Wartislaw Memorial Church
The Wartislaw Memorial Church , also known as Wartislaw Church , is a church built in honor of Wartislaw I , the first prince of Pomerania to convert to Christianity . It is located in Stolpe an der Peene in the Vorpommern-Greifswald district and has been part of the Pasewalk provost in the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since 2012 . Before that she belonged to the Greifswald parish of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .
history
As early as the middle of the 12th century, Ratibor I founded a church for his brother Wartislaw, who is said to have been murdered in the Stolpe area. However, their location has not yet been localized. It probably belonged to the Stolpe Monastery, which was founded in 1153 .
After the destruction of the monastery in 1637 during the Thirty Years' War , a built next to the ruins of the monastery church was used until the end of the 19th century chapel of the Protestant community of Stolpe house of God.
Apparently inspired by the description of the Christianization of Pomerania in the book "Streifzüge durch Pommern" by H. von der Dollen , the Hohenbollentiner pastor Blume and the Medower pastor Braun began to collect money for a new church in Stolpe. Between 1891 and 1893, today's church was built on behalf of Count von Kanitz-Schmuggerow according to plans by the Berlin architect Theodor Prüfer . The building was renovated in 1994/95.
building
The church was built in neo -Gothic style on the plan of a Greek cross made of brick . It has side chapels and a square west tower . The cross arms and the side chapels are closed on three sides. All components have stepped buttresses . Windows and portals have richly profiled walls .
To the north of the tower is a polygonal stair tower. The tower portal has a flat gabled wall template and in the arched area a relief depicting Jesus Christ , Wartislaw I laying his hand on the head, while Bishop Otto von Bamberg presents the model of the church. On the upper floors, pointed arch frames combine paired segmental arched windows and pointed arched sound openings. The spire has an octagonal tip, which is crowned by a tower ball with a cross. Tower and church are slated.
Furnishing
The ribbed vault inside the church rests on circular services . The remains of stenciled wall paintings on the choir as well as the pulpit, stalls and west gallery come from the construction period . The manor stalls have a round medallion with the coat of arms of the von Bülow family , who owned the Stolpe estate at the time.
The church is richly decorated with stained glass from the end of the 19th century designed by Theodor Prüfer . The window in the apex of the choir shows a blessing Christ, underneath are the coat of arms and the name of the founder Ulrich von Behr-Negendank . The von der Osten -Jannewitz and Maltzahn families donated additional windows . There is a depiction of the Apostle Peter in the north and that of the Apostle Paul in the south.
The organ by Christian Friedrich Völkner from Dünnow near Stolpmünde from 1893, donated by Kaiser Wilhelm II , has a front with polygonal turrets and pinnacles in the English neo-Gothic style.
Friedrich von Behr and his wife Marie donated the chandelier, the inscription of which refers to the mention of Behren in a document from 1275.
literature
- Jana Olschewski: From the Greifswalder Bodden to the Peene. Open Churches II. Thomas Helms, Schwerin 2005, ISBN 3-935749-50-3 , pp. 37-38
Web links
- Literature about the Wartislaw Memorial Church in the state bibliography MV
- Stumble. Wartislaw Memorial Church near churches in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Eckhard Oberdörfer: Vorpommern-Greifswald. A travel and reading book. Edition Temmen, Bremen 2013, ISBN 978-3-8378-3002-6 , p. 81.
Coordinates: 53 ° 52 '22.2 " N , 13 ° 33' 32.5" E