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Founded: 13th centuryCategory: Religious sites in Germany
Historical period: Hohenstaufen Dynasty (Germany)
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The village church of Jördenstorf is a late medieval church located in Jördenstorf, in the district of Rostock, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
The oldest part of the church is the rectangular, east-facing chancel, likely built from fieldstone in the mid-13th century. To the west, a slightly wider and taller rectangular nave made of brick was added shortly afterward. The western end of the church is marked by a brick tower, probably constructed in the 15th century, topped with a recessed, later timber-framed addition and a tent roof. The chancel is covered by an eight-ribbed vault, while the nave has a flat wooden ceiling. The east gables of both the chancel and the nave are decorated with blind arcading.
The church contains rich furnishings, mostly from the 18th century. The organ case on the western gallery—built in the first half of the 18th century—was created in 1777 by Paul Schmidt of Rostock. However, the organ itself, built in 1878 by Friedrich Friese III, features 15 stops on two manuals and pedal, and was restored in 1978.
The pulpit with its ornate sound canopy on the right side of the chancel arch dates from 1734, while the confessional booth is from 1715. The altarpiece was crafted in 1793, topped by a crucifixion group from the 15th century. The main altarpiece painting is a later copy from 1875 after Guido Reni. On the church’s south wall is an ornate epitaph for J. von Blücher from the 17th century. Various pews in the church, as well as some historical gravestones inside and around the church, also date from the 17th and 18th centuries.
The church bell was cast in 1749 by Otto Gerhard Meyer in Rostock. The church treasury includes several gilded chalices from the 18th century, along with some historical candlesticks.
The Pilgrimage Church of Wies (Wieskirche) is an oval rococo church, designed in the late 1740s by Dominikus Zimmermann. It is located in the foothills of the Alps in the municipality of Steingaden.
The sanctuary of Wies is a pilgrimage church extraordinarily well-preserved in the beautiful setting of an Alpine valley, and is a perfect masterpiece of Rococo art and creative genius, as well as an exceptional testimony to a civilization that has disappeared.
The hamlet of Wies, in 1738, is said to have been the setting of a miracle in which tears were seen on a simple wooden figure of Christ mounted on a column that was no longer venerated by the Premonstratensian monks of the Abbey. A wooden chapel constructed in the fields housed the miraculous statue for some time. However, pilgrims from Germany, Austria, Bohemia, and even Italy became so numerous that the Abbot of the Premonstratensians of Steingaden decided to construct a splendid sanctuary.