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St. George's Church, Oeversee

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    April 28, 2021

    Als im Jahre 1104 des Erzbistum Lund (in Südschweden) gegründet wurde, erhielt Nordeuropa eine größere kirchliche Eigenständigkeit. Der dänische König Niels gab der Kirche das Recht, den Zehnten zu erheben und leitete damit die größte Kirchenbau-Periode der dänischen Geschichte ein. In wenig mehr als 120 Jahren wurden etwa 2000 Kirchen gebaut, so auch eine große Zahl in der gegen die Einfälle der slawischen Wenden aus dem ostholsteinischen Raum gegründeten Grenzmark Schleswig, in der damals der Jarl Knud Lavard (1115-31) zum Herzog erhoben wurde. Der runde Turm unserer Kirche mit seinen noch erhaltenen Schießscharten im Norden weist darauf hin, dass Oeversee zu einem System von Befestigungen gehört hat wie Kosel und Haddeby an der Schlei und Kampen (später Rendsburg) und Süderstapel an der Eider. In Haddeby und Kampen sind die Rundtürme längst abgetragen, in Kosel und Süderstapel aber noch ähnlich gut erhalten bzw. ausgebessert und nach Zerstörungen wieder aufgesetzt wie in Oversee. Ähnliche Rundbauten befinden sich in Ostengland, das zeitweise zum dänischen Reich gehörte.
    Die verkehrspolitische und damit militärische Bedeutung Oeversees ergab sich aus seiner Lage am Ochsenweg (Heerweg) und an der Treene. Der Ochsenweg verlief parallel zur heutigen Europastraße 3 etwa 1000 m östlich zwischen Wäldern Angelns und den Höhen am Sankelmarker See. Er war der einzige Verkehrsweg auf dem Lande zwischen Skandinavien und dem übrigen Europa. Von ihm zweigte bei Oversee eine Handelsstraße ab, der sog. Stapelholmer Weg, der am Nordufer der Treene nach Hollingstedt (Nordseehafen der Wikingerstadt Haithabu) und weiter nach Tönning in der Eidermündung führte (später der bedeutendste England-Hafen Jütlands).
    In der Regierungszeit des Bischofs Alberus von Schleswig (bis 1135), von dem berichtet wird, „dass er in seinem Sprengel viele Kirchen geweiht hat“, wird der Bau der Overseer Kirche zumindest begonnen worden sein. Sie war wohl von Anfang an dem Heiligen Georg geweiht (St.Jürgen), dem Schutzpatron der Reisenden. Das ergab sich gewissermaßen von selbst, da Oeversee Raststätte war an dem einzigen Weg für die Pilger aus Nordeuropa zu den drei berühmten Wallfahrtsorten Jerusalem, Rom und Santiago (Grab des Apostels Jakobus) in Spanien.

      May 10, 2020

      The St. Georg Church in Oeversee probably originated in the middle of the 12th century and was designed as a fortified church. The special thing here is the round bell tower, there is a similar one in Kosel. The fortitude can still be recognized today from the loopholes in the tower.

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        June 6, 2025

        St. George's Church is a round-towered church from the 12th century in Oeversee.

        The Oeversee Church is one of the earliest church buildings in the Danish March,
        later the Duchy of Schleswig.


        It was dedicated to Saint George, the patron saint of travelers.

        Its construction probably began under the Schleswig Bishop Adelbert (1120–1135). The massive round tower with loopholes suggests its use as a fortified church.

        The access to the nave through the tower was later walled up and only reopened in
        1931. Until then, men entered the church through the southern portal
        and women through the northern portal, which is now partially walled up.


        In the 18th century, the tower received a Baroque cap.

        Originally, the church was a simple fieldstone church, with the choir
        and nave covered with a flat ceiling.
        The choir was vaulted in 1497, and the nave around 1530.
        The entire vault was painted. The paintings were painted over in 1620.
        During the renovation in 1965, these original paintings were rediscovered and restored.
        The oldest items in the inventory, the altar table and the baptismal font, date back to the time of construction. They are made of limestone and were imported from Gotland.
        The baptismal font was later replaced by a Rococo font and served as a flower box for several centuries before being returned to the church in 1965 with a new base.
        The altarpiece features five consecration crosses. The Baroque altarpiece from
        1736 has been located on the north wall of the nave since the renovation in 1965.
        Two oil paintings are located between two pillars, the main one depicting the Crucifixion, and below it, the Last Supper of Jesus.


        The triumphal cross dates from the time the choir was painted around 1500.

        Two roughly contemporary wooden sculptures of Saints George and John the Baptist are located in Gottorf Castle.

        The pulpit was created in the Renaissance style at the beginning of the 17th century in the workshop of the woodcarver Heinrich Ringerink in Flensburg. It depicts scenes from the life of Jesus in relief, explained using Latin biblical texts, framed by female figures symbolizing the virtues of faith, hope, wisdom, love, kindness, justice, courage, temperance, sobriety, and patience.

        de.wikipedia.org/wiki/St.-Georg-Kirche_(Oeversee)#Ausmalung

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          May 6, 2021

          The church, like many of the other round tower churches in Schleswig-Holstein, is a Romanesque field stone building from the 12th century. However, St Georg was later redesigned in the interior in a late Gothic style. The round tower clearly served defensive purposes here, as can be seen from the loopholes that have been preserved. Oeversee thus belonged to a system of fortifications. Although a vestibule was added in the late Middle Ages, this is not the entrance to the church, rather it is located on the south wall of the tower. You first enter the tower's ground floor; Here a staircase leads up the tower, but you can only get to the first floor, the doors there are all locked. The nave can be reached through a door arch in the meter-thick east wall of the tower. Here you get a sense of how stable this tower was built, which underlines the assumption that it was a fortification.
          More: roundtowerchurches.net/de/deutschland-germany/oeversee-2

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