Village church Alt Sammit
Coordinates: 53 ° 39 ' N , 12 ° 14' E
The Protestant village church Alt Sammit is located in the middle of Alt Sammit , a district of the city of Krakow am See in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .
history
On December 15, 1274, Sammit was first mentioned in a document. Nikolaus von Werle and his sons Heinrich and Johann extended the privilege of the Dobbertin monastery in 1237 with three hooves in Sammit. The von Weltzien owned the village and estate as early as the 15th century and kept it until the end of the 18th century.
The Sammiter von Weltzien were also closely connected with the Dobbertin monastery, because Adelheid von Weltzien was mentioned as a nun before 1409 and was the monastery prioress until 1428 . After the Reformation , from 1572 onwards as a noble women's monastery , Elenore von Weltzien was the convent's deputy as prioress from 1818 to 1822 .
The tower hill castle , the chapel and the village were plundered and destroyed by the Swedes in the Thirty Years War in 1638. In 1649 the place was still described as desolate and deserted. After 1650, the reconstruction of the village of Sammit began under Daniel von Weltzien and his wife Ilsabe. At the then most important crossroads of the Sammiter and Bossower forest districts, the Green Hunter , Alexander von Weltzien had a jug built in the Dannen in 1693 .
In 1853 there was a school and a smithy in the village in addition to the estate and the small churches.
Building history
The first chapel of those von Weltzien is said to have stood at the foot of the Schleusenberg. The Sammit branch church, which probably dates from the second half of the 15th century, was connected to the mother church in Krakow. The reformer Johann Babe was unable to assert himself in Krakow and therefore carried out the Reformation in 1541 under the protection of those of Weltzien from Sammit.
During the Thirty Years' War the church was also destroyed in 1638 and rebuilt after 1650 by Daniel von Weltzien. It had no tower, just a free-standing wooden belfry . Re-consecrated in 1674, it was the burial place of the von Weltzien families until 1794. The family crypt was to be renewed in 1917 based on a design by von Weltzien on the north side of the church, but it was demolished.
According to the Monument Protection Act of December 5, 1929, page 309, the church in Alt Sammit was also placed under monument protection in 1930 as an architectural monument .
The north-east side and the roof of the church were badly damaged by a fallen tree in May 1944, so that the ceiling and the sacristy underneath were also turned into a heap .
By 1960 the church was so dilapidated that it had to be closed by the building authorities and the inventory was relocated as a precaution. In 1979 the roof of the nave collapsed, smashing the wooden beam ceiling and the masonry. For a long time, the ruins remained an eyesore in the village, until in 1984 the LPG chairman publicly complained to the new local pastor, the Oberkirchenrat in Schwerin and the district council in Güstrow about the church as a ruin and the cemetery as a jungle . With the first on-site visit, a strange alliance formed. The mayor of Krakow, the director of the national estate and the LPG chairman on the one hand. On the other, the church elder from Alt Sammit, the church building commissioner and the pastor. It was jointly decided to start rebuilding the church. The agreement also said: The LPG would do all it could to support the reconstruction. In return, socialist funerals are later allowed to take place in the back room of the church; the cross on the wall should not be hung with a red cloth, as is customary in Krakow. In order to justify the services of the LPG for church building, the agreement stipulated the full use of the rear church space for secular burials.
The reconstruction of the church ruin began in 1984 despite the shortage economy . In addition to a lot of ingenuity, this also required a portion of peasant cunning . After the ruins of the church and the cemetery had been cleared, the building brigade of the People's Estate took over the further construction. The bricks came by mistake from the peasant trade cooperative in Krakow. Due to the lack of wooden beams, the ceiling was made with concrete beams and fillers from the housing program for the standard house EW 65, which is common in the GDR. The roof trusses came from the private home program and the conventional concrete roof tiles had to be used as roof tiles . The parishioners of the Alt Sammit parish council with the church building commissioner Bent Böhnke from Güstrow and the LPG chairman Werner Marbach succeeded in preparing the now very simple interior so that the church was inaugurated again in the summer of 1987 by the Schwerin parish councilor Schulz. It was not possible to find out whether the later dismissal of the LPG chairman was related to this.
This joint achievement of a village in GDR times was honored in 1990 with a diploma from EUROPA NOSTRA and the Europa Nostra Prize .
After 1990, the top floor was further expanded into a youth community center with hiking quarters for youth groups.
Building description
Exterior
The church is a simple field stone building on the basic shape of an elongated square from the 13th century and originally had a half-timbered east gable. The interior forms a closed space with the flat wooden ceiling. Their light openings are in the form of square windows in round arch niches. The almost Romanesque arch forms certainly date from around 1300.
The originally towerless church was given a slender brick tower with a hipped roof in 1863 , which was placed in front on the west side. The windows and gable triangles were changed. The entrance on the western side of the tower has been designed with a recessed, oversized pointed arch. The lower tower floor as well as the north and south sides of the nave were made with hewn granite stones. The upper brick walled tower storey has slim recessed pointed arch niches. The sound hatches connect to the cornice of the tower roof. The somewhat coarse wooden lattice windows in the arched style on the north and south walls and the arched door on the south wall were installed in 1986.
In 1811 Alt Sammit still owned a wooden belfry with two bells . The larger one was without an inscription, the smaller one from 1863 was cast by PM Hausbrandt in Wismar . One of the two bells was named Maria . Both were melted down for war purposes. Today a bronze bell with the inscription I am with you every day in 1985 rings in the tower in 1984 in the Apolda bell foundry .
Interior
On the eastern south wall stands the parapet from the remains of a former Renaissance pulpit as a lectern , a handcrafted carving in oak from the end of the 17th century. The pulpit and the altarpiece are donations from the von Weltzien party family.
The unusual altar painting donated by Ilsabe von Weltzien. The four evangelists were created in 1689 by the Schwerin court painter Johannes Friedrich Wilde around the bright Easter sun . The crucifix of 1699 comes the inscription of Hans Riedt champion and was simply painted over in the 19th century.
The wooden Pietà with the depiction of the dead Jesus after he was deposed from the cross on the lap of his grieving mother from the middle of the 15th century was originally painted. After the restoration in 1989, the Schwerin Institute for Monument Preservation housed it in a newly carved shrine. The Pieta with the crucifix had been lying in the attic of the Krakow Church for years and was filthy. Infested by woodworms , the pieta was entrusted in 1935 by the patron of the church to the curator of the Rostock city museum, Mr. Bölkow, for restoration. Provost Brose from Krakow reported to the Oberkirchenrat in Schwerin on May 30, 1935: I have now inspected the renewed Pieta, which I believe has been dealt with in a factual manner so that it can be given a place of honor in the church without hesitation. The last restoration was carried out at the end of 1989 by the restorer Fred Kluth from Neu Mistorf.
At the 725th anniversary of Alt Sammit in 1999, Siegfried Frey, the Catholic deacon of Krakow, said: It is certain that this picture in the small, insignificant village of Alt Sammit is not only his greatest treasure, but also the oldest after the walls of the church Testimony of Christian faith. But the question of how and where this treasure got here will always remain unanswered.
The commemorative plaque and Weltzien's coat of arms disappeared before 1980.
Churchyard
The von Weltzien family's hereditary burial site is located in the churchyard . Five members of the family who died between 1954 and 2004 were also buried there. The best known among them is Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien (1926–2004), who was a genealogist and author.
Parish
Alt Sammit belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran Parish Krakow, which also includes Dobbin , Linstow , Karow and Krakow. The provost's office is located in Rostock in the Mecklenburg church district in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Munich, Berlin 2000. p. 12.
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume 4. Schwerin 1901. pp. 319-320.
- Fred Beckendorff, Reinhard Schaugstat: Alt Sammit . In: The village, town and monastery churches in the nature park and its surroundings. Ed .: Nossentiner / Schwinzer Heide Nature Park. Karow, 2003. (From culture and science; Issue 3) pp. 20–21.
- Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, genealogies of extinct and living generations. Volume III. 1992, pp. 13, 14.
- Sirgud Havemann: Chronicle of the Evangelical Lutheran parish Krakow am See over the years 1929–2007. Dobbin 2007 (unpublished)
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Unprinted sources
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State Main Archive Schwerin
- LHAS 1.5-4 / 3 documents Dobbertin monastery
- LHAS 3.2-3 / 1 Provincial Monastery / Monastery Office Dobbertin
- LHAS 5.11-2 Landtag assemblies , Landtag negotiations , Landtag minutes , Landtag committee
- LHAS 5.12-7 / 1 Mecklenburg Schwerin Ministry for Education, Art, Spiritual Medical Affairs.
- State Church Archive Schwerin
- Specialia, Dept. 1 and 2, Alt Sammit
- OKR, Alt Sammit, buildings. Dilapidated church. Reconstruction. Renewal of the Weltzien family crypt at the church 1916–1991.
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State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
- State Monument Preservation Department, Archive, Alt Sammit 1847–2004.
Printed sources
- Mecklenburg record book (MUB)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MUB X. (1347) No. 1347
- ^ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania, Genealogies. Volume III. Pp. 13, 14 and letter of gift dated August 14, 1996 to the Museum Goldberg.
- ↑ Horst Alsleben : Compilation of nuns and conventuals from the registered book of the Dobertin monastery from 1696-1918 and the von Weltzienschen family archive. Schwerin 2011.
- ↑ a b Information board on site
- ↑ Fred Beckendorff, Reinhard Schaugstat: Die Dorfkirchen, 5.1 Alt Sammit 2003, p. 20.
- ↑ Fred Beckendorff, Reinhard Schaugstat: Die Dorfkirchen, 5.1 Alt Sammit. 2003, p. 20.
- ↑ Church Gazette No. 17 of December 5, 1930.
- ↑ Krakow parish to the Alt Sanmmit church on May 18, 1944.
- ↑ Sigurd Havemann: Church Alt Sammit. 2007, p. 39.
- ↑ Sigurd Havemann: Church Alt Sammit. 2007, p. 39.
- ^ Information from the Güstrow construction department of July 28, 1984 to the Institute for Monument Preservation, Schwerin Office.
- ↑ Sigurd Havemann: Church Alt Sammit. 2007, p. 39.
- ↑ Güstrower Landkurier des Landkreis Güstrow, No. 1 of December 13, 1991.
- ^ Friedrich Schlie: The branch church village Alt Sammit. 1901, p. 320.
- ^ Friedrich Schlie: The branch church village Alt Sammit. 1901, p. 320
- ↑ Georg Dehio: Alt Sammit. 2000, p. 12.
- ↑ Georg Dehio: Alt Sammit. 2000, p. 12.
- ^ Information from Pastor Brose on May 30, 1935 to the Oberkirchenrat in Schwerin.
- ↑ Order from the Güstrow construction department dated May 11, 1987.
- ↑ Sigurd Havemann: Church Alt Sammit. 2007, p. 41.
- ^ Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania . five volumes 1989–1995.