Gross Machnow village church
The Protestant village church Groß Machnow is a stone church from the 13th century in Groß Machnow , a district of the municipality Rangsdorf in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg .
history
In the first half of the 13th century, craftsmen first built the retracted and square choir with a priest's gate on the north side and two Romanesque windows from field stones . Then they built the round apse with a group of three windows . After an interruption, the nave with a north and a south portal and the transverse rectangular west tower , which was added in two stages in the 14th or 15th century , were probably built in the third quarter of the 13th century . In the 15th century, the southern patron s box and a crypt were added. At a later point in time, the previously pointed arched windows were redesigned in Baroque style by enlarging them with flat arches. At the same time, the parish increased the patronage box. Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr suspect that this took place in 1699 in connection with the renovation of the tower and the altar . In 1827 the presumably rectangular crypt was given a square shape; The demolition took place in 1950. In the years 1964 to 1966 and in 1985 the parish carried out restoration work. In 2000 the tower top was reconstructed.
architecture
The apse, nave and the lower part of the church tower were built from evenly hewn field stones. The ship has a square floor plan with the dimensions 10.80 by 10.80 meters. The eastern gable was built from brick. This is followed by the choir with a length of 8.05 meters and 8.10 meters wide. Its internal dimensions are 6.10 by 7 meters. Two beehive-shaped windows have been preserved in the choir. On its southern wall there is a two-storey , baroque patronage box that juts out to the east over the length of the choir. The windows here, as on the rest of the building, are provided with large, light-colored plastered windows that emphasize the shape. The lodge itself was built from around 80 cm thick mixed masonry, which consists of irregularly arranged field stones and large-format bricks. A small, clogged and arched portal can be seen to the left of the box. The upper two thirds of the west tower were built in the late Gothic style. The stones in this area are barely hewn and not layered, the spaces in between are filled with fragments of the wall. It is noticeable, however, that the corners were built from reddish brick and thus emphasize the shape of the mighty tower again. It can be entered through a pointed arch-shaped, double stepped portal on its west side and has a footprint of 6.7 × 10.80 meters. There are three sound arcades on the east and west sides and one sound arcade on the north and south sides . This is followed by a curved tower dome with a tower ball and weather vane . The roofs of the nave and choir are saddle roofs , while the apse has a half-cone roof and the patron's box has a hipped roof. All roof areas were covered with beaver tail .
Furnishing
The altarpiece dates from 1699 and shows the Lord's Supper in its predella, which is decorated with coats of arms on the side . In the main picture, the crucifixion of Christ can be seen between vine columns, putti and acanthus cheeks . The essay shows the burial of Jesus; Above it, the risen One can be seen in a blown gable. The wooden pulpit with a polygonal basket, corner columns and images of Christ and the four evangelists also date from the same period . The construction is supported by a sculpture showing Simon Petrus . At the entrance are pictures of the virtues Fides (faith) and Caritas (love). Experts from the Dehio suspect that Spes (hope), the third of the theological virtues, was removed when the pulpit door decorated with a painting of Moses was added later . Above the basket hangs a picture from the 17th century showing Jesus as the good shepherd.
The horseshoe gallery was built in 1690. It is decorated with images of Jesus and the twelve apostles in the cassettes. On the south side of the choir there is a baroque patron s box, the openings of which were enlarged in the 19th century. A stone epitaph commemorates the Prussian infantry general Otto von Schlabrendorf , who died in 1721 on his estate in Groß Machnow. The epitaph is decorated with marble figures, including a magnificent coffin, in front of which Fama , the deity of fame in Roman mythology , sits. Four armchairs date from the mid-18th century. In the vestibule there is a wooden offering box from the 15th century.
The interior of the sacred building has a flat roof and is supported by longitudinal wooden beams. There is an ogival connecting arch between the tower and the nave, while the triumphal arch has been removed. The arch in the apse is round.
literature
- Gerhard Vinken et al. (Edit.): Dehio-Handbuch der Deutschen Kunstdenkmäler, Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Evangelical Church Groß Machnow , website of the Rangsdorf community, accessed on June 20, 2016.
- Groß Machnow village church , investigation by Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on June 20, 2016
- 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
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Groß Machnow village church
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 29.6 ″ N , 13 ° 27 ′ 54.6 ″ E