Langen Trechow chapel

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Langen Trechow chapel

The Langen Trechow chapel is a towerless half-timbered building in the Langen Trechow district of today's Bernitt municipality in the Rostock district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

Building history

Detailed view of the framework and the historical portal

The foundation of the chapel took place on April 13, 1329 by the Bützow Chapter, the confirmation by the Bishop Johann von Schwerin. The chapel was presumably built before the Thirty Years War as a half-timbered church under a hipped roof with a choir closed on three sides. It can be assumed that the medieval chapel was destroyed by the Thirty Years' War and its aftermath, which is why it was necessary to rebuild today's chapel around 1691. In addition, Langen Trechow changed in 1685 from the episcopal patronage to the knightly patronage of those of Plüskow . In the absence of building materials and construction workers, the reconstruction should be carried out at the lowest possible cost and in a short time. This resulted in the simple rectangular floor plan without a west tower and the half-timbered construction with clay infills. Beaver tail tiles were used for the roofing . In Langen Trechow, the exterior was artistically upgraded with a polygonal choir closure and the walling of the compartments, some with decorative ornaments. Even the initial space closure with a wooden barrel exceeds the usual standard of rural half-timbered churches. A painting of the barrel vault was not planned. The wide gaps between the roof trusses suggest that a pipe covering was initially in place. Langen Trechow remained in the possession of the von Plüskow families until 1841, after which government councilor Friedrich Albrecht von Oertzen was the owner, and from 1847 ownership and church patronage passed to the von Plessen families until 1945 .

After 1965 the chapel was still used as a mortuary. Around 1970, by installing two community rooms, one third of the historically vaulted wooden ceiling was removed and the remaining area covered. With this redesign, the furnishings such as the altar and pulpit from 1788 were removed.

In 1997 the roof received an emergency covering made of corrugated bitumen sheets. Due to the sagging of the surrounding walls as a result of the elevated terrain and the resulting rotten wooden sleeper, the half-timbered sleeper and stand at the chapel were renewed in 1999 .

Some of the work on the half-timbered walls was carried out improperly, without any support from the building and monument preservation authorities. The baroque frame windows were removed, replaced with new standard windows and the joints that were too strong with the stems were foamed. The notification of rejection of funding from the special roof and subject program was issued on July 16, 2003.

In 2006 the repair work on the chapel was essentially completed. This also included the roof structure with roof covering, the half-timbered structure with its infill and the barrel ceiling made of wooden boards. The interior was completely missing and was replaced in a modern style. The inauguration took place on the 1st of Advent 2006. Two side rooms of the chapel are used by the parish for parish work. The small chapel is surrounded by a cemetery.

Building description

According to Friedrich Schlie , the chapel was assessed as an inferior brick half-timbered building.

The small, unplastered half-timbered church has a rectangular floor plan with a choir closed on three sides. The end of the choir of the single-nave church hall is formed by three walls, which are arranged like a regular octagon . The outer walls are half-timbered and the ornate brick infills are made in herringbone and staggered patterns . The original portal can still be clearly seen within the framework construction on the south side of the chapel. Today's modern west portal was faded in on the west facade. On the west side of the towerless chapel there is a small bell dome with a cross. The double collar beam roof is formed as a hipped roof , in the east it is even hipped on three sides, and covered with plain tile roofing .

Inside, the building opens up after a narrow hallway to a simple hall church, which is vaulted by a wooden barrel. The truss construction is smoothly plastered inside.

The choir area with the altar is raised by two steps.

Furnishing

The altar and pulpit are from 1788. They were lost in 1956.

The coats of arms and names of the patronage families are inset into the three stained glass windows of the choir:

  • in the left and right the von Plüskow , beginning with Hans Albrecht von Plüskow, who after the Thirty Years War rebuilt Gut Trechow from 1659 and in 1663 received the patronage for the piece of land on which the chapel stands
  • in the middle that of von Plessen , starting with Anna von Plessen, née. von Carnap, who bought the Trechower estates in 1847, and ending with Hennecke von Plessen and his daughter Maria Therese (1925–2014), who had the windows restored and completed in 2000–01.

  • Leaded glass window

  • Historic entrance

  • inner space

  • organ

In 2007 a small organ was moved from the Güstrow parish church to Langen Trechow, which was built in 1982 by the organ building company Nussbücker in Plau .

Literature and Sources

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume IV: The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow, Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin 1901, reprint 1993, ISBN 3-910179-08-8 , pp. 75-77. online at archive.org
  • ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Güstrow parish. 1997, p. 131.
  • Dörte Blum: Langen Trechow, village church. In: Churches in Mecklenburg . 2013, pp. 111–112.

Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Main Archive Schwerin
    • 5.12-3 / 1 Mecklenburg-Schwerin Ministry of the Interior. Short and Long Trechow 1922–1930.
  • State Church Archive Schwerin
    • OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 1. Nr. 102, relationship of the Bützow preachers to the parish villages Kurzen and Langen Trechow. 1808.
    • OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 3. No. 403, Langen Trechow, 002 Awarding of the capital of the Langen Trechow Chapel 1822–1931. 003 The chapel and the churchyard at Langen Trechow 1793, 1846–1953. 004 churchyard and chapel 1959–1992.
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
    • State monument preservation, archive. No. 2017, Langen Trechow, Church 1964–2006.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MUB IX. (1875) No. 5046.
  2. ^ Bettina Gnekow: Objective of monument preservation. Schwerin February 26, 1998.
  3. ^ Franz Schildt: The Diocese of Schwerin in the Protestant era. MJB 47 (1882) p. 216.
  4. ↑ Minutes of the site inspection on March 2, 2000 by the State Office for Monument Preservation and the construction department of OKR Schwerin.
  5. ↑ Rejection letter from Kapelle Langen Trechow, Az. DF 03 / 15-13 from July 16, 2003 from the State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
  6. ↑ Inspection protocol of the State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation MV to the Langen Trechow chapel from August 16, 2006.
  7. ↑ Friedrich Schlie: The chapel at Langen Trechow. 1901, pp. 75-77.
  8. ↑ a b http://www.gut-trechow.de/index-20922.html
  9. ↑ a b Nadine Schuldt: Wedding in Langen Trechower Gem. In: svz.de from September 7, 2000 (accessed on August 24, 2015)

Web links

Commons : Kapelle Langen Trechow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 53 ° 52 ′ 55.8 "  N , 11 ° 56 ′ 30"  E