Karow village church

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Karow village church

The village church Karow is a listed late Romanesque field stone church in the Berlin district of Pankow .

Dating

The Karow village church shows late Romanesque forms. The middle of the 13th century, around 1250, is considered to be the end of the late Romanesque style in Brandenburg village churches. As Kurt Pomplun described the Karow village church as a little younger than the Lankwitz village church in 1962 (which he also called "late Romanesque" in general, without being more precise Dating), it is obvious that Cante (see lit. ) dates it to "around 1240". Pomplun was only able to date using the method of art historical style comparison , because the method of scientific dendrochronology was only used in a few individual cases at that time. Despite great advances in dendrodating, only one dendrodate of the late Romanesque village churches in Berlin is available for the Marienfelde village church, depending on whether wood that can be dated is found. In the meantime, however, there is a sensational-looking dendro date from 1270 for the classic late Romanesque village church of Lindenberg (Barnim) . There is also the knowledge that all village churches had wooden predecessor buildings, which the field stone churches followed at the earliest at a generation gap of 20 to 30 years, because money first had to be collected from harvest yields in order to be able to build these expensive buildings. If the village was founded around 1230, stone construction could only have followed around 1260, or at most around 1250. However , in view of the Lindenberg village church , such compulsory dating for late Romanesque village churches is not necessary. Karow definitely has the oldest village church on the Berlin part of the Barnim .

Building history

Karow village church from the southeast, 2003

The Karow village church was built as a three-part apse church made of largely carefully hewn stone masonry : a nave around 13 meters long and 10 meters wide, a recessed choir around 7 meters long and around 7 meters wide, and the apse around 3 meters long Meters and a width of around 6.5 meters. In the upper area and in the sacristy , more irregular stones are used. The church had three late Romanesque arched windows on each side wall and a pointed west portal. This original west portal is covered by the later addition of a tower. On the north side there are traces of a blocked portal under the middle window.

In 1429 the church was expanded with vaulting and painting. Restorations were carried out in 1622 and 1792–1795, with the church receiving a new roof structure and wider arched windows instead of the narrower and higher-seated arched windows. In 1830 the vault was replaced by flat barrels. The stone tower made of yellow brick , with a square floor plan and an octagonal pyramid roof, was added by Friedrich August Stüler in romanizing forms in the years 1845–1847 . The tower is not placed directly in front of the west side of the nave, but is connected to it by a short intermediate building. In the church tower there are three cast steel bells, which were consecrated on May 24, 1925, because the original ringing, three bronze bells, had been sacrificed for war purposes in 1917. Other sources speak of two bronze bells that were cast by Nickel Dietrich in Lorraine in 1552 . They are said to have a diameter of 1.07 meters or 0.85 meters. During the renovation between 1958 and 1959, the upper parts of the arched windows and part of the apse were plastered ugly. The renovated layered joints also show too much plastered mortar.

Equipment from the Middle Ages is no longer available. In 1541 there must have been a chalice, a Pacific and a monstrance in the church . The interior with a wooden pulpit from 1622, a 107 cm high baptismal font and choir stalls were made in the late Renaissance style at the beginning of the 17th century . As jewelry, there are conch niches, a predellas -relief with the presentation of the Christian communion on the altarpiece, the Karower illustrated Bible . The organ gallery is held in place by cast iron supports and is equipped with thirty-three paintings (oil on canvas depicting scenes from the Old and New Testaments ) facing the church. These paintings were brought here from another church, the village church of Buch , which was demolished in 1731, is assumed to come from here. Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller built the organ in 1890 for the Danewitz village church ; In 1981 it was bought from there and built in the Karow church the following year. In 2001 the parish renovated the nave and re-covered the roof.

Others

The oak door of the late medieval sacristy shows traces of deep ax blows, which are explained with the break-in by Swedish mercenaries during the Thirty Years War.

The cemetery in Karow, which was built at the same time as the church, is surrounded by a stone wall and still serves as a burial place today.

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Karow  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ May 24th (1925) in: Daily facts of the Luisenstädtischer Bildungsverein
  2. ^ Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim . Berlin 2001 (dissertation), ISBN 3-931836-67-3
  3. ↑ The architectural and art monuments of the GDR , Berlin. Institute for Monument Preservation at Henschelverlag, Berlin 1987, Vol. II, p. 99/100
  4. ^ Institute for Organ Research Brandenburg: Danewitz (ev. Church)

Coordinates: 52 ° 36 ′ 43 ″  N , 13 ° 29 ′ 2 ″  E