Holy Spirit Chapel (Jüterbog)
The Heilig-Geist-Kapelle was a religious building from the 12th century in Jüterbog , a small town in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg .
History and structure
The construction of the chapel goes back to Wichmann von Seeburg , who was Archbishop of Magdeburg from 1154 to 1192 . Around 1170 he built a brick building that was around 20 meters long, 8 meters wide and 27 meters high . The early Gothic building had a group of three windows on the east wall as well as a gable decorated with panels that was typical of the time .
The building initially served as a hospital chapel for the Heilig-Geist-Hospital adjacent to the city wall. Well-to-do citizens supported the hospital as well as the monastery, as they hoped that good deed would benefit their souls. During the Reformation , Pastor Thomas Schneidewein used the building for his sermon - long before the town church of St. Nikolai was built. Schneidewein disappeared without a trace after he offered his help in 1528 to the Danish princess Elisabeth , who was inclined to Protestantism , the wife of Elector Joachim I , while fleeing from her husband. The hospital was closed after the Reformation in 1687. In the following centuries the community used the building from 1562 to 1707 as a grain bulk floor and from 1838 as a cannon shed. The building burned down in 1873 and was demolished two years later. In 1883 the congregation planted a Luther oak on the now vacant site to commemorate the 400th birthday of Martin Luther . Since 1928 a boulder with a memorial plaque at the foot of the tree has been commemorating Pastor Schneidewein. During road construction work in the summer of 2001, workers discovered part of the surrounding hospital cemetery.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 59 ′ 23.9 " N , 13 ° 4 ′ 33.5" E