Fürstlich Drehna village church
The Protestant village church Fürstlich Drehna is a neo-Gothic hall church in Fürstlich Drehna , a district of the city of Luckau in the Dahme-Spreewald district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Alte Luckauer Straße leads from the north, the Alte Calauer Straße from the east towards the town center. The church stands northeast of the intersection on a property that is fenced in with a wall .
history
Little is known about the early days of the Church. The Dehio manual is only vague, speaking of a late medieval building. The church could therefore have been built in the period from the middle of the 13th to the beginning of the 16th century. The church patronage in the region lay with those of Minckwitz , whose trunk line is mentioned from 1397. They also converted the nearby moated castle Fürstlich Drehna in 1560 into a four-wing complex. The church should therefore have been built between 1400 and 1500. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) , which states the 15th century as the construction period in its monument database, has expressed a similar opinion . In the 19th century, the Wätjen family from Bremen held the church patronage. Extensive changes to the structure took place under the direction of Johannes Carl Wätjen. He had the choir rebuilt and the cross arms widened. During the Second World War , the church burned down completely in the last days of the war in 1945, but was rebuilt by the parish in the 1950s. The formerly pointed tower was given a simpler shape in 1951. A comprehensive renovation took place between 2001 and 2010. In 2002, the BLDAM discovered that under the plaster in the nave there was a late medieval mixed masonry made of lawn iron and masonry stones . The experts also found a clogged window opening on each of the nave walls that came from the construction period. From a vertical construction seam in the western area of the nave, the experts concluded that the nave was either extended to the west immediately after it was built or at a later date. In 2009 the parish bought an organ from the Hospital Church in Dahme / Mark .
Building description
The structure was essentially built from bricks that were plastered over the entire area. The choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth closing . While the apex wall is closed, there is a large arched window with a wall made of brick in each of the two adjacent fields. In between there is a double stepped buttress and at the transition to the roof ridge a toothed frieze made of reddish brick that opens downwards . The roof is covered with beaver tail .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan and has a transverse arm in connection with the choir. The eastern cross arm is at its south face again with a pilaster divided. It divides the wall 1/3 into a left area with a round arched gate and 2/3 into an area with an ox-eye . On the west wall is a small, deeply set arched window; on the east wall a large, double-stepped arched window with a semicircular panel underneath . The western cross arm can be entered from the east through a round arched gate; above it is an arched window. Both transverse arms are decorated with rich gables and pinnacles . The remaining nave is visually divided by a central pilaster. Left and right are two large arched windows. On the south side there is a small rectangular porch in the middle with a round arched gate, above it a circular screen. It serves as the main entrance to the building. The west wall of the nave is plain; the gable is also decorated with panels and pinnacles.
The west tower is strongly drawn in and square. It was built in the lower area from lawn iron stones that were not hewn and only slightly layered. On the north side there are two small arched windows arranged one above the other. On the south side only the upper one has survived; the lower one is blocked. Above, on the west facade, there is another circular window. Above this, the building material changes - from now on the craftsmen used brick and built another floor with a small arched window on the north and south sides. Above it is an octagonal tower dome , each with a circular screen, and above it an arched sound arcade . The spire ends with a cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings are kept simple and uniform. It dates from the 1950s, after the original furnishings were destroyed in World War II.
In the choir there are four epitaphs from the first quarter of the 17th century that are reminiscent of the von Minckwitz family. A figural stone was created for Barbara, née von Schombergk, who died in 1619. The other three remember Caspar Friedrich (died 1615), Friedrich Magnus (died 1615) and Barbara von Freyhofen, who died in 1620.
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
- ↑ Information board : Evangelical Church Congregation Fürstlich Drehna - Something about the history of the village and church , placed south of the church, April 2018.
- ↑ [1] Sybille Haseley: Surprise in Drehna, district Dahme-Spreewald. , The website of the Brandenburg State Office of Historic Monuments and Archaeological Museum, accessed on April 1, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 45 ′ 37.5 ″ N , 13 ° 48 ′ 22.9 ″ E