Karlshagen Church

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Karlshagen Church

The Karlshagen Church is a church building in Karlshagen on the island of Usedom in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

history

Not far from Peenemünde is the village of Karlshagen, a relatively young settlement that was only established by the Prussian state in the 19th century. The settlement of the area began in 1829. Karlshagen was first mentioned as a pure fishing colony in 1837. At the beginning of the 20th century, the place developed into a seaside resort. With the steadily growing number of holiday guests on the island of Usedom, there was an increase in the population in the places near the Baltic Sea coast . This development stagnated in Karlshagen from 1936 when the rocket factory was built in Peenemünde.

Building history

After the turn of the century, a separate church became necessary for locals and bathers in Karlshagen. Karlshagen was parish up to the Krummin church up until then , the new church could be inaugurated on June 2nd, 1912, the speech was given by Pastor Fischer from Krummin. The Karlshagen church is one of the youngest church buildings on the island of Usedom. Among the pastors who preached in Karlshagen were Lühmann, Zinzow, Fischer, Behrendt, Boettiger and Kunzendorf.

During the Second World War , the bombing raid on Peenemünde on the night of August 17-18, 1943 also hit the church. It burned out completely, the tower collapsed and the bell shattered. After the war, from 1945 onwards, pastor Adolf Spreemann from Karlshagen collected money for the church at people's commissary evenings. The modest reconstruction then took place in 1953. The old tower was not rebuilt, but the arrangement of the windows in the nave was changed and the organ loft was walled up. Today it forms a common room in the tower, which was rebuilt during the reconstruction. After a thorough renovation in 1991 as a hall church, it can be used in many ways today. In 2009 the Church received a cross of nails from the International Center for Reconciliation in Coventry .

Building description

The outer

The Karlshager Church as a purely plastered building consists of a nave with a western tower and a separate choir in the east. The tower and the nave are provided with light, smooth plaster and gable roofs . Both sides of the nave are divided by three large arched windows, the choir has attached buttresses and small arched windows. The tower with two narrow arched windows protrudes from the gable roof on the north and south sides. With its main viewing side in the south, it looks rather squat, but its small gable front rises above the portal and marks the entrance to the church.

The inner

The nave is a wide hall with a flat wooden beam ceiling. The large windows give the room a lot of light and the smoothly plastered interior walls, which are painted a light shade, make it appear larger. The strongly indented choir is located behind a round arch on the east wall. The sober design of the interior is strictly structured by the decorative elements and the cornice band below the window sills in the nave and by the color accentuation of the choir arch.

In keeping with the sobriety, the items of equipment are reduced to the essentials. Altar, baptistery and pulpit are kept simple and simple and are seen as objects of daily use for worship. The parquet floor and the upholstered chairs allow a wide range of uses of the room. In the rear part of the church, the seal of the parish, a sailing ship, refers to the establishment of the place as a former fishing colony.

local community

Karl Hagen belongs to the parish Krummin -Karlshagen- Zinnowitz in the provost Pasewalk in Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Until 2012 it belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

literature

Web links

Commons : Karlshagen Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Vol. 1, Anklam 1865, p. 469 ( Google books ).
  2. ↑ Dirk Schleinert : The history of the island of Usedom. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2005, ISBN 3-356-01081-6 , p. 136.
  3. ^ Karl Bruns: Church life. 2009, p. 27.
  4. ^ Brigitte Metz: Churches on Usedom. 2009, p. 75.
  5. ↑ a b Karin Hösch: Karlshagen. 1994, p. 17.

Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 50.9 ″  N , 13 ° 49 ′ 58.9 ″  E