Ludwigsburg Chapel
The Ludwigsburg Chapel is a listed church building in the Ludwigsburg district of the Loissin community in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the parish Kemnitz the provost Demmin in the parish of Pomerania of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
Already in the middle altar there was a chapel in the place called Darsim at the time, which was dedicated to St. Nicholas and belonged to the Eldena monastery . In the course of the Reformation in the Duchy of Pomerania , the chapel came to the Kemnitzer parish . In connection with the construction of Ludwigsburg Palace by Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern-Wolgast as a widow's seat for his wife Sophie Hedwig von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel , she had the chapel renewed, which from then on functioned as the palace chapel. After the Duchess's death (1631), Gut Ludwigsburg changed hands several times over the next few decades and the chapel fell into disrepair. In 1708, during the time of the Swedish occupation of Western Pomerania , the then landlord, governor Jacob Heinrich Müller von der Lühne, initiated the reconstruction in the form of a half-timbered building. He also donated the only bell of what was once a three-part bell that is still in existence today, which was cast in Stettin in 1709 .
The von Klinckowström noble family is one of the special people with regard to the chapel . The lieutenant colonel in the Swedish service Friedrich Ernst Sebastian von Klinkowström (1735-1821) acquired the castle and chapel in 1776, and remained the owner for 35 years. In 1798 he donated the wrought-iron clock tower that is still in existence today. His sons Friedrich August von Klinkowström (1778–1835) and Karl von Klinckowstroem (1783–1865) were both born in Ludwigsburg and baptized in the palace chapel. Friedrich August v. After his military service, K. embarked on a career as an artist. The oil painting The Adoration by the Three Kings in the Ludwigsburg Palace Chapel is attributed to August von Klinkowström. He mainly dealt with copies of old masters such as Raphael , Rubens and Titian . His copy of the painting Nativity by Correggio is located as an altarpiece in Greifswald's St. Mary's Church . Friedrich August is considered one of the most important representatives of the Viennese Romantics. His brother Karl v. K. embarked on a military career in which he made it to the position of Prussian lieutenant general and received several awards.
In 1866/67 the building was fundamentally renovated, with the framework and interior plastered and the stalls replaced. Renovations and repairs took place several times in the 20th century, for example in 2014 and 2015 when the half-timbered structure was exposed and refurbished. At the same time the roof structure was repaired. In 2016 the church was re-plastered and the tower roof was given new shingles. At the beginning of December 2016, a new spire with a weather vane was put on.
Buildings and equipment
The chapel is a simple half-timbered building, now plastered, on a rectangular floor plan. There are three pointed arch windows on the long sides and two on the east gable . There are four small windows and the portal on the west gable. The roof tower has an eight-sided pointed helmet covered with shingles. On the south side is the clock face of the tower clock with a diameter of 120 cm, which was made in Nossen in 1797 . This is a special feature as it has only one hour mechanism and therefore only one hour hand. This has a length of 68 cm.
The interior is neo-Gothic , the ceiling is designed as a wooden barrel. The baroque and richly decorated pulpit altar from 1710 was possibly created by Elias Keßler . This is indicated by the sculptures and the acanthus , which are of a special quality. The pulpit and altar form a symbiosis that achieves “equal rights for both parts of the liturgy ”. The altar rail from the 17th century has a bar grate between fluted pilasters with rod bar. The baptismal font, the church stalls and the organ gallery date from 1865. The organ , designed in neo-Gothic forms, was acquired in 1867 for 700 thalers from the Szczecin workshop Barnim Grüneberg . In 1967 the Sauer company from Frankfurt (Oder) carried out a tonal redesign. The ringing consists of a bell donated by Jacob Heinrich Müller von der Lühne in 1709.
In the cemetery there is a neo-Gothic brick mausoleum , to the west of which is the burial place of the former Weissenborn family. The cemetery portal, which dates from the 18th century, has one large and two smaller arched openings . A half-timbered cemetery wall erected at the same time no longer exists.
literature
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 332-333.
Web links
- Literature about the Ludwigsburg Chapel in the State Bibliography MV
- Description at www.dorfkirchen-in-mv.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ev. Parishes of Kemnitz and Hanshagen. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
- ↑ Ostseezeitung from December 3, 2016
- ↑ Flyer: "The clock tower of the palace chapel in Ludwigsburg / Western Pomerania"
- ↑ Flyer: “The village churches of Kemnitz and Ludwigsburg from a baroque perspective”.
Coordinates: 54 ° 6 ′ 23.6 " N , 13 ° 30 ′ 28.3" E