Peter-Pauls-Kirche (Zingst)
The Peter and Paul Church is a neo-Gothic Protestant church in the town of Zingst on the peninsula Fischland-Zingst , which was built from 1860 to 1862. It is a key building of Prussian neo-Gothic architecture in Western Pomerania and is considered the most important architectural monument in Zingst. The church is the center of ecclesiastical life and a place in the Baltic Sea that is open to all visitors. The community belongs to the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
prehistory
The church is one of the younger church buildings in the region. In the first half of the 18th century, the place Zingst was created through the amalgamation of the settlements Pahlen, Hanshagen and Straminke, as well as the princely court "Rothem Haus", which can no longer be located today, and then a church in Zingst was considered. Up until this point in time, the Prerow parish was responsible for Zingst. The Royal Prussian government decided to build a church in Zingst in the 1840s. This was preceded by requests from the residents to the government in Berlin. The plans were made by the secret building officer Friedrich August Stüler , a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel , after preliminary work by Pomeranian architects . According to the church chronicle, King Friedrich Wilhelm IV. , Who was called the "Romantic on the Throne", personally influenced the plans.
construction
Through a donation from the farmer Schütt, the later church square became the property of the parish and after many years of negotiations about the financing, which for example also fell victim to an originally planned tower, the Crown Prince took over the building patronage in 1860 , the royal Prussian government took over the financing and construction work on the church began that same year. The belfry was built as early as 1858. The foundation stone was laid on September 11, 1860. After two years of construction, the church was consecrated on October 26, 1862. The parsonage was then built, which together with the church and the open gate in the Kirchenallee form an architectural ensemble. The name Peter-Pauls-Kirche was given by the government in Berlin through the Highest Cabinet Order .
First conservation measures
Just twenty years after its completion, major repairs had to be carried out on the church, which were financed by the Prussian government due to the financial difficulties of the parish. The financial situation of the municipality of Zingst gradually improved in the second half of the 19th century, first thanks to the flourishing maritime shipping industry and later mainly due to the onset of tourism.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Gerhard Krause
During the time of the Nazi dictatorship , Dietrich Bonhoeffer preached on June 2, 1935 (Sunday Exaudi ) in the Zingster Church. He led a seminary of the Confessing Church on the Zingsthof . Under the influence of Bonhoeffer, the then Zingst pastor Gerhard Krause joined the Confessing Church and became an opponent of the National Socialists out of Christian conviction. He repeatedly expressed himself publicly critical of the NSDAP and the conduct of the war. In 1944 he was arrested and sentenced to death. The destruction of the files of the “ People's Court ” during an Allied air strike saved him from the execution of the judgment. After the war ended, Krause was threatened by the Soviet secret service after he had helped found the CDU in Zingst. In 1950 he died as a result of Nazi imprisonment.
GDR time
The structural maintenance of the church in the GDR era with its shortage economy repeatedly presented the Zingst parish with serious problems. Nevertheless, an extensive renovation of the church building was carried out in 1982.
present
After the reunification, extensive renovation work was carried out on the church and rectory. The rectory was renovated in 1997 and the old parish barn was converted into a reading café in 2000. Stüler's original neo-Gothic altar was removed around 1929. In 2006, the wood sculptor Ludvik Cejp from Hanover developed a new altar concept in which the sculptures of the old altar are integrated. In 2008, the original blue painting of the apse vault was restored and part of the old painting of the chancel was exposed. Wheelchair access was established in summer 2008. Further maintenance and reconstruction work on the church building is being planned.
architecture
The Peter-Pauls-Kirche is a hall building with a recessed polygonal sanctuary. It is made of yellowish brick with narrow red glazed decorative strips running through it. The side walls are divided into ogival tracery windows . The stepped gables on the east and west sides are lavishly designed, reminiscent of models from North German brick Gothic such as the east gable of St. Mary's Church in Neubrandenburg.
The gable roof rests on an open truss made of richly decorated wooden beams.
Furnishing
altar
A modern, rectangular altar retable in the style of a triptych has been attached to the rear wall of the altar since 2006 . The sandstone figures from the original neo-Gothic altar stand in front of grained , colored and white-framed wooden surfaces: in the middle, red field, Christ on the cross, in the left, blue field, the apostle Peter , in the right, ocher-yellow field, the apostle Paul , these with their attributes , the key and the sword. Statements from their life and religious history are added to the figures, which contrast powerlessness and failure with trust and strength.
organ
In 1986 the church received a new organ of Sauer from Frankfurt (Oder) with 17 sounding registers on slider chests. This new organ was built into the case of the old Mehmel organ . The actions are mechanical. The upper unit is equipped as a swell unit.
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- Coupling: II / I, I / P, II / P
graveyard
The construction of the church was preceded by the establishment of the cemetery in 1857. In addition to the grave of the Low German local poet Martha Müller-Grählert ("Where the Baltic waves ..."), the cemetery also houses a number of captains 'and sailors' graves as well as graves of some Zingst painters.
Web links
- Literature about Peter-Pauls-Kirche (Zingst) in the state bibliography MV
- Homepage of the Evangelical Church Community of Zingst
- History of the Zingst parish
Individual evidence
- ↑ Until 2012 she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
- ↑ More information on the Sauer organ
Coordinates: 54 ° 26 ′ 15 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 21 ″ E