Kemnitz village church (Werder)
The Protestant village church of Kemnitz is a late Gothic stone church in Kemnitz , a district of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Kemnitzer Dorfstraße runs in a west-east direction as a central connecting axis through the town. In the historic center of the village, Seestrasse branches off in a southerly direction and leads to the Großer Plessower See . The church stands southwest of this intersection and thus northwest of the old village center on a property that is enclosed with a wall made of dark bricks .
history
The exact date of construction of the sacred building is not yet known. The Dehio manual is therefore only very vague and speaks of a late Gothic building, i.e. H. from the period between 1350 and the beginning of the 16th century. In 1375 the place was equipped with a parish hoof , so it is likely that the church or a previous building already existed this year. Around 1450 - Kemnitz belonged to the Sedes Brandenburg as a branch church of Phöben - these hooves were increased to two. During a visit before 1573, their status as Mater vagens , i.e. parish church without its own parish office, was reported. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) points out that Kemnitz could originally have been an independent parish. This has been handed down from 1601. It was during this time that the tithe was levied . The church patronage was at Gut Kemnitz. It is conceivable that the church, like many other structures, was damaged in the Thirty Years War . Possibly it was then rebuilt under the patronage of Friedrich von Görnes, because from 1686 only the repair of the roof has survived. Further editions were made in 1704 and 1705, but their content and scope are not yet known. It is certain that there was a fire in the village in 1747, which also destroyed the church. The parish then had the building completely renewed.
Frederick II allowed the estate to carry out its own collection , as its own funds were insufficient for reconstruction. With the money, the surrounding walls were also raised and the roof re-covered. At the same time built artisans a new west tower of truss . According to an inscription, the carpenter Johann Gottfried Schneider was involved. Other craftsmen enlarged the windows. Further repairs were carried out in 1798 and paid for by the patronage Adolph Ludewig von Britzke. In 1806 Kemnitz came to the Brandenburg-Neustadt superintendent and in 1924 to Lehnin. In 1837 the tower had to be built by the master carpenter Schultze sen. to be renewed from Lehnin . For cost reasons, he replaced the previously baroque dome with a simple tent roof with tile roofing. At the end of the 19th century there was another fire in the village. After burials had previously taken place in a grave vault below the church, undertakers have now set up a hereditary burial for the Brietzke family on the north side of the property. In 1935 the surrounding churchyard was closed and there were no more funerals. After the end of the Second World War , craftsmen carried out repairs for the last time in 1959. After that, the structure fell into disrepair for several decades until the first safety measures were taken after the fall of the Wall in 1996. A comprehensive restoration took place in 2001 and 2002. The tower and the roof were renovated, the west side of the tower was rebuilt, the windows repaired and the interior was repaired. Then painters applied a reddish lime sludge to the facade, thus restoring the appearance of the 18th century.
Building description
For the construction, craftsmen mainly used field stones that were not hewn or layered. The church has a rectangular floor plan with a choir that has not been drawn in. The east wall is straight, in the middle a pressed segment arch-shaped, baroque window with a plastered reveal . At the time of construction there were two ogival windows with a brick reveal. The windowless gable was made of timber framing.
The north side of the nave is kept comparatively simple. There are three windows of the same type. The remains of the walled up crypt can be seen slightly off-center to the right below the central window. On the south side there are two windows in the east; in the west is a pressed-segment arch-shaped gate. The west side is also straight with a central window. The west gable was also built from half-timbering. The BDLAM specifies a length of 12.11 m with a width of 9.05 m in the west and 8.87 m in the east. The nave has a simple saddle roof that is hipped towards the east .
The square, 17.06 m high half-timbered west tower rises above it. In the middle on the north, south and west side is a sound arcade above a pyramid roof with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
The pulpit altar probably dates from around 1756 and was added in 1798 or in the early 19th century. It consists of a polygonal pulpit between pilasters in a Doric order . Above it is a sound cover with a carved coat of arms of those of Brietzke.
The church also features a fifth with a neo-Gothic pewter baptismal font from 1878. The church stalls with a patronage box on the north side were probably brought into the building in 1798 during the repair work. The horseshoe gallery , which was added at a later date, was probably built at the same time . It rests on wooden pillars that support the tower in the middle towards the top. Several epitaphs commemorate those who died in the wars, including Friedrich Kuhlmey (1897–1916), Ernst Nätebusch (1922–1942) and a memorial plaque for Andreas Ferd, who died in 1870. Wilhelm bowl of fame. At the entrance to the pulpit, another plaque commemorates those who died in the Wars of Liberation . On the east wall there is a sacrament niche in the north .
The inside of the structure is flat covered. In the tower hangs a bell that was cast by the Radler company from Hildesheim in 1933. It replaced a bell that Christian Daniel Heintze from Berlin cast in 1755. The donation from the von Britzke family to the community had to be given in the course of a metal donation by the German people .
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 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 29.8 " N , 12 ° 52 ′ 1.8" E