Vitter chapel
The Vitter Chapel is located above the fishing village of the same name, Vitt , around one kilometer southeast of Putgarten , and belongs to the Altenkirchen parish in the Stralsund priory of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District .
The chapel can only be reached by tourists from Putgarten on foot, by bicycle or the Arkona train in the direction of Cape Arkona .
history
The pastor and writer Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten received the parish office in Altenkirchen in 1792 after his ordination. He missed the fishermen from Vitt during his sermons in the church of Altenkirchen, who did not have time to leave the coast during the herring season. Kosegarten fulfilled his pastoral work by going to the fishermen on the steep bank of Cape Arkona to hold an open-air service there. These “beach sermons” became so popular that he began building an octagonal chapel in Vitt in 1806 to offer visitors protection from the weather. From 1806 to 1816 the chapel was built according to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel .
Today the chapel is used for quiet contemplation and is especially popular as a “wedding chapel”.
Buildings and equipment
The chapel is a simple octagonal structure with a thatched roof (previously covered with wooden shingles). Until 2017 the outer walls were whitewashed. In the course of the fundamental renovation of the chapel in 2017, it was discovered (and later documented) that the original paint of the chapel was not white, but was terracotta. That is why the parish council decided in July 2017, following the recommendation of the State Office for Monument Preservation , to replace the previously white exterior color with the original color - which led to a passionate controversy within the community.
The interior is kept very simple. Larger decorative elements are the pulpit altar and a cast iron crucifix. Above the altar is a copy of the painting " Petrus auf dem Meer " by Philipp Otto Runge made by the Stralsund painter Erich Kliefert (1893-1994) , which was commissioned as an altarpiece by Pastor Kosegarten in 1805. The original remained in Hamburg after Runge's death in 1810 and is currently in the possession of the Kunsthalle Hamburg .
In 1990 the mural “People in the Storm” by the Italian artist Gabriele Mucchi was added.
See also
Web links
- Uferkapelle Vitt on kirche-altenkirchen-ruegen.de
- Information on the historical color scheme , Evangelical Churches in Altenkirchen & Wiek
- Literature about Vitter Chapel in the Landesbibliographie MV
- A new, traditional play of colors - the restoration of the Uferkapelle in Vitt auf Rügen, Monument of the Month February 2018 , State Office for Culture and Monument Preservation Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Jens Amelung, February 2018
- Chapel in Vitt soon in 'terracotta'? OSTSEE-ZEITUNG from July 6, 2017 on the new color scheme
Coordinates: 54 ° 40 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 13 ° 25 ′ 47 ″ E