Gießmannsdorf village church
The Protestant village church Gießmannsdorf is an early Gothic stone church from around 1300 in Gießmannsdorf , a district of the city of Luckau 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 district road 6138 leads from the federal road 96 in the west in a north-easterly direction through the place. In the historic center of the village, it spans the district road in an arch - also as a lime tree avenue - to the south. The church stands on this slightly raised property that is not fenced .
history
The building was built around 1300 and at that time belonged to the Golßen reign . The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) suspects that the upper part of the church tower was built in the 15th century and justifies this assumption with a coarser design of the masonry. Around 1600 the building was given galleries that still exist on the north side in the 21st century. Between 1715 and 1748 the openings were enlarged in baroque style , except for the south portal . In the middle of the 18th century, the church patronage lay with the landowner Paschke. On his initiative, a half-timbered vestibule was built on the south side . In 1974 the church was repaired, the patron's box and the sacristy to the northeast were removed.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones that were hewn and largely layered. The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east wall are three arched windows, of which the middle one was set higher and narrower. It is likely to have been an originally ogival group of three windows. The gable is partially plastered and could have been boarded up at an earlier time. In the middle there is a small, almost square opening, above it a plastered, elliptical screen .
The north side of the choir is closed; the originally existing sacristy on the northeast side no longer exists. In the middle of the north wall is a large, arched window, the reveal of which is covered with plaster residues. To the west, there are two arched windows in the shape of a segment, with which light could fall on the galleries. On the south side, in the eastern part, there is a high, segment-arched window. The vestibule, which was created from half-timbering, follows slightly off-center. It has a rectangular floor plan and a hipped roof . The municipality describes the extension as a "lucky house". West is another, smaller window in the lower area, followed by a clogged window and another large and segment-arched window in the western area. The south portal is two-step, pointed arch-shaped and bordered with reddish bricks .
The transverse rectangular church tower adjoins the nave , which takes up the full width of the nave. The lower floor is closed on the north and west sides. On the south side there is a small, pressed-segment arch-shaped gate, which is also bordered with bricks. On the west side of the middle floor there are two small and high rectangular openings in the middle. Above it follows the bell storey. The masonry design is clearly more uneven here; not hewn the stones. On the west and east side there are two coupled sound arcades , on the north and south sides one coupled sound arcade , which was also made of brick. On top of it sits a horizontal hipped roof with a roof turret , which ends with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The late Classicist pulpit altar dates from around 1865. According to the BLDAM, it consists of a “simple temple front” and has a niche with a hinged door and Gothic fittings in the late Gothic canteen . On the east wall is a sacrament niche with a pointed arch frame and a wrought-iron lattice door from the 18th century. The western galleries are semicircular and projecting in the middle. The north gallery is extended to the east and is decorated with carvings and consoles. In the southeast corner there is a parish chair from the mid-18th century. A baptism baptism has been missing since the time after the Second World War .
The tower used to be open to the ship with two wide pointed arches. The building has a flat roof inside. On the west gallery stands an organ that Carl Gotthold Claunigk created in 1803. He also wrote the prospectus for the instrument. An epitaph on the south wall commemorates Michael Exs, who died in 1712.
Of the original three bronze bells, the largest is still preserved. The smallest had to be given in the course of a metal donation by the German people . Another bell was exchanged for a steel bell.
A monument to the east of the chorus is reminiscent of the fallen from the First World War . It is a cut natural stone on field stone with the inscription: "In memory of our heroes who remained in the World War 1914–1918".
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
- ^ The Gießmannsdorf Church , website of the Gießmannsdorf community, accessed on April 5, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 ′ 45.7 " N , 13 ° 41 ′ 47.8" E