Kerzendorf village church (Ludwigsfelde)
The Evangelical Village Church Kerzendorf is a neo-Romanesque hall church in Kerzendorf , a district of the city of Ludwigsfelde in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the Protestant parish in Ludwigsfelde Kirchenkreis Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The town center is accessed from Kerzendorfer Straße , which comes from the north and leads into town and spans the historic village green. The church stands on this area in the northern area of the Angers. It is fenced in with a hedge .
history
Kerzendorf was first mentioned in the 14th century. It is therefore quite conceivable that a stone church was built at this time , especially since two hooves for the pastor have come down to us in a castle register from 1450 . Another reference to a previous building can be found in a historical tempera picture . It shows a church with a retracted choir , a recessed gable roof and arched windows. So far, however, no documents are available from this structure.
The place itself came into civil possession in the 19th century and came to the Schwabach family in 1872, who also took over the church patronage . At the initiative of the banker Paul von Schwabach , craftsmen tore down the dilapidated previous building and erected the building between 1896 and 1898 according to plans by the architect Karl Hoffacker . Experts suspect that Hoffacker was inspired by the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church in Berlin, which was completed in 1895, since neo-Romanesque was considered a "national architectural style" at that time. The church consecration took place on November 10, 1897. After the end of the Second World War , most of the church furnishings were removed and the triumphal arch walled up.
Building description
The structure was mainly made of plastered bricks . The choir has a rectangular floor plan and is retracted. On the east side are three arched windows, coupled over columns , of which the middle one is raised. At the northeast and southeast corner there is a double stepped buttress . The north and south walls are closed. On the north side, at the transition to the nave, there is a small rectangular extension that can be entered from the east through a segment arched gate. To the north is a window. The south side is constructed identically. There is a surrounding cornice at the transition to the hipped roof .
The eastern gable of the nave is plastered. The base consists of Niedermendiger basalt lava , the frames of the windows and doors and the columns are made of Ettringer tuff or Weiberner tuff . Hoffacker used these materials to design both sides of the nave. Two window openings are built into the surface, each decorated with four grouped arched openings on arcade supports .
The mighty, rectangular church tower adjoins to the west . It can be entered from the west through a large portal, the walls of which are profiled several times. Above it are two small arched openings. The building tapers off on the upper floor . In the center is a tower clock, above it two coupled sound arcades . The corners of the structure are emphasized by cuboids. The eight-fold kinked spire closes with a tower ball and cross. To the north of the tower is another tower extension, drawn into the floor plan. On its north side is an arched window, above it a circular arched opening on a row of arcades. The extension has a pyramid roof with a tower ball.
Furnishing
The church furnishings are largely lost. The simple altar was built from brick, on top of which a modern brass cross with two candlesticks. In the former choir there is a stone epitaph that commemorates the Prussian Minister of State and Justice, President of the Court of Appeal and President of the French Higher Court in Berlin, Johannes Ludovicus le Duchat de Dorville , who died in 1770. It is decorated with a gathered curtain, three putti and a double coat of arms with a skull. The bell comes from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century.
The interior of the building is covered with a dark, wooden barrel vault; in the choir is a groin vault . On one wall there is a representation of a crown made of light wood, which symbolizes Jesus Christ . The organ that once existed was lost after the end of the Second World War.
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 .
- 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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Organ pipes for bread and bacon - The Kerzendorfer Church is nowhere near as old as it looks , article by Margrit Hahn, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on July 1, 2017.
- ↑ Monument of the Month , website of the Teltow-Fläming district, accessed on August 15, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 16 ′ 14.1 ″ N , 13 ° 16 ′ 50.8 ″ E