Wusseken Church
The Wusseken Church is a church building in the Wusseken district of the municipality of Sarnow in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district . It belongs to the provost of Pasewalk in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany .
history
The construction of a church consecrated to Saints Georg and Adalbert and the establishment of a parish in Wusseken was promoted in 1243 by a donation of three Hufen land to the Stolpe monastery , which was confirmed in a document by Duke Barnim I. Heinrich von Schwerin auf Wusseken renounced church patronage in 1296 in favor of the Stolpe monastery . In 1514 the church was consecrated to St. George, Mary and the Rosary . Later it was only called St. Mary's Church.
The church was badly damaged during the Second Northern War , and in 1659 the church tower, which was then 75 meters high, collapsed. The pastor's position was no longer occupied from 1660. Initially supplied by Putzar , the community came to the Boldekower parish.
In 1738 Wusseken received its own pastor again. The owner of the Wusseken estate, Field Marshal Kurt Christoph von Schwerin , had the church rebuilt and expanded in the baroque style in 1742 for 8,000 thalers .
In a fire in 1968, the baroque furnishings of the church and the western half-timbered tower were destroyed.
building
The church is a partially plastered field stone building on a spacious rectangular floor plan. The oldest part, the rib vaulted eastern part with two mask heads in the eastern wall and the added south portal, is dated to the middle of the 13th century. During the renovation in 1742, the church received square corner pilasters , high basket-arch windows and a stab- arched south portal. The octagonal lantern described by Hugo Lemcke at the end of the 19th century and the clapboard-covered helmet of the half-timbered tower were replaced by a simple tent roof after the fire in 1968 . For the same reason, the inside of the church is now flat.
Crypt
Under the eastern part of the church there is a three-aisled crypt of the von Schwerin family, built in 1742. Kurt Christoph von Schwerin and his two wives were buried in it in simple metal coffins with a few rococo ornaments. There were a total of 21 coffins in the crypt. A mummified corpse was examined several times by pathologists . In 1907, cadets from the Anklam War School opened the field marshal's coffin. Reports of an alleged looting of his coffin and one of his wives by soldiers of the Red Army after 1945 are contrasted with statements from Wusseken residents that the crypt was still intact in the 1950s.
After the fire of 1968, the badly damaged church was broken into several times, coffins and skeletons were destroyed, and items of equipment were stolen. With the approval of the general curator of the GDR , the remains were buried in the western part of the cemetery without a tombstone. After the fall of the Wall, members of the von Schwerin family donated a memorial plaque that was attached to a boulder from the Wusseken gravel pit.
literature
- Institute for Monument Preservation (Ed.): The architectural and art monuments in the GDR. Neubrandenburg district. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1982, p. 77.
- Hugo Lemcke : The architectural and art monuments of the administrative district of Stettin. Book 2: The district of Anklam. Leon Saunier, Stettin 1899, pp. 257-259.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Pomeranian document book . I 326.
- ↑ a b c d 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. 50-52.
- ↑ a b Gerhard Becker: Wusseken. In: Church district Anklam. All mother churches. Retrieved September 17, 2012 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 45 ′ 23.3 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 34.6" E