Weitendorf Chapel

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Weitendorf Chapel, 2008

The Weitendorf chapel belonged to the community of Gägelow for several centuries . Today Weitendorf belongs to the Evangelical Lutheran parish Proseken - Hohenkirchen in the Wismar provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

As Woytentorp, Weitendorf had a chapel attached to this hospital next to the infirmary for lepers and belonged to the Proseken parish.

The chapel was consecrated to Saint George , the patron saint of infirmaries, and as a foundation goes back to an ancestor of the Lords of Negendanck . It is listed in the Ratzeburg tithe register in 1230 .

There is no foundation letter , but around 1395 many people have immortalized themselves as benefactors of the monastery and the chapel. Johann Flemming was named as the oldest colonist of Weitendorf, who belonged to the Ratzeburg diocese and, with Proseken, to the Rehna archdeaconate . Later those of Manteuffel , von Plessen and von Fersen were named alongside those of Negendanck with property and rights in Weitendorf. In the middle of the 14th century, the Negendancks on Zierow and Eggerstorf also had the hereditary patronage of the chapel and the infirmary in Weitendorf and could have the sacra obtained there from whom they wanted. The chapel and the infirmary were de jure not part of Proseken, but the Negendancks had both of them taken care of by the priests of Proseken. In 1666, the Negendancks were also called the patrons of the poor house in Weitendorf. But as early as 1764 the property passed to Hartwig Gotthard Hans von Both , who married the Negendanck's heir. In 1766 Hofrat Jacob Poel became legal successor and from 1775 his son-in-law, the secret legation councilor and businessman Adrian Wilhelm Pauli and his wife Magdalena Pauli took over the property in Weitendorf.

From 1784 the large estates passed to the von Biel family , who then managed it until the end of the Second World War . Then they left Germany and went to the USA. In 1848 a new infirmary was built directly next to the chapel.

After 1945 the structure was seriously damaged. When the furnishings were also demolished, the small chapel was profaned and became the legal entity of the community. This used the building as a storage room for equipment, small items and even as a fertilizer store. In 1961 and 1962, the Oberkirchenrat of the Mecklenburg Church and the Schwerin Institute for the Preservation of Monuments asked the community of Weitendorf several times to keep the chapel there, because it looked very neglected and the damaged areas on the roof were considerable. Church authorities will certainly be able to provide help for the procurement of missing roof tiles. They also asked for the glazing of the two-part pointed arch windows, which had been unglazed for years, in order to stop the externally visible moral decay of a building (this term is used to characterize the behavior of people towards structurally neglected buildings). It was not until April 1963 that the windows were glazed and the Institute for Monument Preservation even paid the bill from the Wismar company Wilhelm Beutel for 40 panes of 50 × 50 cm raw glass including glass transport and a trip to Weitendorf to glaze the windows there.

Weitendorfer pulpit in Steffenshagen, 2012

In 1962 the remaining parts of the pulpit altar from 1731 were salvaged by the restoration workshop of the Institute for Monument Preservation and placed in the village church of Steffenshagen in 1966 . In 1976 the chapel was placed under monument protection. It was not until ten years later that the upper church council in Schwerin informed the council of the Wismar district to salvage the remains of the organ and to move it with the gallery parapet in the village church of Bellin .

With the monument preservation objective of March 17, 1987, a social use of the chapel was approved. One thought of a farmhouse parlor for the village.

After the fall of the Wall , the Wismar-Land district administration began to secure and renovate the chapel in 1991. In 1991 and 1992 the roof structure was repaired, the roof in the choir area was covered with old monk-nun tiles, on the southern roof surface with old nun tiles and new monk tiles and on the northern roof surface with new monk-nun tiles throughout. The brick base was renewed with new mismatched bricks. The floor was laid with old square and polygonal brick slabs.

From 1992 the Kunstverein Kapelle Weitendorf has used the building for exhibitions and concerts.

Building description

Weitendorf chapel south facade with alliance coat of arms, 2008

The chapel is a small, two-bay Gothic brick building with a polygonal end of town. The externally visible buttresses suggest a planned vault.

Exterior

The chapel had no tower and no extensions. There are two-part pointed arch windows between the buttresses of the north and south walls and the choir. The roof is covered with monk tiles. Above the entrance, five coat of arms reliefs made of sandstone from the former patron family von Negendanck from the 17th and 18th centuries were walled up in the south wall . The alliance coats of arms belong to Ulrich Negendanck and Elisabeth von Walsleben from 1623, to Paschen Negedanck and Ilsche Reventlov from 1625 to Ulrich Negendanck and Agnes Dorothea von Behr and Hans Albrecht Negendanck.

Interior

The simple single-nave room is spanned with a flat wooden beam ceiling. The furnishings included the pulpit altar , donated by Barthold Dietrich Negendanck in 1731 and designed in the Baroque style . Names and coats of arms were attached to the altar cabinets. The wooden pulpit is said to come from the former Dominican church of the Black Monastery in Wismar . In 1733, Negendanck also donated the altar in the church in Proseken. A baptismal angel hung from the ceiling in front of the altar .

In the west gallery stood a small organ, probably from the 17th century. Heavily damaged after 1945, it would take another 20 years until the remains with the housing and the gallery parapet were moved to the village church in Bellin . The decor, the remains of color still detectable through overpainting, and judging by the recorded dispositions of the organ, it should date from the 17th century. In Bellin, the remains of the organ were stored in the shed next to the rectory, with other parts being lost. Remnants of the organ case came to the organ museum in Malchow in 1999 , where they can be seen in a permanent exhibition and the pipes can be heard.

A small bell with no inscription hung on the roof . It is said to have been the Graumönchen bell that was bought by the Proseken Church in 1819.

The interior was unadorned. Only the alliance coats of arms of the Negendanck-Bülow family and the von Biel family hung on the walls. There was also a picture of Saint George, the patron saint of infirmaries, renewed in 1627 and 1860.

The small works of art belonging to the chapel were kept in the village church in Proseken. Below were two silver goblets with the Negendanck's coat of arms and the inscription: DEISE x KELCH x GEHORET x IN x DAS x HOSPITAL x THO x WEITENDORF. Nothing is known about their whereabouts.

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. Volume II, the district court districts of Wismar, Grevesmühlen, Rehna, Gadebusch and Schwerin. Schwerin 1898, (reprint 1992), ISBN 3-910179-06-1 , pp. 331-332, 689-690.
  • ZEBI eV, START eV: Village and town churches in the Wismar-Schwerin parish. Bremen, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-86108-753-7 , p. 267.
  • Horst Ende , Christian Moltzen, Horst Stutz: Churches in Northwest Mecklenburg. Grevesmühlen 2005, p. 100.

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • Wismar City Archives
    • Trial files of the Tribunal 1653–1803, No. 140.
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.
    • Dept. of State Monument Preservation, Archive, Chapel Files, Weitendorf 1961–1993.

Web links

Commons : Kapelle Weitendorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Friedrich Lisch : The tip in the shield of noble families. MJB (1873) No. 38 p. 221.
  2. ^ MUB I. (1863) No. 375. Register of tithes awarded by the Ratzeburg bishops .
  3. ↑ Wismar City Archives, Trial Files 1665 No. 140.
  4. ↑ Friedrich Schlie. The church village Weitendorf 1898 p. 332.
  5. ^ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg, Oberkirchenrat Schwerin. December 14, 1961, January 18, 1962, Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin. February 7, 1962 to May 15, 1962.
  6. ^ Institute for Monument Preservation Schwerin on February 7, 1962 to the council of Weitendorf for the preservation of the former chapel.
  7. ^ Note on the Steffenshagen Church Building Conference on May 5, 1966, Point 1.55.
  8. ^ OKR Schwerin, July 7, 1986.
  9. ↑ Cornelia Blandetti. Art soon lines the way to the chapel. SVZ September 15, 1993.
  10. ↑ The epitaph donated by his widow in 1623 hangs in the village church at Proseken
  11. ↑ Paschen Negendanck donated the pulpit from 1656 in the village church in Proseken, there is also his epitaph and his tombstone.
  12. ↑ Ulrich Negendanck's tombstone is in the village church in Proseken. In addition the inscription on the altar with his name and alliance coat of arms from 1669.
  13. ↑ In 1648 Hans Albrecht Negendacnk donated a large, silver-gilt late Gothic chalice on a hexagonal base to the village church in Proseken.
  14. ^ Friedrich Schlie: Das Kirchdorf Weitendorf 1898 p. 332.
  15. ^ Information from July 7, 1966 by the Oberkirchenrat of the Mecklenburg Regional Church in Schwerin to the council of the Wismar and Güstrow district and the Schwerin Institute for Monument Preservation.
  16. ^ Information on July 8, 2015 from Friedrich Drese, organ expert and director of the Mecklenburg Organ Museum in Malchow.
  17. ↑ Barthold Dietrich Negendanck was first married to Catharina Elisabeth von Bülow .

Coordinates: 53 ° 53 '50.2 "  N , 11 ° 21' 1.7"  E