Saint Jacob Church (Gingst)

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Saint Jacob Church
Choir
South side
tower

The St. Jacob's Church , the Evangelical Church of the village Gingst on the Baltic Sea island of Ruegen .

Architecture and history

The church was built around 1300, possibly initially as a chapel. The retracted rectangular choir still dates from this time . The three-aisled nave is believed to date from around 1400. The central nave is elevated compared to the side aisles. On the west side is the church tower built in the middle of the 15th century on a square floor plan. At the same time, a chapel was built that extended the south aisle to the east.

In 1554 the first Protestant pastor of the church, Laurentius Krintze, was killed in the church's cemetery. The atonement stone from Gingst , later transformed into a tombstone for the spouses from the east , commemorates this event and is located behind the choir east of the church.

The church was also damaged in a major fire in Gingst in 1726. The wall crowns of the choir and nave had to be renewed, the eastern gable was replaced by a walnut . The tower received its curly hood. The stucco ceilings of the central nave and choir were not built until after 1726. The side aisles have a ribbed vault . With the exception of the north portal, the portals of the church on the south side and on the tower were also redesigned in Baroque style.

The northern sacristy was renewed in 1816. On the tower there are friezes between the four floors . The sound openings on the top floor are designed as pointed arches .

On the south wall there are two sundials, one on a large whitewashed surface and a second from medieval times. The latter is located, not easily recognizable, in the form of incised lines on a brick below the left edge of the east window.

Furnishing

The inventory of the church comes mainly from the time after the great fire of 1726 and, in addition to basic baroque forms, already shows details of classicism.

Choir room

The very richly decorated wooden pulpit was built in 1743 and was probably created by M. Becker from Stralsund . Probably also by Becker, but possibly also by Michael Müller , the patronage chairs from around 1730 , which flank the altar very effectively.

There are painted baroque draperies behind the pulpit and patronage chairs .

The altarpiece made of wood in 1776 (dedication inscription in the base) is designed as a columnar architecture with a gable. To the side are the large figures of Spes and Fides (hope and faith). The altar panel shows a painting of the Ascension of Christ by Bernhard Rode . Noteworthy is the wheel clock from 1796 (dedication inscription) inserted in the upper part, above it in the angel cloud in the triangle the eye of God .

Others

The pine wood baptism probably also dates from around 1735. It is designed as a table construction resting on three heavy, curved feet, the lid as a bow crown. On the concave side parts there are coats of arms of Rügen families or a quotation from the Bible.

The parish chairs are simple box chairs with probably the original marbled paint from around 1730.

Also noteworthy are the limestone grave slab of the Krassow family from 1735 with two coats of arms (Krassow auf Pansevitz / Schwerin) and an inscription, as well as a chest made of pine wood from the 17th century with strong iron straps.

In the tower hall are the clockwork and the dial (diameter two meters) of the old tower clock by Christian Möllinger (1754–1826), chief clockmaker of the Prussian king (1754–1826) in Berlin around 1817 (dedication inscription).

The organ loft, curved convexly, dates from 1789.

Interior of the church

organ

The work of the organ was created by Christian Kindten in 1790. The organ prospect , decorated with plaited decor, trumpet angel, two amphorae and writing tablets was created by C. N. Freese from Stralsund. On the music desk of the play cabinet of the organ there is the inscription “Jehovah for the price, this organ work built by Christian Kindten was consecrated on the 16th Sunday: Trinit. 1790 by Johann Gottlieb Picht. P. and Pr. Gingst ”. There is also the name of the organ's founder “Joh. Me. Dillius ". The instrument has 22 registers on two manuals and a pedal .

I main work CD – d 3
1. Quintatön 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Reed flute 8th'
4th Dumped 8th'
5. octave 4 ′
6th Fifth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′
7th octave 2 ′
8th. Mixture IV
9. Trumpet 8th'
II Oberwerk CD – d 3
10. Dumped 8th'
11. Gamba 8th'
12. Principal 4 ′
13. Gemshorn 4 ′
14th Dumped 4 ′
15th octave 2 ′
16. Scharff II
17th Vox humana 8th'
Pedal C – c 1
18th Sub bass 16 ′
19th Dumped 8th'
20th Violon 8th'
21st octave 4 ′
22nd trombone 16 ′

local community

The Protestant parish has been part of the Stralsund Propstei in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

The pastor was provost at the same time until 1806, when the four prepositions on Rügen (Bergen, Gingst, Poseritz, Jasmund-Wittow) were reduced to two (Bergen and Garz). The rectory was endowed with plenty of good land and the manor over half of the Gingst area, making it one of the most lucrative in Western Pomerania and was under the patronage of the Swedish king until 1815 . In 1773, Johann Gottlieb Picht obtained that the estate subjects of the preposition (half of the village of Gingst) were released from serfdom and given their civil liberty.

Clergy

→ See also: List of churches on Rügen

literature

Web links

Commons : St. Jacob (Gingst)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files
Wikisource: The Church of Gingst (Sage)  - Sources and full texts

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Franz Kugler judged it: even a work of subordinate rank, not suited to bring to posterity the fame that this quick-witted painter enjoyed during his lifetime. ( Pomeranian art history: depicted after the preserved monuments. Stettin 1840, p. 258)
  2. ↑ Information on the Kindten organ

Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '23.3 "  N , 13 ° 15' 35.1"  E