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St. Jacobi Church Gingst

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St. Jacobi Church Gingst

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Location: Gingst, Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany

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Julia

July 18, 2016

The church was built around the year 1300, possibly first as a chapel. From this time comes the retracted rectangular choir. The three-aisled nave is believed to have been built around the year 1400. The nave is over the side of the aisles. On the west side is the mid-15th century on a square floor plan resulting church tower. At the same time, a chapel was built, which extended the southern aisle to the east.

1554, the first Protestant pastor of the church, Laurentius Krintze, was killed in the church cemetery. The atonement of Gingst, which was later reconstructed into a tombstone for the spouses of the East, recalls this event and is located behind the choir to the east of the church.

In a major fire in Gingst in 1726, the church was damaged. The choir and ship had to be redone, the eastern gable had to be replaced by Walme. The tower received its curly hood. The stucco ceilings of the nave and choir were also made after 1726. The aisles have a ribbed vault. With the exception of the north portal, the portals of the church on the south side and the tower were redecorated baroque.

A renovation of the northern sacristy took place in 1816. At the tower, there are friezes between the four storeys. The sound openings on the top floor are designed as pointed arches.

On the south wall there are two sundials, one on a large whitewashed area and a second of medieval times. The latter is not easily recognizable in the form of scribed lines on a brick below the left edge of the eastern window.

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JR56

January 25, 2024

The St. Jacobi Church in Gingst is the second largest on the island of Rügen after the St. Mary's Church in Bergen. The choir was built around 1300, and around 1400 it was expanded to the west to include the three-aisled church. The massive church tower, which was added in the mid-15th century, burned down in 1699 after a lightning strike. Only four years later, the newly built church spire fell in a hurricane and destroyed the church roof and the vaults of the central nave, in their place a flat stucco ceiling was installed.
In 1726 the church and its interior burned down to the walls. It is thanks to the commitment of Prepositus Johannes Buschmann and many donors (including from Sweden) that reconstruction work on the church could begin in 1729. An inscription on the north wall of the church testifies to this. When the church was put back into operation in 1730, there were only the stalls and confessionals inside. The baptismal font followed around 1735, the pulpit in 1743 and the altar addition in 1776. The last piece of equipment to be added to the church was the organ built in 1790 by Christian Kindt from Stralsund, which is one of the most important historical organs in Western Pomerania.
In summer, concerts take place every Tuesday at 8 p.m. and the organ also plays regularly.
After the choir roof, the twelve church windows and the three portals were renewed from 2000 to 2014, the dilapidated roof structure has been strengthened and the church roof re-covered in stages since 2017.

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