St. Godehard (Kessin)
St. Godehard is the church of the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Kessin in the Rostock district . The community belongs to the Rostock church region of the Rostock provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
Surname
The name is derived from the Holy Godehard , Bishop of Hildesheim, who is buried in Hildesheim Cathedral .
Building description
St. Godehard is a single-nave church with an indented, single -bay choir and west tower. The choir was built mainly from field stones in 1269. Only the window reveals and the east gable were made of brick . The outer gable was designed with two rows of ogival panels over a double German band and a brick cross in front of a deepened ground. Inside the choir, the vault is divided into eight caps by ribs . On the north side of the choir is the sacristy , also made of field stones, and an attached chapel on the south side is made of bricks and is much younger.
The nave was built around 1360 and was made entirely of brick. While the choir still has Romanesque and Gothic features, this part of the church is purely Gothic. On the north and south sides there are two three-part windows closed with pointed arches . The originally existing vault collapsed in 1880 (according to another source in 1865) and was replaced by a wooden ceiling.
The church used to have a low, free-standing wooden steeple. This was located between the church and the sexton and had a square floor plan. A lightning strike and the ensuing fire destroyed the tower and its bells on April 23, 1885. In the following year, today's tower was built by the Schwaan master mason Möller in a neo-Gothic style.
Furnishing
During restoration work in 1977, frescoes from the time the choir was built were discovered. The walls and the vault were decorated with floral motifs, crosses and stars.
altar
The altar in its current form has existed since 1979. The defining triumphal cross with the figures of Maria and John placed next to it comes from the 15th century. Until the current wooden ceiling moved in, this group was on a beam in the choir arch.
Medieval sculptures
Two sculptures are placed in the nave. The seated figure of Bishop Godehard dates from the first half of the 15th century and was originally painted in color. The bishop's staff, church model and cap were lost when they were removed from storage at the end of World War II and were replaced by replicas in 2006. The Madonna figure dates from the end of the 13th century and was also painted. It shows the Mother of God with the lily scepter and her son, who is marked with the orb as the judge of the world .
St. Godehard
Mary with child
organ
The construction of the organ (II / P / 12) was started in 1858 by the master organ builder Heinrich Rasche . It was completed in 1861 by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller after Rasche had to give up due to age. The organ has twelve registers on two manuals and a pedal . In 1999 the organ was extensively restored.
Bells
The old Kessiner bells were destroyed during the church tower fire in 1885, whereupon three new bells were cast in Wismar, one of them from the material of the old bells. These bells were melted down during World War II. After 1945 the church received a bell from the St. Jacobi Church in Rostock , which was destroyed in the war . Like the Kessiner bells, the bell was intended for use in the armaments industry, but survived the war in the Hamburg bell cemetery . Due to its great age (14th century), it is of particular cultural and historical importance. The small bell was cast in 1866 for Heinrich Graf von Bassewitz by the Wismar bell founder Peter Martin Hausbrandt . It is also considered to be of cultural and historical value. The material comes from an older bell made in 1797. The middle bell was cast in 1977 by the VEB Apolda bell foundry and is the foundation of the Beselin couple Ewendt.
photos
On both sides of the organ there are pictures of two former pastors. The left represents Dieterich Albrecht Hincke (1704–1783) and dates from 1783. The smaller one from 1679 hangs on the right and reminds of Pastor Henricus Lutherus Klaprode (around 1607–1679), who was pastor in the village for 38 years. Above this is the votive picture donated by Müller Jochim Kohne from 1604. At that time, nine of his children died within just two weeks. On the epitaph donated in memory of the children are depicted with white shrouds .
Pastor Hincke
Pastor Klaprode
Votive picture by Jochim Kohne
literature
- Marcus Stöcklin: Pride and Glory - the 100 most beautiful churches and monasteries on Mecklenburg's coast. Hamburg 2005, ISBN 3-928119-93-1 .
- Friedrich Schlie : Art and History Monuments of Mecklenburg , Volume 1, 1896, p. 291 ff digitalisat
Individual evidence
- ↑ The leaflet available in the church
- ↑ kirche-kessin.de
Web links
- Literature about St. Godehard (Kessin) in the state bibliography MV
- Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Kessin
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 46.3 ″ N , 12 ° 10 ′ 40 ″ E