Village church in German Wusterhausen
The Protestant village church Deutsch Wusterhausen is a late Romanesque stone church in Deutsch Wusterhausen , a district of the city of Königs Wusterhausen in the Dahme-Spreewald district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish district Neukölln of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Landstrasse 40 leads from the west in an easterly direction as Chausseestrasse through the town. In the historic center, Hoherlehmer Strasse branches off to the north. Together with the street Am Denkmalplatz to the east, it spans a triangular area. The church stands on it on a slightly elevated plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The building was built in the early 13th century. At that time, the place was owned by those von Schlieben from 1375 to after 1480 , who also held the church patronage . At this time the pastor was entitled to three duty-free parish hooves ; passed there was a church hoof. 1542 German Wusterhausen was mentioned as a parish village in the Wusterhausen rule ; likewise in 1690. In 1575 the pastor from the Feldmark Gersdorf received 25 bushels of rye bushel grain and in 1600 from the farmers in German Wusterhausen 39 bushels of rye bushel grain. In 1611 he continued to receive income from the farms in Groß Machnow , which was added to the manor in 1642. The transition of the village into rulership also led to the church being united with Königs Wusterhausen in 1719 . There it was mentioned as a daughter church in 1800 and 1900.
A southern porch was added to the church in the 19th century. In 1921 the ceiling was whitewashed. During the GDR era , the church furnishings were completely replaced. In 1998/1999 extensive renovation work took place on the building envelope, the wooden cladding of the tower, the roof structure and the outdoor facilities. There is now a winter church in the choir .
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones that were hewn and processed in layers in some cases. The choir is straight and slightly drawn in. Numerous changes were made to the east wall, so that the original structure is hardly recognizable. It is conceivable that a three-window group was used at the time of construction. This is indicated by the strip-shaped repair work made of rubble stones that stretch over the entire length of the facade. They merge into two segmental arches that are located in the gable . In the center is a pressed segment arched gate, above a window and in the gable another, smaller and segment arched window. The door and middle window could also have been part of the three-window group. Originally there were two windows on the north side, of which the eastern one is blocked. The two windows on the south side are still there, but the western window was enlarged at a later time.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. The field stones are much less carved here. Presumably the choir was built first and later the nave in a second construction phase. In addition, the parish states on a sign on the church that the building extended into the middle of the 14th century. On the north wall are three large, pressed-segment arched windows. Some of them show considerable repair work and are therefore likely to have been enlarged “ baroque ”. The same applies to the windows on the north side. The middle one is no longer there. There is a small vestibule with a round arch portal, a transverse saddle roof and a small cross in the gable.
The west wall of the building has no windows. The wooden church tower rises above the roof ridge . It has two small, rectangular sound arcades on its north and south sides . The tower ends with a pyramid roof with a cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings were replaced in the 1960s. A Fuente with a shell of tin is from the year 1678. On the west gallery is an organ of the company Sauer from the year 1967. The instrument has six registers on a Manual .
Two bronze bells hang in the tower. One of them dates from the 15th century and bears the inscription: "O Maria o jhecus".
Outside the enclosure, a memorial for those who died in the world wars stands southeast on the memorial square.
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 .
- Lieselott Enders : Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg: Teltow (= Historical local lexicon for Brandenburg . Volume 4). Verlag Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar 1976.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 42.5 ″ N , 13 ° 35 ′ 7 ″ E