St. Ursula (Graal-Müritz)
The St. Ursula Church is a Roman Catholic church in Graal-Müritz . The branch church belongs together with the Church of St. Paulus in Marlow and the parish church Maria-Hilfe der Christisten St. Klara in Ribnitz-Damgarten to the Catholic Church of Ribnitz.
history
The church is part of a family vacation home of the same name . This was redesigned between 1993 and 1995 through extensive demolition and renovation work as well as gutting the main building. As part of these measures, the church was built and consecrated on April 29, 1995. The work led the Hamburg architectural firm P + R by.
Naming
The church has the patronage of Saint Ursula of Cologne . The name is also reminiscent of Ursula von Mecklenburg , the ninth and last abbess of the Poor Clare monastery in Ribnitz .
Establishment and design
The interior was designed by the Berlin sculptor Paul Brandenburg . For him it was the first order in the new federal states . He designed the ambo , the altar block , the cross and the tabernacle .
The sloping rear wall of the church, which is due to structural conditions, is striking. Brandenburg was of the opinion that aesthetics in a sacred building should take a back seat to the “necessities of worship ”. Angular shifts were most evident at the points where light enters a building from above. Brandenburg therefore began with the design with the steps, then with the altar: "The altar now looks as if everything crooked was logically arranged towards it." He continued to choose a cautious symbolic language, because not only the sisters of the monastery should use the church, but also tourists who, in his opinion, might not understand this form of "language".
A flame protrudes from the ambo block as a symbol of the gospel . This is to fill the world with the fire of Jesus Christ . For Brandenburg this is an important place as the "table of words next to the table of bread - the altar". This is the focus of the room and contains some relics . It was made from a single piece of green Anröchter stone . Below the altar plate there is a wave band that surrounds the entire plate and flows down the block. Brandenburg wants to point to the religious symbolism of water in all world religions . He borrows from the Bible , which quotes the prophet Ezekiel as follows: "I saw that the water of life poured out of the altar" (Ez. 47: 1). Five crosses are carved into the altar table to indicate the five wounds of Christ . The motif of the rising Easter sun, which begins to shine behind the cross, is recorded in the cross. Brandenburg stated: “People are used to the vertical. But here it is a square. Center stones, bring something to the point - that is the Christ corpus ”. The sun can also be seen in the tabernacle. It picks up the rays of the sun that fall through the colored windows onto the tabernacle.
On the left side of the wall there is a way of the cross with the traditional 14 stations.
The lead glass windows were designed in 1994 by the Nettetal artist Johannes Beeck . He created eight tall rectangular windows in the altar area, which are part of an overall composition. The two outer windows are framed by a blue stripe that can be found on the left and right as well as in the base zone. This is colored light and dark blue in the two side windows. In front of the gray background, red and purple stripes alternate in different widths, which are delimited at the bottom by the blue base. In the interstices white and red were glass prisms to lead rods are threaded, which dissolve in the upward direction in organic, opaque white forms. Within these forms there are individual lead rods with red glass prisms. This design gives the viewer the impression of a soft transition between the individual areas of the window.
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Catholic Church Maria-Hilfe der Christisten St. Klara ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Ribnitz-Damgarten website, accessed on August 14, 2012.
- ↑ Abbess Ursula, notice at the Church of St. Ursula, inspection on August 13, 2012.
- ↑ a b c d Joachim Puttkamer: Visual artists in Graal-Müritz , Klaschmohn Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bentwisch / Rostock 2003.
- ↑ The ambo, notice at the Church of St. Ursula, inspection on August 13, 2012.
- ↑ Overview of the groups of works , website of the University of Bonn, (PDF, 4.83 MB), accessed on August 20, 2012.
- ↑ 13th catalog of works , website of the University of Bonn, (PDF, 4.47 MB), accessed on August 20, 2012.
Web links
literature
- Joachim Puttkamer: Visual artists in Graal-Müritz . 1st edition. Klaschmohn Verlag GmbH & Co. KG, Bentwisch / Rostock 2003, ISBN 3-933574-28-5 , p. 52 .
Coordinates: 54 ° 15 '23 " N , 12 ° 15' 8.4" E