Gräbendorf village church
The Protestant village church Gräbendorf is a field stone church in Gräbendorf , a district of the municipality Heidesee in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The street Dorfanger spans the historic village green in a north-south direction . The federal highway 246 leads past him to the west . The church stands in the southern area of the Angers on a slightly elevated plot of land, which is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones .
history
The sacred building was mainly made of wood around 1350 and destroyed to the ground during the Thirty Years' War after looting. After a long construction period, the church was consecrated again in 1662. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) refers to an unspecified renovation in the first quarter of the 19th century. Presumably at this time numerous windows were enlarged “ baroque ”. In 1909 the surrounding church cemetery was abandoned and a new fence was placed. Around 1985 craftsmen applied a plaster that, according to the Dehio manual, has a "disfiguring effect". Since 1996 the bells have been moved by an electric drive.
Building description
The structure was built from field stones , which were then plastered. The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east wall in the lower area there are two ogival windows, the fins of which have been emphasized by a dark plaster. Above it are two more windows in the gable . The one to the south is aligned with the corresponding window in the end of the choir, while the window to the north is offset to the south. There is a simple cross on the roof ridge .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the north side there are two large, pressed-segment-arched windows, whose bezels are also emphasized. The south side is largely identical. In the middle between the two windows, however, there is still a small and rectangular gate. To the right of it is an epitaph .
Another gate is in the middle on the west side of the nave. To the south is a small, also pressed segment arch-shaped window. There are no other openings in the lower area. There is only a small window in the gable. The towerless building has a simple gable roof .
Furnishing
The wooden, baroque pulpit from around 1700 is described in the Dehio manual as "simple". The cassette fields are kept in yellow-gray tones, the small columns are painted gray. Above it is an inscription from the 1st book of Paul to the Corinthians in a painted cartouche : “For the word of the cross is folly / to those who are lost; but for us who are saved it is a power of God. / 1. Cor 1.18 "( 1 Cor 1.18 EU ). Below the north window of the east wall is a rectangular sacraments niche , which is closed with a segment-arched, wooden door.
Other church furnishings include a horseshoe gallery and stalls that were made in the first half of the 19th century. The prospectus of the organ , which Wilhelm Remler built on the east gallery in 1866 , also dates from the same period .
In the tower hang two steel bells that were cast in Bochum in 1922 . Next to the south gate there is an epitaph that reminds of the patron of the time, Andreas Ideler. The Cölln wine and wood merchant was largely responsible for the reconstruction of the church, which was rebuilt in 1662. The sandstone tombstone shows his coat of arms and that of his four wives with an inscription and year in the center.
To the north of the building, a memorial commemorates those who died in the First World War . To the north of this memorial is a Soviet honorary cemetery for 78 fallen Soviet soldiers and officers.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Franzel Kerstan: Chronicle of Gräbendorf Volume 1: Documentation Period up to 1945 . Books on Demand, August 9, 2017, ISBN 978-3-7448-4667-7 , p. 32–.
- ↑ Information board of the community of Heidesee: Dorfkirche Gräbendorf , erected on the south side of the building, December 2018.
- ^ Church and rectory , website of the Gräbendorf community, accessed on December 31, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 28.6 " N , 13 ° 42 ′ 28" E