Borgisdorf village church
The Protestant village church of Borgisdorf is a late Romanesque stone church from the second half of the 13th century in Borgisdorf , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The village street leads elliptically around the historic village green, which extends in a north-south direction. The church stands west of the Angers on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
Borgisdorf was first mentioned in 1283 as a church village. The parish states in a flyer that the building was built “soon after the Flemish immigrants (1150–1160)”. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) , however, assumes that the building was built in the second half of the 13th century. At that time it still had an apse , which was torn down after the Thirty Years' War . In the middle of the 19th century, part of the now damaged church furnishings were restored. A central aisle was created by changing the arrangement of the stalls; some church windows were enlarged. In 1860 the ship received a new floor. The 33 m high church tower was built in 1896 and 1897, replacing a bell house that was located east of the church in the cemetery. With this new access, the previous portals on the south side could be walled up; there was also a third, larger window. The buttresses at the corners of the structure were then removed. In the years 1965 to 1976, the southern side gallery was removed and the western gallery reduced by around 80 cm. With this more light fell into the nave . In 1992 the roof of the ship was given a new covering; a year later the tower. In 1996 archaeological excavations took place in the ship. The floor was then drained and the side walls were partially re-plastered.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stone , which was uncut and not layered. The choir has a rectangular floor plan and is slightly drawn in towards the nave. The remains of the broken apse can be seen on the east wall. The opening was walled up and two small, arched windows were created; above it in the middle a third window. The gable is windowless. There is a large window on the north and south sides of the choir.
The nave also has a rectangular floor plan. There are three large windows on the north and south sides; gates closed on the south side, which served as access until the tower was built. The west wall is decorated with pinnacles .
The west tower has a square floor plan and is strongly drawn in opposite the ship. It can be entered from the west through a portal. There are two extensions to the side that reach up to the height of the eaves of the ship. In the middle floor there is an ogival opening on each of the three accessible sides, in which panels are incorporated. The bell storey rises above it with two coupled, round arched sound arcades on each side. Above it is a tower clock on each side, which merges into the pointed helmet. This ends with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The altar retable was created in 1717 and could have been created by the sculptor Schütze, who also created the altar in the monks' church in Jüterbog . It consists of a crucifix in front of a painted rock landscape that shows Jerusalem . The wooden pulpit was built in 1702. The church furnishings include chandeliers and altar lights from 1896.
On the western gallery there is an organ that Alexander Schuke built in 1897. In the same year, the Rochlitz company from Berlin installed the tower clocks.
Two bells hang in the tower. The older one was cast in 1581 and is labeled O REX GLORIAE VENI CUM PACE (Oh King of Honor, come with peace!). It has a diameter of 86 cm and a weight of around 450 kg. A smaller one was made in the bell foundry in Apolda in 1971 and bears the inscription SOLI DEO GLORIA (God alone [be] the glory).
See also
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 .
- 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 2019, p. 180.
- Ev. Parish office Borgisdorf (Hrsg.): Borgisdorf - a village in Fläming, history and shape of the Evangelical village church . Flyer, without date, p. 4.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Borgisdorf , website of the Niederer Fläming municipality, accessed on January 11, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 55 '34 " N , 13 ° 8' 17.5" E