Village church Lindow (Niedergörsdorf)
The Protestant village church of Lindow is a late Romanesque field stone church in Lindow , a district of the Niedergörsdorf community 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 district road 7215 leads from the southwest to the historic village green . There it branches off to the east. The Lindower Dorfstraße also branches off from there to the northwest or north. The church stands on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed by a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) refers to a “complicated, not yet fully clarified building history” with regard to the construction time and assumes that this can only be clarified through building archaeological investigations. Numerous modifications to the sacred building make a clear building history difficult. This corresponds to the fact that the origin of the place is largely unknown so far. The first documentary mention of a Wendisch-Linde settlement dates back to 1142. It is conceivable that the church could therefore also have been built in the 12th century. As further arguments, the BLDAM cites the “broad shape, certain structural awkwardness” and the mostly rubble-like masonry. The parish, however, describes that the building was built between 1275 and 1325.
At that time Lindow was parish in Malterhausen until this place fell into desolation in 1400 and Lindow came to Kaltenborn . The church patronage lay with the Lorenz Monastery in Magdeburg until 1284 and then came to the Zinna Monastery . It is known from dendrochronological research that it received a new roof structure in 1427, with individual pieces of wood being felled between 1423 and 1426. Plaster residues could also be found on individual roof beams . Experts concluded from this that the interior must originally have been higher. With the Reformation the patronage came to the sovereign. In the investigations carried out so far, it became clear that the west tower was originally intended to be wider. The plan was to extend the transverse rectangular tower in its full width over the planned floors . But after massive damage in the Thirty Years War , numerous stones were used for the enclosure. Instead, a half-timbered tower tower was built in 1696 . Presumably in the late Middle Ages, the basement of the tower , which originally opened up to the nave with a round arch, was closed and provided with a barrel vault made of masonry stones. The newly created room was closed with a heavy iron door. The BLDAM can imagine that a “recovery room for valuable belongings in times of danger” was set up.
In the Baroque period , the windows in the nave were enlarged; a sacristy was built. This was initially also built from half-timbering and replaced by a brick extension in the 19th century. In 1825 the roof over the nave may have been reassembled. Craftsmen used wood from the 15th century and supplemented them with newly felled wood. Between 1851 and 1853, master bricklayer Herold and master carpenter Jurisch from Jüterbog carried out numerous repairs: They repaired the east gable of the ship, rebuilt the eaves, repaired the roof and tower and covered the tower with zinc sheet. In the interior, the walls were whitewashed and the ceilings renewed. Nevertheless, the district building inspector Reinckens pleaded in 1886 for a demolition and a new building. The parish was able to avert this and in 1888 and 1889 had further work carried out by master bricklayer Karl Rüdiger from Treuenbrietzen . At this time at the latest, the new, brick east gable of the choir was built. In the 1970s, a winter church was built in the west of the ship through a massive installation in the upper area , while a morgue was set up in the area below. The church received a new floor, the sacristy, the galleries, the stalls and the baroque pulpit were removed. In the same year Lindow was its own parish until it came to Niedergörsdorf in 1975. In 2000, experts exposed approaches to the former apse . In 2004 and 2005 the church tower was renewed and the interior renovated; 2018 the mourning hall removed from the interior.
Building description
The core of the building was made of uncut and not layered field stones . The masonry design is extremely uneven due to the numerous conversions and extensions. The choir has moved in and is straight; At the end of the choir are two small arched windows, the shape of which is emphasized by a plastered fascia . In the lower area there are the remains of an earlier apse. The clearly visible round arch made of brick, on the other hand, is likely to come from a later extension. The gable above is made of masonry with a centrally located, also arched opening. On the north and south sides there are two enlarged Baroque windows, supplemented by a Romanesque , significantly smaller (and from the construction period?) Window on the north side. On the south side there is a priest's gate , the jamb of which has also been renewed, and a modern buttress on the south-east corner .
The ship has a rectangular floor plan. On the north and south sides there are two large arched windows; on the south side a community portal with an overlying, also still Romanesque window.
The transverse rectangular west tower is otherwise windowless apart from two small openings on the north and south sides. It was built on the lower storey from field stones, above from wall stones. At about the height of the eaves of the ship, it turns into a boarded tower, into which two small sound arcades are embedded on the north and south sides . Above a pyramid roof a sitting spire with an octagonal, verschieferten lantern and tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The altar retable was created between 1712 and 1736 and replaced a Gothic predecessor with a picture of Mary in its altar leaf . It is a wooden structure with columns and a blown gable with a ray of glory as well as the coat of arms and the monogram of Duke Christian of Saxony-Weißenfels. The altarpiece now consists of a modern crucifix in front of a painted landscape. On the side there are richly carved cheeks, which are decorated with acanthus , as well as oval inscription panels.
The fifth was made of sandstone around 1500. It consists of a round pewter cup with a lily ornament from 1696 and stands on a six-part base. In the north wall of the choir is a presumably medieval sacrament niche with a simple wooden door and long iron ribbons.
A bronze bell hangs in the tower, probably from the 15th century. The inside of the building is flat-roofed and has a retracted triumphal arch .
See also
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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Church of Lindow , website of the parish Niedergörsdorf, accessed on January 18, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 42.6 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 24.1" E