Herzberg village church (Rietz-Neuendorf)
| Herzberg village church
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| Denomination : | evangelical |
| Parish : | Buckow-Glienicke |
| Address: | Seestraße 34 15848 Herzberg, Rietz-Neuendorf |
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Coordinates: 52 ° 13 ′ 0.2 ″ N , 14 ° 6 ′ 59.7 ″ E The Evangelical village church of Herzberg is a neo-Gothic stone church in the Herzberg district ofthe municipality of Rietz-Neuendorf in the Oder-Spree district . It is a listed building. The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . A noticeable number of checkerboard stones were used in the construction.
location
The Church Street leads from the west to the east through the town. Together with Seestraße it spans the village green on which the church stands. The property is fenced in with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The first previous building of the church building, which existed in the 21st century, was built at the beginning of the 13th century on a boulder clay hill , the highest and central point of the village of Herzberg. The church is first mentioned in the Meißner diocese register from 1346 as the Kirchort Hertzbergk , which was part of the Storkow parish . The oldest pictorial representation comes from a drawing by Pastor Friedrich Gottfried Hein in the church book from 1769. The first previous building was demolished in 1783. Little is known about the second previous building. The existing building had become too small for the growing population of Herzberg and in 1863 Pastor August Langer applied for a church to be added. Only after the renewed request of the pastor Hugo Reukauff was granted by the Royal Prussian Church Building Office in 1880. The first cost estimates and construction drawings by the Berlin architect Wilhelm Salzenberg came from the years 1859, 1868 and 1871. In 1881 and 1882 he made further designs with various details and construction variants. The building was rebuilt from 1882 to 1883. On June 30, 1883, the church was consecrated. The slate roofing of the tower and roof was renewed in 1936. The southern gallery was separated from the ship in 1953 with a wooden wall for a heated community room. The cemetery boundary was rebuilt in 1991. In 1997 the church tower was repaired and the entire slate cover of the tower and the tower set were renewed. In addition, the gargoyles were faithfully reproduced from zinc sheet based on a template and the masonry of the upper turrets was repaired.
architecture
The original building was simple and small compared to the current one. It had a simple rectangular floor plan of 23.34 × 9.05 meters. During the renovation, the long sides of the nave were opened and two transepts with galleries of 8.50 × 4.35 meters each were added. This gave the entire ensemble a cross-shaped floor plan. The broken medieval ashlar stones of the previous building were used on the side surfaces of the transepts, which fit the ashlar stones of the main nave.
Architect Salzenberg preferred to use Gothic forms and Gothic elements. The craftsmen mainly used field stone and masonry stone for the construction . They used the existing field stones up to the height of the main cornice and the tower substructure of the previous building. The choir is straight and has not moved in. At the end of the choir is a lancet triple window with a raised pointed arch, next to it two round arched panels . The elevation of the eaves and ridge height caused the elevation with yellow Glindow brick masonry over the medieval field stones on the east gable. The transition area is crossed by a wide strip of four-pass ornament stones, which is bordered by a German band at the top and bottom . Above it is the five-way staggered front gable. There is a rectangular opening in each of the three central panels. The east gable with its lancet windows and the fitted nine checkerboard pieces belongs to the original part of the building . The relatively high number of these ornamental stones used is unique in Germany. On the north and south walls there are two rectangular extensions, of which the one to the west is elevated and creates a flowing transition to the nave . To the east are three coupled pointed arch windows. In the annexes to the west there is a pointed arch gate; above a cornice and three other pointed arch windows. The extensions are used as a sacristy . There is a semicircular cone in the southern extension . It is believed that valuable church inventory was kept here. The choir wearing a gable roof , the additions each hipped roofs.
The nave is dominated by two mighty cross arms. There are two large, two-part tracery windows on the north and south sides , which break through a surrounding frieze at the apex. Above another cornice is a blind gable, which takes the form from the choir. It is also decorated with pinnacles . In the direction of the church tower there is another tracery window of the same type. There are two checkerboards on the south-east corner, six on the east gable and another checkerboard on the north-east corner.
The church tower takes up the width of the ship. It can be entered from the west through a large, ogival gate. The garment is carefully carved, above it a stone-built, Gothic cross, which was restored according to Salzenberg's specifications. The front sides of the transepts and the west wall of the tower are made of Cyclops masonry . The 1.76 meter thick substructure was preserved from the medieval tower. It was increased from originally 18.71 meters to 36.77 meters. There is a narrow arched window on the north and south sides. On the middle floor there are three, on the west side and two on the north and south side, two ogival, double staggered panels, each with a small opening. Above it are three on the west and east side and two ogival arcades on the north and south side . Behind it are two cast iron bells from 1917. Four true-to-original gargoyles crown the north and south sides of the tower. Above the bell storey is a tower clock in a staggered gable. A slender spire with a finial sits on it .
Furnishing
The valuable, listed interior of the church includes a gilded silver chandelier, a communion chalice from the first half of the 16th century and a brass baptismal bowl from 1686. In the northern sacristy, next to the epitaph for the Hartensdorf landowner Paul Bergius, there is an unusual death crown - and death crown board collection from the years 1844 to 1893. With the initials of the dead, they served the memory of deceased children and unmarried young people and were placed inside the church. The wreaths made of myrtle and artificial flowers were supposed to replace the denied bridal crown and give the right to marriage in death. The collection includes 19 death crown boards and nine death crowns, making it one of the most extensive in Brandenburg.
There are wooden galleries on the west, north and south sides. Next to the wooden altar with crucifix is the semi-industrial baptism made of ceramic on eight sides. The pulpit, which is also wooden and whose polygonal pulpit is supported by a post, is on the right in the chancel. The chandelier hanging in the center of the nave was donated by the Herzberg landowner Stakebrandt. All these objects and the stalls date from the years 1882 to 1883. The ceiling of the church is clad with wood.
organ
The organ, built in 1885 by the Potsdam organ builder Carl Eduard Gesell , is located on the west gallery. The instrument has two manuals , a pedal and 14 registers. The work is one of the few surviving two-manual organs of Gesell. Since the prospect pipes had to be handed in for war purposes in 1917, they were later replaced by zinc pipes.
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A memorial to the east of the building commemorates those who fell in the world wars.
literature
- Barbara and Wolfgang Zwenger: 750 years of Herzberg church history . In: District calendar Oder-Spree . 2007, p. 25-34 .
- Hans-Joachim Beeskow : Guide through the Protestant churches in the parish of An Oder and Spree . Heimat-Verlag, Lübben 2002, ISBN 3-929600-25-0 .
- 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
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Landkreis Oder-Spree . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09115382, December 31, 2018, p. 35 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 257 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
- ↑ Zwenger, 750 Years of Church History from Herzberg , p. 27
- ↑ a b Zwenger, 750 Years of Church History from Herzberg , p. 31
- ^ Crowns and boards in the Herzberg Church. Evangelisches Pfarramt Buckow-Glienicke, accessed on October 9, 2016 .
- ^ Church history Herzberg. Evangelisches Pfarramt Buckow-Glienicke, accessed on October 9, 2016 .
- ↑ The organs in our churches. Evangelisches Pfarramt Buckow-Glienicke, accessed on October 9, 2016 .