges. In its arched arcades there are painted representations of the evangelists .
  • The wooden baptism dated 1697 comes from the Rakow Church . It has a goblet-shaped stand with angels putti on its shaft . The cuppa with Angel hermen and Akanthusschnitzereien decorated.
  • The crucifix was made around 1723 in the workshop of the Stralsund carver Elias Keßler . Its fragments were found in the attic in 1931. After the restoration, it was hung between the choir windows.
  • Under the southern gallery there is a crescent moon Madonna dated around 1430 with two angel figures at her feet. The 125 centimeter high sculpture depicts Our Lady with the baby Jesus in her arms on a crescent moon.
  • The bell in the sacristy consists of two bells. The older one was cast by Heinrich Schmidt in Stettin in 1717 , the younger one in 1842 in the Simon Zach bell foundry in Stralsund .
  • A sandstone epitaph for Andreas Berglase († January 4, 1615 in Franzburg) from Teschvitz and his wife Clara Rotermund is on the first northern gallery. The widow of Landrentmeister Berglase, who died at the age of 42, had the almost four-meter-high monument erected for her deceased husband, who was buried in the church. In the main field, the couple is depicted as life-size figures in contemporary clothing, raised flat. There are heraldic pilasters arranged vertically on both sides. An adicle-like essay shows the risen Christ .
  • Until 2009, two medieval grave slabs of abbots of the Neuenkamp monastery were attached to the northern outer wall . To the west of the door is the grave slab for Abbot Heinrich Witte († 1518), to the east that for Abbot Valentin († 1529). The deceased were founded as larger-than-life figures in the two limestone slabs with incised interior drawings. Both tombstones were probably in the floor of the former monastery church until the 19th century, before they were attached to the outer wall during the restoration phase of 1867/77. Since the completion of the work, they have been presented inside the church.

organ

Instead of the organ from 1848 from the workshop of the Stralsund organ builder Johann Friedrich Nerlich, which was lost in 1968 , the church received a Paul Rother organ in 2007 . This organ was probably built by the Hamburg organ builder Rother as early as 1890 due to the design, very likely for another church with a dome back wall, as the crankings of the longest pedal whistles indicate, before it has been demonstrably in the prison church of the Santa Fu Fuhlsbüttel prison since 1906 . This organ is considered to be one of the few, completely unchanged organs of the late romantic north German organ building. She has the following disposition :

I main work
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Gamba 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Gemshorn 8th'
6th Dumped 8th'
7th octave 4 ′
8th. Mixture III 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
9. Trumpet 8th'
II upper structure
10. Silent 16 ′
11. Violin principal 8th'
12. Flauto amabile 8th'
13. Lovely Gedackt 8th'
14th Salicional 8th'
15th Aeoline 8th'
16. Flauto traverso 4 ′
17th Forest flute 2 ′
pedal
18th Sub-bass 16 ′
19th Violonbass 16 ′
20th Octave bass 8th'
21st violoncello 8th'
22nd Octave bass 4 ′

literature

  • State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 32-34.
  • Ernst von Haselberg : The monuments of the administrative district Stralsund. Issue 1, The Franzburg District. Léon Saunier, Stettin 1881, pp. 25–28.
  • Norbert Buske :  Orientation data on church history from Neuenkamp / Franzburg - A compilation following the meeting of the Church History Working Group on September 26, 1981 in Franzburg . In: Society for Pomeranian History and Archeology (Hrsg): Baltic studies . New series vol. 71, NG Elwert, Marburg 1985, pp. 132-145 ( digitized version ).
  • Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , Munich, Berlin 2000 ISBN 3-422-03081-6 pp. 133-134.

Web links

Commons : Church Franzburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Andreas Niemeck: The Cistercian monasteries Neuenkamp and Hiddensee in the Middle Ages. (= Publications of the Historical Commission for Pomerania. Vol. 37, Series 5: Research on Pomeranian History. ISSN  0440-9582 ), Böhlau Verlag, Cologne / Weimar 2002, ISBN 978-3412147013 , p. 272.
  2. ^ A b c Norbert Buske: Orientation data on the church history of Neuenkamp / Franzburg. Baltic Studies NF 71, pp. 134–135.
  3. ↑ a b c d e Norbert Buske: Orientation data on the church history of Neuenkamp / Franzburg. Baltic Studies NF 71, p. 141.
  4. ↑ a b Ines Engelbrecht: Castle church inaugurated after renovation. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . June 5, 2012 ( Online ( Memento of the original from September 14, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. On the city's website Franzburg). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.amt-franzburg-richtenberg.de
  5. ↑ Jens Amelung: Cultural Heritage in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Schwerin 2010, Volume 5 ISBN 978-3-935770-29-3, pp. 150-151.
  6. ^ Grave slabs, Franzburg Castle Church. Thomas Schubert, accessed June 14, 2013 .
  7. ^ Beatrix Dräger: Cultural heritage in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Schwerin 2009. Volume 4 ISBN 978-3-935770-27-9 pp. 158-159
  8. ^ Organ in Franzburg. In: Organ Databank. Retrieved September 14, 2017 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 11 ′ 10.4 ″  N , 12 ° 52 ′ 32.1 ″  E