Görzke village church
The village church of Görzke is a single-nave sacred building with an elongated choir . It was built in the 12th century as a stone church in the Romanesque style. The church is located in the municipality of Görzke ( Amt Ziesar ) in the west of the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg .
history
Little is known about the architectural history of this church. The associated Dehio manual for Brandenburg does not comment on the start of construction. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) speaks of a building from the 13th century. As a church of a castle gate in connection with the execution of the masonry and the proportions, in some sources the date of its construction can be found in the second half of the 12th century. The chronicle of the city of Görzke from 1989 also indicates that the construction time of the nave cannot be proven. According to ancient sources, it is said to have been built between 1155 and 1161. The almost continuous plaster makes further delimitation difficult. It is assumed that the building initially consisted of a comparatively large nave with a retracted choir and an apse . The chronicler assumes that the ship was part of the city's fortification system and was attached to an existing tower. Structures similar to the Buckau village church suggest that this church also had five windows on the north and south sides and two windows in the choir from the start. Since the place was the scene of disputes between the Margraves of Brandenburg and the Archbishopric of Magdeburg , it can be assumed that the church was also damaged or even largely destroyed in 1378. The west tower was probably built in the first half of the 15th century. The chronicle reports that this took place on the death of the feudal lord Friedrich von Schierstedt in 1525. Around 100 years later, craftsmen lengthened the choir by around a meter to the east, presumably tearing down the apse. During the Thirty Years' War the church burned down in 1642. Only the choir was spared from the flames. In 1650, in the first year of the newly elected mayor Peter Hagendorf , the community began to rebuild the church, which lasted until 1665. In 1703, renovation measures are described, which, however, have not yet been further specified; the same applies to the year 1803. In 1862 the parish built a neo-Romanesque portal on the south side of the tower and added an annex for a patronage box to the south wall of the choir. At the same time she had the vault filled under the church. In 1881/1882 considerable renovations took place. Workers walled up the ogival windows on the east side of the church. The east side received a romanizing apse as well as the plaster that still existed in the 21st century. While working on the new construction of the apse, the craftsmen came across a large number of human bones and skulls that belonged to the former church cemetery . In addition, a horseshoe gallery was built on cast iron columns. In 1906, workers renewed the mansard roof of the tower.
architecture
The ship is a large hall building with a length of around 22.20 meters and a width of around 11.20 meters. The choir was originally 7.60 meters long and 8.80 meters wide. After being extended in the Middle Ages, it is now around 14.50 meters long. The ship was probably also increased by one meter. Due to the plaster that is present on the north and east sides of the choir, no statements can be made as to whether the building has portals . A priest's gate on the south side seems likely, however. Due to its location in the north of Gorizia, the portal for the parish could have been on the south side of the ship.
The three-bay choir has a cross vault with pear ribs . A walled up, formerly arched window can be seen on its north side. The keystones are decorated with the coats of arms of the von Schierstedt and von Wulfen families . The builders added three windows to the apse . It is connected to the choir via a round apse arch. On the inside there is an ornamental painting.
The west tower is around 6.85 meters long and around 11.20 meters wide. Its masonry is very irregular. A slot window can be seen on the south side and a round arched window on the north side. Furthermore, it has a coupled , double stepped sound arcade on each side . Above the transverse mansard roof there is a weather vane with the year 1906.
Furnishing
The pulpit, like the church stalls, probably dates from 1882. Galleries are built into the north, south and east sides of the nave. The baptismal angel dates from the beginning of the 18th century and was restored in 1992.
In addition to the keystones, three epitaphs on the north side of the choir commemorate the von Schierstedt family : a 2.50 m high and one meter high plate for Hans von Schierstedt (died 1562) and one each for his two wives Anna Brand von Lindau (died 1554 ) and Fredeka von Alvensleben (died 1573). This epitaph has a height of around two meters and a width of around one meter. Another tombstone of his son and his wife hangs in front of the triumphal arch on the north half of the east wall of the nave. The ship has a wooden ceiling that rises like a tent with an open space .
An organ is on the west gallery. In a note by Pastor Langenau from 1881, an instrument from the end of the 17th century with four registers is mentioned. However, it must have been replaced at a later date, since Carl August Buchholz built a new instrument as early as 1842. During the renovation in 1881/1882, the community had the organ expanded to include a further manual and nine registers.
There are three bells hanging in the tower. The oldest and largest bell dates from 1733 and was purchased after the bells were lost during the Thirty Years' War. The parish had to give up two more bells as part of a metal donation by the German people during the First World War . In 1922 they got a replacement from the bell foundry in Apolda .
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 .
- Council of the community of Görzke with the support of the society for local history of the district Belzig: News from eight centuries of Görzk history , Märkische Volksstimme, Potsdam, 1989
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Description of the church by Thomas Engeser , accessed April 4, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 25.2 ″ N , 12 ° 21 ′ 59.9 ″ E