Cammer village church
The Protestant village church Cammer is a hall church in Cammer , a district of the municipality Planebruch in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Landstrasse 85 is the main road coming from the north-west and runs in a south-easterly direction through the town. In the center of the village, Lehniner Straße branches off to the north. The building stands northwest of this intersection on a piece of land that is enclosed by a wall made of reddish bricks .
history
The exact construction date is not yet known. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) only indicates a medieval stone building in its monument database. The church is likely to have been built in the second half of the 15th century. It is known that the sacred building was expanded to the east with stone blocks in 1775. All openings were changed and the church tower received an attachment. An apse was added at the end of the 19th century . In 1975 the church was renovated with the involvement of the local population. By using a rough exterior plaster, the building was “plastered in a disfiguring way” from the point of view of the Dehio manual . The Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg points out that, in addition to the visual restriction, the “material containing a lot of cement” led to “serious moisture damage”. A damage analysis was carried out in 2011. As a result, the entablature in the church tower was badly rotten and the statics endangered. A renovation was carried out by 2014, during which a breathable lime plaster was also applied. For reasons of monument protection, the previously existing rain gutters were dispensed with. The water should be transported from the building through a drainage layer of clay. A few years later, experts found that the measures were insufficient. Therefore gutters have been installed in the meantime. The renovation of the interior should then begin in or after 2020.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones that were later plastered. In the semicircular apse are three small arched windows. The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the south side of the nave there are five pressed-segment arched windows.
The church tower was also built from field stones on the lower floor , above it from brick. It has a round arch-shaped sound arcade on its north, west and south sides and a tower clock above it. The tower ends with a pyramid roof with a tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The church furnishings include a late medieval or early modern church chest. A bronze bell , which was cast in 1471, hangs in the tower .
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Old Churches Berlin-Brandenburg Association V. (Ed.): Village Church of the Month June 2020: Cammer (PM) , Infobrief 06/20 - June 1st, 2020, p. 8.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 15 ′ 26.7 " N , 12 ° 39 ′ 53.4" E