Caputh village church
The Protestant village church Caputh is a pillar basilica in Caputh , a district of the community Schwielowsee in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Potsdam the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . It was in the years 1850 to 1852 to a design by Friedrich August Stüler in Rundbogenstil built.
location
The Linde road leading from the east to the Castle Caputh to. There it runs as the Road of Unity in a westerly direction. The structure stands south of this road crossing on an area that is delimited to the south by Seestrasse and to the southeast by Michendorfer Chaussee . The area is enclosed by a wall made of yellowish bricks .
history
Caputh was first mentioned in a document in 1317. Compared with the development of neighboring places, it is therefore conceivable that a sacred building was built in Caputh as early as the 14th century . So far, however, no reliable information is available. The Dehio handbook is just as cautious and assumes that individual longitudinal walls from a previous building from around 1600 were included in the construction. What is certain is that there was a building in 1820 that had since become dilapidated. As the population grew, the parish advocated a new building, which was built between 1850 and 1852 under the direction of Christian Heinrich Ziller based on a design by Stülers. In 1914 the roof and the coffered ceiling in the central nave had to be replaced. Restoration work was carried out between 1981 and 1988 as well as 1999 and 2000.
Building description
The building was built from brick in the style of historicism and then plastered . The windowless choir is strongly drawn in and has a five-eighth closing . The fields are structured with pilaster strips made of light-colored brick, which are decorated with a frieze at the upper and lower ends .
This is followed by the three-aisled nave. The eastern wall is dominated by a large rose window that extends into the gable . The walls are lightly plastered and often stepped. Left and right are further pilaster strips that structure the facade, accompanied by a narrow, segment-arched panel on each side. At the transition from the gable to the gable roof is a frieze that is open at the bottom.
The eastern walls of the side aisles are closed and were made of light-colored plaster ashlars. The corners are again emphasized with pilaster strips, the transition to the nave with a frieze. The north and south walls are largely symmetrical. Between light bricks, a total of seven pilaster strips form six large fields, each of which has a segment-arched window in the upper area. At the upper storey , Stüler changed the material and had it built exclusively from light-colored bricks. In the middle of the seven fields he had five arched windows, each arranged in pairs and coupled to one another, built. Here, too, a frieze concludes. On the south wall of the aisle there is a rectangular gate on the second field to the east.
However, the main access is to the west. There is a mighty portal in a vestibule, which is set into a gable framed from brick. Pilaster strips also emphasize the structure here, as well as on the two side aisles. There are two arched windows in the upper area, which in turn extend into the side gable. A gable with five narrow arched windows rises above the portal. Behind it, the facade jumps back to the nave, which in turn is decorated by a large rose window. The Dehio manual compares the structure with the sacred building of San Zeno Maggiore in Verona .
The church tower is located north of the building and is only connected to it by a small sacristy . It is comparatively slim, has a square base , and above it is octagonal with several slit-shaped windows. The appearance is further emphasized by pilaster strips. On the bell floor there are two coupled sound arcades , above a flat roof with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings come from the construction period and were influenced by Friedrich Wilhelm IV . The baptismal bowl from around 1840 was made from porcelain in the Royal Porcelain Manufactory based on a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel in Berlin . Additional features include two classicist chandeliers with rope sheaves. In 1852 August Soller designed the prospectus for the organ . The instrument comes from Carl Eduard Gesell , stands on a horseshoe gallery in the central nave and was rebuilt in 1928 by Alexander Schuke .
The interior of the building is dominated by arched arcades that rest on rectangular pillars with corner pillars. The building has a flat, wooden coffered ceiling inside.
In the tower hangs a bell that Hugo Collier cast in 1883.
Church park
The building is surrounded by a church park. In the eastern area in the direction of Seestraße there is a Luther oak that was pulled from an acorn that comes from the Luther oak in Wittenberg . A few meters to the east is the Haken-Stein . The boulder commemorates the Caputher doctor Oskar hook in April 1945 before the invasion of the Red Army suicide committed. There is a tool shed to the north of the property on the border with Unit Street. It served as a shed for the hearse until 1945 and is used by gardeners for their equipment in the 21st century. To the northeast of the building, replicas of memorial plaques hang on the surrounding wall, with which the Caputher residents remember the victims of the world wars. The originals are in the forest cemetery. They are supplemented by the graves of those von Thümen , which are located south of the border with Michendorfer Chaussee. Established in 1875, the graves were probably destroyed around 1985 and rebuilt in 2002. In 2005 the parish built a parish hall in the south-east of the property, which was inaugurated in 2008. There is also a winter church there.
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 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 53.6 ″ N , 13 ° 0 ′ 5.1 ″ E