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German Church and Cemetery is a historic German Lutheran church and cemetery in Waldoboro, Maine. Waldoboro was settled by four shiploads of German immigrants between 1740 and 1753 and other settlers who came from earlier settlements on the Atlantic coast. The thirty six and one-half by forty five and one-half foot church building was framed and enclosed in 1772 near the ferry landing on the east side of the Medomak River replacing their first church building, a log building at Meeting House Cove, which was dedicated in 1763.〔Miller, Samuel Llewellyn. ''History of the town of Waldoboro, Maine''. Wiscasset, Me.: Emerson, printer, 1910. Print.〕 The interior remained unfinished with the worshipers sitting on "rude benches".〔Report as part of the National Register of Historic Places records. http://kmatison.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/german-lutheran-lounsbury.pdf〕 In the winter of 1795 the building was disassembled and moved across the river to its present location and the interior was completed and the building painted by 1804. The floor plan is a common layout for church and meeting-house buildings of the period of an entrance at the opposite end from the pulpit, three aisles serving box pews and a large gallery with mostly box pews. Initially entrance is made into a small porch containing three exterior doors and two stairways. The box pews remain unpainted, the walls and woodwork above the pews painted green. The building was heated with wood stoves but has never had electric service. The pulpit stands high above the floor with a sounding board above. The first minister was John Ulmer. From 1795 to 1811 served Rev. Frederick Augustus Rodolphus Benedectus Ritz (Retz). Next Rev. J. W. Starman served from 1812 to 1854 and instituted the first English language sermons. 〔Miller, Samuel Llewellyn. ''History of the town of Waldoboro, Maine''. Wiscasset, Me.: Emerson, printer, 1910. 233. Print.〕 The first town meeting in Waldoboro was held in this meeting house in 1773 and the centennial celebration of Waldoboro's incorporation included a sermon given in this building in 1873.〔Bliss, George. ''The centennial celebration of the incorporation of Waldoboro', Maine, July 4, 1873''. Bangor: G. Bliss, 1873. Print.〕 One service per year is still conducted. The oldest grave stone in the cemetery is for Fannie Miller, who died Aug. 22, 1797. There are, however, older graves without stones. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. The building and grounds are maintained by the German Protestant Society, organized April 3, 1800. ==External links== * (Map of the cemetery ) * (The Old Broad Bay Family History Association ) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German Church and Cemetery」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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