Wustrow Church
The church Wustrow is the Church of the Lutheran church of the seaside resort Wustrow on the peninsula Fischland-Zingst . It belongs to the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
During the Slav period there was a temple in Wustrow for the deity Swantewit . After Christianization, a simple stone church was built here in the 13th century, which was demolished in 1869. Four years later, on September 14, 1873, the current neo-Gothic church, built by Theodor Krüger , was consecrated.
Building
Exterior
The church is a carefully executed neo-Gothic brick building with a cruciform floor plan. The polygonal closed transept arms in the style of a trikoncho are striking . Above the entrance portal is a rosette with the Christogram , the interwoven letters X ( Chi ) and P ( Rho ). There are also rosettes in the five altar windows. They are intended to indicate the presence of Christ in word and sacrament.
The 18 meter high tower of the church is accessible, from this a wide panoramic view over the place, the Fischland , the Saaler Bodden and the Baltic Sea is possible. The church tower used to be important as a navigation mark. The free access to the tower served the nautical students of the Grand Ducal Mecklenburg Navigation School, founded in Wustrow in 1846 , to practice navigating .
There are three bells hanging in the church tower. Two bells were melted down for war purposes in 1917 and replaced in 1928 by the Bernhard couple's foundation in memory of their son who died in the First World War. One of these bells cast by M & O Ohlsson in Lübeck was melted down again during World War II, as was the last of the three original bells. A collection after the war financed new bells that were made in 1957.
Interior
Similar to other church buildings by Krüger in Warin and Warnemünde , only the apse is vaulted in the interior, the other ceilings are formed as a polygonal broken wooden ceiling with wooden consoles and trusses .
The three-winged wooden altar is designed in the neo-Gothic style. The altarpiece by Gustav Stever shows the rescue of the sinking Peter through Jesus Christ.
Two votive ships, ship models donated by sailors to the church, are attached above the galleries on the north and south sides . The ship above the north gallery is called Deo Gloria (In honor of God) and bears the year 1860. The captain Saeger built this model. Next to it hangs an oil painting “Nativity Scene of the Wustrow Children” by the Wustrow painter Hedwig Jaenichen-Woermann . The ship above the south pore is called Christiana and was built by the fisherman Emil Otto, who died in 1974. In the nave there is a third aisle, Hope . All three ships have been restored by the Stader model maker Gerhard Frankenstein in recent years .
The church has had a new organ since 1970, which was built by the Jehmlich company in Dresden. The organ has two manuals and a pedal with 14 registers and a total of 986 pipes.
Web links
- Information on www.fischland-darss-zingst.net
- Literature about the Wustrow church in the state bibliography MV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on www.fischland-darss-zingst.net , accessed on February 24, 2013
- ^ Kurverwaltung Ostseebad Wustrow (Hrsg.): Kulturpfad - Ostseebad Wustrow , 1st edition 2008, Klatschmohn Verlag Druck + Werbung GmbH & Co. KG Bentwisch
Coordinates: 54 ° 20 ′ 41.4 ″ N , 12 ° 23 ′ 48.1 ″ E