Rühstädt village church
The Protestant village church in Rühstädt , a community in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg , dates back to the 15th century. The church on Rühstädter Dorfstrasse, in the middle of the cemetery, is a protected architectural monument and one of the open churches .
architecture
The church is a late Gothic hall building made of brick with a retrospective design language with a semicircular apse , which was built according to dendrochronological dating in 1455 (d) (anchor timbers on the gable) and in 1722 rebuilt in Baroque style (inscription, roofing from 1733 d) and extended by the massive, retracted west tower . Renovations were carried out in 1843 and 1887–90, restoration in 1961. A component with a patronage box from the 18th century is attached to the south side. The ship is flat-decked; In the apse calotte there is a late Gothic painting depicting the Last Judgment with several coats of arms, which was heavily restored in 1890.
Furnishing
A restored handcrafted late Gothic carved altar from the beginning of the 15th century shows the Coronation of Mary flanked by Peter and Paul in the shrine , the Annunciation is depicted on the left, John the Baptist and St. George on the right. The pulpit is baroque.
Several finely crafted figural grave monuments of the von Quitzow family are remarkable. Most important is the wall epitaph Dietrich von Quitzows († 1593) to the left of the apse, which takes up the form language of the Italian Renaissance in type and ornamentation . The armored niche figure of the nobleman who was slain in the nearby Legde (whose monument can be found there) is framed by richly ornamented Corinthian columns with entablature and richly allegorical accessories, above the entablature there is a relief with the resurrection. The sandstone epitaph of Dietrich von Quitzow († 1569) to the right of the apse is more conventional and is probably the work of the Brunswick master Jürgen Spinnrad . The larger-than-life, armored figure of the deceased stands in a round-arched niche above the base of the inscription with a scroll frame , framed by a rich coat of arms. The top is a relief showing Christ with the flag of victory.
The gravestones of these two Quitzows are embedded in the floor; on the left the elder is shown together with his wife Ilse von Veltheim. On the apse wall there are two figure tombstones for Georg († 1527) and Dietrich von Quitzow († 1552), probably from the same workshop, as well as the portrait of a daughter of Georg von Quitzow, Abbess von Heiligengrabe († 1525). - On the south wall a magnificent bronze coffin lid for Friedrich Wilhelm von Grumbkow († 1739) can be seen, which was salvaged in 1974 from the then demolished crypt north of the church. The wall grave of Thomas Günther von Jagow, dated 1788, shows a balanced classical column structure, above the entablature there are mourning putti as well as the image and coat of arms of the deceased. The monument to Bertha von der Schulenburg, née von Jagow, shows a marble relief with mother and child by Friedrich Drake from 1842. Under the west gallery there are marble busts of members of the von Jagow family: OF v. Jagow († 1810) by Karl Friedrich Wichmann and Th. A. v. Jagow († 1854) by Karl Cauer .
organ
The organ , donated by Sophie Charlotte von Grumbkow, was built in 1738 by Joachim Wagner from Berlin. After several changes, the organ was restored in 2009 by Orgelbau Waltershausen according to the original plan. Today it has ten registers on a manual and pedal . The disposition is:
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Coupling : Pedal Coupler.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments - Mecklenburg. The districts of Neubrandenburg, Rostock, Schwerin. Deutscher Kunstverlag, 2nd edition, Munich / Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-422-03019-0 , pp. 339-340.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Opening times on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 13, 2020 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 22, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 55 ′ 7.6 ″ N , 11 ° 52 ′ 12.1 ″ E