Putzar Church

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Putzar Church
South side
Entrance portal

The Putzar Church is a church building from the 16th century in the Putzar district of the Boldekow municipality in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . It belongs to the Boldekow-Wusseken parish in the Pasewalk provost of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .

history

The church was built in 1560 under Ulrich von Schwerin , who also had the older of the two buildings of the neighboring Putzar Castle built. On July 17, 1636, the church and other buildings in the village burned down. The fire was caused by a farmhand with a key box. The church was not rebuilt until 1653.

Dettlof von Schwerin had the church rebuilt and refurbished in 1705 for 2000 thalers. It received its tower and most of the interior furnishings that have survived to the present day. In 1721 the master hunter Hans Bogislav von Schwerin had the organ loft, the patron's box and the stalls built in.

The Putzar parish was independent until 1739, when the pastor moved to a new parsonage in Boldekow. Putzar was declared a subsidiary of Boldekow, with her rights as the mother church . The church patronage was with the von Putzar estate owners, the von Schwerin family, until 1945 .

After restoration work between 1956 and 1963, the church was extensively repaired between 1993 and 2000. The financing was realized by the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the Pomeranian Evangelical Church , the State of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and the parish of Putzar.

Sanctuary
Pulpit altar
Patronage Lodge

building

The hall church was built from field stone on a rectangular floor plan with a length of 24 meters and a width of 13 meters . The walls are 1.4 m thick. The round-arched west portal has a profiled warrior cornice . The portal in the southern long side with a walled-up gate is constructed in the same way. The two long sides are three, in the east wall two broad round-arched window cleaning window surrounds . There are two arched hatches in the western roof gable, each of which has a diamond-shaped cutout as a symbol of the von Schwerin family. The roof is designed as a hipped roof to the east .

The rectangular western roof tower was built from brick in 1705 and matched to the building with plaster. On each of the four sides there are two narrow arched sound openings with cleaning flasks. With the exception of the one on the east side, another, much smaller one is arranged under each sound opening. The slim octagonal tower spire is covered with shingles.

Trumpet angel and putti
Two of the four Moors under the organ gallery

Furnishing

  • The church has a wooden beam ceiling with figurative and ornamental painting in the Baroque style from the 17th century. Angels hold banners with the Te Deum . The paintwork was restored from 1994 to 2000.
  • The large pulpit altar is a Renaissance work and dates from the 17th century. The pulpit is decorated with rich carvings and oil paintings with depictions of the Passion . At the foot of the pulpit is the coat of arms of the von Schwerin family. The sound cover is also richly decorated . On the wall behind the altar there is a painted baroque drapery held by angels , which was heavily renewed during the renovation in 1960.
  • The unusually large altar table is made of brick. A niche cuts through it along its entire length.
  • The baroque altar frames date from the 18th century. The oil paintings in the cupboards depict the prophets Moses , Aaron and Isaiah on the left , the evangelists Matthew , Mark , Luke and John in the middle and the prophets Jeremiah , Ezekiel and David on the right .
  • The patronage box to the right of the altar with baroque carvings and the pews were installed in 1721. The angel figures were later removed from the parapets and used as carriers for the collection plates at the church entrance. There are still three cast-iron plates of a small stove that used to be in the box, one depicts the fall of man , the other two depict the Lord's Supper .
  • The baroque baptismal chair, decorated with rich carvings and very brightly colored, was donated by the sexton and village teacher Carl Wöhrenhof and his wife in 1731, according to the inscription on the inside door.
  • A trumpet angel hangs from the ceiling above the baptismal chair . He is surrounded by four putti .
  • The lectern from the 17th century is carved from wood and stands on a herm-like stick. A coat of arms above bears the inscription JVR GEN KADO , the meaning of which is not known.
  • The organ gallery from 1721 is supported by four black figures. The parapet of the gallery juts out over the central aisle. On the parapet there are paintings of Jesus Christ and the twelve apostles , by Mirjam , as well as emblematic representations. The tenant Daniel Wesenberg and his wife donated the paintings.
  • The black figures, the so-called Moors , are larger than life in strong, almost lush baroque forms, depicting four black Africans . There are two different explanations for them. In the first version, according to oral tradition in the von Schwerin family , Detlof von Schwerin , who is in Dutch service , brought four black people with him to Putzar, who are said to have saved his life. They are said to have carried the heavy, magnificent coffin from the castle to the church for his funeral. In 1721 her figures were placed as gallery carriers in the church. In the other version, the four black wooden figures are said to have carried the coffin of Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin († 1757) in the Wusseken church .
  • The coffin of Detlof von Schwerin may have been on the original six mourning figures. The sixth figure was loaned to the Anklamer Museum in the first half of the 20th century. It was burned to death in an air raid on the city in 1944 .
  • Up until the 19th century there was a standard on the altar , which Duke Philipp Julius had given the cornet Anton Detlof von Schwerin in 1624. A griffin with a sword was embroidered in gold . The signature read: PRO ARIS ET FOCIS ( For altar and hearth ). At the funeral of Anton Detlof, the standard was presented to him. The standard described in Heinrich Berghaus's land register in 1865 was no longer available when Hugo Lemcke visited the church in 1899.
Grave slab for Jürgen Christoph von Schwerin
Mortar and cannon as the remains of the epitaph for Detlof von Schwerin

Grave slabs and memorial plaques

  • A grave slab for Jürgen Christoph von Schwerin is in the floor in front of the patronage box. The 1.70 meter wide and 2.25 meter long sandstone slab shows the relief of a fully harnessed knight. The figure wears an allonge wig , a wide sash over one shoulder and a scroll of parchment in his left hand . The helmet rests on a table next to the knight. At the top right is the Schwerin coat of arms. The inscription reads: MR. JVRGEN CHRISTOFF V. SCHWERIN ZV PVTZAHR PEASED BORN ANNO 1633 THE 23 FEBRVARY DIED ANNO 1706 THE 19th MARTY BETWEEN 10 VND 11 BCE.
  • Under the gallery is a grave slab for Catharina Sophia, the youngest daughter of Ulrich von Schwerin († 1612) and Sophia von Arnim . The 1.40 m by 0.80 m measuring sandstone slab has a raised edge. In a shell niche in the middle is the bas-relief of a girl. The figure's head is tilted sideways. She wears a wide ruff . The right hand holds a handkerchief with tassels , the left three flowers. A large showpiece hangs on a chain tied around the shoulders. In the inscription on the edge of the plate is the saying Let the children come to me .. and in the context of the shell niche The righteous souls are in God's hands. Below the figure are the names of the parents and the year 1610. At the corners of the plate are the coats of arms of the families von Schwerin, von Arnim, von Waldenfels and von der Schulenburg .
  • During the renovation between 1960 and 1963, a stone plaque for the victims of both world wars was attached to the southern wall.
  • The epitaph of Dettlof von Schwerin no longer exists . It was in a niche in the north wall of the church. The epitaph, carved from wood, was equipped with numerous coats of arms, war trophies, helmets, rapiers and other weapons. The models of a mortar and a cannon set up in the niche were part of it.

Cemetery and burial grounds

Below the church there is a crypt that served as a hereditary burial for the von Schwerin family from 1665 to 1945. After the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers looted the crypt. In 1991 the bones from the crypt were buried in the cemetery. Detlof von Schwerin's magnificent coffin is still in the crypt.

Several grave slabs for members of the von Schwerin family are located on the western edge of the cemetery towards the manor park. The Prussian Minister Maximilian von Schwerin-Putzar and his son Heinrich are buried here. Accessible from the park there is an underground burial place in front of the church, where Carl Wilhelm Ludwig Heinrich Graf von Schwerin-Putzar-Schwerinsburg (1776–1839), district administrator until 1834, and his wife Charlotte Friederike arrived there until the GDR era Luise, née von Berg, were buried.

literature

  • Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, pp. 73–74.
  • Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, pp. 229-234.

Web links

Commons : Putzar Church  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Evangelical parishes Spantekow and Boldekow-Wusseken. Retrieved April 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Hans Moderow : The Protestant clergy in Pomerania from the Reformation to the present . Part I: The administrative district of Szczecin . Stettin 1903, pp. 20-23.
  3. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Volume 1, W. Dietze, Anklam 1865, p. 346 ( Google Books ).
  4. ^ Putzar, Protestant Church. Retrieved March 31, 2013 .
  5. ↑ a b Information sheet in the church.
  6. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen. Part 2, Volume 1, W. Dietze, Anklam 1865, p. 292 ( Google Books ).
  7. ^ Putzar, Church, Protestant. In: Churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Retrieved April 1, 2013 .
  8. ↑ Brockhaus Bilder-Conversations-Lexikon, Volume 3. Leipzig 1839., p. 578. ( digitized version ).
  9. ^ Heinrich Berghaus : Land book of the Duchy of Pomerania and the Principality of Rügen . Part 2, Vol. 1, W. Dietze, Anklam-Berlin 1865, pp. 344–349 ( Google books )
  10. ↑ a b Eckhard Oberdörfer: Ostvorpommern. From the Amazon in the north to the imperial baths - a travel and reading book. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2006, ISBN 3-86108-917-3 , pp. 55–56.

Coordinates: 53 ° 42 ′ 44.7 "  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 24.5"  E