Wanderungen: Katte at Wust 1
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rheinsbergNow that our trip through space and time has taken us to Katte's death, we're going to follow his mortal remains after death. He was temporarily buried in a paupers' grave at Küstrin (no, I haven't situated it on the map; I think it was outside the city walls, possibly on the east side), before his father got permission from FW to exhume his son's body and transport it 200 km west to the Katte holdings at Wust. One doesn't envy the person who had that job. Oh, Fontane does a bit of historical fiction of Katte's body's arrival in Wust and burial.
But now we're in the village of Wust, the Katte family seat, which is still standing today and about which we actually know stuff. So we're going to do a little walking tour, mostly of the Dorfkirche (village church) where Hans Hermann is buried. First, some pictures of the outside of the church.
Pictures were collected from all over the internet. If any of them are yours and you would like me to take them down, please let me know.
1) The church itself dates to about 1200; the tower to 1727, only three years before Hans Hermann's death. This is the front of the church. The street runs north to south, and the church is on the east side.
2) Here we're standing in the church looking dead on at the front door. Note the carvings on the left and right side. We're going to zoom in on them in the next two pictures.
3) On the left side is a carving of Hans von Katte, who died in 1584. He had a son named Hans, who had a son named Heinrich Christoph, who had a son named Moritz Hans, who had a son named Hans Heinrich, who had a son named Hans Hermann, who was executed in 1730.
4) On the right side is his wife Anna von Wuthenau, who died in 1587.
5) Now we're going to walk around the right (south) side of the church, because we can. Note the carving under the overhang.
6) The carving is another Hans von Katte, whom the photographer who took this picture tells us died in 1617. Wikipedia gives me a Hans von Katte who died in 1622, is the son of the guy on the front of the church, and is the great-grandfather of Hans Heinrich. Probably all the same guy.
7) Now we continue our walking tour along the south side of the church. We're approaching the crypt. You can see the 1727 tower on the far left, the small overhang lower down, toward the left, under which is that carving of Hans von Katte, and on the far right, an iron fence. That iron fence surrounds the entrance to the Katte family crypt.
8) On the far right is the Katte family crypt, attached to the east end of the church by Hans Heinrich in [I've seen dates from 1706 to 1708]. More on the history of this crypt later. First we're going to go inside and see the graves.
9) The crypt! Hans Hermann's tomb is on the far left as you go in the door. Which is both what Fontane reports, and what the images we'll see shortly will show us. (Thus telling us that nothing's been moved since Fontane was there.)
10) We approach the entrance to the crypt. The gate is open because we have arranged a visit with the local volunteers in charge of tourism. (I.e., in most pictures, it's closed.)
11) Before entering, we read the legend over the door: Ruhestätte derer von Katte. "Resting place of the von Kattes."
12) Inside the crypt, with the door behind us, facing slightly to the right.
13) Inside the crypt, with the door on our right, facing straight down the crypt, with Hans Hermann's coffin behind us:
14) Inside the crypt, with the door on our left, facing the spot where the previous picture was taken from, facing Hans Hermann's wooden coffin down at the end:
15) Close-up of Hans Hermann's coffin:
Fontane gives an account of visiting the crypt and opening the tomb to view Hans Hermann's remains. Of interest are the following elements of his description. Hans Hermann lies inside a simple, long wooden coffin in the corner (which you can see matches the present-day pictures) which itself lies inside another wooden coffin (again, if you look closely, you'll see it). His body was covered by a light blue silk coat, and there was a blue silk hair ribbon. The cervical vertebra that was broken by the decapitating sword, as well as some teeth, had been taken by souvenir hunters.
16) Even closer view of Hans Hermann's coffin.
17) The label inside the coffin, becauseselenak is that awesome and got a picture for me:
18) Notice how everyone else gets fancy marble and sandstone sarcophagi.
19) But Hans Hermann gets the most wreaths!
20)
21) Also, for those of us who've read Fontane's visit to the crypt and opening of this tomb, remember when Fontane said his was a slanted wooden box inside a wooden box? You can just about make out the slanted wooden box under the wreaths in this one.
22) A peek inside the coffin, back when it was opened in the 1980s for restoration. Apparently everyone's body looked well preserved, except for poor Hans Hermann's, which I imagine is nothing but a skeleton by now.
23) Now we'll go inside the church.
But first, let's orient ourselves. We enter by the street and beneath the tower. There's a long row of pews on either side of the nave running east, toward the crypt. And in the back is the white box, where the pulpit is.
24) That white box is the patrons' loge, the separate area reserved for the patrons of the church so they don't have to mingle with the rest of the villagers at church.
We see a picture of the inside of the Katteloge here.
25) Notice that relief carving on the wall?The photographer captions it with "Hans von Katte, d. 1716." Somewhere else on the internet I found a reference to him being 11 years old when he died. I'm not certain whether either of those facts is reliable, but we'll discuss him later. Per selenak's conversation with a local historian, it's the Hans Katte who commissioned the renovation of the church from Romanesque to Baroque during the Thirty Years' War. This makes far more sense, so I'm going with it.
26) And here we are pretending to be Kattes, standing in their loge, looking toward the the street. Behind us, on the other side of the loge wall and the pulpit, is the east crypt. Hans Hermann's little wooden coffin is right up against that wall.
27) Now we're standing at the other end of the church, by the doors that open to the street, facing the pulpit, the Katteloge, and, on the other side of the wall, the crypt:
And now you can say you've been inside the church and almost not be lying! If anyone wants more detailed pictures of the mid-17th century interior of the church, check out this guy's page, where is where I found some of these pictures.
28) Down the street from the church, this is the manor built by Hans Heinrich in 1727, the same year as he commissioned the church tower. Where the Kattes lived before that in Wust, I do not know. Hans Hermann may or may not have had time to visit the new manor before he died, I don't know.
It's used as a primary school today, and also the location of the annual summer school for studying English.
29) A different angle of the manor:
30) Standing in front of the manor looking toward the church:
But now we're in the village of Wust, the Katte family seat, which is still standing today and about which we actually know stuff. So we're going to do a little walking tour, mostly of the Dorfkirche (village church) where Hans Hermann is buried. First, some pictures of the outside of the church.
Pictures were collected from all over the internet. If any of them are yours and you would like me to take them down, please let me know.
1) The church itself dates to about 1200; the tower to 1727, only three years before Hans Hermann's death. This is the front of the church. The street runs north to south, and the church is on the east side.
2) Here we're standing in the church looking dead on at the front door. Note the carvings on the left and right side. We're going to zoom in on them in the next two pictures.
3) On the left side is a carving of Hans von Katte, who died in 1584. He had a son named Hans, who had a son named Heinrich Christoph, who had a son named Moritz Hans, who had a son named Hans Heinrich, who had a son named Hans Hermann, who was executed in 1730.
4) On the right side is his wife Anna von Wuthenau, who died in 1587.
5) Now we're going to walk around the right (south) side of the church, because we can. Note the carving under the overhang.
6) The carving is another Hans von Katte, whom the photographer who took this picture tells us died in 1617. Wikipedia gives me a Hans von Katte who died in 1622, is the son of the guy on the front of the church, and is the great-grandfather of Hans Heinrich. Probably all the same guy.
7) Now we continue our walking tour along the south side of the church. We're approaching the crypt. You can see the 1727 tower on the far left, the small overhang lower down, toward the left, under which is that carving of Hans von Katte, and on the far right, an iron fence. That iron fence surrounds the entrance to the Katte family crypt.
8) On the far right is the Katte family crypt, attached to the east end of the church by Hans Heinrich in [I've seen dates from 1706 to 1708]. More on the history of this crypt later. First we're going to go inside and see the graves.
9) The crypt! Hans Hermann's tomb is on the far left as you go in the door. Which is both what Fontane reports, and what the images we'll see shortly will show us. (Thus telling us that nothing's been moved since Fontane was there.)
10) We approach the entrance to the crypt. The gate is open because we have arranged a visit with the local volunteers in charge of tourism. (I.e., in most pictures, it's closed.)
11) Before entering, we read the legend over the door: Ruhestätte derer von Katte. "Resting place of the von Kattes."
12) Inside the crypt, with the door behind us, facing slightly to the right.
13) Inside the crypt, with the door on our right, facing straight down the crypt, with Hans Hermann's coffin behind us:
14) Inside the crypt, with the door on our left, facing the spot where the previous picture was taken from, facing Hans Hermann's wooden coffin down at the end:
15) Close-up of Hans Hermann's coffin:
Fontane gives an account of visiting the crypt and opening the tomb to view Hans Hermann's remains. Of interest are the following elements of his description. Hans Hermann lies inside a simple, long wooden coffin in the corner (which you can see matches the present-day pictures) which itself lies inside another wooden coffin (again, if you look closely, you'll see it). His body was covered by a light blue silk coat, and there was a blue silk hair ribbon. The cervical vertebra that was broken by the decapitating sword, as well as some teeth, had been taken by souvenir hunters.
16) Even closer view of Hans Hermann's coffin.
17) The label inside the coffin, because
selenak is that awesome and got a picture for me:18) Notice how everyone else gets fancy marble and sandstone sarcophagi.
19) But Hans Hermann gets the most wreaths!
20)
21) Also, for those of us who've read Fontane's visit to the crypt and opening of this tomb, remember when Fontane said his was a slanted wooden box inside a wooden box? You can just about make out the slanted wooden box under the wreaths in this one.
22) A peek inside the coffin, back when it was opened in the 1980s for restoration. Apparently everyone's body looked well preserved, except for poor Hans Hermann's, which I imagine is nothing but a skeleton by now.
23) Now we'll go inside the church.
But first, let's orient ourselves. We enter by the street and beneath the tower. There's a long row of pews on either side of the nave running east, toward the crypt. And in the back is the white box, where the pulpit is.
24) That white box is the patrons' loge, the separate area reserved for the patrons of the church so they don't have to mingle with the rest of the villagers at church.
We see a picture of the inside of the Katteloge here.
25) Notice that relief carving on the wall?
selenak's conversation with a local historian, it's the Hans Katte who commissioned the renovation of the church from Romanesque to Baroque during the Thirty Years' War. This makes far more sense, so I'm going with it.26) And here we are pretending to be Kattes, standing in their loge, looking toward the the street. Behind us, on the other side of the loge wall and the pulpit, is the east crypt. Hans Hermann's little wooden coffin is right up against that wall.
27) Now we're standing at the other end of the church, by the doors that open to the street, facing the pulpit, the Katteloge, and, on the other side of the wall, the crypt:
And now you can say you've been inside the church and almost not be lying! If anyone wants more detailed pictures of the mid-17th century interior of the church, check out this guy's page, where is where I found some of these pictures.
28) Down the street from the church, this is the manor built by Hans Heinrich in 1727, the same year as he commissioned the church tower. Where the Kattes lived before that in Wust, I do not know. Hans Hermann may or may not have had time to visit the new manor before he died, I don't know.
It's used as a primary school today, and also the location of the annual summer school for studying English.
29) A different angle of the manor:
30) Standing in front of the manor looking toward the church:
