Dranse village church
The Protestant village church Dranse is a hall church built in round arch style from 1861 in Dranse , a district of the town of Wittstock / Dosse in the district of Ostprignitz-Ruppin in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Wittstock-Ruppin in Sprengel Potsdam in the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The village road leads from the southwest in a northeast direction through the village. It spans an area on the historic village green. The church stands south of this Angers and there west of the village street on a property that is not fenced .
history
The parish suspects that there was a church in the village as early as 1233. However, further information on this has not yet been reported. What is certain is that the previous building became dilapidated and that is why Pastor Gustav Böckler advocated a new building. This was built in 1861 in place of a half-timbered church. The district architect Wedecke from Kyritz was in charge of the construction, and his work was based on the style of the Schinkel School. The demolition of the old church began on April 4th and lasted 14 days. The foundation stone for the new building was laid on June 30, 1861 . From a visit on October 1, 1862, it is recorded that the building was already completed. It is known from the years 1884 and 1888 that the building had to be repaired. In 1892 the parish commissioned the organ builder Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller to build an organ that was first heard on May 1st of that year. During the First and later also in the Second World War , the parish had to give up two bronze bells each as part of a metal donation by the German people . The church was supplied with electricity for the first time at Christmas 1930. When the Red Army moved in at the end of the Second World War, the church was damaged by two Soviet tank shells on May 2, 1945. The repair work could only be completed in 1956. In the early 1960s, the missing bells were replaced. During the time of the GDR , the building fell into disrepair. Some windows were broken and moisture entered the building. After the fall of the Wall , this damage was repaired with the help of donations. A comprehensive renovation took place in 2000.
Building description
The church was essentially built of reddish brick on a narrow base of uncut and not layered field stones . The choir is semicircular and strongly drawn in. The component was visually divided into three fields by two pilaster strips . There is a narrow arched window in each case. The upper end of the fields is a round arch frieze that opens downwards . Above it is a narrow, windowless row of arcades ; on it a conical roof .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On its northeast side is a narrow arched gate that can be reached via a small staircase. Otherwise the east wall has no windows. Only below the ridge of the roof in the gable is a small, circular opening. The north wall of the ship is strictly and clearly structured. Here, too, a total of six pilaster strips each form a large field in which an arched window is embedded. Here, too, the upper end is an arched frieze that opens downwards. The south side is constructed almost identically. Just below the middle window is a small porch with a gate. Like the ship, it has a simple gable roof . On the west wall of the ship there is a small arched window on each side.
This is followed by the church tower to the west . It has a square floor plan and is strongly indented opposite the ship. The tower can be entered from the west through a large, profiled arched portal. Two pilaster strips of different thickness lead across the entire area on its west side up to the tower floor . While there is an arched window on the north side on the lower floor, there is a semicircular tower set with a staircase on the south side. In the lower third there is one, in the upper third there are two arched windows. Above the west portal there are two more arched windows that were arranged one above the other. They are complemented by a narrower window on the north and south sides of the tower. The bell storey is located above a surrounding cornice . On each side there are two sound arcades arranged in pairs ; Above it is a circular opening that used to be a tower clock. The kinked tower helmet closes with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
A small crucifix from the middle of the 15th century belongs to the church furnishings . Its effect is described in the Dehio manual as "expressive". A damaged Anna selbdritt and a standing Salvator mundi from the 16th century come from the end of the 15th century. The rest of the church furnishings come from the time the church was built.
The apse is painted with an arcature ; therein figurative representations of Paulus von Tarsus and Simon Petrus . There are three bells hanging in the tower, which were operated by hand until 1996.
A memorial to the south of the building commemorates those who died in the world wars.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pfarrsprengel Dranse , website of the Evangelical Church District Wittstock-Ruppin, accessed on January 1, 2019.
- ↑ Why the church tower in Dranse was always in the center of interest and wrote a little of its own story , article from the Märkische Allgemeine from June 21, 2008, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on December 31, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 12 ′ 4.5 ″ N , 12 ° 37 ′ 15.7 ″ E