Bliesendorf village church
The Protestant village church in Bliesendorf is a neo-Gothic hall church in Bliesendorf , a district of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Bliesendorfer Dorfstraße leads from the south towards the historic village green . There it branches off to the west and leads out of the village. The building stands south of the street on a slightly elevated plot of land, which is fenced in to the south and west with a wall made of uncut and non-layered field stones and a layer of masonry . There is a morgue in the southwest corner of the property.
history
Bliesendorf was first mentioned in a document in 1236. Presumably after this time the settlers built a previous building that served as a parish church . As a branch churches around 1,375 are Lütkendorf and 1450 Kammerode mentioned, both later desolate fell. Kanin was added from 1500 and Ferch from 1541 . The pastor was entitled to two hooves ; the church patronage lay with the landlords. There is evidence that they first appointed a pastor in 1540; therefore there must have already been a church in the village, but nothing is known about it yet. What is certain is that a previous building existed in 1727: There is an inscription on the stairway to the gallery that attests to a church consecration in that year. Parts of this building were incorporated into a new building in 1847 and 1848, with parts of the outer walls and the roof structure of the previous building being used. The steeple of Tudor had become dilapidated, was demolished and in neo-Romanesque rebuilt forms. The work was directed by the master builder Jacobi from Potsdam in collaboration with the master carpenter Reichel and the church painter Schubert. In 1854 the parish bought an organ , which was restored in 2001. During the First World War , the community had to hand in a bell from 1784 as part of a metal donation by the German people . In the years 1956/1957 the exchanged parish the church facilities , and called sweep over the original painting of. A renovation took place between 1993 and 1993. The plaster was renewed and the interior renovated. Experts uncovered some of the original painting. In 1995 the cemetery wall was renovated. Two years later the church tower was renovated.
Building description
The building was erected using field stones from the previous building, mainly of masonry stones , which were then plastered. No statement can therefore be made about the exact course of the construction seam without further investigations. The choir is straight, not moved in and windowless. The east gable is also windowless, with a small ox eye in the middle .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan with a length of around 21 meters and a width of around 8 meters. It has a comparatively simple structure. There are three large arched windows on the north and south sides. The ship has a simple gable roof .
The church tower is connected to this to the west by means of a narrow intermediate piece. It has a square floor plan and was built from yellowish bricks. Access from the west is via a round arched portal. The five floors taper towards the top and are visually separated from one another by cornices . On the second floor there is an arched window on each of the accessible sides; in the third a round arched sound arcade . Above, on the fourth floor, there is a circular panel each with a tower clock. The upper storey consists of three coupled panels, the outer ones of which are blocked. The tower helmet ends with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings with altar , pulpit with expressionistically emphasized corners and fifths date from the time of the last renovation in 1956/1957. The Dehio Handbook rates them as “high quality pieces” made from red brick slips . A simple wooden cross hangs on the east wall behind the altar.
The 19th century horseshoe gallery can be reached through a staircase on the west side. There is an inscription on the building that refers to the previous building from 1727. The parapet is structured with rectangular fields. Experts were able to uncover the paintwork from the construction period on the north-eastern pillar. The building has a flat, plastered ceiling and a floor, the bricks of which were mostly burned in the Glindow region . The sanctuary is raised by two steps.
There is an organ on the west side of the gallery . The instrument was built by Carl Ludwig Gesell in 1854. It has seven registers , a manual as well as a pedal and mechanical slide box. The three-part prospectus is kept in the Tudor style, with the middle part decorated with tracery . The instrument was restored in 2001 by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau .
In the tower there is a bell from 1716 that was taken over from the previous building. It was cast by Pierre Caillet in Berlin . It bears the inscription: "TOBIAS MUND CREUTZWITZIO BRANDENBURGENSIS / PASTOR IN BLIESENDORF PETER RIETZ SCHULTZE / ANDREAS BOLDEKE AND ANDREAS BEREND CHURCH GUARDIAN / ANNO 1716 PIERRE CAILLIET ET HENRI ROLLET FECIT A BERLIN"
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Bliesendorf village church , website of the Evangelical Cross Church Community of Bliesendorf, accessed on January 20, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 19.2 ″ N , 12 ° 51 ′ 15.1 ″ E