Voigdehagen Church
The village church Voigdehagen in the district Voigdehagen of Stralsund is derived from the 15th century church building , which from the evangelical is used church. Up until the 18th century it was the mother church of the three large Stralsund parish churches St. Marien , St. Nikolai and St. Jakobi .
The brick church is 22.64 m long, 12.60 m wide and the masonry up to the eaves is 8.20 m high.
The church is surrounded by a cemetery.
history
The first church
Due to the lack of historical sources, it is not possible to say with certainty when the first church in Voigdehagen was built. It is certain that sacred buildings already existed in Stralsund when the town charter was granted. A church must therefore have stood in Voigdehagen before 1234. It remains unclear whether the first church was built as a timber, half-timbered or field stone structure. What is certain is that the immediate predecessor of the current church was an early Gothic, brick-faced church. On closer inspection of the current church, it is noticeable that a 6–7 m long and 3 m high section of the north wall comes from an earlier period and must be ascribed to the immediate predecessor building. The masonry bricks used there, in the form of a monastery and with an average height of 9.5 cm, the wall thickness and the joint formation indicate a very early construction period.
The second church
The present church was built in the 15th century. On a field stone base which was aisled church building brick building brick. The building shows a stylistic relationship with the Marienkirche in Stralsund . As with this church, the buttresses are drawn inwards so that the exterior appears flat. The windows have a simplified triangular closure and are divided with vertical bars without tracery.
The architectural historical sources begin in the 17th century with a description of the state of the desolate church after the Thirty Years' War. Windows, stalls, pulpit and altar were destroyed, the formwork and the wooden roof of the church tower covered. But the tower could already be rebuilt during the war in 1645/1646. Today nothing can be seen of a tower.
Despite the strong war damage in the years 1711–1714, the church could soon be used again thanks to personal contributions and donations, including for new window lights in the choir area.
The church has a wooden beam ceiling . The semicircular wall ends about one meter below the ceiling suggest that the church was originally intended to have a ribbed vault. The main entrance was originally on the west. Today he goes south directly to the adjacent cemetery. In the north there is a single-storey extension with a sacristy from the 19th century . Until a few years ago, the burial chapel of the Wulfcrona family , a well-known wine merchant family in Stralsund, was also located there. The chapel has since been demolished due to its dilapidation. Whether and how the sacristy will be renovated, which is very dilapidated, is currently still being clarified.
Of the three outside portals, only the southern and northern ones are still in use. The ogival south portal remained original except for small traces of repair in the upper arch area.
Rectory
After the Reformation Voigdehagen's clergy had the status of a Protestant village pastor and from 1928 (after the incorporation into Stralsund) that of a city pastor. The last resident local pastor left the rectory in 1981 due to age.
The rectory was renovated between 1988 and 1991 and is now used as a private residence. In 2001 the Voigdehagen parish was united with the Stralsund Friedenskirche parish . The Voigdehäger have belonged to the Protestant parish Heilgeist-Voigdehagen since 2006 and continue to celebrate their services on special occasions in Voigdehagen.
Belfry
A predecessor of today's belfry was probably located on the site of today's wooden porch, which houses the belfry. Visible remains on the masonry, as well as iron nails hammered in there, suggest the shape of this previous building.
The bells
The oldest still existing bell of the Voigdehäger church is no longer in function, but is in the Stralsund Museum . The valuable bronze bell with a lower diameter of 102 cm and a height of 56 cm was cast in 1655 by the Stralsund master Adam Lehmeyer. In 1917, the smaller bell was probably melted down for war purposes.
The current bell consists of three bronze bells (large bell, diameter 106 cm, middle bell 91 cm, small bell 70 cm), which were cast and assembled by the Heilbronn company A. Bachert in 1998/1999.
A bell rings for five minutes every evening at 5:55 p.m. On Sunday, at church services, two bells ring. All bells together only ring on high church holidays such as Easter, Reformation Day or Christmas . There are three old church bells in front of today's entrance to the church. The belfry was refurbished in 1997, but quickly fell into disrepair and became dilapidated. Today's belfry was created in 2016 and is finished in its shape so that the bells are no longer visible.
Furnishing
Little inventory has been preserved from the Middle Ages. The stalls in the church date from around 1815. The box stalls in the choir area and the pulpit are particularly emphasized by decorative strips made of surrogate with heads and ornaments on the upper frame and by marbled panels.
The pulpit basket also dates from the 19th century, but the sound cover with a representation of the Trinity dates back to the 17th century. In 1698 the altar was erected, which shows the Lord's Supper , the Crucifixion and the Ascension .
The font
The simple medieval limestone funnel, probably from the previous building in the 13th century, is barely noticeable today in the southwest corner next to the spiral staircase to the attic. The font has an upper diameter of 0.76 m. The base of the baptismal font is about four feet high and was built at the beginning of the 20th century for its broken predecessor.
Medieval interior foundations
On the south-east and north-west side of the interior, two field stone foundations were exposed in 2015, which, due to their area and orientation to the east, can probably be assigned to former side altars.
The Patronage Lodge
The patronage box opposite the pulpit dates from 1725. The box, which is higher than the pulpit, was used by the Swedish gentlemen who lived in Stralsund, which at that time belonged to Swedish Pomerania . The coat of arms of the city of Stralsund at that time (with a Swedish lion and a Pomeranian griffin, holding the Stralsund coat of arms ) and two coats of arms of unknown origin decorate the stalls made in Elias Keßler's workshop. To the right of the box, a small door leads to the sacristy.
There is a wooden baptismal font in the church , the brass bowl of which is missing.
The Buchholz organ
The organ in the organ loft opposite the altar dates from 1846 and was made by master organ builder Carl August Buchholz . It has two manuals and 15 stops . Today the organ is operated with an electric bellows . Repairs were carried out in 1936 and 1953. The organ building and restoration workshop Rainer Wolter in Dresden gave the instrument a general overhaul and repair from 2003 to 2006.
Grave slab for Wulfhard Lüdershagen
The tombstone made of Gotland limestone around 1320 was uncovered in 2011 under the organ gallery of the Voigdehäger church and is considered the oldest of its kind in the Stralsund city area. The lower part of the trapezoidal 133 × 72 × 6.5 cm plate is unfortunately missing.
Pastor and parish
Pastor
This table shows the pastors of the church in Voidgehagen from the Middle Ages to 1981.
| time | Pastor |
|---|---|
| 1296-1324 | Otto Slore |
| 1386-1403 | Mathias Zolewede |
| 1401–? | Mathias Swede |
| 1401–? | Magister Johann Bortzaw |
| around 1421 | John of the Henda |
| 1420-1442 | Bernd Moltzan |
| 1452-1464 | Rector Heinrich Vos |
| 1464-1480 | Magister Hermann Slupwachter |
| around 1510 | Johannes Scheele |
| 1512-1518 | Reimar Hane |
| 1518-1520 | Christoffer of Pomerania |
| 1520-1525 | Hippolyt Steinwer |
| 1521-1525 | Vice Pastor Michael Carstens |
| around 1550 | Nicolaus Saleske |
| 1551–? | Joachim Home |
| around 1560 | Martin Heithusen |
| 1568-1592 | Jacob Mader |
| 1592-1633 | Balthasar Wüstenberg |
| 1637-1640 | Vacancy time: Representation by Jakob Liefer,
Pastor of Steinhagen |
| 1640 | Johannes Vulpius |
| 1640-1643 | Jakob Liefer |
| 1643-1671 | Johannes Vulpius |
| 1672-1701 | Albertus Alberti |
| 1702-1716 | Philipp Christoph Spalckhaver |
| 1716-1737 | Johann Theophilus Weigel |
| 1738-1758 | Joachim Christian Warneke
Albert Alberti's son-in-law |
| 1759-1776 | Paul Martin Droysen |
| 1776-1820 | Friedrich Susemihl |
| 1821-1829 | August Heinrich Christian Schultz |
| 1830-1850 | Gustav Adolph Illies |
| 1851-1884 | Friedrich Philipp Eichstädt |
| 1885-1889 | Wilhelm Hardrat |
| 1889-1925 | Johannes Friedrich Ernst Palmgren |
| 1925-1929 | Ernst Paul Johannes Meinhold |
| 1931-1938 | Gottfried Schmidt |
| 1941-1945 | Friedrich Wilhelm Ballke |
| 1945-1949 | Karl Berthold Konrad Brandstäter |
| 1951-1956 | Gernot Franz Wittenberg |
| 1959-1981 | Ekkehard Strutz |
local community
The church in Voigdehagen is no longer regularly used for church services. The congregation joined in 2001 with the Peace of Stralsund church to church Voigdehagen Peace in the parish of Stralsund the Pomeranian Protestant Church together. The congregation has been working together with the Jakobi-Heilgeist congregation since 2006, and has been part of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 .
photos
Wulfcronasche burial chapel (2007)
Pulpit basket and sound cover
Swedish Patronage Lodge
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. Ludwig Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 29 .
- ↑ a b Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. Ludwig Verlag, 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 19 .
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 24 .
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 17 .
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 60-61 .
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 40 .
- ^ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 40-41 .
- ^ Description on the website of the Orgelklang Foundation
- ↑ Uwe Kiefer: St. Maria zu Voigdehagen - Stralsund's mother church . Ed .: Ludwig Verlag. Ludwig Verlag, Kiel 2018, ISBN 978-3-86935-344-9 , pp. 67-70 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 16 '11.9 " N , 13 ° 5' 36.1" E