Gorgast village church
The Protestant village church Gorgast is one of the first sacred buildings erected in the GDR . It is located in Gorgast , a district of the municipality of Küstriner Vorland in the Märkisch-Oderland district in the state of Brandenburg . The community belongs to the Evangelical Church District Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia . The church is a listed building .
location
The building is at the center of the map, the road 33 to the west of the main road supplies, toward the east as Baumschulenweg runs. Coming from the north, it is supplemented by Genschmarer Strasse , which runs south through the town as Ernst-Thälmann-Strasse . To the north of the intersection of Hauptstrasse and Genschmarer Strasse is the church, which is enclosed by a waist-high wall made of red brick . The bell tower is separated from the structure east of Genschmarer Strasse and there south of the parish office .
history
The building replaced a previous building from 1888, which, like many other buildings in the region, was blown up by German troops at the end of the Second World War in order to make it difficult for the advancing Red Army to find their way around the comparatively flat terrain. The ruin was blown up in 1956. The parish began in the following years with the help of the old bricks with the new building. The church consecration took place on October 5th, 1959 , on the occasion of the harvest festival. In 2009 the building was renovated. In the process, workers found some writings from Pastor Zebe , who described the working and living conditions in the 1960s and 1970s, in the tower ball . Due to the history of its origins, the building is a listed building despite its comparatively young age.
Building description
The choir is straight, not drawn in and simply executed. Below the gable is a large circular window. This is also the only design element on this side of the building. The north side of the nave is divided into four equally large, brightly plastered areas by a total of five buttresses . In the east and west of the field there are three raised, square windows each. There is no comparable structure on the southern ship wall. Eight tall and narrow rectangular windows dominate there. Access to the building is via a rectangular portal on the western side of the nave. Here is a large, double-leaf door with a gray robe is enclosed and can be reached through three stages. On the western wall of the nave there is a small, circular window in the southern part in the area of the entrance. The wall is dominated by a cross in the northern area that extends into the gable. The simple saddle roof is designed as a towing roof in the area of the portal and thus visually connects it to the building. In the western area of the roof ridge is a tower ball with a weather vane and a cross.
Furnishing
The furnishings are mostly modern and come from the time the church was built. The altarpiece is made of French lead glass and has a diameter of 1.8 m. It shows Christ crucified and was designed by Günter Johl . The fifth comes from the previous building. The organ was made in Wilhelm Sauer's workshop .
Inside the fence on the south-western part of the site there is a memorial that commemorates those who fell in the world wars. In the north-western area there is a mourning hall that was renovated from July to December 2009 with funds from the Future Investment Act . The simple building with a rectangular floor plan has four large, rectangular windows on each of the two long sides. The western wall with a pressed-segment arched portal and the gable are clad with red brick.
Craftsmen erected a bell tower across the street. It consists of reddish brick with ogival arched, Gothic- shaped sound arcades in which two bells hang. Above the pyramid roof is a cross.
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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: District of Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gorgaster discovered during the renovation of their church an unexpected time testimony from 1961-62 , website Förderkreis Old Church Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on 22 April 2017th
- ↑ Gorgast Church , website of the Evangelical Church District Oderland-Spree, accessed on April 22, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 34 ′ 7 ″ N , 14 ° 32 ′ 45.5 ″ E