Gräfendorf village church (Niederer Fläming)

Graefendorf village church

The Protestant village church Gräfendorf is a late Romanesque stone church in Gräfendorf , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

location

The district road 7209 runs through the village as a village road in a north-south direction. There it branches off to the west. The church stands in the middle of the historical center east of this street on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .

history

The building was built in the first half of the 13th century, consisting of the choir and nave . The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) suspects that the church tower was only added around 1300. After the Thirty Years War , the eastern components were renewed in 1697 and the building was designed with a uniform roof. The apse was demolished and the choir walls reinforced with arcades in front. A lodge was built to the south and has been used as a community room in modern times. The interior was redesigned in 1960.

Building description

View from the southwest

The structure was essentially built from field stones that were uncut and not layered. The remains of the broken apse can be seen on the east wall of the choir. In the center is a round arched window, the reveal of which was built from reddish bricks . On the north and south sides there are mighty arcades that give the building the necessary stability. A priest's gate from the construction period has been preserved on the south side .

This is followed by the nave. It has not moved in and has a rectangular floor plan. On its south side is a patronage box with a rectangular floor plan. It can be entered through a staircase from the east side. In the south gable is an ox-eye . On the north side there are two simple, rectangular windows. On the south side of the nave is still a large arched window, including a community gate.

The church tower is rectangular and drawn in opposite the ship. It has a small gate on its south side and is otherwise windowless. In the middle of the west side is a tower clock. Above rises the bell storey with two round arch-shaped, brickwork panels on the west side, into each of which two coupled acoustic arcades were built. The east side is partly built from timber and has no openings. On the north and south side there is only a panel with sound arcades. The two gables are boarded up. Above it is a simple, diagonally positioned gable roof that ends with a cross.

Furnishing

The church furnishings , including the altar , the cafeteria, the pulpit and the fifth are all from the 1960s. Additional features include six wall sconces and stained glass windows in the altar wall.

In the outdoor area, two epitaphs by A. Conrad from Torgau are reminiscent of Carl Heinrich, who died in 1810, and Antonie A. Ernestine von Thümen, who died in 1850 .

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 .
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