Butzow village church

The neo-Romanesque village church of Butzow

The church in the village of Butzow is a hall church and is centrally located in today's district of the municipality of Beetzseeheide , Brandenburg . It has no name.

history

The village of Butzow was first mentioned in 1207 as "Buzow". From 1499 to 1542 the Premonstratensian Monastery of Our Lady on the Mountain on the Marienberg in front of the old town had the right of patronage over Butzow. In 1518 the elector Joachim I gave a failed fiefdom in Butzow to the Premonstratensian monastery on the Marienberg, which already held the church patronage, and in 1520 he sold Butzow with all rights and income for 992 guilders and 30 groschen to the cathedral chapter of Brandenburg. The feudal succession also passed from the Brösegke and Klest families to the cathedral chapter. The previous free hooves were then leased to farmers. Later, in the course of the Reformation , the church patronage came from the Premonstratensian monastery to the cathedral chapter, and from 1541 until the 17th century at the latest, the Butzow church service was provided by the Ketzür priest. As a result of the Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1648), Butzow fell largely desolate. After the war and the resettlement, Butzow had its own pastor again by 1656 at the latest. Until 1877, the Brandenburg Cathedral Chapter held the right of patronage. Two years after this resignation, a new church was consecrated, financed by the farming community of Butzows. In 2014–2017 the church building was comprehensively renovated. The church belongs to the parish Päwesin in the parish of Mittelmark-Brandenburg in the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Building

Butzow Church from the southeast

The village church is a neo-Romanesque building. It is made of red bricks and partially plastered. The relatively simple church building has a slender west tower that tapers upwards in smaller steps. The corners of the tower as well as the ship have unplastered pilaster strips that terminate in gables . The roof is put on in the form of a spire . At the top there is a tower ball and a weather valve . The portal is walled with bricks. It has a pointed gable roof. A cross-shaped niche is incorporated in the gable . The door is three-winged and has a semicircular, five-part skylight . Above the portal there are two narrow arched windows one above the other . This is followed by an arched frieze , an ox's eye and a round arched window . A further frieze and a circular panel are visible above the latter. The sound openings for the bell cage are oriented to the north and south. A tower clock is only oriented to the east. It is found instead of the circular aperture.

Like the western window openings of the tower, there are narrow arched windows in the western outer wall of the nave , on both sides of the tower. Five large arched windows face north and south, and two small arched windows each under the westernmost. Under the eaves there is an eaves cornice , which is designed similar to the friezes on the east side. The east gable has gable ears at eaves level and a metal cross on top. A small, semicircular apse has a half- conical roof , arcade-like blind windows and a simple east portal.

The interior of the church is simple. The organ comes from the Potsdam organ builder Carl Eduard Gesell . The bell is made of sound steel and was installed in 1928.