Christ Church (Groß Köris)

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Christ Church in Groß-Köris

The Evangelical Christ Church is a hall church in Groß Köris in the Dahme-Spreewald district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish Groß Köris in the parish of Zossen-Fläming of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

history

Since 1600 Groß Köris belonged to the parish in Teupitz . The inhabitants of the small village attended church services in the neighboring community for many centuries . However, with the construction of the railroad in the second half of the 19th century, the population increased sharply. The number of residents rose from 249 in 1840 to 851 in 1900. At that time, the residents gathered together with the believers from Klein Köris and Löpten to preach in a classroom at the Groß Köriser school. It became clear that the desire for an own sacred building was growing. The municipal administration around the headmaster Grubert and his two lay judges Hainke and Wilke therefore contacted the provincial administration in 1901 and 1902 to force the construction of a church for these three places. The parish's request for a building site in the historic center of the village - and thus in the royal forest - was rejected for financial reasons. The community then made its own property available south of the village center. There, in the course of industrialization, a new district was created along a connecting road to the train station. In 1907, the building officer Georg Büttner was commissioned to draw up a sketch for the church. It was to be the last draft of the Prussian architect. The foundation stone was laid on June 7, 1914 in the presence of the Berlin architect Johannes Palm. The church consecration could be celebrated on June 14, 1916. On the occasion of the celebrations, Empress Auguste Viktoria presented the congregation with an altar Bible. The final invoice amounted to 65,451.42 marks. A few months later, Büttner died as a result of a shot in the head in the course of the fighting during the First World War in Flanders . During the Second World War , the tower was damaged after a fire. They were only sparsely repaired because suitable building materials were in short supply. It was not until 1979 to 1984 that the parish restored the building shell. By this time, however, water penetrating had already caused considerable damage. In the 1960s, a painter had covered the painting with a monochrome overlay. An extensive restoration was carried out between 2006 and 2012. Donors had the opportunity to symbolically acquire a star on the vault. The partner community in Düren donated an electric drive for the bells.

architecture

Choir

The building was built as a hall church in the style of homeland security architecture, to which a transverse rectangular, 45 meter high north-west tower and a sacristy on the south-east church wall adjoin. Above the eaves there is a viewing platform, above which there is a tower clock and a bent spire that ends with a ball, a weather vane and a cross. The apse is semicircular. The sides of the nave are structured with pilaster strips , between which there are semicircular recesses with three-part thermal bath windows .

Furnishing

The furnishings of the church come from the time the church was built. The wooden barrel ceiling is painted with a striking starry sky with wreath and flower motifs in Art Nouveau style. In the tower there are three bells behind the sound arcades . Two were built in 1922, a third followed in 1927. The organ was built in 1916, the company GF Steinmeyer & Co. .

literature

  • Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
  • Hans Sonnenberg: Under and over the starry sky , published in the 2016 book of the Naturschutzbund Deutschland, Regionalverband Dahmeland, Fall 2015, ISSN 1869-0920, p. 122

Web links

Commons : Christ Church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 14.2 "  N , 13 ° 39 ′ 30.5"  E