Garzin village church
The village church Garzin is the Protestant church of Garzin, a district of the community Garzau-Garzin in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in Brandenburg . The village is located in the Märkische Schweiz nature park .
The single-nave, rectangular hall church is a stone church and dates from the 13th century. The tower upstream to the west of the same width was very probably not raised above the nave until the second half of the 15th century. On the south side there is a later extension with the sacristy . The interior of the church is adorned by a late Gothic altarpiece from around 1490 with a crucifixion group and six apostles each , arranged in two rows. The church is located east of the Garziner Angers in the middle of the churchyard and is surrounded by a stone wall including the churchyard .
Affiliation, community and current use
The first mention of the street village Garzin took place in 1309 in the name of the Strausberg consul Johanne de Garzin . The land book of Charles IV from 1375 recorded 72 hooves , four of which were parish hooves. Until the beginning of the 16th century, Garzin was owned by the noble family Wulkow , then owned by the von Pfuel family . Although located to the west of the Löcknitz / Stobber borderline , which largely separated the Barnim and Lebus , in the Middle Ages the place was initially part of the Lebus diocese , but was then included in the register of the Brandenburg diocese in 1459 after the probationary chairs of the Strausberg Sedes in the Brandenburg diocese .
Today, the church part of the "parochial parish Märkische Switzerland" in the church district Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO). In addition to regular church services, concerts are held in the church as part of the Märkische Schweiz music summer, field stones and music .
Buildings and equipment
Matthias Friske gives a length of 7 meters for the tower and a length of 18.2 meters for the nave. The width of both parts of the building is 9.5 meters. The masonry in the nave and in the tower consists of regular field stone blocks up to the height of the ship.
Church building
Little data is available on the building history. The Garzin church building was very likely spared from major devastation during the Thirty Years' War (1618–1648), which affected various church buildings on the southeastern Barnim such as Bollersdorf ; at least nothing more is known about this.
Steeple
The brickwork of the rectangular church tower consists of irregular field stones above the height of the ship. The edges in the uppermost part, for example from the roof ridge of the gable roof of the ship to the tower roof, are made of limestone . The limestone finish indicates that the tower was raised above the nave around the second half of the 15th century. This increase may have been preceded by a smaller increase. According to Friske, the low structure of the tower, which originally had no west portal and no windows, is striking. This plastered, ogival west portal dates from the 19th century. Above the gate, in the middle of the tower, sits a very narrow, slit-like brick window. Above, under the tower roof, there are four narrow, round-arched sound hatches , between which a clock with a Roman dial is inserted. The opposite side of the tower also has four narrow arched sound arcades, while the other sides of the tower only have one, but significantly wider, sound window. Another clock with a Roman dial is embedded in the window on the north side. All sound windows have brick walls into which sound lamellas are inserted to protect the bell chamber from penetrating driving rain. A hilted gable roof with red roof tiles covers the tower.
Nave
The later extension on the south side of the ship has a portal and a boarded, arched window opening in the gable. Due to the porch, there are only three narrow, formerly pointed arched windows on this side, which today have a round arch and are framed with red bricks. There are four such windows on the north side. In the east wall at the end of the nave, a pointed arch group of three windows has been preserved in its old form. These windows are still walled in with field stones. Above this group of three there is another, small, arched window in the east gable. All windows are very simple. As the dating of a weather vane (see below) to 1574 suggests, at the instigation of the Pfuel church patron, various alterations or repairs were probably carried out around this time .
Weather vane and bells
A weather vane with the year 1574 and the coat of arms of the old noble family , which is said to have come to the later Margraviate of Brandenburg for the first time in 926, commemorates the rule of von Pfuel . A bell in the tower, which is still rung on special occasions today, is said to date from the 17th century. Two older bells were lost. A medieval bell, probably from the 14th century, was destroyed in Müncheberg in 1945 . A bell cast in Hamburg from 1580 had already been cast in 1903 . She wore a medallion with the judgment of Paris and the inscription:
"I am gone in honor of the zesieter since he listened to me who ick sound so think thor stundt the christ der bas dir bassunen kumpt to front all court. Therefore, holthi and sundige not before all sunde de di began lath christum the anterior stan truw ehm heb leff do boet up erden so we would be exich salich. Anno dom. MDLXXX - Gegaten tho hamborch Anno dom. MDLXXXXXIIII Junii In the name of God, I fell in love. Hans van damme gated me. "
Interior and inventory
The interior is not structured and has a flat ceiling. The one-sided gallery is said to date from 1600. The carvings of the late Gothic altarpiece date from around 1490. According to Friske, the crucifixion group in the middle part of the tower is unusual for the pre-Reformation period on the Barnim. The creator of this altar also made the carved altars for the churches in Bernikow and Zicher in the former Königsberg district in Neumark . Six apostles each flank the crucifixion scene in two rows. Friske thinks it is possible that there were six of them in each wing , because the rectangular shrine is an addition from the 19th century, so that the original arrangement could have been a triptych . Then the narrow group with Mary and John under the crucified in the middle might have been surrounded by figures that no longer exist. The baptismal font with a baptismal font made of brass comes as declared by the "Local Action Group Märkische Switzerland e. V. ”from the 17th century. A silver chalice is dated to the same century.
As Theodor Fontane announced in his walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 1863 , a Pfuel had furnished the lower rooms of his Jahnsfeld mansion in the 19th century in the manner of a family museum and collected various memorabilia from Pfuel's possessions. This included a portrait of Anna von Pfuel from the Garzin church:
“It represents a young, richly adorned woman, life-size, whole figure. She appears to be wearing a bridal crown in her hair. Place and year are: Garzin, 1594. This is the oldest picture in the collection. The treatment, especially the drapery, is still stiff and wrinkle-free. "
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
- Local action group Märkische Schweiz e. V .: Garzin stone church .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Volume 13 of the Brandenburg Historical Studies on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission. be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937233-30-X , ISSN 1860-2436 , p. 61.
- ^ Siegmund Wilhelm Wohlbrück : History of the former Diocese of Lebus and the country of this taking . Volume 3. Berlin 1832, pp. 272, 275, 365f.
- ↑ Adolph Friedrich Riedel (ed.): Codex diplomaticus Brandenburgensis . First main part or collection of documents on the history of the spiritual foundations, the noble families, as well as the towns and castles of the Mark Brandenburg. VIII. Volume (A VIII) (1847), p. 418. On the ownership structure in Garzin see also: XII. Volume (A XII) (1857), p. 68. Links to the complete digitized edition of the Codex at: Adolph Friedrich Johann Riedel (Wikisource) .
- ^ Churches in Buckow (Märkische Schweiz): visiting card. Parish district Märkische Schweiz .
- ^ Office Märkische Schweiz. Music summer. Field stone and music .
- ↑ a b c d Matthias Friske, p. 154f.
- ^ Entry about Pfuel in Neues Allgemeine Deutsches Adels-Lexicon
- ↑ a b c Local Action Group Märkische Schweiz e. V .: Garzin stone church .
- ^ Theodor Goecke , Wilhelm Jung, Friedrich Solger , Willy Spatz : The art monuments of the Lebus district . Brandenburgischer Provinzialverband (Ed.), Vossische Buchhandlung, Berlin 1909 (Volume 6, Part 1 of: The Art Monuments of the Province of Brandenburg ). Quoted from: Matthias Friske, p. 155.
- ^ Theodor Fontane : Walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 8 volumes. Volume 2 Oderland . Gotthard Erler , Rudolf Mingau (ed.), Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-7466-5702-4 , p. 494 ( chapter Jahnsfelde in the text log ).
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 '53.3 " N , 13 ° 58' 49.9" E