Körbitz village church
The Evangelical village church of Körbitz is a late Romanesque field stone church in Körbitz , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The street village is accessed by the 7209 district road, which passes north of the historic settlement center in a west-east direction. From here, the Dorfstrasse branches off to the south and leads, among other things, to a piece of land east of the road that is fenced in with a wall made of uncut field stones .
history
Körbitz, mentioned for the first time in 1186, was owned by the Nienburg monastery at that time and came to the Zinna monastery in 1225 . Under the guidance of the Cistercians , a field stone hall with an apse was built in the first half of the 13th century . A church tower was only added to it in the late Gothic period . The bell storey was built in the 16th and 17th centuries. Century. The municipality of Niederer Fläming suspects that the renovations were carried out in 1664 using existing materials. In the following decades, necessary repair work was apparently not carried out, because the community reports of considerable work that was required on the damaged church in the years 1858 and 1859. An entrance on the south side was added and a portal on the church tower was broken out; the " baroque " windows enlarged. In 1879 the parish bought an organ . At the end of the 1920s, she acquired a new (?) Bell, which was consecrated on December 23, 1928. In 1972 the wooden ceiling was also damaged and was replaced by hard fiberboard . The altar and interior were then repainted, which continued into 1975. In 1979 the parish replaced the existing stalls with new benches, the nave was given a new roof and a winter church was built below the gallery . The renovation work was provisionally concluded with the repair of the church tower in 1998.
Building description
The monks mainly used field stone , which was hewn but layered comparatively unevenly. The semicircular apse is drawn in and has two narrow arched windows, the soffit of which is made of reddish brick
The ship has a rectangular floor plan. The east wall has no windows, and there are two small, arched windows in the brick gable . At the transition to the apse, the long wall is stabilized by a two-stepped buttress . On the north and south sides there are three large, profiled arched windows with masonry reveal. At the transition to the roof is a frieze made of brick.
The transverse rectangular church tower is slightly drawn in. It was also built from field stones in the lower area and has a large, quadruple stepped portal on its west side on the otherwise windowless facade, which was also built from brick. Above the tower is an attachment made of plastered bricks with two coupled sound arcades on the north, south and west sides. Above it rises a diagonally positioned gable roof , boarded up on its gables , which is crowned with a small, octagonal roof turret .
Furnishing
The wooden pulpit altar was built between 1715 and 1722. The pulpit basket is located between two pillars decorated with putti . Above it is the monogram and the coat of arms of the Duke of Saxony-Weißenfels in the blown gable . Two passages on both sides are used to walk around the Lord's Supper and are crowned with a crucifix and a snake as a symbol of evil.
The church furnishings included two carved figures from the second quarter of the 15th century, which were stolen during a theft. An organ stood on the horseshoe gallery , which was no longer playable in the 20th century and was expanded.
The building has a flat roof inside.
To the west of the enclosure, a memorial commemorates those who died in the two world wars.
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.): Körbitz Church , Flyer, no date, p. 4
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Körbitz Church , website of the Niederer Fläming community, accessed on February 2, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 53 ′ 41.5 " N , 13 ° 6 ′ 52.3" E