Eggersdorf village church (Petershagen / Eggersdorf)
The evangelical village church Eggersdorf is a neo-Gothic hall church in Petershagen / Eggersdorf , a community in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lichtenberg Oberspree the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Coming from the west, Landsberger Straße leads through the town towards the historic town center. There it leads around the development in a U-shape as Wilhelmstrasse and Mühlenstrasse . In a north-easterly direction, Karl-Marx-Strasse branches off from Mühlenstrasse. At this intersection, the building stands on a plot of land to the north and higher, which is fenced in with a short hedge .
history
A previous building probably already existed in 1708 when church patronage was transferred to the Prussian government. The church believed that in the place at that time already a parish was established. The sacred building probably only consisted of a simple wooden structure. This was replaced in 1766 by a half-timbered building with a tower and a bell. In a fire on December 14, 1865, a fire destroyed the church. As a result, the Royal Building Inspector A. Bürckner built a new building from bricks in the style of Friedrich August Stüler in 1869 and 1870 . The consecration took place on December 5, 1870. At this point in time there was no organ in the building. This could only be obtained from the village church in Friedrichsfelde in 1890 . In 1905, experts discovered that the bricks used were of poor quality. As a result, craftsmen had to remove and rebuild the spire, including the masonry underneath. In 1937 a new organ was inaugurated by Alexander Schuke from Potsdam .
During the Second World War , the church was also badly damaged and the windows were almost completely destroyed. The parish carried out emergency glazing from 1947 to 1954, which was replaced in 1957 by a Berlin window manufacturer. Extensive renovation work was carried out in 1962 and 1963, which was accompanied by a redesign of the church. Craftsmen removed the previous church furnishings with altar , pulpit , fountain and the longitudinal galleries and replaced them with furnishings made of concrete and wood. Roofers re-covered the roof of the nave with beaver tail . In addition to the changes, a new organ was added in 1973, which the Schuke company from Potsdam also built. In 1976, renovation work was required on the roof structure and in the interior of the apse ; In 1987 the roof had to be re-covered.
After the fall of the Wall , the parish had a comprehensive restoration of the church tower carried out in 1990 and 1991. Among other things, the zinc covers on the tower ball and the cross were replaced, stone crosses repaired and the bell suspension renewed. The renovation work continued from 1995 to 1996. In addition to cleaning the nave, this included protecting the foundations against rising damp, replacing the electrical system and the windows. In 1998 the parish unveiled a memorial stone in front of the building for the victims of war and tyranny. Since the year 2000 the building can be illuminated from the outside in the dark.
Building description
The entire structure was made of yellowish brick masonry. The choir is strongly drawn in and has a five-eighth ending . On the eastern wall there is a stone memorial stone for the fallen from World War I , which was designed based on an aedicule . Above that, on each of the five visible sides of the apse, there is a pointed arch-shaped window between two-stepped buttresses .
The east wall of the nave is closed. The gable is staggered with an ogival panel in each of the seven individual segments. A small window is built into the cover in the top segment. The gable ends with a cross. On the north and south walls there are four raised and also pointed arch-shaped windows, which are supplemented on the south side by a portal on the east window. On the western wall of the nave there are two further windows on each side in the lower area and panels in the gable.
This is followed by the square and recessed church tower to the west. It can be entered through a large portal with a central projection above . A cornice with a frieze optically separates the middle floor from the lower structure. There is a window on each of the three accessible sides, followed by the tower floor, which consists of an octagonal attachment in which panels alternately decorated with a frieze and an arched sound arcade are embedded. This is followed by the kinked spire , which ends with the tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The furnishings come from the last renovation in the 1960s and are described on a parish information board at the church as "very simple".
To the southwest in front of the portal is a boulder that commemorates the victims of war and tyranny.
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
- Chronicle of Eggersdorf Church , website of the Evangelical Church Community Mühlenfließ, accessed on August 11, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '17.2 " N , 13 ° 48' 57" E