Groß Leine village church
The Protestant village church Groß Leine is a hall church from the 15th century in Groß Leine , a district of the municipality of Märkische Heide in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The federal highway 320 leads from the north-west towards the town center. There the Neue Dorfstraße branches off in a southerly direction. The building stands southwest of this intersection on a slightly elevated plot of land that is fenced in with a wall made of reddish bricks .
history
The core of the sacred building including the west tower was built in the 15th century. However, the church became dilapidated over the centuries. In the years 1906 to 1910, the parish therefore had the building extensively renovated and rebuilt under the direction of Wilhelm Blaue. The eastern wall of the choir , the organ choir, the ceiling, the beams and the roof were renewed. Blaue had a vestibule each added to the north, south and east. At the same time he had the altar set up in the west - for "practical reasons" as an information board on the building indicates. Church painters also added art nouveau painting . At the end of the work, an organ was purchased. For the renewed consecration of the church , the parish received a Bible signed by Empress Auguste Viktoria . In the course of a metal donation by the German people , two of the three bells had to be handed in. In 2006, as part of a project, a total of 61 tombs in the cemetery were given new foundations, cleaned and repaired.
Building description
The core structure was essentially made of unhewn field stones and mixed masonry, while light-colored bricks were mainly used for the renovation work at the beginning of the 20th century. The entire building was then given plaster ; In 2018, however, some of this will crumble over a large area. The choir has a rectangular floor plan and is strongly indented. The corners are highlighted with ashlar plaster, as is the portal to the east . There are two grooved pilaster strips on the side , above a blown gable with an ox eye in the middle . At the transition to the gable is a double profiled cornice , while the gable is divided by three panels . In the middle, raised panel there is again a pressed segment arch-shaped window. While the east side was designed comparatively splendidly, there is only a small arched window on the north and south side with a scratched plaster and an accentuated keystone .
The nave also has a rectangular floor plan . On the east side are two narrow and raised ox eyes. On the north side, after the renovation work, there are three baroque enlarged windows with incised plaster and walls . These were built from reddish brick. In the eastern third is another vestibule. It also has a rectangular floor plan and a large, arched opening to the north side. Above it is a curved gable. On the west and east side there is a small arched window . The south side is constructed identically. Chancel, nave and additions each carry a simple gable roof , which with beaver tail is covered. In the roof of the nave there is a bat dormer on each side .
The transverse rectangular church tower can be entered from the south through a portal. There are no other openings there. This could explain why the building is referred to as a fortified church in the list of monuments . This interpretation is likely to be supported by a narrow, high rectangular opening on the west side. However, there is no further evidence to date. On each of the three accessible sides of the bell- shaped floor there is an arched screen into which two pointed arch- shaped sound arcades are embedded. These are likely to come from the original construction period. A square tower dome rises above the pyramid roof , which ends with a tower ball , cross and weather vane .
Furnishing
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The interior was wested during the renovation . The richly decorated altar takes on the shape of an aedicule , in which the reliefs of a carved altar from the first half of the 15th century are embedded between two columns. The sides are richly decorated with cartilage , with scenes of the Passion in between . The predella shows the Last Supper of Jesus , while in the altarpiece the Lamentation of Christ was shown. The altar extract shows the resurrection of Jesus in two Hermes pilasters , above a free figure of Jesus and angels with palm branches. The pulpit was made of wood. The polygonal pulpit stands on board feet; the parapets show pictures of the evangelists . Above it is an octagonal sound cover with a cartilage crown. At the entrance there is a parsonage that is decorated with acanthus . The church also has a fifth made of Silesian marble , which was made in the 19th century.
At the beginning of the 20th century, craftsmen built a gallery in the south and west of the interior . In 1910 the Dinse brothers built an organ on the western gallery . The wooden barrel vault is decorated with a painting of geometric elements, clouds and sun rays from the Art Nouveau style.
In the eastern vestibule, an epitaph commemorates Sara von Zitzwitz, who died in 1625.
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
- ↑ Information board The Church in Groß Leine ... , set up east of the building, July 2018.
- ↑ Groß Leine , website of the municipality of Märkische Heide, accessed on July 15, 2018.
Coordinates: 51 ° 59 '54.3 " N , 14 ° 3' 48.2" E