Göhlsdorf village church
The Protestant village church Göhlsdorf is a neo-Romanesque hall church in Göhlsdorf , a district of the municipality of Kloster Lehnin in the district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The old village street leading from the west to the east of the historic village green to. There the building stands on a slightly elevated surface, which is enclosed by a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
The exact construction date of a previous building is not yet known. It is certain that Wichard von Rochow sold the place to the Lehnin monastery around 1420 . From the time before 1459 there is for the first time secure evidence of a previous building, when Göhlsdorf was a branch church of Bochow . The church patronage lay with the Cistercian women from the Ziesar monastery . From there it was donated to the Lehnin monastery in 1429 and to the royal domain office in 1542. The parish had two hooves assigned to it at that time . In the place there was a stone church with a west tower , which had received a square tower with a tower dome in the 18th century . During this time the parish grew strongly and so the desire for an extension of the sacred building arose . In addition, the tower had to be repaired in 1856. The first plans by the building inspector Schneider from 1857 and 1859 provided for the addition of cross arms, but were discarded. In 1862 Schneider made a new attempt together with the site manager Lorenz. They submitted drawings for a new building for the nave , which were revised by Friedrich August Stüler in the same year . A year later, Schneider presented new drawings which, after a further revision by Stüler, were finally implemented in the years 1865 to 1867. The recently repaired church tower was included in the new building. He received a new west portal. The craftsmen used the stones from the broken ship for the new building. The church consecration took place on September 28, 1866 in the presence of the general superintendent Hoffmann. A year later the organ was inaugurated and the new building was completed. At the beginning of the 20th century, experts determined that the boarding of the tower top was damaged. Between 1903 and 1906 this was replaced and covered with slate . During the GDR era, the parish had a winter church built below the gallery . A comprehensive renovation took place between 2001 and 2005.
Building description
The structure was built mainly from field stones and reddish brick . Three-quarters of the semicircular, windowless apse was made of uncut and only slightly layered field stones. Above, the craftsmen used reddish brick and placed a circumferential row of coupled blind arcades in front of the facade. At the transition to the roof they attached a round arch frieze made of ashlar that opened downwards .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. The lower half was made of field stones, the upper half of masonry. The east wall is also closed; the walled area and the gable are emphasized by pilaster strips . On the north side of the nave, five arched windows with four panels alternate. They extend from the field stone plinth to almost under the circular arched frieze. The windows are stepped three times, the blinds twice. The south side is constructed identically. On the west side there are two arched windows in the lower area next to the tower.
The church tower is square in its ground plan and drawn in opposite the nave. On its west side is a large, triple-stepped portal from 1865/1867 with an accentuated warrior and gable with finial. On the north and south sides there is a small arched window with a brick reveal . On the middle floor there is a rectangular opening, followed by the bell floor. There are two sound arcades on the west side and one sound arcade on the north and south sides . Above it is a pyramid roof that leads into a slanted essay with further sound arcades. It ends with a curved hood and a point; on it sits a tower ball with a weather vane and a star.
Furnishing
The church furnishings are uniform and were created between 1865 and 1867 by the Potsdam sculptor Friedrich Wilhelm Koch. He used a gray-painted artificial stone for the altar , the pulpit and the funnel . From this he built a neo-Gothic altar, the table of which is supported by columns; the front is decorated with tracery . The fifth consists of an octagonal basin, which in turn rests on an octagonal foot, which is decorated with tracery and also with putti . The neo-Romanesque pulpit stands on an octagonal base; The pulpit is divided into niches by twisted pillars, in which there are figures of Jesus Christ and the evangelists . Additional features include a church chair with curved cheeks from the construction period.
The gallery stands on octagonal columns and is clad with a wooden parapet. The paintwork was restored in 2005. In 1867 Gottfried Wilhelm Baer built an organ with a prospect in the arched style. The instrument has 12 registers , a manual and a pedal and was repaired in 2006.
The parish had to hand over the three existing bronze bells during the First World War as part of a metal donation by the German people . They were replaced in 1928 by three steel bells made by the Schillung and Lattermann company. The roof structure is open to the ship so that the entablature is visible. The pillars have decorated tenons. Remains of the baroque tower can be seen in the tower, while a dark blue starry sky was exposed in the apse, which was restored in 2005.
An epitaph on the southern outer wall of the church tower commemorates Lieutenant Colonel Ernst-Friedrich von Seydlitz , who was born on April 13, 1722 and died on April 18, 1789. He served the Prussian King Frederick the Great for 42 years .
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Göhlsdorf Church , website of the Lehnin Monastery community, accessed on July 11, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 37.5 " N , 12 ° 48 ′ 25.3" E