Heinersdorf village church (Steinhöfel)
The Protestant village church Heinersdorf is a field stone church from the second quarter of the 13th century in Heinersdorf , a district of the Steinhöfel community in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The main road leads from the south-west in a north-easterly direction through the village. To the northwest lies the Heinersdorfer See . Between the lake and the main street, the building stands in a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
The core of the building was built in the second half of the 13th century under the influence of the Knights Templar . In the 14th or 15th century, craftsmen built the west tower and expanded the church into a complete complex . In the Thirty Years War , this building was also badly damaged and by the church patron Franz von Meinders , who was also Kurbrandenburg minister and diplomat under Friedrich Wilhelm and Friedrich III. was rebuilt. In 1752 there was a fire in which the church was again badly damaged. The incumbent church patron Martin Horn quickly began the reconstruction, but changed its appearance and bought new church furnishings . In the course of this construction work he had the windows enlarged and a south porch and a sacristy built on the north side of the choir . The church tower was given a dome with a tower clock and lantern . The work was delayed by the Seven Years War and therefore dragged on from 1754 to 1764. In the interior, craftsmen built a horseshoe gallery and built in new stalls. Horn bought a new pulpit altar and had a new bell cast. On October 14, 1764, the congregation celebrated the first service in the renovated rooms. A patronage box was built above the sacristy in the third quarter of the 18th century . In 1837 the parish bought an organ ; 1846 new windows. In 1893, the then church patroness Anna Schulz von Heinersdorf had a heating system installed. A year later she donated a chandelier that has been hanging in the nave since that time . In 1911 a thorough renovation took place. The interior was repainted and the organ replaced.
In World War II and the postwar turmoil a variety of organ pipes were lost. The instrument became unplayable and was only poorly restored by an organ builder in 1970 . After the fall of the Wall , the parish had the roof re-covered in 1990. In 2001 the Sauer company renovated the instrument on the basis of a report it had prepared. It restored the original disposition from 1911 by 2011 . In 2003 the roof structure was renovated and sponge infestation on the roof structure was fought. Craftsmen then renovated the facade as well as the windows and doors of the building. A support association is committed to a historical reconstruction of the interior.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones , which were then largely plastered . The semicircular apse is strongly drawn in and has a segment-arched window on the north and south sides. This is followed by the choir, which has also moved in, to the west . On its north side there is a sacristy on the lower floor , above it a patronage box. On the east wall is a gate and a segment-arched window. There is another window in the gable . The choir has a rectangular floor plan and on the south side two high, pressed-segment arched windows, which extend approximately the height of the facade.
This is followed by the nave. It also has a rectangular floor plan and high, segment-arched windows. On the south side there is a rectangular porch that can be entered from the south through a gate. The long sides of the choir and nave have a circumferential cove at the transition to the roof . The choir, nave and porch each have a simple gable roof .
To the west of the building is the square church tower , which is only slightly drawn in opposite the nave. It is only plastered on its west side and has a rectangular gate there. The other pages show irregularly layered and unhewn field stones. To the south is another extension with a rectangular floor plan. On the middle floor there are two segment-shaped sound arcades on each side . Above the bell storey is a curly dome with a wooden lantern. A tower clock is built into it; above it a tower ball with a weather vane and a star.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar was created by the carpenter Schultze from Arnswalde in 1764 based on the Italian model. It consists of two mighty pillars, decorated with acanthus , which support a square broken pediment. In the middle is a polygonal pulpit , above it a polygonal sound cover , which is crowned by a radiant sun.
Two epitaphs hang on the north wall of the nave below the gallery . Two other memorial plaques commemorate the fallen from the First and Second World Wars.
There is a round arched triumphal arch at the transition from the nave to the choir . The inside of the structure is flat covered. The wooden horseshoe gallery from 1762 stands on Ionic columns .
organ
In 1837 the organ builder Friedrich Leopold Morgenstern from Guben built an organ on the west gallery . It was replaced by a Sauer organ during the renovation in 1911. The instrument with the Opus 1111 has two manuals and 12 stops . However, the original prospectus from 1837 was retained during the renovation . During the Second World War as well as in the post-war period, numerous organ pipes were lost, so that the instrument was ultimately unplayable. In 1970 an unknown craftsman rebuilt the first manual. However, a professional restoration did not take place again until Christmas 2011 after the Sauer company had restored the original condition from 1911. The work was supported by a group of friends.
In the tower hangs a bronze bell that JF Thiele cast in Berlin in 1764 .
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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Heinersdorfer Kirche , website of Schloss Heinersdorf with information about the church, accessed on February 9, 2019.
Individual evidence
- ^ The village church of Heinersdorf (Oder-Spree) , website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on February 9, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 27 '25.6 " N , 14 ° 12' 54.9" E