Marienkirche (Ahrensbök)

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The Marienkirche in Ahrensbök (from the northeast)
The tower of the Marienkirche in Ahrensbök (from the west)

The Marienkirche Ahrensbök (mostly just called Ahrensböker Church ) is a church in Ahrensbök (in the Ostholstein district in Schleswig-Holstein ). It is the oldest building in the community and the only remaining building of the former Ahrensbök monastery . The church is surrounded by the Ahrensböker cemetery .

description

It is a Gothic construction (of about 40 m in length and 20 m width) of red brick on a foundation of hewn field stones , with arched windows and with tiles covered gabled roof . The square tower has a roof that is covered with slate and starts at ridge height and has a roof lantern crowned with an onion dome . Above the portal on the west side of the tower there is an inscribed sandstone slab from the Rococo . The only clock in the tower faces east.

history

The church goes back to a pilgrimage chapel built around 1280 , which was built on the site of an apparition of Mary over the beech with the eagle's nest .

  • A church in Ahrensbök is first mentioned in 1328 - the oldest parts of today's church date from this time.
  • Around 1400 the church received the octagonal choir .
  • In 1409 the church became the monastery church of the Ahrensböker Carthusian monastery founded in 1387 and remained so until the monastery was dissolved in 1584.
  • In 1761 the church received the current baroque steeple.
  • In 1883 the interior of the church was largely renewed.

Today the church is through the Ev.-Luth. Ahrensbök parish used for church services.

Furnishing

Inside the church is the Ahrensböker Cross on the south wall - a 3.07 m high cross made of Gotland limestone (which is on a 1.25 m high tombstone , also made of Gotland limestone ). It is considered the most important such cross in Schleswig-Holstein . Originally the cross was on the north wall of the church.

The altar with crucifix set up in the church around 1680 was a model for other churches in the Duchy of Schleswig-Holstein-Plön , to which Ahrensbök belonged at the time.

Clergy

literature

  • Walter Körber (Ed.): Churches in Vicelins Land. Eutin: Struve 1977
  • Klaus Zutz: Ahrensböker Marienkirche 670 years (1328-1998). In: Jahrbuch für Heimatkunde 1999, pp. 149–152

Web links

Commons : Marienkirche  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files


Coordinates: 54 ° 1 ′  N , 10 ° 34 ′  E