Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop
The Schifferkirche Ahrenshoop is a church building, the architects of the Walt Mr. Hardt-Hämer in the municipality Ahrenshoop on the peninsula Fischland-Zingst has been designed and constructed 1950-1951.
history
As early as September 1949, the Prerower Pastor Wilhelm Pless , who was then responsible for Ahrenshoop, had a preliminary draft for a church building in the planning stage. The architecture student Hämer, who happened to be in Ahrenshoop, approached the pastor, and after approval by Hämer's professor, who was also interested in a design, he made the design. The parish already had a building plot. This had to be exchanged under pressure from the authorities, the beginning of the construction was generally marked by many restrictions of the anti-church state organs of the GDR . This even led to the confiscation of building materials at the inner-German border and construction stops because suddenly the entire community was declared a listed building.
The building site is below the 19th century cemetery on the eastern edge of the village, at the foot of the 15 meter high Schifferberg, the highest point in Ahrenshoop. Some poplars had to be felled for the construction.
The church was consecrated on October 14, 1951.
Due to the lack of finance and materials during construction in the post-war years and the intensive use and lack of repair capacities during the GDR era, the church showed severe damage on its 50th anniversary in 2001. A support association was founded to initiate the renovation. The 1950 architect was commissioned to undertake a comprehensive renovation. The aim was "to preserve and restore the historical substance while strengthening the basic requirements for safety and operational function". The measures began in 2005. In the course of this work, the church was expanded to include a joint truss and another yoke to the east.
architecture
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The church initially consists of six, after the expansion seven three-hinged wooden trusses with steel straps. Pointed arches give a Gothic impression. The wooden ribs are visible inside, but also from the outside. They lead from the thatched roof into the foundation made of concrete blocks. The interior of the church is paved with bricks, the altar area is slightly raised compared to the church interior. The walls and ceiling are made of superimposed turned- boards. The western gable is completely glazed and has a small gallery . The eastern yoke is separated from the church interior by the existing altar wall and provides space for a sacristy and the pipework of the new organ. Two tall, narrow window strips left and right provide light on the altar. The church now has an external length of 15 meters and a width of eight meters, the height to the roof ridge is eight meters, and up to the eaves lower edge is almost two meters.
To the south of the church stands a wooden belfry with three bells, which are tuned to the tones d, f sharp and a on a stone plinth . The bell cage is placed between two high, curved steel plates that leave sound openings on two sides. The design also comes from the architect Hardt-Waltherr Hämer.
Furnishing
The west facade has a cross on the roof ridge, above the entrance door the Christ monogram ☧ with the Greek letters Alpha and Omega (Α and Ω) is attached.
The limited financial resources forced the architect to be extremely frugal and improvised: the marble top of the original altar was his father's desk top in Prerow, the baptismal bowl was a bowl his mother had brought back from Russia. The village blacksmith made the candlesticks on the pews and the cross on the ridge and Hämer made the altar candlesticks. The sculptor Doris Oberländer-Seeberg took care of the interior of the chapel and used a poplar tree felled on the construction site. These include the stand for the baptismal bowl, the pulpit with words and the symbols of the four evangelists and the front wall with a cross and the inscription carved into the wood: “I am the way and the truth and the life - no one comes to the Father but through me. "( Joh 14,6 LUT )
Four ship models hang from the ceiling: they symbolize faith, love, hope and peace and were built and donated by Ahrenshooper captain Heinrich Voss in the 1950s. The altar was replaced by a wooden altar as part of the expansion work.
organ
First of all, the church got an organ positive with five registers and a split sliding drawer , built by Alexander Schuke (Potsdam) . It was attached to the west side of the gallery and was handed over to the village church in Mescherin (Uckermark) in June 2013 .
In January 2013, a new organ of the Wegscheider organ workshop was inaugurated in Ahrenshoop . The instrument has twelve registers on partly divided windchests, which can be played in mechanical action on a manual and pedal .
The pipework is arranged behind the wooden altar wall to the left of the altar, so that the organ has no prospectus . The game table is in the church at the level of the pipework in front of the altar pedestal , the abstracts run through a shaft under the pedestal.
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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 .
Photo gallery
Side view with bell tower
The east wall
the pulpit
View of the former organ
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Rudolf van Nahl: The churches on the Darß . 3rd updated, revised edition. Verlag Janos Stekovics, Wettin-Lönejün 2016, ISBN 978-3-89923-087-1 , p. 35.
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↑ The new organ of the Schifferkirche in Ahrenshoop is inaugurated. (No longer available online.) In: kirche-mv.de. January 7, 2013, archived from the original on August 31, 2013 ; accessed on December 30, 2015 . Ahrenshoop, Schifferkirche. organindex.de
Coordinates: 54 ° 22 ′ 57.4 " N , 12 ° 25 ′ 30.6" E