Steinfurth burial chapel
The grave chapel in Steinfurth, a district of the Karlsburg community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district , is the former family burial place of the von Bismarck-Bohlen family. The building is used by the Zarnekow parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District for church services and by the Steinfurters for cultural events.
history
Theodor Alexander von Bismarck-Bohlen had the chapel built for his late wife Caroline von Bohlen in 1858. She died in Venice of a lung disease and was initially buried there. However, her younger son Carl made sure that she was returned to her homeland. The design for the building came from Friedrich August Stüler . On this basis, the Gützkow master builder Weidner built the burial chapel from the spring of 1858. Caroline was reburied on her birthday, July 24, 1859. After Theodor's death in 1873, a carpenter made a coffin made from the same oak logs that were used for Caroline's coffin. Theodor had previously also ordered that Eugen von Falkenhayn and other people, including servants, should be buried on the site. Behind the chapel there is therefore the burial ground of the von Bismarck-Bohlen family, as well as that of the servants, somewhat set apart. Here, for example, the family cook, Julius Worpitzky (1808-1892) and his wife Sophie (1823-1906), who served the family for 72 years as a maid and in other functions, rests. Between 1910 and 1914, craftsmen exchanged a total of nine windows. They show pictures of the confirmations and weddings from 1901 to 1914, including that of Fritz Ulrich von Bismarck-Bohlen from August 1914.
The chapel bears some resemblance to the Lepel grave chapel in Gützkow-Wieck. Until the expropriation in 1945, it served as the family grave of the Counts of Bismarck-Bohlen. In contrast to many mausoleums in the area, the coffins of the von Bismarck-Bohlen family have been preserved in the basement.
Architecture and equipment
The chapel was built as a neo-Gothic brick building made of yellow bricks. On the north and south sides of the building, between two stepped buttresses, there is a pointed arch-shaped window, the sides of which are framed with brick. The same form was also used in the retracted choir with a five-eighth ending. The crypt is optically separated from the building by a surrounding cornice . Access is via a staircase on the west side that leads to an ogival portal that is visually extended upwards by an isosceles triangle placed on top of it with bricks. There is a round window above the portal. The coat of arms stone attached above shows the combined coat of arms of the Counts of Bismarck-Bohlen. Above this, a bell in a rider with a cross closes the building.
The interior of the chapel was designed as a groin vault. The ridges are partly on consoles and partly on half-columns. In the center is a located altar of marble with a crucifix on the walls crosses that remember the fallen of the world wars. On the north side of the polygonal choir is the entrance to the crypt , the central aisle of which also has groin vaults, while the side chapels have barrel vaults. The choir windows date from 1910. A plaque hangs in the choir, on which Theodor's bond with his wife was described.
The Steinfurth church ruins are located next to the grave chapel .
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschel Verlag, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-89487-222-5 , page 349.
- Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern , Edition Temmen, Bremen, 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3
Individual evidence
- ↑ Evangelical Church Community Züssow-Zarnekow-Ranzin , accessed on August 17, 2016
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Coordinates: 53 ° 58 ′ 20.6 ″ N , 13 ° 39 ′ 3.8 ″ E