St. Stephen's Church (Swantow)

Tower of St. Stephen's Church in Swantow

A special feature is the use of field stones in the entire wall area, not just in the foundation

The St. Stephanus Church in Swantow on the island of Rügen is one of the numerous village churches on the Baltic Sea island. Like St. Mary's Church in Poseritz and the village church in Gustow, it belongs to the Protestant parish of Poseritz today . The parish belongs to the Propstei Stralsund in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . Before that she belonged to the Stralsund parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

history

Today's church building, made of bricks with inserted field stones, began in 1456. It stands in a place called Swetagora (“Holy Mountain”) in Slavic , where a church was probably built in the 12th century, but no remains of it have survived. First the choir was completed, then the nave with ribbed vaults . The west tower was finally put in front around 1500 .

During the French occupation, the church served as a grain store in 1811. In 1892 St. Stephanus was extensively renovated and received a baptism, organ and stalls.

Interior

organ

The organ was built in 1846 by Friedrich Nerlich for the Evangelical Church in Neuenkirchen on Rügen. In 1892 it was moved to Swantow by Paul Mehmel . A new prospectus was built (and the disposition changed?). In 1917 the prospect pipes had to be handed in. In 1927 they were replaced by new zinc pipes and possibly a rescheduling made.

From 1999 to 2003 she restored the organ building and restoration workshop Rainer Wolter and reconstructed the original disposition. It has six registers on a manual with attached pedal and mechanical slide chests . The disposition is as follows:

Manual C–
Drone	16 ′
Dumped	8th'
Flauto traverso	8th'
Gamba	8th'
Principal	4 ′
Flute	4 ′

Pedal C–
attached

Individual evidence

↑ Restoration of the organ in Swantow Church Poseritz, with history and original disposition
↑ Organ Stefan Warmsiedler (PDF; 18 kB).
↑ Organ Organ Database (Dutch)
^ Organ church music in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, with a slightly different disposition in the order (before 1999?), Memento