Sophienstift Lübz

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Lübz Collegiate Church (2008)

The Sophienstift Lübz is a residential home founded in 1633 for needy widows in Lübz . Its buildings form a monument.

history

Duchess Sophie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin

The Sophienstift was created as a reaction to the events of the Thirty Years' War . Duchess Sophie , the widow of Duke Johann VII and de facto regent of the (partial) duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin from 1603 to 1608 , donated it to her widow's residence in Lübz in 1633 as thanks for the return of her two sons Adolf Friedrich and Johann Albrecht from the Exile .

The monastery was built on a hill, at that time in front of the city, on the Elde . Equipped with land and fishing rights on the Elde and in the Lenz Canal, eight noble, four middle-class and eight needy widows were to find a home and care in the monastery. On September 22nd, 1634, shortly before Sophie's death, the foundation received the sovereign confirmation. The founder called Joseph Wilhelmi , who had found refuge in Hamburg as a war refugee from Magdeburg, to be her first preacher . As early as 1637, the monastery suffered great damage when the city was captured and sacked by imperial troops; Wilhelmi fled back to Hamburg.

After a long period of decline and neglect, the foundation was reorganized under Grand Duke Friedrich Franz II. In 1857. The monastery buildings were renewed and could be inaugurated on May 26, 1858. Due to the regulation confirmed by the sovereign and the upper bishop , the monastery received the rights of a legal person under the supervision of the ecclesiastical authorities of the country on November 3, 1870 as a "church institute" . The abbey complex and the associated gardens have been part of the urban area of ​​Lübz since 1876.

In 1902 the ten residents at that time received “apartment (2 in 1 room each), garden land, fire, doctor, medicine, remuneration in kind, a banquet at the 3 major celebrations, 6 marks every quarter and 1.50 marks each on the day of the foundation and on the anniversary of the donor's death ".

Opposite the monastery building there is now a kindergarten , which is run by the Diakoniewerk Kloster Dobbertin . The "Alexandrahaus" building erected in 1915 was an innovative "toddler school" for the time.

Collegiate church

The collegiate church, located in the row of the collegiate buildings, is a small, square building, which was largely rebuilt in 1858 as a half-timbered construction . Only the lower part of the east gable comes from the original building from 1633. The northern gable wall consists of field stones and is crowned by a blind gable. A small roof turret with a bell cast in Waren in 1858 by Johann Carl Ludwig Illies towers above the church roof. The eight-sided tip is framed by four pointed gables. The steps in front of the doors are made of old gravestones that, according to Friedrich Schlie , previously had their place in the collegiate church.

The interior of the church is kept simple. There are full-length oil paintings on both side walls: the one on the north wall shows Martin Luther , the one on the south wall shows the founder of the monastery, Duchess Sophie.

The building was in a pretty bad state of construction around 2000. With the help of the German Foundation for Monument Protection , the roof was repaired, the facades revised and from 2005 the interior restored. The re-inauguration took place on September 24, 2006. The collegiate church serves religious and cultural purposes.

In the collegiate church there is an organ built in 1986 by the organ builder Wolfgang Nussbücker with a manual and attached pedal . She has the disposition :

I Manual C-g 3
Dumped 8th'
Pointed flute 4 ′
Principal 2 ′
Fifth 1 1 ⁄ 3  ′
Pedal C – d 1
Sub-bass 16 ′

Foundation, endowment

The Sophienstift is a church foundation with legal capacity under civil law. The foundation supervision is carried out by the regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany . The monastery is considered an independent work of the Evangelical Lutheran Church District Mecklenburg. “The purpose of the foundation is to support people in need, especially in the area of ​​the parish of Lübz, and to promote the diaconal tasks of the parish of Lübz. The foundation's assets are therefore used to promote, support and care for old people, children and young people. "

literature

  • Sophien-Stift , in: Friedrich Schlie : The art and history monuments of the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin. IV. Volume: The district court districts Schwaan, Bützow, Sternberg, Güstrow, Krakow, Goldberg, Parchim Lübz and Plau. Schwerin, 1901, p. 353
  • Ira Koch: Sophia of Schleswig Holstein Duchess of Mecklenburg (1569–1634). In: Martina Schattkowsky: Widowhood in early modern times: princely and noble widows between foreign and self-determination. (= Writings on Saxon history and folklore 6) Leipzig: Universitätsverlag 2003 ISBN 9783936522792 , pp. 203–226
  • Karl Boldt: History of the city of Lübz - Lübz then and now, Magdeburg 1934.
  • Reinhard Dudlitz: The Sophienstift in Lübz (contributions to the history of the city of Lübz), Ruthen 2018

Web links

  • Statutes of the Sophienstift Lübz Foundation dated December 17, 2015

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Statutes of the Sophienstift Lübz Foundation dated December 17, 2015
  2. ^ Georg Christian Friedrich Lisch : The castle on the Lenz and the Lenz Canal. In: Yearbooks of the Association for Mecklenburg History and Antiquity 17 (1852), pp. 9–16, here p. 14
  3. ^ Koch (lit.), p. 221
  4. ^ Decree of February 21, 1876, Government Gazette for Mecklenburg-Schwerin 1876, pp. 55f
  5. ↑ Home calendar for the German Reich 1902, p. 252 (abbreviations dissolved)
  6. ^ Kita Sophienstift Lübz , accessed on April 8, 2020
  7. ↑ Schlie (lit.)
  8. ^ After Schlie (Lit) a more recent oil painting .
  9. ↑ Stiftskirche Lübz , German Foundation for Monument Protection, accessed on April 8, 2020
  10. ↑ Lübz, Stiftskirche , Mecklenburg Organ Inventory, accessed on April 8, 2020.

Coordinates: 53 ° 27 '49.3 "  N , 12 ° 1' 40.5"  E