Atonement from Gingst

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Atonement stone from Gingst as a grave stele
Back of the grave stele with inscriptions

The fragments of a stone of atonement located east of the choir of the Sankt-Jacob-Kirche in Gingst on the Baltic Sea island of Rügen are called the atonement stone of Gingst . The limestone stone originally commemorated the murder of pastor Laurentius Krintze in 1554.

Pastor murder

Krintze was the first Protestant pastor in the community of Gingst. He owned the pastor's office at lease: he was entitled to the income from leased church fields as payment for his service (see benefices ). The perpetrator and the exact course of events are not known for certain. In two different traditions a different perpetrator is named in each case. According to one version, the culprit was the nobleman Sambur Preetz from Silenz . He is said to have killed the pastor with a tin can during a dispute about back payments to the church on the outer edge of the Gingster cemetery. The atonement stone was later erected at this point. According to the other version, a farmer named Hans Lekute was the culprit. Given that the expensive atonement stone could probably not have been financed by the family of a tenant farmer, the nobleman is considered to be more likely to be responsible.

Conversion

The atonement stone was then on the scene of the crime in the Gingster cemetery for about 150 years. Around 1700 the stone was accidentally broken into several pieces when farmhands drove a load of bushes across the cemetery. The damaged limestone slab was reassembled and used as a tombstone for Moritz Alexander von der Osten and his wife in 1718 . The stone still stands in this form behind the church today.

literature

  • Hans-Christian Feldmann: Dehio. Handbook of German Art Monuments . Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Revision. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03081-6 , p. 152 a. E.
  • Ingrid Schmidt, megalithic grave and sacrificial stone. Soil monuments on the island of Rügen. Hinstorff Verlag, Rostock 2001, ISBN 3-356-00917-6 , p. 54 f.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Schmidt: Hünengrab and sacrificial stone. 2001, p. 55.

Coordinates: 54 ° 27 '23.4 "  N , 13 ° 15' 38.2"  E