Möthlitz village church
The village church in Möthlitz is a church in Möthlitz , a district of the community Milower Land , in the state of Brandenburg and is located a little back from the road in the center of the village, opposite the Möthlitz manor . The church belongs to the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The church was built in the second half of the 17th century . The previous building was a wooden church and was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . The interior has been redesigned several times, most recently during the renovation work in the 1960s.
The late 90s of the 20th century was the outer shell in the western part built a winter church in the course of extensive renovation. It is located below the gallery, separated from the nave by wooden and glass partitions.
Description and equipment
The building consists of a simple plastered hall with a polygonal (five-sided) apse and a squat square west tower that is integrated into the roof of the hall. The tower is crowned with a short, drawn-in tent roof .
The long walls are structured with tall, evenly divided arched windows - three each on the south and north sides. In the apse three short arched windows of the same design are built in, as in the west tower above the entrance gate.
The interior is spanned by a wooden barrel vault from the 19th century .
The furnishing of the Möthlitz church includes the neo-Romanesque pulpit with a side entrance. At the time of the church renovation in the 1960s, it went on loan to the Museum of German History in Berlin and returned to Möthlitz after the construction work. The patronage stalls donated by the Brandenburg canon Matthias von Hünecke in 1669 followed the same path . It is painted with the kings of Judea , coats of arms and dates and is in very poor condition.
Two well-preserved sandstone grave slabs are embedded in the nave walls. They depict the deceased Ursula von Britzke († 1611) and Barbara von Hünecke († 1616) with a coat of arms in full relief. The latter is shown with her head turned to the right and large, simply clasped hands. She wears a stiff collar, a cheek cap and a peculiarly wide costume without any lacing. A cape falls over the skirt , the folds of which are clearly visible.
The late Gothic sandstone baptism dates from 1501 and is designed in the form of a cup on a stepped base. It bears the name Albrecht von Hünecke and came to Möthlitz from the church in Jerchel, which was demolished in 1982. The baptismal bowl was made of brass and bears the monogram of the donor, the year 1715 and the depiction of the fall of man .
On the southern outer wall of the church there are three cast-iron, coat-of-arms-shaped grave slabs of the von Hünecke cartridge.
The altarpiece with the depiction of the Last Supper was long thought to be lost and was only put back into the altar in 2006 after extensive restoration . It came to the Rathenow District Museum in the course of the renovation work in the 1960s and from there passed through several stations to the Brandenburg Cathedral Museum. It was rediscovered there in 1986. However, the painting was not returned to the parish in Möthlitz until 2006.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Georg Dehio: "Handbook of German Art Monuments, Brandenburg", Berlin and Munich 2002
- ↑ Brochure: Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming , edited by Dietmar Möschner, Burg 2003
- ↑ Article on the history of the rediscovered Möthlitz altarpiece
Web links
- Möthlitz village church on Milow.de
Coordinates: 52 ° 28 '31.9 " N , 12 ° 23' 21.4" E