Gehren village church (Heideblick)
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The Protestant village church in Gehren is a classical hall church in Gehren , a district of the municipality Heideblick in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Gerostraße spans elliptical historic village green, which extends from the northwest to the southwest direction. The building stands on it on a plot of land that is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
In 1810, the late Romanesque predecessor building from the second quarter of the 13th century was destroyed by fire, except for the surrounding walls. The parish campaigned for a new building, which the master mason Jacob from Jüterbog built between 1823 and 1825 based on designs by Carl Mens. In the years 1958 to 1959 and from 1990 to 1999 the congregation had the church restored.
Building description
Jacob mainly used field stones for the construction , which were neither hewn nor layered. Individual corner stones, such as on the church tower , have been carved and thus emphasize the shape. The apse is slightly drawn in and shaped on three sides. At the top of the window is a large ox-eye with wooden tracery , the shape of which is emphasized by a plastered reveal . As a further style element, Mens had two plastered, cone-shaped pilaster strips attached to the upper third of the choir corners. At the transition to the roof ridge there is a surrounding haunch .
The nave is comparatively simple. On the north side there are three large arched windows that extend over almost the entire height of the facade. Here, too, the reveals were emphasized by a bright, double-stepped plaster. The middle window is smaller, and a rectangular gate is integrated into the reveal. On the south side there are four large windows of the same type. Chancel and nave carry a simple gable roof , which with beaver tail is covered. The gable of the ship is plastered, in the middle a narrow and high rectangular opening, above it on the roof ridge a weather vane with the year 1952.
The west tower is a little wider than the nave. It can be entered from the west through a rectangular gate. Above is a window; Both are - as on the northern nave - visually connected by a reveal. There are no other openings. At the height of the roof ridge of the nave, the tower jumps back and merges into a square tower hood made of lightly plastered bricks . It is structured with five panels , each with a sound arcade in the middle . On it is an octagonal spire clad with slate, which ends with a cross.
Furnishing
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Most of the church furnishings date from the first third of the 19th century. The pulpit is described in the Dehio manual as "unusually high". It was made of wood and stands on an octagonal support. The parapet fields are held in light and dark gray tones and decorated with a round arch frieze. The organ dates from the 1730s and was probably originally built by Johann Christian Pfennig for the Church of St. Trinitatis in Finsterwalde . The horseshoe gallery is also made of wood and is painted gray. The inside of the structure is flat covered.
In front of the apse is a tombstone with an illegible inscription. To the northeast, a memorial commemorates those who died in the First World War .
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by 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
- ↑ Gehren Church , website of the Heideblick congregation, accessed on April 2, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 48 '12.4 " N , 13 ° 38' 58.8" E