St. Mary's Church (Bergen)

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The St. Mary's Church in Bergen
Picture stone in the west facade of St. Mary's Church

The St. Marien Church is the church of the Evangelical Church Community of Bergen on Rügen , which belongs to the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District and has around 1,600 members. It is the oldest building in the city of Bergen on Rügen and, along with the Altenkirchen parish church, the oldest building on the island of Rügen .

history

Construction of the church, a Romanesque basilica with a transept, began around 1180 under the Rügen prince Jaromar I. His plans to expand the church into a palatinate, Jaromar had to give up because of the disfavour of his Danish lords. That is why the church was consecrated in 1193 as a monastery church for Benedictine nuns . In 1380 it also became a parish church.

The long nave in the form of a three-aisled hall with five bays and the upper floor of the transverse building date from the Gothic period (14th century). One of the most important pieces of equipment nationwide is the artfully crafted Communion chalice and the baptismal font from the 14th century. The chandelier (17th century), the altar (1730) and the pulpit (1776) date from the Baroque period . The Romanesque wall paintings of the church are the only example of a complete painting of a church in Northern Germany. They were restored by August Oetken in 1896–1903 .

The large bell of the church was cast after a major fire in 1445 and weighs about three tons.

organ

The two-manual organ of the church was built in 1909 by Barnim Grüneberg and rebuilt in 1945 by the Schuke company. In 2007 the instrument was restored by the organ workshop Christian Scheffler from Sieversdorf and brought to the state of 1909. It has 28 stops on two manuals and a pedal .

I Hauptwerk C – g 3
1. Drone 16 ′
2. Principal 8th'
3. Viol 8th'
4th Hollow flute 8th'
5. Dumped 8th'
6th Octave 4 ′
7th flute 4 ′
8th. Intoxicating fifth II
9. Cornett III
10. Mixture IV
11. Trumpet 8th'
II Swell C – g 3
12. Darling Dumped 16 ′
13. Principal 8th'
14th Concert flute 8th'
15th Reed flute 8th'
16. Aeoline 8th'
17th Voix celeste 8th'
18th Praestant 4 ′
19th Transverse flute 4 ′
20th Progressio harm. II-III
21st oboe 8th'
Pedal C – f 1
22nd Contrabass 16 ′
23. Sub bass 16 ′
24. Violon 8th'
25th cello 8th'
26th Bass flute 8th'
27. trombone 16 ′
28. Trumpet 8th'

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 .

Clergy

Oddities

Choir: frescoes (12th century, restored 1896–1903) depicting the prophet Ezekiel with a quote: "I want to give you a new heart" (Eze. 36:26)

The clock face of the church tower clock on the north side has been divided into 61 minutes since the restoration in 1983. A hurricane damaged the clock. When the workers were done with the renewal, there was a gap in the minute displays between 11 and 12, so they just put another marker on. St. Marien is probably the only church in Germany with a clock showing 61 minutes.

The head of the monk next to the main portal should be on the same level as the top of the Marienkirche in Stralsund, according to old travel guides.

Immediately in front of the altar is the grave of Princess Elisabeth of Pomerania, a sister of Bogislaw X , who was the abbess of the monastery in Bergen in the 15th century.

literature

  • Julius Bentley Løffler: The monastery church in Bergen on Rügen . In: Baltic Studies , 29 (1879)
  • Alfred Haas : Documented material on the history of the church in Bergen on Rügen . In: Baltic Studies, 43 (1893), pp. 61–116
  • Leonie Reygers : The Marienkirche in Bergen on Rügen and its relationship to Danish brick architecture , Bamberg 1934
  • Nikolaus Zaske: The St. Mary's Church in Bergen on Rügen . Knowledge Magazine The Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald XII (1963), pp. 229–246
  • Walter Ohle : The Marienkirche in Bergen / Rügen . Berlin 1959, 3rd edited edition. Berlin 1973

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Burkhard Kunkel: The Holy Communion Cup of St. Mary's Church in Bergen on Rügen - really Romanesque? In: Art Chronicle . 63rd year, issue 6.Nuremberg 2011, p. 253-256 (cf. also Wolfgang Hofmann, Burkhard Kunkel: Werkforschung. New investigations into the material, technology and history of the Romanesque chalice from Bergen on Rügen, in: Restauro, Heft 2, Munich 2010, pp. 104-111.).
  2. ↑ Sabine-Maria Weitzel: The Romanesque wall paintings in the choir and transept of the St. Mary's Church in Bergen on Rügen - original and invention. In: Baltic Studies . Pomeranian yearbooks for national history. New series Volume 91 (Volume 137 of the complete series) 2005, Kiel 2006, pp. 39–60.
  3. ↑ Gerold Schmidt: The church painter and mosaic artist of historicism Prof. August Oetken (1868–1951). In: The Melanchthon House in Bretten. Regional culture publishing house, Ubstadt-Weiher 1997, pp. 167–212.
  4. ↑ Disposition of the Grüneberg organ in the St. Marienkirche in Bergen. In: website of the parish of Bergen. Retrieved November 12, 2010 .
  5. ↑ Restorations, mountains on Rügen. Scheffler Organ Workshop, accessed on November 12, 2010 .
  6. ^ Ewert, Klaus Richard Theodor. Kulturportal West-Ost, accessed on April 25, 2019 .
  7. ^ Burkhard Kunkel: Ewert, Klaus Richard Theodor. In: East German Memorial Days 2017. Personalities and historical events. Bonn 2018, pp. 237–241.

Web links

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Coordinates: 54 ° 25 ′ 2.03 "  N , 13 ° 25 ′ 56.31"  E