Brachwitz village church (Treuenbrietzen)
The Protestant village church Brachwitz is a late Gothic hall church in Brachwitz , a district of the town of Treuenbrietzen in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . The sacred building is the only one in the district that was built mainly from lawn iron stone.
location
The Brachwitzer Dorfstraße runs through the town in a west-east direction. In the historic center of the village, it also branches off to the north, creating a triangle. On this village green , the church stands on a plot of land that is fenced in with uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The place is first mentioned in a document in 1237. Engeser and Stehr assume that construction will begin at the end of the 13th and beginning of the 14th century due to the lancet triple windows and the masonry design. The Dehio manual does not specify itself as precisely, but only speaks of a late Gothic building. 1772 built church the West tower and increased the windows at the north and south sides of the nave . Presumably craftsmen also raised the top of the wall . In 1995 the building was given a new plaster , through which the dark iron stones stand out clearly. The city of Treuenbrietzen describes the resulting impression on an information board as "a striking appearance (like a colorful cow)".
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. The remains of a group of three windows can be seen on the eastern choir wall . They were at build time with a robe edged out unevenly-hewn bog iron stones. The middle window was the same height as the other two windows. They do not extend beyond the eaves , so that the building was probably flat covered in its interior at an earlier time. The gable was also built from lawn iron stone. In the center left under the roof ridge is a small, segment-arched window.
In the north and south walls of the nave there are five large, round-arched windows that extend over the upper two thirds of the building. The walls are brightly plastered. On the north wall, between the first and second window from the east, the remains of a blocked priest's gate can be seen. The remainder of a clogged church gate is also located between the fourth and fifth windows. The nave wears a simple gable roof , which with plain tiles are covered. Engeser and Stehr give a length of 17.00 meters with a width of 8.10 meters.
The church tower has a rectangular floor plan (4.75 m × 5.45 m) and is strongly drawn in towards the nave. It was built from brick and then plastered white. An ox's eye is arranged above the high rectangular portal on its west side . The sides are structured with pilaster strips . On the lower floor there is a segment-arch-shaped panel on the north and south sides . This is followed by a surrounding cornice and the tower floor. There is initially a rectangular panel on the north and south sides, followed by a segment-arched panel into which a high-rectangular sound arcade is embedded on the three accessible sides . On the west side there is a small rectangular window. Above each is a small, rectangular window. The tower ends with a tent roof that is covered with beaver tail tiles, on top of which is a tower ball with a weather vane and star.
Furnishing
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The baroque pulpit altar dates from the first half of the 18th century. It consists of a polygonal pulpit on which oval fields were applied and decorated with leaves. He stands between two pillars adorned with acanthus . Above it is a blown gable with a ray of sunshine. The sound cover is decorated with a leaf crown. Next to the masonry altar block there is a classical baptismal table , which an artist created from wood in the first half of the 19th century. The rest of the seating is believed to be from the 17th or 18th century. A plaque on the north wall of the nave commemorates the fallen from the First World War . There is a rectangular niche on the south wall.
The horseshoe gallery stands on columns of the Tuscan order . Below the western area, craftsmen separated an area with a glass porch, so that a winter church was built. Above is an organ that Johann Tobias Turley built in 1792. This was the first opus of self-taught . The prospectus was renovated in 1999.
Two chasubles from 1659 are in the 21st century in the cathedral monastery in Brandenburg . The donations from the village owner at the time, Christoph Friese, to the community were hidden behind the altar for many decades and were only rediscovered during renovation work in the 20th century.
The interior has a simple barrel vault.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by 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
- Brachwitz (Protestant village church) , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on March 3, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board : Brachwitz , erected northeast of the church, March 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 56 ′ 10 ″ N , 13 ° 43 ′ 19.6 ″ E