Weisin village church
The village church Weisin is a small medieval half-timbered church in the Mecklenburg town of Weisin , a district of the municipality Passow in the district of Ludwigslust-Parchim in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Benthen parish in the Parchim provost of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg in the northern church .
history
Weisin, located between the Weisiner See lake of the same name and the Elde , was first mentioned in a document in 1235, when Bishop Brunward von Schwerin put the village and the parish in Kuppentin . It is not known when Weisin was withdrawn from this district and came to the church in Benthen. It probably happened as early as the 13th century, shortly after the completion of the Benthener Church , which was consecrated on July 5, 1267. Since then, the pastor from Benthen has also looked after the residents of Weisin. That was also the time after 1271, when von Preen sat as werlesche vassals on Weisin, Kuppentin, Lalchow and Zahren (Zahrensdorp). Around 1350, besides those of Weisin with their five hooves, the von Lobeck and von Dessin , and from 1363 even the Dobbertin monastery owned and earned land in Weisin. The von Weisin family were numerically small and therefore gave up their headquarters in Weisin very early. The von Weisin family died out in 1715.
The von Weltzien families acquired their first shares in Weisin around 1370. But it was only from 1509 onwards that Weisin owned them until 1701. After that, Friedrich von Restorff had Wesin in pledge possession for 10,900 thalers for ten years. The contract was extended in 1711, but in 1733 Bernhard von Stralendorff bought the estate from the Restorff bankruptcy estate.
Since the families von Weltzien and von Passow owned shares in several neighboring villages, disputes, including about church patronage, did not fail to materialize. In 1565 there was a dispute between Joachim von Passow auf Passow and Magdalena von Weltzien auf Weisin over shares of the Weisiner property and the church patronage at Benthen, in which the Mecklenburg court marshal and monastery captain von Dobbertin, Jürgen von Below , was also involved. The defendants were acquitted because the plaintiff did not appear in court.
After that, ownership changed constantly in Weisin. From 1728 to 1782, the von Rieben auf Weisin family members followed a year later by Gerhard von Levtzow . 1784 is Peter Langfeld and from 1819 the von Boddien auf Weisin, from 1837 a Johann Friedrich Hofschläger are the owners.
Building history
Originally there was a wooden chapel. Weisin was the sole patronage church of the Weltzien families on Benthen until 1833. In the visitation protocol of 1557 it was already mentioned as a branch of Benthen. During the period of the Thirty Years War , the village and its church were hardly destroyed because of their isolation. In 1773, the reports of the pastor Gustav Drosten at the time indicate that the Weisiner chapel was very dilapidated. Only 50 years later, shortly before the collapse, the lining of the half-timbered walls began and the church was consecrated again in 1820. Pastor Johann Samuel Hintze wrote about it: "... all gentlemen, like the congregation, often shed tears, and with tears in their eyes, Colonel Johann Caspar von Boddien and his wife thanked me ...".
Less than a hundred years later, the state of construction was again so bad that “building through was necessary”. Of the old half-timbered structure of the church building, only the two upper gables and the roof with the ridge turret remained. The outer walls were massively rebuilt all around. The consecration took place on August 24, 1913 with Superintendent Behm from Parchim.
After necessary roof repairs in 1948 and 1952, further major security and renovation work was carried out on the church on the occasion of the 750th anniversary in 1985. After work brigades , the roof beams were replaced, the roof covered with old tiles, the electrical system and the external plaster renewed. In 1990 the church got a new floor and the exterior facades were painted white. In 1999 there was a power connection again.
Building description
Exterior
Today's church is a flat, rectangular half-timbered building, the basic structure of which dates from the Middle Ages. The exact age is not known.
The outer walls were massively bricked up in 1913, smoothly plastered and painted white. The two arched windows on the south side and the three on the north side are provided with leaded diamond glass. At the end of the west gable, in the gable roof covered with plain tiles, there is a small square lattice tower with a pyramid roof . A small bronze bell hangs in the so-called roof turret.
Interior
The plain and simple interior with the chairs, the altar and the pulpit dates from 1913. This also applies to the lead glazing of the windows with the coat of arms of the donors and the harmonium.
In an altar fire on May 26, 1960, the altar painting burned down next to the altar ceiling. Vera Kopetz, painter from Schwerin, made the new painting In the Garden of Gethsemane in 1960. The carved crucifix on the altar as well as the parament from the altar and the pulpit are a donation from Ehrenfried von Wolfersdorff, whose family were the last landowners in Weisin before the expropriation in 1945. The wooden baptismal font with the symbols cross and chalice as well as references to the Bible passage Romans 6 and Matthew 28 and its octagonal brass bowl probably dates from the 17th century.
The small, 43 cm diameter bronze bell hanging in the roof turret is rung with a rope. The capitals (Latin capital letters) of the inscription have become illegible due to the casting. However, it suggests that it dates from the 14th century and was already hanging in the belfry of the earlier chapel. Because the bell in the Benthener mother church was cast in 1593 by the Lübeck caster Hans Kafolt.
Churchyard
The grave of Alfred von Wolffersdorf (* 1867; † 1941) and memorial stones for Alfred von Wolffersdorf (* 1916, died 1943 in Salerno ) and Ehrenfried von Wolffersdorf-Weisin (* 1910; † 2000 in Braunschweig ) can be found in the churchyard .
Parish
The Evangelical Lutheran parish of Benthen with church includes, in addition to Weisin with church, the places Charlottenhof, Neu Benthen, Passow with church , Tannenhof, Weltzin and Werder. The Benthen parish with the parish is connected to the Granzin parish with the church.
literature
- Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin . Volume 4, the district courts of Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim, Lübz and Plau. Schwerin 1901, reprint Schwerin 1993, pp. 546-547, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 .
- ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Parchim parish . Bremen / Rostock 2001, p. 172, ISBN 3-86108-795-2 .
- Burghard Keute: Sights of the Parchim-Lübz region in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . Parchim 1994 p. 35.
- Gustav Bergter: Weisin 2000 . Luebz 2000.
- Fred Ruchhöft: The development of the cultural landscape in the Plau-Goldberg area in the Middle Ages . In: Kersten Krüger, Stefan Kroll (Hrsg.): Rostock studies on regional history . Rostock 2001, pp. 124, 191, 246, 271, 313, ISBN 3-935319-17-7 .
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Printed sources
Unprinted sources
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State Main Archive Schwerin
- LHAS 3.2-3 / 2 Landeskloster Malchow Monastery estates, villages and farms No. 524.
- LHAS 5.12-4 / 3 Ministry of Agriculture, Domains and Forests, Dept. Settlement Office, No. 1575 Ritterschaftliches Landgut Weisin .
- LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court 1495–1806.
- State Church Archive Schwerin
- Specialia Section 1 Benthen, Passow, Weisin No. 500, No. 753 Weisin.
- Benthen parish archives, No. 08 Buildings and inventory, repairs to the Weisin chapel in 1948. 1953.
- Lancken Parish Archives, No. 07 Kirchhof zu Weisin 1941.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ MUB I. (1863) No. 436.
- ↑ MUB IV. (1867) No. 2693.
- ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 1225.
- ↑ MUB XV. (1890) No. 9119.
- ↑ LHAS 9.1-1 Reich Chamber Court case files No. 809.
- ^ Wolf Lüdeke von Weltzien: Families from Mecklenburg and Western Pomerania. Volume 1, Nagold 1989, p. 274.
- ^ Friedrich Schlie: The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. IV. Volume, 1901 p. 543.
- ^ Benthen parish archives, No. 25 Chapel to Weisin, buildings and inventory
Coordinates: 53 ° 29 ′ 56.2 " N , 12 ° 4 ′ 27.2" E