Village church Golzow (Mittelmark)
The Protestant village church Golzow is a baroque central building in Golzow , a municipality in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The federal highway 102 leads from the southwest in an easterly direction through the place. There it encloses an artificially raised hill as the main street on which the church stands. The area is not fenced in .
history
The building was built on the initiative of Friedrich Wilhelm von Rochow (1689–1759), a Prussian lieutenant general . He was considered a close confidante of King Friedrich Wilhelm I as well as the Crown Prince and later King Friedrich II. He commissioned the Berlin master builder Christian August Naumann, who built an octagonal central building between 1750 and 1752. The Dehio handbook acknowledges the design as "one of the few surviving examples of this Berlin building type".
Building description
The building has an octagonal floor plan and was essentially built from bricks , which were then lightly plastered . The corners were emphasized again by wide pilasters . The large rectangular portal on the west side is stretched again by a skylight above it. A dedicatory inscription was placed in the center of the essay above . The final small, pressed-segment arched window is accentuated with a bezel . The other fields of the building are divided into two parts and thus accommodate the interior furnishings. It is dominated by two galleries , so that on the outside in the lower area a small, likewise pressed-segment-arch-shaped window was placed. Above it is a large window; both are accentuated by bezels with a plastered keystone . On the south side there is another gate instead of the smaller window. At the transition to the roof there is a circumferential cove , above which rises the tent roof with a lantern . In the direction of the four cardinal points there is a rectangular sound arcade , above it a tower clock. Above is a curved tower dome with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The interior described as “impressive” in the Dehio manual has a uniform design. The circumferential gallery stands on Tuscan columns and is only interrupted in the west by the two-storey patron's box decorated with the alliance coat of arms of those von Rochows and von Kattes and in the east by the pulpit wall .
In front of this wall is the altar , and above it the pulpit and the organ . Your prospectus was changed around 1870/1880. The other church furnishings included two full-length paintings of a gentleman and a lady von Rochow from the second half of the 17th century, which were stolen in 1976. A large coat of arms from the third third of the 17th century reminds of Georg Wilhelm von Rochow; plus a brass chandelier from the 18th century.
Below is the von Rochow crypt in the basement . There are a total of 28 coffins from the 18th to 20th centuries. Since the crypt was devastated several times in the past, it is to be repaired in 2019 with funds from the federal monument protection program for the preservation of cultural monuments.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Bürstenbinder: Bund helps the devastated Rochow crypt. In: Märkische Allgemeine , May 8, 2019, accessed on May 9, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 39.7 ″ N , 12 ° 36 ′ 12.7 ″ E