Linthe village church
The Protestant village church Linthe is a late Romanesque stone church from the beginning of the 13th century in Linthe , a community 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 Landstrasse 85 leads as Chausseestrasse coming from the north in a southerly direction through the village. From here, Kreisstrasse 6918 branches off to the east as Lindenstrasse . The church stands southeast of this intersection on a small hill with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
The building was built at the beginning of the 13th century, probably in the first quarter as a complete complex . On the long wall of the nave there were presumably four windows on each side, and in the choir presumably two windows on the north and south sides. There were also three windows in the apse and the priest's door on the north side of the choir. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) assumes that the church tower was subsequently encased in field stone and raised in the process. This could, according to Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, explain why it jumps out slightly over the width of the ship at 65 cm. It was probably only three meters higher than the eaves of the ship. At the beginning of the 14th century it was likely to have been extended and a wooden bell storey was added . From dendrochronological studies it is known that the tower was raised again in 1409/1410. The wooden floor was replaced by masonry, the connecting arch between the tower and the ship was walled up and a separate entrance was created on the north side. The priest's gate was probably changed for the first time at this time.
In 1769 the originally retracted choir was enlarged to the east to include the apse. At the same time, its width was increased to align with the ship's walls. In 1823 the sacristy on the south side of the choir had become dilapidated and was torn down; In 1872 the windows on the south wall were enlarged.
The church was restored in 1929 and 1965, and the interior was renovated in 1972/1973. The side galleries were removed. The tower was last renovated in 1994.
Building description
The structure was essentially made of field stones that were only partially cut and layered. The choir is straight and has not moved in; the east wall closed. On the north and south sides there is a large, " baroque " over-formed round arched window, the walls of which are made of reddish brick . The masonry is only layered in the lower area and consists of broken bricks in addition to field stones. On the south side there used to be a sacristy, which has since been demolished.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. It is around 20.30 m long and around 10.10 m wide. Of this, 8.65 m consist of the extension of the building to the east, where the apse was broken off and the choir was widened. The field stones here are layered and hewn comparatively. On the north side there are two portals as well as three raised, original arched windows in between. On the south side in the east there is an added portal with which the sacristy could originally be entered. This is followed by three arched windows, of which the western one has been drawn deeper. Their walls were also made of brick. Between the second and third window from the west, the remains of an original window can be seen. The priest's gate was taken out during the eastward extension and placed on the new wall.
The church tower is 11.10 m wide and 6.45 m long. The stones are hewn and layered in the lower area, but do not match the layers in the ship. Above the eaves height of the ship, the masonry becomes irregular; above a brick attachment. There are several ogival arch-shaped openings, which were designed in the middle as coupled panels and on the outside as sound arcades . On the north and south sides there are the sound arcades, followed by two centrally arranged and coupled screens. Below is a tower clock. Above rises a transverse gable roof , which is hipped to the north and south . A six-sided roof turret rises above it, terminating with a tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The baroque altar was built in the first half of the 18th century. It consists of twisted edge columns with carved cheeks, which were decorated with acanthus . In the altar sheet the “raising of the daughter of Jairus” from the Gospel according to Matthew is depicted; a work from the end of the 19th century. A polygonal, wooden pulpit stands on a twisted column. To further church facilities , a dodecagonal belongs Fuente of limestone with a semicircular arch fries at the top. The church stalls are from the 19th century. There is a gallery on the north and west sides; on the west gallery an organ with a plain prospectus . It was built in 1877 by Friedrich Wilhelm Lobbes and restored in 1929 and 1985 by the Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau company .
Two epitaphs commemorate M. Johann Heinrich Rebhun, who died in 1711, and his wife Maria Rebhun, who died in 1724. The inside of the building is lined with a flat beamed ceiling from 1695. There are three bells hanging in the tower.
A memorial plaque in front of the west tower commemorates the fallen from World War II . In front of it is a boulder, which quotes a poem by Dietrich Bonhoeffer with the verse " From good powers / wonderfully secure " .
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Linthe (Protestant village church) , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on May 24, 2020.
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 15.7 ″ N , 12 ° 47 ′ 14 ″ E