Kleinbeeren village church
The Evangelical village church of Kleinbeeren is a hall church from the second half of the 13th century in Kleinbeeren , a district of the municipality of Großbeeren in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Teltow-Zehlendorf the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Dorfstraße leads from the west into the historic town center. There the building stands in the western area north of the street on a piece of land that is partially enclosed by a wall made of reddish bricks .
history
The architectural history of the sacred building has some peculiarities that have not yet been fully clarified. The Dehio handbook puts the start of construction in the second half of the 13th century, while Engeser and Stehr come to the conclusion in their investigations that the work began at the end of the 13th century, but also not until the beginning of the 14th century could. Presumably, craftsmen first erected a building with a rectangular floor plan, a south portal and a priest's gate . Presumably three windows were installed on the north and south sides, and a lancet triple window on the east side . These should have been the same, so that experts assume that a flat ceiling was installed in the interior. There was probably no church tower at that time; this could probably have originated from masonry for the first time around 1500. By 1700, that made parish extensive renovation and expansion work to make. At that time the steeple was rebuilt, perhaps using the existing bricks. The walls of the nave were raised and the previously narrow windows were redesigned in Baroque style. The priest and the south portal are added, as is the group of three windows on the east wall. A new central portal was built on the south side. At an as yet undetermined point in time, craftsmen built an extension on the north side of the tower, which was later dismantled. In 1975 the parish renewed the roofs, the cornices and the tower cross. In 1987 the interior and the roof structure were renovated , followed by the Fünte , which was renovated in 1996.
Building description
The core of the structure was made of field stone , which was originally hewn and layered in layers. Due to the numerous renovations and repairs, this lag has largely disappeared. In the upper area only bricks were used. The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east wall, the remains of a group of three windows that have meanwhile been added can be seen, each around 70 cm wide.
On the north wall of the nave are four beehive-shaped windows, the walls of which are made of reddish brick. Between the first and second, east-facing window, the remains of a window from the construction period that have meanwhile been covered with brick can be seen. Further residues can be seen between the second and third windows. The western part of the original window is partially blocked with field stones and wall fragments. This could indicate that it was already locked when the remaining windows were enlarged. In the southern area of the nave, the remains of the original layer can still be seen on the south wall. There were a total of four beehive-shaped windows, the walls of which were made of reddish brick. Except for the second window from the west, they are about the same height. There is the south portal below the opening. To the east of this opening, the remains of the original windows can be seen. This is followed by a further window, which was arranged above the presumably pointed arched priest's gate, which has meanwhile been blocked, and which cuts off its arch. To the west is the clogged central portal, the walls of which were built from hewn field stones and which has now been clogged with stones and other field stones. An original window can be seen to the east. Between a further window in the direction of the eastern choir wall the outlines of another window, covered with field stones and bricks, can be seen. In their investigations, Engeser and Stehr indicate a length of 16.70 meters and a width of 8.00 meters.
The church tower was added to the nave and built from mixed masonry on a base made of field stones. Between the nave and the tower there is a chessboard stone on the south side , the original edge of which faces east. This suggests that it was previously built on the west side, or that it was rotated 180 degrees when the tower was built. The western wall is closed; There is a beehive-shaped window on the north and south wall and a portal on the south side. There is a blocked opening on the north side. The remains of an annex that no longer exists can also be seen there. On the tower floor there is one each on the north, west and south sides, and two sound arcades on the east side . The west tower is 8.00 meters wide and 5.45 meters long.
Furnishing
The wooden pulpit altar dates from around 1700. It essentially consists of a polygonal pulpit , which is framed by columns; above it a blown gable. The wooden fifth , which is decorated with acanthus , probably dates from the same period . It was restored in 1996. On the east side of the nave there are several epitaphs from the 18th and early 19th centuries.
The inside of the structure is flat covered. The bell was cast in the 15th century.
To the south of the building there is a memorial that commemorates those who died in the world wars.
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 .
- Dorfkirche Klein Beeren , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on October 15, 2017.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 41.3 " N , 13 ° 19 ′ 51.5" E