Mahlow village church
The Protestant village church Mahlow is a hall church from the second half of the 13th century in Mahlow , a district of the municipality Blankenfelde-Mahlow in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg . It belongs to the Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia (EKBO).
location
The building is located in the historic district of Mahlow (Dorf) north of Mahlower Dorfstrasse , which runs through the area in a west-east direction. The property is fenced in by a wall made of reddish brick. There is access from the west as well as from the east. The stone portal there is decorated with a relief plate from 1924, which commemorates the fallen of the First World War .
history
The sacred building was built in the second half of the 13th century and was renewed between 1755 and 1758. Experts suspect that craftsmen extended the previously retracted choir to the width of the nave , built the south portal and built a church tower . What is certain is that the previously ogival windows have been enlarged. The interior was also redesigned. In 1887 the building received an organ from Wilhelm Remler . The tower was renovated in 1935. No further maintenance work was carried out in the following decades. As a result, the ceiling threatened to collapse in 2003 and 2004. The building was closed to the public and renovated in 2004. Another church consecration took place at Easter 2004 . In the same year was parish renovate the organ. In 2009 she built a sanitary facility in the northeast of the property.
Building description
The choir was built from hewn and only slightly layered field stones . This could be due to the renovation in the 18th century and thus not correspond to the original condition. It is straight, not drawn in and has at its two large east side, segment-shaped aperture whose shape with window surrounds located and each including rectangular aperture again be emphasized.
The nave was also built from field stones, which were much better processed and layered. The spaces in between are provided with plaster that has been scored twice. On the south side is a rectangular, baroque gate with an overlying ox-eye . It is complemented by two large, segment-arched windows on the left and right of the ship's wall. Three windows of this type are installed on the north wall. In the hipped roof there is a bat dormer on the north and south sides .
The west tower takes up the width of the nave and is also built from hewn and largely layered field stones. Access is via an ogival gate, which is likely to date from the time the church was built. A simply stepped garment made of red brick is incorporated into it. This is followed by the square and boarded-up upper tower storey . There are two sound arcades on the west side and one sound arcade on the other sides . Behind it hangs a bell from 1508, which is therefore the oldest bell in the Teltow . The pyramid roof ends with a tower ball , weather vane and a star. Engeser and Stehr give the dimensions of the building as a total length of 17.3 meters with a width of 9.85 meters.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar consists of a curved pulpit , which is decorated with cheeks made of volutes . Above it is a five-sided sound cover with a ray of sun and the monogram F and R is decorated. This stands for Fridericus Rex and is reminiscent of Frederick II. It should therefore have been created in the middle of the 18th century. The horseshoe gallery stands on wooden columns of the Tuscan order and is enlarged to the west to make room for the organ. The cassettes are decorated with quotations from the Bible . There is a cove at the transition to the flat interior .
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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Dorfkirche Mahlow , website of the Evangelical Church Congregation Mahlow and Glasow, accessed on May 21, 2017.
- Dorfkirche Mahlow , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on May 21, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 51.5 ″ N , 13 ° 23 ′ 25.4 ″ E