Garzau village church
The village church Garzau is the Protestant church of Garzau, a district of the community Garzau-Garzin in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in Brandenburg .
Affiliation, community and current use
The anger village of Garzau was first listed in 1247 as the border town of Garzou owned by the Zinna monastery and is therefore older than the street village of Garzin from 1309. In the 14th and 15th centuries, both came into the possession of the Wulkow family , who sold them to the von Pfuel family . Garzau and Garzin merged on December 31, 2011 to form a community. The church belongs to the Evangelical Church of Herzfelde-Rehfelde in the church district Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO)
history
Little is known about the history of the Church. It was built at the end of the 13th century and was surrounded by a cemetery . This was closed at the end of the 19th century as part of a new facility in Heerstrasse . In the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), the building - unlike its counterpart in Garzin - was destroyed and was in ruins until 1723. In 1724 it was rebuilt on the initiative of Hofrat Johann Casper Berger . His colored tombstone is in front of the altar in the interior of the church. In 1993 and 1994 the church was restored. The interior was redesigned in color and a winter church was built in . The roof was also re-covered and the weather vane with the year “1724” as well as the sphere were restored. On April 10, 1994, the completion of the work was celebrated with a service . The nave has been equipped with electrical lighting since 2004 .
architecture
The single-nave hall church has a rectangular floor plan and measures 13.3 meters in length and 10.8 meters in width. The choir , which is also rectangular , measures 9.1 meters × 8.1 meters. It was built from evenly hewn fieldstones that were piled up with a wall thickness of 1.23 meters. Only the west side is 1.38 meters thick. There are three walled-in lancet windows on the eastern wall of the choir . They symbolize the Trinity . On the south side there are two basket-shaped windows arranged in pairs, which were presumably given their current shape during the reconstruction in 1724. In the area of the choir you can still see the priest's gate, which is closed with bricks and granite stones . Four basket-shaped windows are also installed on the north side. Here, too, a locked gate can be seen, but its shape can no longer be clearly identified. Presumably this is the Frauenpforte. To the north of the church there is a memorial stone on the Anger for those who died in the First World War .
Over the west gable protrudes a little from bricks erected steeple up, with a tent roof is covered. On all four sides of the tower there is an arch-shaped sound hatch with brick walls into which the sound lamellas are inserted. Behind it are three bells from 1923 with a diameter of 113 cm, 90 cm and 76 cm.
Interior and inventory
The pulpit altar was built in the 18th century. It is made of wood, is richly decorated and kept in an ocher tone. The altarpiece is decorated with white and red elements. On it stands an approx. 75 cm high, 100 year old metal cross. Only the 85 cm high font has survived from the Middle Ages . It consists of an ocher colored limestone . The square cupa has an edge length of 48 cm. There is also a baptismal font without a date and a brass chandelier that was donated to the church after the fire from Garzau Castle in 1910. Its age is estimated to be around 150 years. A chandelier from the 18th century is in the church in Hennickendorf . The west gallery from 1768 has an arch in the middle above the entrance. An organ stood here until 1945 . The church stalls on the gallery were removed in 1946 and 1947. The gallery is held in a light blue color. Two red, parallel stripes on the upper and lower front encompass a total of eight yellow-edged rectangular fields. The flat, undivided ceiling is also kept in a light blue shade.
literature
- Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment . Series: Churches in rural areas , Vol. 1, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2001 ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Garzau Church , website of the Evangelical Parish Herzfelde-Rehfelde, accessed on May 25, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 0.4 ″ N , 13 ° 56 ′ 45.8 ″ E