Briesen village church (Spreewald)
The Protestant village church Briesen is a late Gothic brick church in Briesen in the Spreewald in the Spree-Neisse district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Briesen in the Briesen parish in the Cottbus parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The wall paintings inside the church, which are of rare quality and completeness, deserve special mention and can be viewed after registration.
History and architecture
The Briesen village church was built in the third quarter of the 15th century as a rectangular brick building. The brickwork is somewhat irregular, but the binder stones still form a regular diamond pattern. The gable was designed as a stepped gable , which is formed from two plastered ogival panels, which are framed by strong bulges with rope-like bars made of shaped stones . In the south there is a late Gothic vestibule with a barrel vault and a similar stepped gable, which has been partially reconstructed. In 1804 a slate roof tower with a hood was added . Another vestibule was added to the west in the late 19th century. The church was damaged on the roof turret and the barrel vault in the Second World War. Due to the bullet holes and the subsequent replacement of the boards, the ceiling painting was almost completely lost.
Inside the structure is closed with a wooden flat vault; the western part is covered with a flat ceiling. In the east, north and south walls there are niches which were used in the pre-Reformation period to store relics , figures of saints or altars. In 1965 a three-sided gallery was built.
Extensive wall paintings with inscriptions dated to 1486 have been preserved on all four walls. They are remarkable because of their relatively complete preservation, the nature of the image program and their high quality. They were uncovered from 1954 to 1958 and show the Passion of Christ, the crucifixion and the last judgment that was almost destroyed . You can also see donor figures , monks and young men, but their interpretation is uncertain. When it was uncovered, the former patronage box from 1673 was demolished.
Furnishing
A high-quality wood-carved altarpiece from 1701 comes from the Drei 30mark workshop in Muskau . The two-storey structure with vine leaf columns is flanked by balusters and adorned with rich acanthus cheeks . In the predella it shows a communion relief, in the main field a fully plastic crucifixion group and above it a resurrection relief, which is crowned with a St. John's cross framed with laurel . The pulpit is only partly from the 18th century.
Ornate death shields for Hans Caspar von Klitzing II. († 1709), Hans Caspar von Klitzing III. († 1699) and Carl Philipp von Klitzing († 1717) show the portraits of the deceased over military emblems. An excellent sandstone relief by Jost von Schönfeldt († 1630) with a life-size depiction of the deceased in armor should also be mentioned. In front of the church are the graves of Carl Wilhelm († 1817) and Marie Helene von Wackerbarth († 1836). The organ is a work by Jehmlich from 1963 with eleven stops on two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 150–151.
- Wolfgang Gericke, Heinrich-Volker Schleiff, Winfried Wendland: Brandenburg village churches. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, p. 143.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Götz Eckardt (ed.): Fates of German architectural monuments in the Second World War. Volume 1. Henschelverlag Art and Society, Berlin 1980, p. 201.
- ^ Website of the Evangelical Parish of Briesen (Spreewald). Retrieved October 10, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved November 29, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 ′ 54.8 " N , 14 ° 14 ′ 41.5" E