Holzkapelle Ralswiek, Ralswiek

The Ralswiek Wooden Chapel is a small Protestant church building in Ralswiek on the island of Rügen. It is one of the churches of the Protestant parish of Schaprode, which belongs to the Provostry of Stralsund of the Pomeranian Protestant Church District.

The small church is built entirely of wood in an architectural style common in Sweden and is an architectural peculiarity for Rügen.

At the end of the 19th century, Hugo Sholto Count of Douglas from Aschersleben had acquired the Ralswiek estate and extensively rebuilt it. After the construction of several houses, a school and the streets of the village, the intention was also to build a church in Ralswiek. At an exhibition in Stockholm, the count saw the wooden chapel exhibited there as a model church. Douglas purchased the church in 1907, had it dismantled and transported across the Baltic Sea to Ralswiek. Here it was rebuilt on its present site and consecrated in 1907.

Above the entrance to the church is the motto Love never ceases.

Today the chapel is also used for organ concerts.

Until 2007, the 200-year-old sexton's house, built in half-timbered loam, was located next to the chapel. In that year, the building, also known locally as the "witch's house" because of its quaint appearance, fell victim to arson.