Village church Groß Jehser
The Protestant village church Groß Jehser is a field stone church from the 15th century in Groß Jehser , a district of the town of Calau in the district of Oberspreewald-Lausitz in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Gliechower Straße runs in the northern section of the district in a west-east direction through the village. There the building stands northeast of the manor house on a raised area which is enclosed by a wall made of reddish brick .
history
The sacred building was probably built in the 15th century. At that time, the place belonged to the Buxdorf family and the Wolffersdorff family . From 1576, one half came to von Minckwitz , who also received church patronage . They renewed the building around 1700 and had a two- story box extension built for four groups of people. In 1747 a boarded tower was added. In 1908, as evidenced by a plaque on the back of the altar, extensive repairs were carried out. During the GDR era , the building was given a uniform plaster .
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones , which were then plastered. This is how, among other things, the choir came about , which did not move in and was given a five-eighth closing. On each side is a high arched window, the reveal of which is accentuated with plastered bezels and a highlighted keystone .
There are three more windows of this type on the north side of the nave . The south side is dominated by the two-storey patron's box. On the south and west side there is a pressed-segment arch-shaped gate; a window to the east. On the upper floor there are two windows on the south side and one on each of the other sides. Another gate and a window follow the nave to the west.
The rectangular west tower is not plastered. To the north-west and south-west, a double-stepped buttress stabilizes the structure. To the west is a gate that can be reached by stairs. On the floor above there is a rectangular window facing south. The shape of the tower is emphasized by plastered pilaster strips . Sometimes the craftsmen also used lightly hewn lawn iron stone . On top of it sits the boarded-up tower, which has two on the west and east side and one rectangular sound arcade on the other two . Above it is an octagonal tower dome with a pyramid roof , tower ball , weather vane and cross.
Furnishing
The altar dates from the first quarter of the 18th century and was worked in the shape of an aedicula . Two coupled Corinthian columns each carry an entablature with a blown gable . In the predella the Lord's Supper is depicted, in the altar sheet Mary and John under the cross . In front of the pillars there are figures showing Moses and John the Baptist . The entablature is decorated with a cartouche that shows the resurrection of Jesus . The columns are adorned with acanthus , in the altar extract the name of God and two angels with the instruments of the Passion .
The wooden pulpit is from the same period. The pulpit is decorated with pine cones and vine leaves; the parapets with scenes from paradise and the evangelists . Isaiah and Jeremiah are shown at the entrance . The back wall of the pulpit is decorated with images of Jesus Christ and Moses, above it a wooden sound cover . Both are works by the Calau carpenter and painter Gottfried Wolschke .
The church also features a marble epitaph that commemorates Johann Patow, who died in 1705, and his wife, Sophie Dorothea, who died in 1737. It shows the busts of the two deceased between a table of vitamins, including putti . Three further epitaphs of the coat of arms remind of J. v. Schwantes, who died in 1661, as well as to Joachim von Minkwitz and Hans Christoph von Polenz, who died in 1681. The horseshoe gallery is two-story and swings in the middle of the room. On it stands an organ with a baroque prospect from 1784, which was redesigned in 1908.
The connection between the four patron saints and the nave is glazed with a window. The ceiling of the southeast box is decorated with stucco. In the room there is a painting of Christ Carrying the Cross , which was made in the early 18th century. The building has a plastered wooden barrel inside with a suggested cross vault . The choir is slightly raised - according to the Dehio manual , this creates a "particularly light effect".
There are numerous other, partly illegible, epitaphs in front of the church tower.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church Groß Jehser , website of the city of Calau, accessed on May 13, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 46 ′ 24.5 " N , 13 ° 52 ′ 23.4" E