Bochow village church (Niedergörsdorf)
The Protestant village church Bochow is a Gothic stone church from the 14th century in Bochow , a district of the municipality Niedergörsdorf in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . The church was originally consecrated to St. Gangolf and is one of the few places of worship where the patronage is still known. In the Middle Ages the church was a place of pilgrimage.
location
The district road 7210 leads as Bochow coming from the north in a southerly direction through the place. The church is located east of the Angers on a raised piece of land in the middle of a former churchyard, which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones . In a wall niche there is a memorial for those who fell in the First World War .
history
The choir was built in the first half of the 14th century. The choir was probably the church at that time, as there is evidence that it was a parish church as early as 1335 and came into the possession of the Zinna monastery . The nave was probably built at the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. At that time Hohengörsdorf was a subsidiary church around 1500. After the Reformation , the sovereign took over the church patronage .
During the Thirty Years War , part of the church was destroyed but rebuilt. The octagonal, 43 m high tower in the neo-Gothic style was added in 1856; large parts of the interior were redesigned. The church was redesigned around 1910/1920, during which time the tendrils were painted in the choir and on the triumphal arch . The organ will probably be installed at the same time . From 1967 a renovation took place, during which the church was also given a new painting. Later the side galleries were dismantled. Bochow has been part of the Oehna parish since 1996.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones that were uncut and not layered. Reddish bricks were usually used for repair and renovation work . The choir is straight and slightly drawn in. On the east side the remains of a clogged, centrally arranged pointed arch window can be seen. Remnants of a possible three window group cannot be seen. In the gable is a narrow and high rectangular opening. On the north and south sides there are two ogival windows, the walls of which are made of masonry. In the western area of the north side the remains of a closed gate can be seen. At the transition to the eaves there is a wide, plastered strip; above it a simple gable roof . This small rectangular hall was therefore the sacred building in the 14th century .
This is followed by the nave. It also has a rectangular floor plan. On its north and south side there are three large, ogival windows, which extend over almost the entire height of the building. In between there is a mighty buttress made of field stone and brick.
In the west of the church there is an octagonal tower with an octagonal pointed spire. The upper part of the tower was made of brick, the lower part of the tower and the church were made of field stone. The pinnately raised corner struts are striking . The tower can be entered from the west through a large portal. There is a brick portal with a tall rectangular door and a semicircular window above it. On the middle floor , the fields were emphasized by pilaster strips . There are small arched windows in the lower area and the sound arcades above a frieze that opens downwards . On top of it sits an attachment with further windows, each with a tower clock that points in the cardinal points. The pointed helmet ends with a tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The altarpiece was created in 1701 by Gottfried Patzsch (en) from Wittenberg and restored in 1967. In the wooden structure there are three oil paintings on top of each other in a classic sequence: In the predella is the Last Supper , above the crucifixion of Christ and the resurrection of Jesus Christ . On the side there are angels in shellfish with tools of the Passion and acanthus carvings , above the pictures is the Risen Christ. The late Gothic font is made of sandstone and dates from the 16th century. The organ was created by Alexander Schuke from Potsdam in 1912 (Opus 76) and replaced an instrument by Joachim Wagner from 1738. It has 13 stops , two manuals , a pedal and was extensively renovated in 2007. The other church furnishings included parts of the new furnishings from 1856, including the doors, the ornamental window glazing and the partition walls on the side of the altar.
Plastered wall surfaces on the vaults show that the choir originally had a flat roof. It has a ribbed vault with caps and pear ribs . In the tower hall there is a bell with lowercase letters , this probably dates from the 15th century.
Appreciation
The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) honors the building as “one of the most striking village churches in Lower Fläming” in its monument database. She justifies this with the elevated location in the center of the village and the "original tower". The renovation in the 19th century created "a good example of neo-Gothic design" with an "atmospheric connection with the interior design that has grown over time".
literature
- Monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow-Fläming district, part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community, Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 248–250
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pages 97-98
- 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
- Evangelical parish Oehna: Dorfkirche Bochow , Flyer, p. 6, without date
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Coordinates: 51 ° 56 '51 " N , 13 ° 5' 9.6" E