Derwitz village church
The Protestant village church of Derwitz is a stone church from around 1500 in Derwitz , a district of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The congregation belongs to the Evangelical Christophorus Parish of Groß Kreutz of the Evangelical Church District Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
location
The Derwitzer Dorfstraße runs through the former Angerdorf in a north-south direction and is also named like this in a west-east direction. The building stands northwest of this intersection and is enclosed by a wall made of field stones .
history
While the place was first mentioned in a document in 1371, the building dates from around 1500. It is therefore quite possible that it was built on the foundation of a previous building. The church patronage lay with the Lehnin monastery and passed to the Lehnin office in 1542 . Derwitz was the parish church , the branch church was in neighboring Krielow . In the years 1804 and 1805, the extended church the sacred building a tower essay, which by 1855 spire was completed. Around 1900 craftsmen decorated the east gable with pinnacles . In 1976 the building was renovated; workers found a document from bygone times in the tower button . In 1991 the congregation came to the Evangelical Church District Groß Kreutz.
Building description
The choir is straight and has not moved in. It was built from uncut and unlayered field stones, the spaces between which were loosely filled with granite chips. The corners are partially finished with reddish brick . On the outer sides there are two beehive-shaped windows, while in the middle the remains of two coupled, segment-arch-shaped openings can be seen. Its reveal was also built from reddish brick and closed with additional bricks. Above it rises a mighty stepped gable with five panels , the shape of which is reminiscent of the Stargard panels - a late Gothic style motif that can be found in Pomerania . They are supplemented by two branch towers, three at the height of the roof ridge . While the four outer arches only contain coupled segments, a cross is incorporated into the middle panel.
To the west adjoins the nave , which was also built from uncut and only slightly layered field stones. On the north side there are three windows: two in the nave and one to the west in the choir. On the south side, between the choir and the nave, between two windows, there is a wall-stone gate. In the western area there are two windows, one of which could also have been a gate at an earlier time. This would explain the repair work that extends into the base. At the level of the eaves , the structure is provided with a wide, plastered band. This is followed by a simple gable roof .
The west tower takes up the width of the nave. It was also built from field stones in the lower area. The top two, square floors are made of plastered bricks. Access to the church is via a simple, pressed segment arched portal. Above that is a semicircular window and a small, rectangular window on the upper floor. On the upper floor there is a segment-shaped, large sound arcade with a tower clock . The tower helmet ends with a tower ball and a cross.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar is signed with the initials GK and dates from 1716. It includes a polygonal pulpit basket that is held in white and blue tones. It was placed between twisted pillars decorated with wine and ears of wheat. They are in turn richly decorated with acanthus . Above is a sound cover with a glory of rays between a blown gable, on each of which a tuba angel stands. The fifth is made of wood with a polygonal shape and dates from the first half of the 18th century. On the western part of the gallery is a parapet organ with eight registers by Carl Eduard Gesell . The bell dates from 1476. The structure has a flat roof inside.
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
- Derwitz Church , website of the parish of Groß Kreutz
- Sound sample of the Gesell organ on Youtube
Individual evidence
- ↑ Derwitz Church , website of the travel country Brandenburg, accessed on May 1, 2017.
- ^ Andreas Kitschke: The churches of the Potsdam cultural landscape. Lukas Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-867-32248-5 , p. 91 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 12.7 " N , 12 ° 49 ′ 28.4" E