Geltow village church

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Geltow village church

The Protestant village church in Geltow is a neo-Gothic hall church in Geltow , a district of the Schwielowsee community in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Potsdam the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

location

The street Am Wasser , coming from the north, leads south along the Havel . The church stands west of this street and there south of the historic village center on an elevation that is enclosed with a fence .

history

The parish church of the Assumption in Terlan served as a model

Geltow was already an independent parish with two hooves in the Middle Ages and therefore already owned a church, of which, however, no documents are known so far. In the course of the Reformation , the place came to Werder , in order to again assume the role of a parish church from 1772 - with oak as a branch church . At the time, the parish had the pragmatic concern that the pastor might not appear on time for the service in winter due to the lack of a ferry connection on the Potsdam Havel . 1870 was parish of Caputh care. The church patronage lay with the respective landlord and finally came under the influence of the Prussian royal house under Friedrich II. At that time there was a half-timbered church in the village , which was replaced by a building made of field stones in 1727 . In 1755 this sacred building received a massive west tower .

Even under Friedrich Wilhelm IV , there were plans to rebuild the church. Ludwig Persius and Friedrich August Stüler submitted corresponding drafts in 1844 and 1846, but they were not implemented. Only on the initiative of Friedrich III. the matter moved again. He made a sketch, on the basis of which the building officer Emil Gette built a church between 1885 and 1887. Friedrich III. had oriented himself to the parish church of the Assumption in Terlan ( South Tyrol ), which he valued and which he had got to know during his spa stays. He particularly liked the polygonal choir closure , the one-sided nave with the asymmetrically attached tower and the multi-colored roof tiles and parts of the church furnishings . In 1885 Gette began with the design and involved the government councilor von Pelkowski and the government and building councilor Lorenz in the project management. The government builder Lamy supplied the necessary technical drawings . The church tower was originally supposed to be placed on the south side, but was eventually moved to the north side together with the main entrance. At the end of 1885, workers had already built the foundation made of Rüdersdorfer limestone , so that the laying of the foundation stone could be celebrated in June 1886 . In September 1886, the celebrated parish the topping ; In 1887, craftsmen began to equip the interior. The woodwork was done by the Potsdam carpenter Eduard Schulz, who had already worked in the Matthäuskirche in Berlin-Steglitz and in the Kaiser-Friedrich-Kirche in Golm . The Berlin church painter Klinker carried out the painting . After Gette's death in 1887, the district building inspector Eduard Saal brought the work to a successful conclusion. The Dehio manual points out that the ministerials were able to simplify the design several times - against the wishes of the Crown Prince couple. So Friedrich III. For example, a painting of the facade desired that was not implemented. The consecration took place on December 22nd, 1887.

During the GDR era , the windows were renovated in 1950. In 1954 and 1955, craftsmen built a winter church below the west gallery . The original stencil painting in Tudor style disappeared in 1973 under a single coat of paint. In the 1980s, work on the windows, tower and roof was again required. At the beginning of the 1990s, experts discovered that the roof and belfry were infected with dry rot, so that renovation had to be carried out from 1993 to 1994. From 1999 to 2005 the parish had the entire structure renovated. This included the tower in 1999, the roof from 2000 to 2002, the facade in 2003 and the interior in 2004 and 2005. The winter church was enlarged, underfloor heating was installed and the original painting was restored.

Building description

Roof of the nave

The structure was essentially built from red bricks . In between, green glazed bricks were installed. The polygonal choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth ending . The corners are stabilized with double-stepped buttresses ; in between there are three large arched windows with tracery in the fields . The north and south sides are windowless.

This is followed by the four-bay nave . The facade here is also structured with stepped buttresses and large arched windows. On the north side is a narrow and shorter aisle. The nave is covered with brown, green, red and yellow glazed roof tiles.

The church tower is asymmetrically offset to the east. On the middle floor there is a tower clock on each side. This was donated in 1900 by the Fechterverein Geltow and repaired in 1988/1989. The craftsmen built two coupled acoustic arcades above a cornice . The pointed helmet is covered with light and dark gray slate and ends with a tower ball and weather vane. To the east of the tower is a sacristy , to the west is a porch with a further entrance.

Furnishing

The altar dates from 1887 and consists of a sandstone slab with sandstone pillars, which are decorated with capitals in the upper area . In between there is a brick lining. These include a pair of candlesticks that CS Meyran made from pewter in 1726 . The pulpit was created by the master carpenter Schulz in 1887. The pulpit is decorated with ornaments and decorated with colored bevels . The church also has a fifth built in the period of construction , which is presumably made of cast zinc .

On the southern wall of the choir is a portrait of Friedrich III. and next to it an inscription plaque made of white marble on the foundation, construction and dedication of the church. The windows show geometric patterns made of lead glass and come from the workshop of the widow of the court glass master Heidkamp in Potsdam. The west and north lofts on sturdy consoles - like the stalls - are also from Schulz. The parapet fields are divided into cassettes and have a crenellated end. Below is a winter church, at the entrance a memorial plaque for those who died in the First World War . A ribbed vault was built into the ship; the floor was laid with tiles from Villeroy & Boch . The craftsmen used brick paving beneath the benches.

In the west gallery is an organ that Carl Eduard Gesell built in 1887. The instrument has two manuals and ten stops . The brochure created Schulz together with the painter Borchmann. It has the shape of an eyelash and is decorated with crab-studded pinnacles .

In the tower hang three bells of steel in 1919. Two of them replace the original in 1887 by Gustav Collier cast bells of bronze , which in the course of the Church in the First World War in 1914 metal donation of the German people had to give. The third was sold in 1923.

Appreciation

  • The Dehio manual indicates that the building was already designated as an "ornament in the romantic landscape" after its construction, as evidenced by a document in the tower button. It honors the building as one of the "most remarkable neo-Gothic country churches in the region". The pointed tower acts as a “memorable” landmark , and the glaze tiles, which are “unusually elaborate for a village church”, are combined with the shaped stones and the tracery used. The manual concludes with the assessment that the church is a "testimony to the direct influence of the Crown Prince couple on the building process", therefore "in the context of the efforts of the Hohenzollern House (which also financially supported the building), which The landscape around Potsdam was upgraded through horticultural and structural measures, which were continued in the late 19th century. "
  • Theodor Fontane criticized in his hikes through the Mark Brandenburg a "fearfully high pulpit", but praised as a conclusion that "the whole thing is not without a quiet charm".

literature

Web links

Commons : Geltow church  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Geltow has landmarks back , message from the Friends of the Old Churches Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on February 1, 2019.
  2. ↑ Henry Klix: The neo-Gothic is shining again: After five years of joy about the renovation of the Geltower church . In: Potsdam Latest News , December 9, 2004, accessed February 5, 2019.
  3. ↑ The Geltower Church , website of the Heimatverein Geltow, accessed on February 5, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 '54.1 "  N , 12 ° 57' 21.4"  E