St. John's Church (Rambin)
The St.-Johannes-Kirche zu Rambin is the Protestant parish church of the parish Rambin in the south of the island of Rügen . It goes back to a first church building in the 13th century.
history
The St. Johannes Church in Rambin (address Dorfstrasse 7) was first mentioned in a document in 1300. It is one of the oldest churches on the island of Rügen. With the addition of a sacristy on the north side at the beginning of the 14th century as well as the extension with a four- bay nave , the church underwent a major redesign.
It is not known when the wooden tower was added, as the building history of the Johanneskirche is poorly documented. However, it is considered to be the youngest component of the church.
The Gothic brick church was redesigned in baroque style around 1700 , a wide and deep curved wooden ceiling was drawn in, a west gallery was built in and some furnishings were painted in gold and white.
In the 18th century the parish had a north and a south pore added. They received rich decorations, the northern area was considered a patronage box .
After 1990, the church tower and roof structure could be renovated, and partial restorations were also carried out. The ceiling and stalls were painted and repaired by locals under the professional guidance of restorers .
architecture
The exposed brick building consists of several clearly separated components, which - as shown above - were created in different construction periods. The nave, including the rectangular choir, is around 31 meters long and 16 meters wide. The sacristy added on the north side has the basic dimensions 6 × 5 m, the west tower sitting on the roof ridge has a square floor plan with a side length of around 3.50 m. Its pointed octagonal tent roof is clad with copper sheet.
To the north and south, six stepped outer buttresses each support the building mass .
The entrance to the west is a richly profiled step portal. On the south side of the church is the priest's gate, which is decorated with a beautiful door leaf. A former lay gate on the ship was bricked up.
Furnishing
Altar, pulpit, baptism and more
The altar dates from 1738 and is in the early Gothic style choir .
Oldest facilities of the church is composed of limestone made baptismal font from the 13th century. The triumphal cross made of oak and the carved figure Maria with the child come from the late Middle Ages . The cross, originally placed on the triumphal beam, was placed on the wall behind the altar in the 19th century. When the interior was redesigned later, it found its place on the gallery, where it has been hanging ever since. The cross lacks the evangelist symbols on the side arms, and the quatrefoil under the crucified Christ was lost during the implementation . Jesus lacks his right hand.
The life-size figure paintings on the north and south walls of the church (Christ as Pantocrator and the four evangelists ) were also made in the 19th century. The paintings are depictions of earlier portraits of the twelve apostles .
The box-shaped pews were installed in the 19th century.
Two votive ships from the first half of the 19th century are worth mentioning .
organ
The organ was built in 1971 in the workshop of the Frankfurt organ builder W. Sauer . It replaced an earlier instrument made by the organ builder Mehmet, which was installed on the gallery around 1850. The slider chest instrument has 8 stops on a manual and pedal . The playing and register actions are mechanical. The disposition is as follows:
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
- Coupling : Pedal coupling
local community
The parish of Rambin / Samtens 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 was part of the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
literature
- The inscriptions of the Rügen district on books.google.de; Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2002.
- Georg Piltz: Art guide through the GDR . Urania-Verlag Leipzig - Jena - Berlin. 4th edition 1973; P. 62 ( Notable Village Churches ).
Web links
- Literature about St. John's Church (Rambin) in the state bibliography MV
- Information and views on the Johanneskirche in Rambin
- Ev. Parishes of Poseritz u. Rambin
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Information about the Johanneskirche Rambin at www.ruegenurlaub.de ; accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d The inscriptions of the Rügen district on books.google.de; accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ a b c d e f Detailed information on the Rambin village church at Dorfkirchen-in-mv.de; accessed on January 28, 2016.
- ↑ The dimensions have been roughly determined using the Google Earth tool .
- ↑ More information about the organ (PDF; 18 kB)
Coordinates: 54 ° 21 '18.2 " N , 13 ° 12' 17.4" E