Village church Gielsdorf (Altlandsberg)
The Protestant village church Gielsdorf is a field stone church in Gielsdorf , a district of the town Altlandsberg in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Alt-Gielsdorf road leads from the north-west in a south-east direction to the historic village green . In the west, the street An der Kirche branches off in a southerly direction and spans it from the south. The connection leads back to the main street as Am Uhrenturm . The building stands there on a hill that is not fenced in .
history
Gielsdorf was founded by the Giselbert family who came to the country with the Anhaltinians in the 13th century . They held the church patronage. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum dates the building to “1226/1250” in its monument database, while the Dehio Handbook is not so precise and speaks of an erection in the second quarter of the 13th century. Matthias Friske points out that the building structure and the types of construction indicate that the client has a “conservative attitude”. At the time of the first documentary mention in Charles IV's land register in 1375, the pastor was entitled to four hooves and the church to one. In the middle of the 15th century the village and with it the patronage came to the von Pfuel . In a register from 1459, Gielsdorf was ecclesiastically administered from Strausberg . In 1542 Wilkendorf appeared as a branch church . The aristocratic family gradually furnished the church richly until the middle of the 16th century. At her endeavor, a gallery was built in 1610 . At the end of the 19th century, the parish had the church tower renovated. From 2012 to 2014 a comprehensive renovation was carried out on the initiative of a development association. Since then, the building has been used as an “art church” for concerts and exhibitions.
Building description
The structure was mainly built from field stones . These are carefully carved and layered in the recessed, semicircular apse . There are three narrow, arched windows that are likely to date from the construction period. On it is a half-conical roof, which is covered with beaver tail . The apse is around 6 meters wide and around 1.5 meters long. This is followed by the slightly drawn-in and rectangular choir with dimensions of approx. 7 meters × 8.77 meters. The gable is partially plastered . It was built from small fragments of the wall and uncut stones and should therefore have been plastered at the time of construction. On the northern wall of the choir are two raised, segment-arched windows with wide plastered windows . Nevertheless, the masonry here is still layered and made of hewn stones. The openings - compared to the apse - are likely to have been enlarged at a later date. On the south side there is another window of this kind to the east. The western one is significantly enlarged. Here repair work in the masonry can be seen above the Fasche. Below is a clogged and plastered priest's gate , the reveal of which was built from neatly crafted field stones. The choir has a simple gable roof , also made of beaver tail.
The nave is around 11 meters long. On its north wall are four raised arched windows from the construction period. Between the western and the third window there is a clogged gate, which is likely from the time the church was built. There are also four windows on the south wall. However, these are clearly enlarged in the “Baroque” style and take up the shape of the window on the choir to the west. The second window (seen from the west) is raised and smaller. Below is a segment arch-shaped gate. It probably served as the main entrance to the ship at an earlier time.
The transverse rectangular west tower is around four meters long and takes up the full width of the nave. Between plastered surfaces, repair work made of field stones can be seen that were no longer cut. Between two mighty buttresses made of field stones there is an arched gate with a truss made of reddish brick. The west gable was also built from this material. It is dominated by two superimposed, pressed, pointed arched sound arcades . The rest of the tower was rebuilt in half-timbered houses at the end of the 19th century . Between the compartment there is another sound arcade on the north and south sides. The pyramid roof ends with a tower ball and a star.
Furnishing
The altar retable comes partly from a carved altar from around 1500. It was brought to Gielsdorf in 1975 from the village church in Wilkendorf . In the main field it shows the crescent moon Madonna as well as Anna selbdritt and Jacobus maior . In the two side wings, six apostles are arranged in two rows one above the other. The Renaissance style pulpit was probably built in the first half of the 17th century and stands on a pedestal. The pulpit is polygonal and structured with columns, with shells and fittings in between . There were figures of Jesus Christ and the evangelists on it , who have disappeared since 1945. A visitation in 1542 documented the existence of a gilded chalice with the donor's coat of arms and a monstrance made of brass. Another visit in 1600 mentioned a paten , a green velvet chasuble and a missal . The cup-shaped, 82 cm high Fünte dates from 1551 and was made from Rüdersdorfer limestone . It bears the inscription: “Non glorior nisi in cruce domini”, which freely translated means: “Man has no fame of his own except for Christ crucified”. The cup has a diameter of 54 cm. The horseshoe gallery from 1610 stands on twisted columns. The parapet fields are structured with pilasters and decorated with arcades. The patronage stalls in the choir come from the same year . An epitaph commemorates Friedrich von Pfuel, who died in 1527. The tombstone was found in 1880 during excavations in the Dominican monastery of Cölln in Berlin. It shows a figure of the dead with a helmet and coat of arms.
The interior of the ship is flat covered. There is a triumphal arch towards the choir and a pressed pointed arch towards the apse, each of which is decorated with a profiled reveal.
Two bells hang in the tower. The larger one has a diameter of 99 cm and bears the inscription "o rex glorie m (a) r (i) a veni cum pace / anno dom m ccccc xvii +" ("Maria, Queen of Glory, come with your peace / im Year of the Lord 1517 ”. The smaller, 82 cm in diameter, was probably cast in the 15th century and bears the inscription:“ o rex glorie jhesv xpe veni cum pace ”(Jesus, King of glory, come with your peace).
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment. Lukas, Berlin 2001 (Churches in Rural Areas, Vol. 1), ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the Friends of the Gielsdorf and Wilkendorf Churches , accessed on April 1, 2018.
Individual proof
- ↑ Portrait of Gielsdorf , website of the town of Altlandsberg, accessed on April 2, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 31.7 ″ N , 13 ° 52 ′ 4 ″ E