Bredereiche village church
The village church of Bredereiche is a Protestant church in the Brandenburg town of Bredereiche , which is consecrated to St. Martin of Tours . The current building is a half-timbered building that was built in 1689 on the foundation walls of a stone church that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The building is designated as a monument in the state of Brandenburg.
history
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The church was built on the former village green . It is an example of the Brandenburg half-timbered construction with a brick infill . The northeast gable has several symmetrically arranged struts that form four St. Andrew's crosses . On the north-west side, but also in the north-east gable and the side walls on the tower construction, round brick holes for ventilation and light.
The building has a rectangular floor plan with a drawn-in wooden tower paneled with boards, but as a hall church it has neither a separate choir nor supports. The tower is covered by a hipped roof, and there is a gable roof on the nave. In the interior there is an organ gallery at the southwest end under the tower. The beam ceiling is a flat wooden construction with stabilizing diagonals at the beam ends. The approximately one meter high plinth consists of field stones and broken bricks to fill in the joints and cavities. It probably already served as the foundation wall of a massive previous building that was destroyed in the Thirty Years War. When Bredereiche was rebuilt after this war from 1687, the current half-timbered building was built two years later, probably as a stopgap solution in poor times. The tower burned down in 1712, the weather vane displayed in the church today bears the year 1713. The original bells were made of bronze, but had to be given in for armament purposes during the First World War . In 1919 they were replaced by three steel bells. In 1984 the war memorial for the fallen soldiers of the First World War, dating from 1920, was redesigned into a "Friedensmal" with a new inscription.
A fundamental restoration of the church, threatened by decay, could begin in 1985 through an initiative of the then senior pastor Erich Köhler.
Furnishing
A candlestick from 1599 with the name of the donor is from the inventory of the original church. Its counterpart was likely stolen by soldiers. The equipment consists of a carved altar, which was made in 1689 by the Templin master company Christian Wegener. In the center there is a picture showing the Lord's Supper . The three figures depicting Mary with the child in the middle , Saint Martin of Tours on the left and Saint George on the right come from around 1450 . The figures could come from the Cistercian monastery Himmelpfort . They are not covered with gold leaf , which was unaffordable at the time , but painted with egg tempera paint and provided with a layer of wax, which creates a certain sheen. The baptismal font in the church today dates from 1986 and is modeled on an old font from the church in Dedelow near Prenzlau. The wooden pulpit shows a dove as a symbol of the Holy Spirit . During the restoration, the originally painted red and blue marbling was partially exposed and visible. The crucifix on the left dates from around 1900 and is assigned to the Nazarenes . The picture of Jesus is a copy by the Italian late Renaissance painter Guido Reni , the original of which is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The church interior contains other pictures, including St. Barbara with the attribute "cannon barrels" under her feet. Paintings of flowers and angels depicting the daughters of the sexton at the time date from around 1920. The organ on the gallery was built in 1880 by the Berlin organ building company Remler & Sohn . It has 280 pipes.
In the church there are also two model ships, one from 1839, the other from 1939. Bredereiche, located on the Havel , was a skipper's village with at times (around 1910) 50 registered ships. One of these traditional ship models shows a coffee boat from 1839, the year the Schifferverein was founded. The approximately one meter long model is almost completely covered by colored ribbons. These ribbons were donated by young women who were allowed to take part in the Schifferball for the first time. The newer model was created in 1939 for the club's centenary.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sights. on bredereiche.de website of the municipality Bredereiche with the history of the church.
- ^ Bulletin of the Friends of the Old Churches Berlin-Brandenburg eV
- ^ Parish church council Bredereiche (ed.): Leaflet on the village church Bredereiche .
Coordinates: 53 ° 8 ′ 18.9 ″ N , 13 ° 14 ′ 33.4 ″ E