Gollwitz village church (Rosenau)

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The Gollwitz village church from the southwest

The village church Gollwitz is a late medieval stone church in the municipality of Rosenau belonging to Gollwitz . It is a hall church and has been designated a monument . The church belongs to the Wusterwitz rectory of the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .

history

The Gollwitz village church was built from hewn field stones in the 13th century. The church was given the dimensions of the nearby village church in Warsaw . It has the classic tripartite nave , choir and apse . The interior was fitted out around 1700. The church received a richly decorated baroque pulpit altar and patronage stalls . In 1878, a wooden clock and bell tower in the form of a gable was added to the nave after the original tower was probably destroyed by fire. Before the First World War , a western gallery was built and an organ was installed. The interior was painted at the same time. In 2012 the weather vane and in 1970 the cardboard shingles attached to the tower were torn down during a storm . In the following year, the tower, which was in danger of collapsing, was secured in an emergency. The heavily damaged wooden door was renovated in August 2015.

Building

The nave, choir and apse are made of field stones. The original, arched church entrance on the west side was blocked in the lower part with field stones. The arch was transformed into a window. Instead of the entrance on the west side, a round arch portal was incorporated on the south side. The wooden door is richly decorated. The three windows on the north and south sides of the ship have been redesigned to form rectangular windows . The central north window is significantly larger than the other five. The windows are bordered with simply plastered bottles .

In the choir, the south windows are rectangular, the east north window round and the west segmental arch . These windows are also framed with bezels. The former priest portal was rebuilt several times, in the meantime it was access to the patronage stalls, and finally it was also added. Of the previous three, there is still a window opening in the semicircular apse, which is shaped like a segment.

A wooden tower structure was placed over the western gable of the nave. The wood is dilapidated, the south-facing tower clock has no function. A tent was an octagonal spire attached. The top of the church tower is marked by a tower ball and a weather vane.

The roofs of the nave and the choir are simple saddle roofs . They are covered with red beaver tails . On the eastern gable of the choir you can see a half-timbered structure that is unplastered and covered with clay . The roof of the semicircular apse, also covered with beaver tails, is semi-conical .

Furnishing

View from the ship into the choir; The pulpit altar and the patronage stalls are recognizable

The baroque and richly designed pulpit altar is striking. This was built according to an inscription by a M. Adam Bortfleisch, a carpenter from Stendal , on June 26, 1699. The walls are plastered and decorated with paintings. The triumphal arch between the nave and the choir is also decorated. A two-part Gothic script on the east wall of the ship on both sides of the triumphal arch reads “I am the vine, you are the branches.” The parishioners who died in the First World War are noted on wooden boards. The organ on the west gallery is not functional. It was built by the organ builder E. Erdmann from Neuhaldensleben . The separate patronage stalls are located on the north and south sides of the choir room. The wooden beam ceiling is also plastered and colored.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Gollwitz (Rosenau)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Wusterwitz parish office . Accessed July 13, 2015.
  2. ↑ Monument List Potsdam-Mittelmark ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 21 kB). Accessed December 24, 2013.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bldam-brandenburg.de
  3. ^ The village church of Gollwitz (Potsdam-Mittelmark) . Accessed August 17, 2015.
  4. ^ Förderverein Gollwitzer Dorfkirche eV (Hrsg.): Awakened from the slumber . The Gollwitz village church. Info brochure.

Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 11.78 "  N , 12 ° 19 ′ 0.34"  E