Jahn Chapel Small Thank You
The Jahn Chapel on the Klingenberg is a brick masonry grave chapel that the owner of the estate, Eduard Rudolph Jahn (1816–1890), had built in Klein Many near Neustrelitz in Mecklenburg in honor of his late wife and daughter from 1851. It is located in the former park of the non-preserved manor house.
architecture
The plans for the building are attributed to the architect Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel , who was a student of Karl Friedrich Schinkel and who planned, among other things, the castle church in Neustrelitz, the city church in Fürstenberg (Havel) and the restoration of the Neubrandenburg Marienkirche . The careful execution of the details of the chapel, such as the window tracery, is reminiscent of the neo-Gothic tower tower of the Neubrandenburg church. The unusual design as an octagonal neo-Gothic central building with a basilical structure is remarkable and typologically goes back to the octagonal shape of the grave church in early medieval architecture (such as the grave church Mettlach ). The sides are provided with trapezoidal cross vaults, while the central octagon is closed by an eight-sided cross vault. The windows on the sidelines were originally provided with tracery made of shaped stone , which was retained in the three-part clapboard windows . The building was also decorated with pinnacles on the buttresses and a central roof with a turret in the style of Gothic ridge turrets . The building is accessed through an ogival portal, which was also originally decorated with eyelashes and lateral pinnacles as well as a window decorated with tracery .
Environment and state of preservation
The building stands on the Klingenberg in the midst of a scenic area in the middle of the Mecklenburg Lake District. The Klingenberg is separated from the surrounding landscape by a stone wall. A spiral path leads up to the chapel. The park-like design on the Klingenberg is being gradually restored. The first restoration work was carried out in spring 2019.
After the manor house in Kleiniele had burned down in 1947, the chapel fell into disrepair as a result of prolonged neglect and vandalism. In cooperation with the support association Jahn-Kapelle Kleiniele, founded in 2009, and the local cultural association Kleinviel eV , the community of Kleiniele tries to preserve the building. The sponsors are the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the European Union, which is co-financing the project with LEADER and EAFRD funds, the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, the Ostdeutsche Sparkassenstiftung and the Sparkasse Mecklenburg-Strelitz. There are also numerous individual donations. A later use for tourist and cultural purposes is sought under the motto "A Belvedere between Lieps and Havel spring " . At the end of the first construction phase, the securing of the upper octagon, the restored top finial was placed on the restored roof turret in February 2018 . By the end of October 2018, the work of the second construction phase, which includes the zinc roof covering, securing the vaults and building up missing wall parts of the lower octagon, was largely completed. A "construction site report" documents the construction progress in detail.
literature
- Monuments . Magazine for monument culture in Germany . August 2016
- Hermann Behrens: The Jahn Chapel in Little Many. Stories about a gem in the Mecklenburg cultural landscape. With contributions by Jan von Busch, Jürgen Lenz and Christian Peters. Edition Bookmarks, Steffen Media Friedland. 94 pp. ISBN 978-3-941681-91-0
Web links
- Little Many eV - Life between Lieps and Havelquelle
- Förderverein Jahn-Kapelle Klein Danke eV
- German Foundation for Monument Protection
Individual evidence
- ↑ Finishing touches for the little grave chapel . Report on the renovation in NDR Nordmagazin on February 26, 2018.
- ↑ Construction site report of the Kulturverein Kleinviel eV. Accessed on July 29, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 26 '53.3 " N , 13 ° 1' 43.9" E