Bergen auf Rügen / Bergh in Ruya / Berghe / Berghen / Bergen/Rügen / Villa Berghe

Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014

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view of church exterior - south view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerhard Giebener, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2008 by Gerhard Giebener [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergen_auf_Rügen_-_Sankt-Marien-Kirche_(4)_(11402787835).jpg] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - southwest end

Scene Description: Photo caption: "Die Kirche befindet sich rückseitig des Marktplatzes und umfasst auch Kirchhof und Klosterhofbereich. Sie wurde um 1180 unter Fürst Jaromar I. als eine romanische Basilika mit Querschiff erbaut. Im Jahr 1193 wurde sie zur Klosterkirche Bergen geweiht. Sankt Marien gehört zu den frühesten Backstein-Kirchenbauten im norddeutschen Raum und ist zudem das älteste Gebäude Rügens. Mit dem 67,4 m hohen und von überall her weithin sichtbaren Kirchturm ist sie ein markantes Wahrzeichen in der Silhouette der Stadt Bergen. Von 1896 bis 1903 wurde die Kirche letztmalig im größeren Stil restauriert und ergänzt. 2004 wurde die Basilika in die "Europäische Route der Backsteingotik" aufgenommen und 2005 in das Denkmalpflegeprogramm "National wertvolle Kulturdenkmäler"."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Gerhard Giebener, 2008

Image Source: digital photograph taken 8 September 2008 by Gerhard Giebener [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergen_auf_Rügen_-_Sankt-Marien-Kirche_(1)_(11402548605).jpg] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church exterior - west side - detail

Scene Description: a statue embedded in the west brick wall of the church; perhaps a gravestone originally -- Photo caption: "Bildstein in der Westfassade der St. Marienkirche in Bergen auf Rügen. Alter, Herkunft und Bedeutung sind umstritten. Es ist anzunehmen, dass es sich entweder um den Grabstein des Fürsten Jaromar I. († um 1218) oder, ähnlich dem Svantevit-Stein in der Kirche von Altenkirchen auf der Halbinsel Wittow, eher um das Abbild eines Priesters des slawischen Svantevit-Tempels am Kap Arkona aus der Zeit vor 1168 handelt. Der Stein ist offenbar nachträglich bearbeitet worden: Dort, wo die Figur auf dem Svantevit-Stein von Altenkirchen ein großes Trinkhorn trägt, ist hier (bei einer Ansicht von der Seite) in einer breiten Vertiefung die Andeutung eines Kreuzes zu erkennen."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Lapplaender, 2006

Image Source: digital photograph taken 2 August 2006 by Lapplaender [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bildstein_Marienkirche_Bergen.jpg] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church exterior in context

Scene Description: foreground left: Marienkirche Bergen; Stralsund at far back -- Photo caption : "Blick vom Rugard-Turm bis nach Stralsund. Im Vordergrund erkennt man den Stadtkern mit der Marienkirche. Am Horizont erscheinen die Kirchtürme von Stralsund, welche ca. 25km Luftlinie entfernt sind."

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Thomas Freibier (THFR), 2002

Image Source: digital photograph taken May 2002 by Thomas Freibier (THFR) [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bergen-auf-ruegen-rugard-turm-blick-suedwest-bergen-stralsund_thfr.jpg] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church interior - altar and retable

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concord, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Concord [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marienkirche_Bergen_06_2014_08.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church interior - clock

Scene Description: 'tempus fugit' reminder?

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith

Copyright Instructions: Image and permission received (e-mail of 18 July 2014)

view of church interior - nave - looking east

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Concord, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 28 June 2014 by Concord [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marienkirche_Bergen_06_2014_01.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church interior - painting

Scene Description: an example of the many mural paintings inside the church

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Andi40599, 2010

Image Source: digital photograph taken 10 August 2010 by Andi40599 [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sankt_Marien_07.JPG] [accessed 20 July 2014]

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view of church interior - pulpit

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith

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view of font

Scene Description: the basin is painted granite; the base is made of wood [cf. FontNotes]

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Colin Smith, 2014

Image Source: digital photograph taken 4 June 2014 by Colin Smith

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INFORMATION

FontID: 19361BER
Church/Chapel: Marienkirche
Church Patron Saints: St. Mary the Virgin
Country Name: Germany
Location: Vorpommern-Rügen, Mecklenbourg-Vorpommern
Directions to Site: Located in the centre of the island of Rügen, on the Baltic Sea coast
Historical Region: Duchy of Pomerania -- Prussia
Font Location in Church: Inside the church, in the chancel
Century and Period: 13th - 14th century [basin only] [composite font], Medieval [composite]
Credit and Acknowledgements: We are grateful to Colin Smith for his photographs of this church and font
Church Notes: former abbey church re-built as palace church in 1168-1193
The present font here is noted and illustrated in www.tino-mehner.homepage.t-online.de/fuente.htm [accessed 20 July 2014]: it is now located in the chancel but stood earlier in a chapel of the north side of the church; the painted granite basin is said to have originated in a Rugard chapel demolished in the 14th century; the original round pedestal and lower base were lost and have been replaced by a wooden base, octagonal to match the shape of the basin.

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 54.41725, 13.432
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 54° 25′ 2.1″ N, 13° 25′ 55.2″ E
UTM: 33U 398253 6031079

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone
Font Shape: octagonal (mounted)
Basin Interior Shape: round
Basin Exterior Shape: octagonal
Drainage Notes: metal lining insert