Briest village church (Havelsee)
The church in the village of Briest is a hall church and is located in today's district of the city of Havelsee not far from the Havel . It has no name.
history
The fishing village Briest was first mentioned in 1294 as Brisitz . From 1463 Briest belonged to the Plaue estate or office and in 1772 it went to the city of Brandenburg , whose ownership it remained until the 19th century. In 1541 the Briester church was a branch church of the church in Plaue. During the Thirty Years War the existing Briester church was looted and damaged. The entrance door was smashed, the wooden plank altar, in which the church treasury and the sacrament implements were hidden in its cavity, was destroyed and the altar clothing stolen. The church was looted again during the Swedish-Brandenburg War .
The neo-Romanesque church building dates from 1888/89. Due to a large need for restoration with expected high costs and in contrast only a small number of churchgoers in Briest, the parish decided to sell the building into private hands. It was withdrawn from church use. On November 18, 2005, the Briester church was sold to a private person by the Protestant parish of Plaue / Havel.
Building
The village church was built from exposed, bare red clinker bricks. The choir on the east side of the church is narrower and lower in relation to the nave and has a pointed gable . Three oblong and narrow arched windows were incorporated below the gable . In relation to the rise of the verge, the middle one is worked proportionally longer than the two identical outer windows. There is a large and simple round arched window on the north and south sides. The north-east and south-east corners of the choir are each adorned by large buttresses that are stepped at an angle of 45 degrees to the building and which should not be of great structural importance.
There are three unadorned arched windows on both sides of the ship. The east gable has a single step over the corners. On top sits a gable tiller with a central arch. The pinnacle has its own small gable roof across the ship's roof . The steps in the lower area of the gable edge also have small roofs standing across the church roof, similar to the gable tines. The west gable has the same steps as the east gable. Over the corners of the nave there are pilaster strips that merge into a profiled and step-like gable frieze on the two gable sides along the verge. This gable frieze runs continuously into the gable tab on the east side. On the north and south sides, on the other hand, the pilaster strips run out into the individual steps of the gable. Small panels were also worked into the pilaster strips on the north and south sides in the upper part under the small gables of the decorative roof of the steps . In the tower there is a small round arched portal on the west side and a round arched window has been incorporated in the lower part of the south side. To the north, west and south there are first one and then two further also round-arched sound openings . All of these arches in the tower have a slight, also arched roof . The tower spire initially runs flat, then after a sharp break it converges in a pointed pyramid shape. In the roof of the tower there are small, round openings with roofing on all sides, which were certainly reserved for a tower clock as an advance payment. At the top of the tower there is a tower ball and weathercock .
See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Briest timetable ( Memento of the original from October 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 14, 2013
- ↑ Briester Church for sale . Retrieved December 14, 2013
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 '33.01 " N , 12 ° 25' 36.31" O