Zweedorf chapel

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Chapel in July 2012

The chapel in Zweedorf in the Schwanheide community in the Ludwigslust-Parchim district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a sacred building that was erected in 2009 and inaugurated on September 4, 2011. It is located in the Parchim provost in the Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ( Northern Church ). The previous church was demolished in 1978 because the GDR regime feared that the building could be used as a hiding place by potential refugees due to the location's proximity to the inner-German border .

history

Zweedorf was first mentioned in a document as Twedorp in 1252 . The parish village of Zweedorf was one of the 21 monastery villages that were owned by the Zarrentin monastery in the 13th century . The Zweedorfer Church was first mentioned around 1335. Until 1555, the church patronage belonged to the Zarrentin monastery. Only after the dissolution of the monastery did the church belonging to the Ratzeburg diocese come under sovereign patronage, with an interruption at the beginning of the 18th century when this was replaced by the widowed Dorothea Margarethe von Graevenitz, née. by Wendessen. She was the second wife of the Privy Council and Chamber President Friedrich von Graevenitz on Waschow , Dodow and Schwanheide . According to the visitation protocol of 1701, she was the patroness of the church in Zweedorf. After her death, the patronage returned to the duke. The church was dedicated to Saint George .

After the parish had its own clergyman over the centuries, the church in Zweedorf and Nostorf was looked after by Pastor Schliemann zu Gresse from 1785 to 1803 . From 1813 to 1827 Zweedorf was merged with Granzin and then again with Gresse until 1899. From 1910 on, Zweedorf had an independent parish again. Unoccupied since 1953 and managed by Boizenburg.

During the GDR era, the church was located in the so-called protected area of ​​the 500-meter zone, which was only allowed to be entered by local residents with special permission.

Pastors

Names and years indicate the verifiable mention as pastor.

  • 1521 Chaplain Johann Noale.
  • 1531 Kirchherr Paulus Pule.
  • 1541 Bernhard Petri, is a fairly Christian learned preacher.
  • 1568 Magnus Beneke, then Heinrich Rosenhagen.
  • 1578 Wilhelm Krusebeke from Westphalia, was in 1592 because of his inefficiency of Justice, at the ducal command horrified . Since he did not want to give way in kindness, he was taken to the street by the Wedeme , but he began with his successor, Handel, by revolting against him with all sacrilege. He had a lot more to do with, he took one in the village of Wosmer and therefore spent three years in Domitz.
  • 1592 Anton Ulrich
  • 1593 Johannes Wacker, probably from Dömitz , had a good report card.
  • 1618–1636 Jakob Betke from Buckow, was hardworking and poorly delivered sermons.
  • 1643–1647 Johann Ludwig Susemihl from Schwaan.
  • 1648–1694 Adam Bernhard Strack (* Münden near Korbach 1620 † Zweedorf November 6, 1694)
  • 1696–1714 Michael Albrecht Reuter from Wittenburg.
  • 1715–1745 Johann Gerhardt
  • 1745–1784 Johann Albrecht Susemihl from Neukirchen.
  • 1781–1784 assistant preacher Christian Belitz
  • 1785–1803 Johann David Schliemann from Gresse.
  • 1804–1813 Carl Johann Heinrich Römhild
  • 1899–1900 Gerhard Tolzien from Schwerin Cathedral. He successfully re-established the community's independence and wrote an extremely valuable chronicle of the parish from 1252 to 1900.
  • 1900–1901 August Wilhelm Hunzinger.
  • 1901–1907 Johannes Press from Rehna.
  • 1907–1909 Albert Bruhns from Vietlübbe.
  • 1909–1910 Martin Stark
  • 1910–1929 Friedrich Wilhelm Hoyer
  • 1929–1932 Fritz Beckmann
  • December 9, 1932-14. 09. 1950 Otto Bruges
  • December 15, 1950-14. 04. 1952 Heinz Ruder
  • vacant since 1953 and managed by Boizenburg

Predecessor churches

The first verifiable church was in a sad state in 1728. Their tower had collapsed, the roof rotted and dilapidated, so that the pulpit, altar and congregation did not have to be trucked in rainy weather after they had been completely ruined. In 1734 it threatened to collapse every day. But it wasn't until 1758 that the new building began.

The small half-timbered church then rebuilt from 1758 to 1760 had a hipped roof. In the west gable with its brick wall cover protruding from the roof stood a lattice tower with a pyramid helmet , wooden shingles, ball and weather valve . The corners of the west pediment and the side walls were reinforced with stepped buttresses. On the east gable was a half-timbered sacristy with a gable roof .

The interior decoration included a particularly valuable late Gothic carved altar with a gray and white painted triptych with images of Saint George, Saint Mary with the child, Saint John and four saints in each of the wings. The predella was painted with half-figures, in the middle Christ as Man of Sorrows, next to him the four Latin Fathers of the Church, right: St. Jerome and St. Ambrosius, left: St. Gregorius and St. Augustine. The shrine was crowned with a wooden crucifix . The renaissance style pulpit was of no significance in terms of art history.

Two silver-gilded goblets (one with Hamburg city stamp; one with Lüneburg city sign and the year 1765), two wafer boxes (one elongated, Lüneburg work from 1763; one round, Lübische work) were also among the small works of art, as was a silver-plated wine jug and five brass candlesticks the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century.

In the bell cage of the chapel in Schwanheide is the former Zweedorfer bell from 1651

The church had two bells, one from 1651, the second from 1894. The latter, however, was a casting of an older, broken bell. One of the two bells had to be handed in to be melted down before the end of World War II. Although it was no longer melted down, it did not come back either, as it was probably sunk with other specimens in Hamburg after the end of the war.

Demolition of the church

The half-timbered church near the inner-German border , in the so-called restricted area of ​​the 500-meter zone, was in poor structural condition from 1970. On December 13, 1972, the Oberkirchenrat (OKR) Schwerin informed the Kirchgemeinderat (KGR) Zweedorf that the church was endangered by real dry rot due to considerable damage in the framework and that it must be blocked for further use. It is no longer possible to preserve the Church as a whole or parts of it. The altarpiece and other valuable items of inventory are to be placed safely in the rectory. On June 26, 1974, the parish of Zweedorf informed that the church, which had been closed due to dilapidation, was in ruins. On April 18, 1978, Provost Divorce from Boizenburg, the building commissioner and a representative from the council of the Hagenow district met and agreed on the demolition of the ruin "for reasons of order and beautification of the district after work". On May 11, 1978, the State Office for the Preservation of Monuments wrote that it does not object to the demolition, provided that the valuable furnishings such as the altarpiece, pulpit, baptismal font and bell are secured. The church was "already disregarded when compiling the monuments for the district monument list because of its poor structural condition and relatively low architectural historical value." In May 1978, the council of the Schwanheide community and the council of Hagenow sent the request to the senior church council in Schwerin to demolish the church, now referred to as church ruin. On July 24, 1978, the OKR in Schwerin gave the council of the Hagenow district its approval for the demolition of the church ruins in Zweedorf and agreed to cover the demolition costs up to a maximum of 2,000 marks. It was also seen as a problem on site that none of the KGR members with voting rights were allowed to look at the church ruins because they were in the restricted area of ​​the 500 meter zone. In Zweedorf the parishioners suspected that the then council of the Hagenow district and the border security organs wanted the church away for these reasons. Since the GDR leadership feared that the building could serve as a hiding place for refugees before they crossed the border, it was demolished on November 18 and 19, 1978 and the rubble was pushed into the village pond. On October 3, 1979, the OKR Schwerin issued information about the demolition of the former village church in Zweedorf, district of Hagenow, also to his construction department in Dabel and to Pastor Havemann in Zahrensdorf: “The Oberkirchenrat informs you that the village church in Zweedorf is in the meantime aborted ... ".

The windows that can be seen today in the cemetery chapel in Boizenburg / Elbe , the pipes of the Friese organ, whose whereabouts are unknown, as well as the altar and baptismal font, which were sold to the Johanniter Church in Sülstorf , were saved . A parishioner also saved two chandeliers, a coffin set consisting of two lights and a cross, a sacrament set and a baptismal font with a baptismal bowl. The bell from 1651 was stored and is used today in the belfry of the Schwanheider Chapel, which was built in 1991.

The old churchyard wall made of field stones should not be demolished, as it was a listed building.

Rectory

Parish in Zweedorf around 1900

A rectory is said to have stood in Zweedorf as early as 1588. In 1590 the house was already leaking in many places , so that in 1619 a new rectory was built. It burned down during the Thirty Years War in 1636 and was still in ruins in 1647 . The new pastor Adam Bernhard Stark was therefore assigned an old farmer's cottage to the apartment. Under Pastor Michael Albrecht Reuter, the parsonage, which had been built in the meantime, was already in such a state that it was not without risk to live in it. In 1715 this parsonage burned down because it was set on fire by bad boys ... This time the new building should go faster. The estimate was 230 Thaler and the wood had already been used in 1715. Pastor Johann Gerhard, however, was supposed to make an advance, protested against it from the pulpit and with success at the government. But the construction was not carried out for almost 18 years. The rectory built in 1733 is said to have stood still in 1880. In 1734 a preacher's widow's house was built on the original parish homestead.

The rectory, built in 1888 and enlarged in 1911 by an extension, was demolished in 1982 on the instructions of the Hagenow district council. The then Pastor Scharnweber from Boizenburg filed a criminal complaint for theft with the People's Police in Boizenburg and was then detained for hours. Some residents were allowed to fetch usable building material from the demolition for their own purposes, the rest was loaded and driven away by a demolition brigade of the People's Army.

New chapel building

Chapel under construction in February 2010

Efforts to build a chapel have existed since 1992. The initiative came from master mason Wolfhard Meinck, the son of the former sexton in Zweedorf and who died in 2010, before the chapel was inaugurated. He designed a building draft and did some persuasion. Construction began on their own initiative in 2002, but was stopped by the church administration. In 2005 the church building association Zweedorf e. V., who set himself the goal of building and maintaining a chapel. A wooden bell tower was built by members in the summer of 2007 and financed by donations. The two bells were donated by the Hamburg parish of St. Gertrud . The foundation stone for the new chapel was laid on June 6, 2009. On August 2, 2009 the first service took place in the shell. The topping-out ceremony was celebrated on August 23 of the same year.

The chapel is a single-storey building with a three-sided east end. In addition to the chapel hall, there is a multi-purpose room and sanitary facilities. A staircase leads from the hall to the organ loft under the roof. A shelter was planned on the west wall, but contrary to the original plans, a massive bell tower with a wood-clad top and a pyramid roof was built there. The bells moved from the wooden to the massive bell tower in July 2011.

The interior decoration includes an organ from the organ building company Arnold from Plau am See. In the organ gallery, visible from the chapel room, there are five paintings by Barbara Jentz-Koska. A single tree from the village, the former rectory, the old church, the parish barn and the war memorial are shown. The church windows were designed by Thomas Kuzio from Sommersdorf and financed by the regional church.

Regional bishop Andreas von Maltzahn carried out the inauguration on September 4th, 2011.

See also

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Printed sources

Unprinted sources

  • State Church Archives Schwerin (LKAS)
    • LKAS, parish registers and parish register, Zweedorf, 1704–1903.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Generalia (old), Bausachen 1920–1927.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, Specialia Abt. 1. Nr. 36, 38, 86–89 Boizenburg, regulation of the conditions of the farmers living on the parish land in Zweedorf 1776–1949.
    • OKR Schwerin, Specialia Dept. 4. No. 1–33, Zweedorf, inspection, administration, church lawyers, parish council, appointment of preachers, organists, sextons 1745–2001. No. 34 Buildings and repairs to the church and religious buildings 1771–1818. No. 38 organ, also vasasacra 1871–1952. No. 39 bells 1894. No. 43 Kirchhof 1857–2001.
    • LKAS, OKR Schwerin, community reports 1898–1968.
    • Parish archives Zweedorf with Nostorf and Schwanheide 1795–2002. No. 4c Nordlauenburgische Chronik Kirche Zweedorf The church moved into the village pond and the rectory stolen outright ... No. 35 Parish handover protocol Zweedorf 1978. No. 36 Theft of organ pipes in Zweedorf 1978.
    • Parish archive Zeedorf, buildings and inventory, No. 26 Handing over of lights 1978, No. 28 Demolition of the church in Zweedorf 1978.
  • State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Department State Monument Preservation (LAKD)
    • Zweedorf church

literature

  • Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. III. Tape. In: The district court districts of Hagenow, Wittenburg, Boizenburg, Lübenheen, Dömitz, Grabow, Ludwigslust, Neustadt, Crivitz, Brüel, Warin, Neubukow. Kröpelin and Doberan. Schwerin 1899 (reprint 1993), ISBN 3-910179-14-2 , pp. 129-131.
  • Dörte Bluhm: Churches in Mecklenburg. Rostock 2013, pp. 249-250.

Web links

Commons : Chapel Zweedorf  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Zweedorf has its dignity again. Mecklenburgische & Pommersche Kirchenzeitung , 32/2011
  2. ↑ MUB II. (1864) No. 704.
  3. ↑ MUB VIII. (1873) No. 5613 ( The church tax of 1335 )
  4. ↑ a b c Kirchenbauverein Zweedorf - History ( Memento from October 22, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village of Zweedorf. 1899 pp. 129-130.
  6. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume 2, Wismar 1925, pp. 775-779
  7. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village of Zweedorf. 1899 p. 130.
  8. ^ A b Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume 2, Wismar 1925, pp. 775-779.
  9. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Addendum 1933, Wismar 1933, p. 136.
  10. ^ Gustav Willgeroth: The Mecklenburg-Schwerin parishes since the Thirty Years' War. Volume 2. Wismar 1925, p. 778.
  11. ^ Horst Ende : Churches in Schwerin and the surrounding area , Berlin 1989, p. 190. ISBN 3-374-00840-2
  12. ^ Friedrich Schlie: The church village of Zweedorf. 1899 pp. 129-131
  13. ↑ a b c page no longer available , search in web archives: Small church as a big wish - Zweedorfer Verein wants to give the village back its place of reflection , article in the Schweriner Volkszeitung on kirche-mv.de, February 24, 2007@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.kirche-mv.de
  14. ↑ North Elbe Chronicle. Volume 11, November 1992, episode 48.
  15. ↑ a b Schweriner Volkszeitung : Congregation is building a church, local section Hagenow, August 4, 2009
  16. ↑ kirchensprengung.de with evidence of further church demolitions and demolitions
  17. ↑ North Elbe Chronicle, 11th year, November 1992, episode 48.
  18. ↑ Schweriner Volkszeitung: Bells rang in Zweedorf, local section Hagenow, August 25, 2009
  19. ↑ Risen from the ruins in Chrismon 06.2012, pages 44-48

Coordinates: 53 ° 25 ′ 52.2 ″  N , 10 ° 37 ′ 49.2 ″  E