Bützer village church
The Protestant village church Bützer is a late Romanesque brick church in the Bützer district of Milower Land in the Havelland district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Milow in the Evangelical Church District Nauen-Rathenow of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
History and architecture
The village church Bützer is a small late Romanesque brick hall built around 1250 under the influence of the Jerichow monastery with a square choir and low semicircular apse . The apse is equipped with a round arch opening between two circular windows. The sparse external structure shows a pointed arch frieze and German band on the apse and originally also on the choir, and a German band over a console frieze on the nave. There are also corner pilaster strips and the remains of a bricked-up Romanesque window on the north wall. On the south side there used to be a choir and probably also a nave portal, which can only be recognized by a patch. Groove and cup scrapes can be found to the left and right of it. The square west tower with a pointed hood was rebuilt in 1841. There are no indications of a western tower from the construction period. Because of the construction of the tower, it is uncertain whether the church once had a west portal.
The nave has a flat roof, and there is a groin vault in the choir, which probably dates from the construction period. A crack in the choir, stretching from the foundation to the roof, endangered the entire statics and the preservation of the structure. Thanks to generous donations and support from the state, the impending collapse in 2009 was prevented. Steel anchors were drawn into the apse to stabilize the evasive masonry. Cracks in the walls were closed and the roof structure, which had fallen out of balance, was straightened. The horseshoe gallery on Tuscan columns dates from around 1700; at the same time the ship windows were enlarged.
Furnishing
In the choir and apse, iconographically interesting, figurative and ornamental wall paintings have been preserved, but they were improperly restored in 1910. Also in 1910, the building was given an ornamental room setting. In the apse Christ, female saints and angels are depicted, in the choir vault four angels, in the southern shield arch the Holy Family and Michael weighing souls with Ecclesia (?), In the northern one originally Birth and Visitation (?). The wall paintings were examined more closely in 2010 and are believed to date from the 14th or 15th century. The organ is a work by Friedrich Wilhelm Wäldner from 1841 with eight stops on a manual and pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 163.
- Damian Kaufmann: The Romanesque brick village churches in the Altmark and Jerichower Land. Verlag Ludwig, Kiel 2010, ISBN 978-3-86935-018-9 , p. 347.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Information on the Bützer Church in the Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung of August 5, 2017. Retrieved on April 6, 2018 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 8.4 " N , 12 ° 18 ′ 11.9" E