Dangelsdorf (desert)
The desert area of Dangelsdorf is known for the ruins of a medieval stone church , which is occasionally referred to in church descriptions under the term type Dangelsdorf for comparisons.
The desert, or the church ruins that still exist, are located in the Hoher Fläming Nature Park around two kilometers north of the village of Dangelsdorf , which was later re-established under the same name and which today belongs to the municipality of Görzke in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The dense forest of the Nonnenheide surrounds the ruin, in the vicinity of which the Riembach rises, which forms the - only slightly shorter - second source arm of the Buckau river . The desert is at 108 m above sea level .
Etymology and desolation
The place was first mentioned in 1375 as Dankelstorff in the Land Book of Emperor Charles IV ("Land Book of the Mark Brandenburg"). Reinhard E. Fischer traces the name back to a man with the German personal name Thangker or similar . According to the entry in the land register, 24 hooves originally belonged to the village, including 2 Schulzenhufen. Since no taxes are noted, Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr conclude, based on Ernst Fidicin (1860), that Dangelsdorf was already desolate at that time, i.e. 1375. In 1465 the place was definitely deserted, because in that year the "iron tooth" Margrave Friedrich von Brandenburg left half the desert village Dankelstorff in the voytie gortzke to the Bishop of Brandenburg, Dietrich IV.
It is noteworthy that Engeser and Stehr reject as a legend the descriptions common in relevant publications , according to which either the Hussite invasion in 1429 or the robber barons of Quitzow were responsible for the destruction of the village. A more likely reason they see in the great plague - pandemic 1347-1353, as the Black Death went down in history, or in the Magdalene flood of the year 1342, as an unprecedented scale were reported from all German territories flooding. Possibly this catastrophe was the worst flood of the entire 2nd millennium in the Central European inland.
Church ruin
Parts of the old surrounding wall of the cemetery or village green, in the middle of which was the church, and the church ruins have remained unchanged from the former Dangelsdorf. After around 600 years of decay, almost the entire west wall, part of the east wall and the outlines of the former side walls are still standing. Since the beginning of the 21st century, the two walls have been supported with brick walls on the sides. Since many medieval Fläming churches can only be dated with difficulty due to destruction, alterations, additions or renovations, the ruins provide clues to the early church constructions in the Mark Brandenburg. The narrow, ogival window opening on the east wall that has been preserved is ideal for drawing conclusions about the original shape of windows that were later changed. The remnants of interior and exterior plaster that have also been preserved provide indications of original grouting and plastering . In the relevant literature, the comparative church term type Dangelsdorf is occasionally found , for example in the chronological classification of the Gömnigker church.
Engeser / Stehr date the start of construction to the first half of the 14th century, so that the Dangelsdorfers, as far as the place was actually desolate in 1375, did not benefit from their building for long. The field stones are simply split. The corner stones still have rounded boulders , as they are only processed on two sides. The west wall, presumably two meters higher, probably had a gable tower . The church roof consisted of a gable roof . The remains of the surrounding wall point to a central portal and a priest's door on the north side, a west portal was not available. Overall, it was a simple rectangular building 17.80 meters long and 7.30 meters wide.
It is noteworthy that there is a large, unprocessed boulder on the former cemetery site , which, for whatever reason, was not broken up and processed for the construction of the church.
A few kilometers south in the Schleesen desert in the neighboring Fläming / Saxony-Anhalt nature park north of Stackelitz is a very similar, but less well-preserved church ruin from the first half of the 12th century. The Schleesen church is significantly smaller than the Dangelsdorf building and does not have its unusual, relatively long and narrow proportions. In the Schleesen desert, the old village well and the village pond have also been preserved.
literature
- Carl Ernst Fidicin: The territories of the Mark Brandenburg or history of the individual districts. Volume 3, part 3, Der Zauchische Kreis , Berlin 1860, p. 74 (here after Engeser / Stehr)
- Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Volume 13 of the Brandenburg Historical Studies on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission, be.bra Wissenschaft verlag Berlin-Brandenburg 2005, ISBN 3-937233-30-X , ISSN 1860-2436 , page 43
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Author collective: Landbuch der Mark Brandenburg . 1375: "Dankelstorff sunt 24 mansi, prefectus 2. Dimida villa est Cune Dochowes, alia medietas est Eggart Czillingh."
- ↑ Quotation reproduced from the Engeser / Stehr web link
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ N , 12 ° 25 ′ E