Village church Fröhden
The Protestant village church Fröhden is a late Gothic stone church from the beginning of the 14th century in Fröhden , a district of Jüterbog in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg . Due to its location on Flaeming-Skate , it is also known as the Skater Church . It belongs to the parish Jüterbog in the parish of Zossen-Fläming of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The late Gothic sacred building was loud Dehio manual built into its core to the beginning of the 14th century. In the 15th century, builders added the west tower . Its weather vane , however, shows the year 1297, so that construction may have started as early as the end of the 13th century. According to an information leaflet in the church, the existence of a pastor Conrad is recorded from the years 1325 to 1339 , who in addition to Jüterbog also worked in Fröhden. The place was destroyed in the Thirty Years War , and the church and rectory burned down. Until 1664, the built parish both buildings on again; In 1694 the west tower received its lantern . In 1797 she had the pulpit altar built. In the same year, however, experts found that the tower had become dilapidated and needed to be replaced. A patronage box was added at the end of the 18th century . In 1860, craftsmen renewed the east gable in the neo-Gothic style . During the Second World War , the church tower was damaged by bullets. A renovation took place in 2008, followed by further repair work on the roof and outer walls in 2009 and 2010. On June 20, 2010 the community celebrated another church consecration . Since then it has been promoting visitors to the adjacent Flaeming Skate as a skater church .
architecture
The nave was built from uncut field stones that were layered in layers. The gaps are filled with granite chips and mortar; remnants of a square joint plaster can be seen. On the southern wall there are three equally large, segment-arch-shaped windows, the chambers of which are emphasized with light-colored plaster . Between the eastern and the middle window, a priest's gate covered with remains of field stone and bricks can be seen . The eastern window is partially covered by a rectangular porch made of reddish brick. In the 21st century, the church can be entered via this small extension. The shape of the window can also be found in the two openings in the choir . Another clogged gate can be seen at the bottom right. The neo-Gothic gable was built from brick and is structured with seven panels and small turrets, with an ogival opening in the middle. The north side of the nave is constructed similarly to the south side. Here, at the eastern end, there is a simple, rectangular extension with white plaster, the patron s box. There is also a pressed-segment arched window on the western edge of the ship's wall. The saddle roof of the nave is covered with a red beaver tail .
The square west tower has been pulled in and was also built from field stones, which, however, were not layered as neatly as is the case with the nave. On the south side there is a small door framed in brick. On each side of the tower floor there are two pointed arch- shaped sound arcades made of brick. Behind it hangs a bell that August Sigismund Weinhold from Dresden cast in 1797. The tent roof is covered with black slate , followed by a lantern with a tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The altarpiece was made in 1760. The pulpit is framed by two Ionic columns that support a split-segment gable with a halo. The base of the pillars is decorated with words from the instigation report . On the left you can read: “Take and eat this is my body” and on the right “Take and eat this is my blood”. Two life-size angels with a chalice and paten are attached to the side. The round pulpit is decorated with a verse from the letter of James (1.22): “Be doers of the word and not only hearers [by which you deceive yourselves]” and an alpha and omega attached above it . The wooden fifth is decorated with volutes and shell work and was made around 1760, the baptismal bowl is dated to 1851. The church stalls and the horseshoe gallery were created by craftsmen in the 18th century. The patron's box is connected to the nave through a large window. Above it hang three coats of arms: those of von Klitzing and those of Eding . On the western, bulbous gallery there is an organ by Friedrich August Moschütz with a prospectus from 1856. The building has a flat beamed ceiling.
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 .
- Information leaflet: Die Fröhdener Kirche , notice in the nave, August 2016
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Bulletin: The Fröhdener church , posted in the nave, August 2016
- ↑ Kirchen in Fröhden , website of the Evangelical St. Nikolaigemeinde Jüterbog, accessed on January 15, 2017.
Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 27.2 ″ N , 13 ° 10 ′ 13.5 ″ E