Beerfelde village church
The Protestant village church of Beerfelde is an early Gothic stone church from the second half of the 13th century in Beerfelde , a district of the Steinhöfel community in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The associated church belongs to the Protestant parish of Oderland-Spree .
location
The federal road 168 runs through the village, which branches off to the south in the historic village green when coming from the northeast . The building stands southeast of this intersection on a slightly elevated surface, which is enclosed by a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The hall church was built in the second half of the 13th century, which corresponds to the first documentary mention of Bärenfelde . In it Otto IV confirms the rights of the city of Fürstenwalde / Spree and mentions Beerfelde at the same time. It is conceivable that the stately building was initiated by the Cistercians from the Kagel monastery or that it was professionally supported in its execution. This suggests the comparatively careful construction work. In 1671 the building burned down and was rebuilt by craftsmen. Four years later, the merchant Peter Müller gave the parish a pulpit . In 1693 this acquired a fifth , for which the Zalius couple donated a pewter baptismal font . The church received an altarpiece from Fürstenwalde, which was repainted in 1713. In 1704 lightning struck the west tower and destroyed the top. The tower was rebuilt and received two new bells. In 1827 and 1871, craftsmen covered the tower again. In 1939 the parish had to hand over a bronze bell as part of the metal donation by the German people ; she got lost. After the end of the Second World War , the community began repair work on the nave , which was temporarily completed in the 1960s. On June 14, 1978, lightning struck the tower again. He damaged the bell from 1834 and resulted in the parish renewing the spire until 1980. After the fall of the Wall , further renovation work was carried out from 1995 onwards. In 2010, craftsmen set up the now restored altarpiece again.
Building description
The choir is built from carefully hewn and layered field stones. It is rectangular and indented. On the east side there are three narrow arched windows as a sign of the Trinity . They are likely to date from the time the church was built, as no significant repair work can be identified. The gable was also built from field stones. It is closed and has the remains of plaster . On the south wall of the choir there are two raised, arched windows, of which the western one still has remnants of a plaster reveal , which are only rudimentary in the eastern window. Smaller repair work from rock fragments can be seen above. The corner stones are carefully carved and interlocked. At the transition to the nave is a small sacristy made of reddish brick from the 19th century. It can be entered from the south through an arched gate. On the east side is an arched window. The corners of the extension are emphasized by pilaster strips , the transition to the roof by a toothed frieze worked into the fields . An extension is missing on the north side; here are two similar raised windows. The choir has a simple gable roof , which is covered with beaver tail .
While the eastern church wall of the nave was also built from evenly hewn and layered field stones, the gable is built from significantly smaller, uncut stones. The north and south walls, however, are neatly built. There are two beehive-shaped windows enlarged in Baroque style , the walls of which have been partially re-edged with reddish brick. In between, a portal clogged with field stones and stone chippings can be seen on the south wall. Two chessboard stones are built into the south wall .
The tower structure is square, drawn in and brightly plastered. It looks comparatively compact and has a beehive-shaped sound arcade on each of the three accessible sides . Above it is a pyramid roof with a tower ball and weather vane . The west portal is framed by two comparatively mighty buttresses , which were built in the lower area from brick and stone chippings, above which are modern plastered.
Furnishing
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From the altarpiece from 1713 only the predella and the main picture have survived. They show the Lord's Supper and the crucifixion of Christ . The wooden pulpit from 1675 shows the four evangelists in the fields . The Fünte from 1693 has also been preserved. On the western gallery there is an organ that was restored in 1964 by the Sauer Orgelbau company . The instrument has seven registers and a manual . At the transition from the nave to the choir is a pointed triumphal arch .
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 .
- Information board: Beerfelde village church , installed on the west portal, May 2017.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Beerfelde Church - History , website of the Evangelical Church Community Domstadt Fürstenwalde / Spree, accessed on February 5, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 48.5 " N , 14 ° 2 ′ 34.5" E