Hanshagen Church
The Protestant Church Hanshagen is a Gothic hall church in the municipality of Hanshagen in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald . The parish of Kemnitz, Hanshagen and Groß Kiesow has been part of the Demmin provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
location
The street of peace leads from the southwest to the historic town center. On a hill, the Obere Bachstraße branches off to the northwest . The church stands on an elevated plot to the southwest of this intersection. It is enclosed with a wall made of uncut field stones that are not layered .
history
Dendrochronological studies on the choir have shown that the wood for the roof structure was felled in 1257. The choir was built from field stones, as was typical for the region at that time, as was the north sacristy . In 1366 craftsmen added a nave to the building . An interlocking in the choir suggests that this expansion was planned as early as the 13th century. The builders built the ship from reddish brick , as did the side buttresses . In the 15th century, the ornamental vault painting took place inside the building. A restoration has been handed down from 1861. At that time, perhaps only with the construction of the stone tower, the three-part wooden windows were probably also rebuilt in a neo-Gothic style. In 1885, craftsmen built the western church tower in the neo-Gothic style according to plans by the Berlin architect Theodor Prüfer , thereby replacing a previous wooden building. They used bricks that were burned in Hanshagen. In 1992, craftsmen re- covered the tower's helmet with copper and built a toilet in the sacristy. In 2002 and 2003 the roof structure and the church roof were renovated. In 2006 experts renewed the medieval painting of the walls, the vaults and the stalls. The facade of the choir and the nave were repaired by bricklayers on the north and south sides in 2012 and 2013. In 2013 the organ was restored.
architecture
The field stones in the choir are neatly hewn and layered in the lower, eastern area of the south wall. Accuracy decreases upwards and to the west. There the stones are partly uncut and loosely layered. There is an arched window on the south side. On the eastern edge, it takes up the remaining brick cladding of a significantly larger, also arched window that was closed with field stones. To the left of this window is the stepped south portal with a round bar profile made of alternating reddish-black glazed bricks and a simple chalice capital . The east side of the choir was built from largely evenly hewn field stones. Here the even layering only decreases significantly in the upper third. The group of three windows is also embedded in the wall with a stepped wall and is surrounded by a pressed, ogival panel. The gable is made of bricks that are covered with a grayish plaster . In the gable there is a narrow, centrally arranged, beehive-shaped opening, above it a plastered circular opening, which was crowned by a brick gable cross. On the north side of the choir, the builders also built a sacristy from field stones. The stones are barely hewn and layered unevenly. Access is via a narrow wooden door; above it is a plastered, three-part, ogival panel. Remnants of a scratched ashlar can be seen there. The simple gable roof extends in height to the eaves of the choir.
The nave, made of reddish brick, was built on a field stone base and, with two bays - in proportion to the choir - is comparatively short. It is stabilized on the north and south side by three double-stepped buttresses . In between there are two arched, three-part windows on the south side, which were enlarged in the 19th century. They include a two-level garment edged of reddish brick. Above the windows, at the level of the buttresses, there is a horizontal panel painted white . On the north side, the west of the two windows was reduced in size in favor of a gate below, which is walled up in the 21st century.
The brick church tower can be entered from the west side through a high, pointed arch-shaped and triple-stepped portal. It is structured with corner pilasters. Above the portal there is a circular window that is closed off by a console frieze at the height of the eaves of the nave . On the floor above there is a narrow, ogival window on each of the three visible sides, as well as another, more plain toothed frieze. On the upper floor, Prüfer built two coupled acoustic arcades on each side in a pointed arch-shaped window that is adorned by a circular screen. The openings are accompanied by two slim plaster panels on each side. This is followed by the eight-sided spire, also decorated with panels and studded with copper, crowned by a ball with a cross.
Ernst von Haselberg gives the total length of the structure 23.37 meters. It is 10.67 meters wide and 6.81 meters high inside. The dimensions of the sacristy are given as 5.08 meters in length, 4.97 meters in width with a clear height of 3.29 meters.
Furnishing
Inside the nave has a ribbed vault with pear ribs , which was painted with crabs and tendrils. The broad triumphal arch is painted ornamentally with naturalistic leaf motifs that lead to a dove of peace painted in the middle . The choir is equipped with a high domical vault , which was designed with strong, nested round rod ribs. On its south wall there is a fresco showing the Archangel Michael . It is framed by the saying “Life is not necessary / Loving is necessary” to his left and “All the dead of the world wars out there and at home in memory” to his right. The sacristy has a dome-shaped cross vault.
The attachment on the medieval , brick-built altar was made in 1798 by Johann Gottfried Quistorp , Caspar David Friedrich's teacher . It is adorned by the Trisagion , a hymn of praise to the divine Trinity : “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord [of armies. The whole earth is filled with his glory.] ”( Sanctus , Isa 6,3 EU ). The pulpit originally stood on a side center pillar and was moved at the beginning of the 18th century. On the north wall of the nave, a memorial plaque commemorates those who fell in the Wars of Liberation , and another plaque on the west wall commemorates those who died in the First World War.
The altar barriers with their blind arcades and fluted pilasters presumably date from the 17th century, the Fünte originally from 1800. It was replaced by a new building in 2009. The Juraten and box stalls were made in the 19th century.
The organ comes from the workshop of Carl August Buchholz (1839). It was expanded by a second manual in 1860 by Friedrich Albert Mehmel and the sound was redesigned in 1954 by Barnim Grüneberg (1914–1964) from Greifswald . The neo-Gothic prospect is divided into three parts by polygonal turrets. The instrument stands on a wooden gallery, the panels of which are decorated with Christian symbols and the inscription: “And God went home with me”.
The peal of the church consists of two bells , the older one from 1888 and the younger one from 1927.
In the tower hall there is a limestone grave slab of Pastor Henning Möller, who died in 1780. It is decorated with a skull and two putti holding a crown. In front of the south wall of the nave are the grave slabs of Carl Johann and Michael Gadke, who died in 1818. On the north side is a grave cross made by Theodor Ziemssen (1777–1843), who took over the parish in Hanshagen in 1806. A verse from the Gospel according to John is attached to the north-western wall of the tower porch : “In the world you are afraid, but be of good cheer / I have overcome the world. Ev. Joh 16 "(( Joh 16,33 EU )). The south-western wall quotes from the letter to the Hebrews : “Man is ordained to die once, + / but then the judgment. Ebr. 9 v 27. "
literature
- Tilo Schöfbeck: Medieval churches between Trave and Peene: Studies on the development of a north German architectural landscape , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, 1st edition 2014, ISBN 978-3-86732-131-0
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German art monuments - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 978-3-422-03081-7
- Ernst von Haselberg : Monuments of the Stralsund administrative region , Volume 2, Greifswald district
- Evangelical parish Kemnitz / Hanshagen (ed.): Village church Hanshagen , Flyer, p. 6, without date, display in the church
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3
Web links
- Literature about the church Hanshagen in the state bibliography MV
- Information about the church at www.kirche-mv.de , accessed on August 23, 2015
Individual evidence
- ↑ Church ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 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 municipality of Hanshagen, accessed on August 24, 2015.
Coordinates: 54 ° 2 ′ 34.7 " N , 13 ° 32 ′ 18.7" E