Weisdin village church
The church Weisdin is a baroque Gutskapelle from the 18th century in the Mecklenburg village Weisdin (municipality Blumenholz ). The responsible parish of Peckatel-Prillwitz belongs to the Neustrelitz Propstei in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ).
history
In 1740 the previous building burned down together with the manor house and almost the entire village. Gotthardt Carl Friedrich von Peccatel , whose family had owned the village since the Middle Ages, initially had the manor house rebuilt on the foundations of the previous building, which he moved into on the occasion of his wedding in January 1747. He then had the church rebuilt, initially applying to Duke Adolf Friedrich in Neustrelitz for permission to change the original location. The new church should be aligned axially to the manor house. The resulting fairly precise north-south axis is similar to the corresponding alignment between the palace and the court church in Ludwigslust , although the places are reversed: Since the Weisdiner church is located north of the manor house, the altar is at the opposite north end of the church. This was built in the shape of a regular octagon , with the generously laid out crypt in the middle under the church interior, in addition to its function as a preaching church for the congregation, it primarily serves as a crypt chapel for the donor family. Construction was completed in August 1749. In 1762 the founder sold his entire Weisdiner property, after he had no male heirs and his family had to go out, to Duke Adolf Friedrich IV. From then on, he used the Weisdiner mansion as a summer residence. Subsequently, few changes took place in the church; doors and windows were partially renewed in the 19th century, and in the course of the 20th century the decorative ornamentation above the entrance portal disappeared. The originally preserved interior was extensively restored as early as the GDR era, and later the exterior with plastering and the entrance area as well. The church is one of the few baroque church buildings in Mecklenburg that have largely been preserved in their original state and thus has an outstanding position in terms of art history.
description
Outer shape
The church has the shape of a regular octagon and is made of brick. The side walls are characterized by strong corner rustics and plastered. The tent roof has a graceful double lantern. Its pagoda-like structure makes it clear on closer inspection, that in it never bells may have hung. The two bells were placed inside the church roof. Only the smaller one has survived since it was delivered in World War I , cast in 1539 by Hinrich Witte in Neubrandenburg . The entrance to the church is on the south side, facing the manor house. The axis running from there to the church leads upwards in the manner of a calvary . The crypt, located in the middle of the church, was entered from the north outside of the church. The door, which used to be to the left of the entrance to the patronage boxes, has been walled up since the last restoration, so the crypt is currently not accessible. In addition to the church founder and his family, the privy councilor Friedrich Carl Ludwig von Kardorff rests in it .
Interior
Inside, the geometric design is continued by the also octagonal gallery construction. The northern part opposite the entrance is completely filled by the pulpit altar . This is crowned by a halo with a trinitarian triangle, flanked by two plastic angel figures. In the two flanking parts there are the generous patronage boxes, which seem to have two floors, but below them are the former confessional on the left and the sacristy on the right . Both storeys are closed and integrated into the church through glazed windows and doors. On both sides of the parapet are the coats of arms of the church founder Gotthardt Carl Friedrich von Peccatel and his wife Amalie von Rieben. In front of the masonry altar canteen is the carved wooden altar enclosure, whose knee benches have been removed for a long time and can only be identified by the existing prints. The mirror vault decorated with fine Roccaillenstuck contains the trinitarian triangle with dove and halo in the middle, from here the baptismal angel hangs down in the middle . The box-shaped community chairs consist of two blocks, the rows of which are irregularly designed due to the structure of the room. There are flower arrangements painted in a rustic style on the doors. Particularly noteworthy are two death boards below the patronage boxes . Apart from the retouching on the altar front, the entire painting of the church is original. It is characterized by the colors blue, white and red, whereby the blue dominates with regard to the coat of arms of the founder. The altar and patronage boxes also show gilded profiles and silver-plated palm fronds. The unknown author of the elaborate painting has himself signed on the back of the altar with the initials CJK and the saying “Anno 1749 d. August 22nd the church was finished ”immortalized. The names of the other artists involved in the construction are also not known. The church has never had an organ . This has been represented by a harmonium for a long time . On the gallery in front of the patronage boxes are simple benches, which were probably originally intended for servants.
symbolism
Like many church buildings from this time, the Weisdiner Church is clearly characterized by number symbolism based on the Christian Kabbalah . This already shows the octagonal outer shape. It has the same meaning as the baptismal font, which was mostly octagonal in earlier times: the baptized Christian is included in the number of the saved, which is symbolically made up of the eight people who comprise Noah and his family after being saved from the Flood . This function is also confirmed here by the baptismal angel. Above all, however, the number eight is a symbol for the resurrection, the belief in it is confirmed by the octagonal crowned tomb vault. After all, according to the Christian Kabbalah, eight is also the number of God, which, according to the rules of Gematria, is formed from the addition of the numerical values of God's name YHWH . This is confirmed in the Weisdin Church with the halo above the altar: In the trinitarian triangle there is a symbol of God instead of the usually three Jodim of the Hebrew alphabet, the triple letter S as an abbreviation for the triple Latin Sanctus . The halo, on the other hand, consists of 26 rays, this is exactly the sum of the numerical values of YHWH, from the cross sum of which in turn the divine number eight is formed. The two community blocks each consist of 12 rows of seats, the same number of rows form the benches on the gallery. In this way the community symbolically places itself in the succession of the 12 tribes of Israel or the 12 apostles ; the three number resulting from the three departments, as documented by the use of the three basic colors , refers to the trinity .
literature
- Georg Krüger: Art and history monuments of the Free State of Mecklenburg-Strelitz. Volume 1 Das Land Stargard , first department, Neubrandenburg 1921, pp. 94–98.
- Helene von Krause : Under the Wendish crown. Wanderings through Mecklenburg , Volume 1, Berlin 1912, pp. 63–68.
- Georg Dehio (Hrsg.): Handbook of the German art monuments. Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich / Berlin 2000, p. 672.
- Institute for the preservation of monuments in the GDR (ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district . Verlag CH Beck Munich, Berlin 1982, p. 217.
Web links
- Weisdin church near Neustrelitz / Blumenholz community on heimat-mecklenburgische-seenplatte.de
- Literature about village church Weisdin in the state bibliography MV
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 ′ 7.7 ″ N , 13 ° 6 ′ 38.6 ″ E