Buckau village church
The Protestant village church Buckau is a single-nave sacral building with a choir and apse . The building was built in the Romanesque style as a field stone church. The church is located in the district Buckau the community Buckautal in the west of the district Potsdam-Mittelmark in Brandenburg .
history
The church was built around 1200 and is comparatively large for the location. The parish suspects that this could be related to a small castle north of Buckau. Their Flemish lord of the castle could have donated the church to his wife Gertrudis. But it is also conceivable that its size is due to the nearby Ziesar Monastery . The date of the consecration and the patronage are not yet known. Two bells from the 16th century have been preserved, so it can be assumed that the church already had a wooden tower. 1860 extended the community under the direction of architects Werner the structure around a neuro manic tower from brick and a Sakristei at the northern chorus. She also built a rectory and a school that will be used as a community hall in the 21st century. The pulpit and Fünte were also built during this time . On April 1, 1864, the church received an organ from Carl Böttcher from Magdeburg . In 1915 it was painted . Two years later the parish moved the altar from the organ gallery to the original place. Between 2003 and 2005, the parish called for a fundraising campaign to restore the altar. In 2005 the work could be carried out. Maria Meussling from Plötzky also added the lost predella . Since then, the names of the donors have been written on a parchment scroll below the altar, in which relics were presumably kept in earlier times .
architecture
The church is 23.65 meters long and 11.10 meters wide and is mainly made of field stones. In the lower part of the masonry, the stones are rather irregularly cut and layered. Above it, the stones get bigger and are more heavily carved. Below the eaves there is a mosaic-like masonry, which could indicate an increase. The gable roof and the apse are covered with a red beaver tail . In the north and south walls of the nave, five arched windows each let daylight into the church. Their shape is reflected in the windows in the choir. Two priest gates can be seen on the north and south sides of the ship . The opening on the north side is closed; the accompanying sheet from runners is still available. The gate on the south side was only bricked up at the turn and given a grayish plaster. The portal on the south side probably dates from the time the church was built, as well as the windows in the apse. The choir is retracted, 7.80 meters long and 8.70 meters wide and has a square floor plan. Its east gable, like that of the east nave, is made of red and black brick framework. This is followed by a retracted, semicircular apse. The transverse rectangular tower is 3.35 meters long and 9.95 meters wide. Above the multi-stepped main entrance there is an embedded cross with a cornice and a narrow, arched window. There is a coupled sound arcade on each side . A gusset with a three-pass can be seen above the central column . The tower is connected to the roof by a square approach that merges into a pointed helmet and is crowned by two different sized spheres. It is covered with slate . There is a tower clock with a white face and black hands on three sides. The sacristy on the north wall of the choir was built from red bricks. It has a square floor plan, two arched windows on the east side and one on the west side. The brown wooden door on the south side takes up this shape. A brick cross can be seen on the gable above. This saddle roof is also covered with reddish beaver tail tiles.
Interior
The Gothic altar was probably built around 1420 and shows Mary with Jesus Christ under a cross in its center . Jesus holds a bird in his hands, which can be interpreted as a symbol for the passion or as a sign of the power of God. Mary is framed by four virgins: the figure with the wheel and the sword represents Catherine of Alexandria , one of the fourteen helpers in need . Saint Dorothea can be recognized below by her flower basket . At the top right is Barbara of Nicomedia with the martyr's palm as her iconographic saint attribute . Finally, Saint Gertrude can be seen. The figures are framed by the twelve apostles . A step made of a tombstone leads to the altar. It shows the cross of Bernhard von Clairvaux and the inscription: GERTRVDIS MVLIER BONE VITE ET HONESTE CONVERSATIONIS (wife Gertrudis led a good life and an honorable way of life). The stone is considered to be the oldest gravestone in the Mark Brandenburg .
In a niche in the choir there is another figure of Mary, which was carved from linden wood around 1390 . It was probably also in an altar earlier. Two residents of Buckau found the baptism angel from the 18th century in the summer of 1999 when the parish barn was being renovated. The community had it restored in Magdeburg and hung it up in the choir. The brass chandelier dates from the beginning of the 19th century.
In the north nave a plaque commemorates three Buckau citizens who died in the Wars of Liberation . Another plaque opposite the pulpit commemorates the fallen soldiers from the German and French-German wars . Two plaques commemorate 32 dead from the First World War and ten dead from the Second World War .
Peal
The larger of the two bells from 1591 bears the inscription: VOX EGO CAMPANA NVMQVAM DENVNCIO VANA (I, the bell, am a (admonishing) voice, I never preach nothing) LAVDO DEVM VERVM PLEBEM VOCO CONGREGO CLERVM (I praise the true God , I call the people, I gather the clergy) as well as ANNO CHRISTI 1591 HADT ME IOCHIM IENDRICH ZV HAVELBERG CASTED SPES MEA CHRISTVS (My hope is Christ). It is decorated with a surrounding frieze and angels holding a crown over a vase. Two unicorns jumping against each other are also shown.
The smaller bell bears the names of the four evangelists as an inscription : LVCVS • MARCVS • MATEVS O IOHAÑES .
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Buckau village church , website of the Buckautal community, accessed on April 4, 2015.
- Description of the church by Thomas Engeser , accessed April 4, 2015.
Individual evidence
- ^ Floor plan of the church in Buckau , website of Theo Engeser, accessed on April 4, 2015.
- ↑ Late Gothic carved altar , website Straße Gothic winged altars, accessed on April 4, 2015.
- ↑ Frank Bürstenbinder: Baroque masterpiece discovered in Buckau / fundraising in progress. Website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg eV, accessed on April 4, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 25 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 40 ″ E