St. Jürgen Chapel (Wolgast)
The St. Jürgen Chapel is one of the surviving medieval church buildings in the city of Wolgast in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district .
history
The St. Jürgen Chapel, then still known as the Georgenkapelle, was mentioned for the first time in 1420 in a Stralsund foundation deed. Like the Gertruden chapel, the Jürgen chapel was also built outside the city walls. It originally served as a hospital for the poor, needy, sick and strangers. In 1592 extensive repair work was carried out on behalf of Duke Ernst Ludwig von Pommern- Wolgast. Further work on the building took place in 1672. In 1710 the Jürgen chapel served as a plague house. The plague dead were buried in the associated cemetery, which was not used for a long time.
Later, the chapel was used by the residents of the northwestern suburb of Volga, the Bauwiek , as a poor and burial church. In the first half of the 18th century, Johann Bötticher , Rector of the Wolgast City School from 1725 to 1748, wrote a description of the furnishings at that time, in which he reported on the division of the church hall into individual living rooms.
From 1940 Belgian and French prisoners of war were housed in the chapel. After the Second World War, extensive renovation measures were necessary, which could only be completed in 1953. Since 1954 it has been used by the Wolgast parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church as a winter church and event room. In 2003 the chapel received a new bell.
building
The St. Jürgen Chapel is a single-nave brick building that is dated to the 15th century. The eastern area was rebuilt in the middle of the 20th century. A relief in the roof gable shows Saint George fighting the dragon. On the west gable there are three pointed arches and a bell tower as a roof turret. The southern entrance porch dates from the 19th century.
The equipment, the provided internally with a flat slab building that dates from the 1950s, a stained glass window , with Christopher representation from the 19th century. The windows are in niches that reach the floor.
The brick wall made of field stone that delimits the cemetery around the chapel has been preserved in remains. In the north and south there are two arched cemetery gates made of brick, which are supported by buttresses.
literature
- Norbert Buske , Sabine Bock : Wolgast. Ducal residence and castle. Churches and chapels. Port and city. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 1995, ISBN 3-931185-05-2 , pp. 62-64
- State Office for Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (Hrsg.): The architectural and art monuments in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Western Pomerania coastal region. Henschelverlag, Berlin 1995, pp. 362-363.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ After centuries, a new bell for the St. Jürgen Chapel in Wolgast ( memento from August 3, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) at Kirche-MV.de
Coordinates: 54 ° 3 ′ 18.6 " N , 13 ° 46 ′ 5.7" E