Parish church Altenkirchen

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Rear view of the Altenkirchen parish church
inside view
The Svantevit stone
Belfry
Altar by Elias Keßler

The Protestant parish church in Altenkirchen is one of the oldest church buildings on the island of Rügen and can be attributed to the brick Romanesque . The parish church is located in the center of the village of Altenkirchen and, together with the St. Pauli Church in Bobbin and the chapels in Dranske , Glowe and Vitt, forms a community that has been part of the Stralsund Provost in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she was part of the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

history

The previous building of the church could have been a Slavic burial mound. Soon after the Christianization of Rügen , Danish builders built the church from 1168 as a three-aisled , Romanesque basilica . This makes the church next to the St. Mary's Church in Bergen the oldest church on Rügen. The church originally had a flat wooden ceiling. The apse and choir were completed around 1200. In 1200 the parish church of Altenkirchen was consecrated . In the Gothic period, the building was reinforced with a ribbed vault . In the second half of the 14th century, the nave was enlarged to form a three-aisled basilica . In the 19th century the west portal was walled up, and church stalls in neo-Gothic style were installed.

The church's free-standing belfry dates from the 17th century.

Furnishing

From the Baroque the derived Altar , the 1724 in the workshop of the Elias Kessler from Stralsund was manufactured, and the altar of 1863 declining Petrus shows; also the organ case (around 1750).

The choir and apse are decorated with decorative toothed and triangular friezes and head consoles .

The font was made from Gotland lime around 1240 . Its four heads embody the paradise rivers Pishon , Gihon , Tigris and Euphrates . The next oldest piece in the church is a triumphal cross from the 14th century, which was restored in 1979.

The priest stone or svantevit stone is embedded in the sacristy of the church - built on its side directly above the foundation plinth. There are different interpretations of this stone. It is very likely that this stone relief was created before the Christianization of Rügen, which began in 1168, and could represent the priest of the Slav god Svantovite , because only he had the right to touch the large decorated drinking horn of Svantevit. It could also be the tombstone of Prince Tezlaw , who was awarded the Wittow peninsula after the Danish conquest of Rügen . Furthermore, it is believed that the lateral position of the stone should represent the superiority of Christianity over the earlier religion.

organ

The two-manual organ , built by Ernst Julius Marx in Berlin in 1750 , was moved from its location, a calico factory , to Altenkirchen in 1798 by Christian Erdmann Kindten . From this organ only the baroque case and parts of the fifth-eighth register have survived. In 1875 and 1971 the organ was rebuilt by Hugo and Rudolf Böhm from Gotha behind the old prospect .

I Manual C-g 3
Principal 8th'
Reed flute 8th'
octave 4 ′
Fifth 4 ′
Forest flute 2 ′
Mixture V 1'
II Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Quintatön 8th'
recorder 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Terzian 2 ′
Sharp symbols 3 ′
Tremulant
Pedal C – f 1
Sub bass 16 ′
Pommer 8th'
Chorale bass 4 ′
Trumpet 8th'

Personalities

The pastor and writer Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten received the parish office in Altenkirchen after his ordination in 1792 (until 1808). His sermons on the beach became so popular that in 1806 he had an octagonal chapel built near Vitt to accommodate the visitors.

From 1823 Friedrich Wilhelm von Schubert was pastor and superintendent here . He was followed by Oskar von Sydow from 1857 until his death in 1886 .

See also

literature

  • Norbert Buske : The church in Altenkirchen and the chapel in Vitt . Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3-374-00524-1 .
  • Andreas Rüß: Parish Altenkirchen / Rügen. Parish church Altenkirchen, St. Brigitta in Glowe and St. Pauli in Bobbin , (Peda-Kunstführer, vol. 729), Passau 2008, ISBN 978-389-64372-9-7 .
  • Hans Georg Thümmel : On the building history of the church of Altenkirchen on Rügen . In: Territorialkirchengeschichte: development, tasks, examples, Greifswald 1984, pp. 42–49.
  • Burkhard Kunkel: Catalog text: Bildstein von Altenkirchen, cat. No. 578, in: in: Stiegemann, C., Kroker, M., Walter, W., ed., CREDO. Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages, Vol. II, Petersberg 2013, pp. 629–63.

Web links

Commons : Pfarrkirche Altenkirchen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Julia Ricker: So close to nature . The village church of Altenkirchen on Rügen suffers from moisture. In: German Foundation for Monument Protection (Hrsg.): Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany. No. 4 . Monuments publications, 2019, ISSN  0941-7125 , p. 45-49 .
  2. ↑ Burkhard Kunkel: Bildstein von Altenkirchen, cat.no.578 . In: Stiegemann, C., Kroker, M., Walter, W. (Eds.): CREDO. Christianization of Europe in the Middle Ages . tape 2 . Petersberg 2013, p. 629-631 .

Coordinates: 54 ° 38 ′ 6.14 "  N , 13 ° 20 ′ 28.55"  E