Bestensee village church
The Evangelical village church Bestensee is a sacred building from the 14th century in the municipality part Groß Beste in the municipality Bestensee in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg in the Federal Republic of Germany .
history
An exact date of construction is not known. Experts suspect that the church was probably built towards the end of the 14th century, possibly around 1375. The parish states in a church guide that the building could have been built "around 1350". In 1883 and 1884, the parish extended the structure to the west and built the tower and a vestibule on the south side of the church. At the end of the 19th century, it pulled the southern gallery through to the altar wall and extended it by five more meters at the west gable. Around 1915 the church received electrical lighting. It was extensively restored between 1975 and 1980.
architecture
The structure consists of field stones that were only roughly hewn and layered unevenly. Only a few stones at the corners of the building were shaped. The resulting gaps in the masonry are filled with smaller field stones and splinters. The parish decided on a simple rectangular hall. On the south side of the nave there are three large, arched windows, of which the two to the west are larger than the east window. The walls are structured with light-colored plaster . Approximately in the middle of the nave there is a rectangular porch made of reddish brick . A small, rectangular window is let into its east and west side. Access is via a simple, dark and rectangular wooden door. On the east wall of the nave there are two larger windows in the lower area and a smaller one in the middle, ogival windows. In the gable, which is also made of field stones, two flat-arched, brightly plastered panels can be seen. The simple gable roof is clad in red beaver tail , as is the tent-shaped roof of the extension. The west tower, which was added later, was built from reddish brick like the porch. On the first floor of the south and north walls, there are two arched windows arranged one above the other. The west wall of the tower is designed in a comparatively striking way for a building in this region: It consists of a semicircular panel on both sides that opens downwards and into each of which a cross is incorporated. The rising shape of the tower is structured by two pilaster strips , which are extended by a circular panel that also opens downwards. In it is the arched west portal bordered with light bricks, above which three vertical, narrow panels are arranged. They lead to a circular recess with four circular, brightly plastered panels. The storey above is clad with brown wooden slats, into which two rectangular sound arcades are embedded on each side . The tower ends with a tent roof and a cross.
Furnishing
An originally existing wooden altarpiece from 1702 is no longer available. He carried twelve carved figures, some up to one meter high. Two of the figures, Anna selbdritt and Saint Dorothea , stood in the district museum in Zossen until the end of the Second World War . Nothing is known about their whereabouts. Instead, there is a comparatively simple essay with a stucco cross in the church. The top is decorated with pilasters , snails, a lamb and a pelican as a symbol of Jesus Christ. The fifth with a diameter of around 50 centimeters is made of brass and dates from the 17th or 18th century.
The interior of the church has a flat roof. During the GDR era, the parish removed the two side galleries from the previously existing horseshoe gallery. There is a flat arched sacrament niche on the east wall . The south wall is decorated with wall paintings, which were probably made in the early 15th century.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ A house of worship made of boulders . In: Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung , June 23, 2007, accessed on the website of the support group Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg on June 14, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 37 " N , 13 ° 37 ′ 40.5" E