Höfgen village church

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The evangelical village church Höfgen is a neo-Gothic hall church in Höfgen , a district of the municipality 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 village road leads from the southwest in a northeast direction into the village and spans the historical village green . The church stands northeast at the exit of the Angers on a property with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall of reddish bricks .

history

According to tradition, there was already a church in the village before the Thirty Years' War , but it was destroyed during the war. The village was desolate until 1660 and was only then settled again. In 1706 a new church was built, but it became dilapidated over the decades. In the years 1878 and 1879, craftsmen built a new building under the direction of master mason Dalichow from Jüterbog . The financial means were donated by Wilhelm I - this is indicated by a small crown with which the handle on the west portal is decorated. In 1929 and 1967 the roof of the nave and tower were renewed. Electric lighting was installed during the work in the 1960s. In the 1970s, the stained glass on the windows was renewed; 1992 the painting of the church.

Building description

Dalichow mainly used reddish bricks for the construction. This resulted in a polygonal, recessed choir , which is stabilized at its corners with double-stepped buttresses . At the end of the choir is a small, ogival window; on the north and south sides a much larger, also ogival window.

The nave of the nave has a rectangular floor plan. Over the area on the north and south sides, three large lancet windows were built in , which are also framed by two-stepped buttresses. The transition to the eaves is a downwardly open Fries . The ship has a simple gable roof ; on the west wall there are two small pinnacles .

The square church tower is strongly drawn in. Access is through an ogival portal from the west side. Above it is a surrounding cornice . It separates the storey above with two small, pointed arched openings on each of the three accessible sides. The bell storey is above another cornice. There are four pointed arch- shaped sound arcades on each side , which merge into the eight-fold kinked spire. It ends with a tower ball and cross.

Furnishing

The church furnishings are described by the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) in its database as "uniformly neo-Gothic" and originating from the construction period. In the altarpiece can be seen the blessing of Christ a painting. The cup of the Fifth comes from the previous building and rests on a cast-iron stand. Hiltrud Preuß, clerk in the lower building supervision and monument protection authority of the district of Teltow-Fläming describes the interior as follows: “In Höfgen, the wall surfaces are in umbra green and umbra brown, the sky, the vault, appears in the nave in a light blue, the apse shines in an ultramarine. The vault ribs, which were built from shaped stones, are painted in brick red for standardization, only the grout line is white. ”She praises the fact that the original version was preserved by“ carefully washing off and simply painting over ”the painting.

The building has a ribbed vault inside ; the choir is slightly raised and separated from the nave by a triumphal arch . A pressure wind harmonium , which Philip Trayser built in 1870, stands on the gallery . It is described as a "musical rarity" in a church guide from the Zossen-Fläming church district and restored in 2017.

See also

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
  • Ev. Parish office Borgisdorf (ed.): Dorfkirche Höfgen , flyer, no date, p. 2

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hiltrud Preuß, clerk in the lower building supervision and monument protection authority of the Teltow-Fläming district: It's not just the journey that is the goal - the church in Höfgen , without date, p. 1., published on the Teltow-Fläming district website.

Coordinates: 51 ° 54'55.7 "  N , 13 ° 8'57.3"  E