Wanzka Monastery

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Wanzka Monastery
Monastery church in Wanzka
Monastery church in Wanzka
location Germany
Region Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '22.6 "  N , 13 ° 13' 50.5"  E Coordinates: 53 ° 24 '22.6 "  N , 13 ° 13' 50.5"  E
founding year before 1280
Year of dissolution /
annulment 		1549

The Wanzka Monastery is a former Cistercian monastery in the locality of Wanzka south of the Mecklenburg town of Neubrandenburg in the Mecklenburg Lake District in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania . The monastery was on a small peninsula in Lake Wanzka between Neustrelitz and Neubrandenburg. The monastery church and the remote monastery gate are the last visible remains of this once very rich cisterce.

history

On January 25, 1290, Margrave Albrecht III. von Brandenburg in Stargard the foundation of the Cistercian convent Wanzka. The actual founding of the monastery must have taken place between 1275 and 1283, as can be seen from a certificate from the provost Walwanus of the Premonstratensian monastery of Broda from 1306. His predecessor, Provost Ekbert (1270–1283) is said to have bequeathed the village of Mechow with 60 Hufen land and eight Hufen in Küssow from the Brodaschen property to the Wanzka Monastery. Regarding the furnishing of the Wanzka monastery with Broda monastery estates, it can only be assumed that the Premonstratensian nuns were sent from the Broda double monastery to the women's monastery in Wanzka and there passed to the religious custom of the Cistercian women.

The monastery church and building were consecrated by Bishop Heinrich von Havelberg on January 25, 1290, where the letter of foundation was also issued by Margrave Albrecht. Margrave Albrecht was obviously particularly fond of the monastery. In 1298 he added 100 pounds annually to the original holdings from 27 villages in the Land of Stargard.

Many daughters of the surrounding nobility entered the monastery. In 1341 the number had to be limited to 50 nuns. In 1474 there were 39. Among the abbesses were illustrious names:

  • 1293 Bertradis
  • 1330 Margaret of Swabia
  • 1343 Schwanegund von Tornow

or Engelradis from Lübeck. In the first half of the 15th century Nobility, the only daughter of Duke Ulrich I of Mecklenburg-Stargard , was abbess in the Wanzka Monastery.

The monastery had rich possessions.

The monastery came under secular administration in 1549, although the convent, as in many nunneries, remained in existence as a Protestant monastery until 1584. Especially after the Thirty Years War, the buildings were used as a quarry.

seal

The round convent seal from 1330 shows a coronation of Mary against a grid-shaped background . Christ and Mary are sitting on a bench. The inscription reads: S CONVENTVS ECCLESIE SANCTE MARIE VIRGINIS IN WANCIK. A round provost seal shows an open book. The inscription reads: S PREPOSITVRE IN WANZICK. It was first used in 1343, then in 1379 and another 1477. The personal seal impressions of three provosts Johann 1293, Bertrannus / Bertramus 1330 and Konrad 1339 are also preserved.

Monastery church

The monastery church consists of an elongated, single nave and, due to the lack of a cloister, almost disproportionate-looking nave with (since 1843) a flat wooden beam ceiling and a 5/8 choir end . At the northwest corner there is a square stair tower. The buildings of the enclosure have all been lost in recent times. In his volume published in 1929, Georg Krüger-Haye shows a picture of the ruins of the monastery barn with Gothic buttresses similar to the monastery barn in Althof (Bad Doberan) . The outlines of the other buildings of the enclosure and the cloister can at least still be recognized on a drawing from 1751. It was an at least three-winged complex with a four-sided converted cloister, which leads to the somewhat secluded brewery and bakery. The church burned down to the outer walls in 1833, so that no remains of the furnishings have been preserved.

The reconstruction from 1840 to 1843 with a new west facade was carried out according to plans by Friedrich Wilhelm Buttel . The collapsed vaults were replaced by a flat wooden beam ceiling. The neo-Gothic altarpiece, which came into the church in 1905, shows a depiction of the crucifixion (copy after Peter Paul Rubens by Berta Zarnekow). Just like the neo-Gothic pulpit, it was designed by the Strelitz building officer Paul Köppel. In 1907 the organ was installed by Wilhelm Sauer (Opus 996, II + P / 11). The monastery church was renovated from April 2016 to summer 2017. The roof was re-covered, the facade renovated, the windows restored and the ceiling and walls painted. The rededication by Bishop Andreas von Maltzahn took place on September 3, 2017.

local community

The monastery church belongs to the Wanzka parish of the same name in the Neustrelitz Propstei , Mecklenburg parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany , which with effect from January 1, 2020 from the originally independent Evangelical Lutheran parishes of Feldberg , Grünow-Triepkendorf , Peckatel - Prillwitz and Rödlin- Warbende was created.

literature

Web links

Commons : Wanzka Monastery  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mecklenburgisches Urkundenbuch MUB Volume III. Schwerin (1865) No. 2058
  2. ↑ MUB Volume V. (1869) No. 2853.
  3. ^ Clemens Bergstedt: Wanzka Monastery, on the problem of the year it was founded. In: Clemens Bergstedt: Church settlement of the 13th century in the Brandenburg-Mecklenburg border area (= studies on the history, art and culture of the Cistercians. Vol. 15). Lukas-Verlag, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-931836-63-0 , pp. 177-195 (also: Berlin, Humboldt University, dissertation, 2001).
  4. ↑ MUB Volume IV. (1867) No. 2510.
  5. ^ Disposition , Mecklenburg Organ Inventory , Malchow Organ Museum
  6. ↑ Festival week for the renovated Wanzka Monastery Church , message from August 29, 2017, accessed on November 16, 2017
  7. ↑ Website of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
  8. ^ Official Journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany 10/2019, pp. 478-480