Church in the forest
The church in the woods is a Protestant church in the style of historicism in the seaside resort of Heringsdorf on the Baltic Sea island of Usedom in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It is the church of the parish of Heringsdorf in the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Until 2012 she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . A special feature of the church is the star of David in the church clock on the east gable.
history
With the Ahlbeck Church , the Heringsdorf Church is one of the church buildings that were built in the rapidly developing seaside resorts on Usedom in the 19th century. The forest church in Bansin , which was completed in 1939, also owes its existence to spa tourism. Georg Bernhard von Bülow (1768-1854) , who was the founder of Heringsdorf , left the area for the church in the forest on the Kulm above the seaside resort to the parish, which initially belonged to the parish of Benz . He owned the Gothen manor ; he built one of the first villas in the style of spa architecture , today's Villa Achterkerke , as well as the White Castle . From 1890, Heringsdorf formed its own community together with the village of Gothen and Neuhof.
Ludwig Persius (1803–1845), a pupil of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , planned the building of the new church, but could no longer realize it himself. The civil engineer Otto Baensch took over the execution. The funds came together through collections supported by King Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Heringsdorf citizens donated money, but also bathers, who in Heringsdorf included noble families and many wealthy Jewish guests from Berlin. An example of the support of the building project by noble bathers is the series of lithographs 12 Views of Heringsdorf drawn from nature drawn in 1844 by Verlag CHSchröder and printed by H. Delius in Berlin . The prints were created based on templates created by the draftsman Wilhelmine Auguste von Schack in 1844 . The proceeds from the sale of the Heringsdorf views flowed into the construction of the church. On September 3, 1848, the church, a hall with a vestibule, was consecrated.
The Heringsdorf church first belonged to the Benz parish . In 1890 Heringsdorf was spun off with Neuhof, Neukrug and Gothen and formed its own parish. This was united with the parish of Ahlbeck, which was parish from the Swinemünde parish, under a common parish in Heringsdorf to form an independent parish. The church was patronized .
In 1914 the church was extended on the long sides; wooden galleries were added and the sacristy relocated. Ottokar Schmieder from Berlin decorated the church with tendril paintings. It was removed after 1969, when the church was completely renovated.
Furnishing
In addition to the altar, the pulpit and the baptismal font from the time the church was built, there is also a wooden statue of Martin Luther from the 20th century. On the left wall of the choir there is a painting that Ottokar Schmieder copied by Anthony van Dyck after a Lamentation of Christ and which was originally intended as an altarpiece in 1914. The glass windows also date from the time of the renovation in 1914. They are foundations, for example, by the Heringsdorf Patriotic Women's Association, a district court director in Szczecin, the Bethanien deaconess house in Berlin and the Otto and Anna Lange couple from Heringsdorf. The windows were created by Wilhelm Franke from Naumburg. The organ is the work of the organ builder Kaltschmidt from Stettin from 1851 with extensions from 1914 and 1956. The church has two bronze bells from 1990. One of two earlier bells from 1847 is in the choir. It was removed from the tower like another bell in order to preserve its stability.
literature
- Karin Hösch: The Protestant Church in the forest . In: Ahlbeck - Heringsdorf - Bansin , Ev. Pfarrämter Heringsdorf, Ahlbeck, Bansin (ed.), Peda-Kunstführer, Passau 1994, ISBN 3-930102-36-6 , pp. 3–12.
- Stefan Pochanke: The seaside resort Heringsdorf in the Biedermeier period in the drawings of Wilhelmine von Schack, Bad Oldesloe 2020, p. 15. ( ISBN 978-3-9818526-8-4 )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erhard Rusch: Secret about the builder of the church revealed: by chance Heringsdorf historians came to the rescue. In: Ostsee-Zeitung . Vol. 46, 298 (December 23, 1998), p. 14.
- ↑ Stefan Pochanke: The seaside resort Heringsdorf in the Biedermeier period in the drawings of Wilhelmine von Schack, Bad Oldesloe 2020, p. 15.
- ↑ Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present. Part 1: The district of Szczecin. Paul Niekammer, Stettin 1903, p. 618.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 57 ′ 25 ″ N , 14 ° 9 ′ 45 ″ E