Gortz village church
The village church Gortz is a hall church and is located in today's district of Gortz in the municipality of Beetzseeheide . It has no name.
Building
Building history
Gortz was first mentioned in 1313 when Borgardo plebano in Gardyz was mentioned in a document . The village as villam Garditz was first mentioned in 1334. The village church of Gortz was already mentioned in Charles IV's land register of 1375. Today's building with its nave is a late Gothic field stone building, with some brick being used. The nave was built between 1450 and 1500. The Gothic east gable has been preserved. The rectangular hall building originally had a pointed arched step portal to the south. Later a square tower with a west portal in the Baroque style was added. The roof was rebuilt after a fire in 1724. In 1836 the church interior was refurbished. In 1906 the interior of the church was extensively rebuilt. During this renovation, the windows were also structurally changed for the last time. The stalls , the west gallery and the painting date from the time of the renovation . From 2001 to 2012 a comprehensive renovation and restoration took place .
Exterior fittings
The baroque church tower has an approximately square floor plan. It is completely plastered. The plaster has a light, sand-colored paint. Only the plaster of the base shows a slightly darker shade. It is noticeable that different geometric elements were built on top of each other in the tower. The west portal is round arched with a rectangular, two-winged wooden door. Above this, a radiating skylight with rungs fills the arch. The edge of the portal is profiled with a simple, narrow and slightly protruding strip, a bezel . Above the portal there is an ox eye , which is also designed in a radial shape with window bars. Around this window, as well as around all openings and false openings of the tower, there is the protruding flange already described as a border. To the north and south, the ox-eye element was taken up in the form of blinds .
A simple cornice visually separates the lower floor of the west tower from the part above. A window in the form of a lying rectangle was built over the cornice to the west. This detail was also taken up and imitated in the form of panels on the north and south sides. Decorative elements in the form of lying, slightly protruding double T and basket-arched sound openings are located above this window or the panels . To the west and east, another, small, segment-arched window opens above the sound openings or under the eaves of the tower . As vertical elements, corner pilaster strips emphasize the edges of the tower over the entire height . The roof shows the typical baroque shape of a tower dome . It was covered with slate . Two smaller hoods were placed on the hood. The top is a tower ball and a weather vane .
The ship made of field stones has a rectangular floor plan. In the north outer wall there are three metal lattice windows in flat basket arches. As the windows in their current form were subsequently built in, the borders are walled in with bricks . The glass of the window is colorless. There are two windows of the same type in the south wall. Between these there is a faced, pointed arched step portal and a pointed arched window . These were earlier openings in the masonry that were subsequently blocked with bricks. To the right of the eastern window you can see the clogged remains of another former pointed arch window. On the east side you can also find the original masonry made of field stones. In the center there is a small and simple segmented arched window with a brick frame and metal grille. The gable is conspicuously designed. This was completely made of bricks. There are five gable walls along the verge . The gable wall was decorated with two rows of blind arcades . In addition to the panels, there are two narrow window openings in the middle. The eaves of the ship is accompanied by an eaves cornice , which continues over the west gable into the cornice of the tower. The gabled roof of the ship with red beaver tails covered.
Interior
Inside the church there is a baroque pulpit altar in the east gallery. The interior of the church was largely designed in 1906 when extensive restoration and reconstruction were carried out. In the nave, corners, frames of the church windows and the east wall are decorated with various motifs of climbing plants. A star-shaped rosette also adorns the ceiling with different plant motifs such as wine, ivy and passion flowers. A wooden pulpit altar with a pulpit gallery dates from 1724. Columns of the portico altar, wrapped with vine leaves and ears of corn, are supported by entablature with a crown . On the west gallery there is an organ from 1905 or 1906. This was built by the organ builder Adam Eifert from Stadtilm. The organ has nine registers . In 2005 it was restored. The bell dates from 1740.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The eleven churches in the parish of Päwesin ( Memento from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ). Accessed April 7, 2015.
- ^ A b Förderverein Gortz eV: data on the village church of Gortz . Accessed January 16, 2014
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '53.21 " N , 12 ° 38' 35.38" O