Markendorf village church

The Markendorf village church is a church in the Markendorf district of Jüterbog in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg . The church is a listed building.

location

The church is located in the northern part of the village, directly south of the federal highway 115 on a property that is enclosed with a wall made of reddish bricks . The northern part of the surrounding churchyard was made smaller when the main road was expanded. The western stone wall with the parallel planted locust is still original.

history

The church was built in the second quarter of the 13th century. Markendorf was a subsidiary church of Fröhden . Only the western part of today's church dates from the late Middle Ages, the eastern part was built in the 18th century. The patronage of the church lay with the sovereign until 1538 and then passed to Gut Markendorf. The Church suffered substantial damage during the Thirty Years War . A reconstruction by the master carpenter Gürgen, the master mason Pau as well as the mason Matheus and the carpenter Probst took place in the period from 1663 to 1667. At the same time, new church furnishings were added to the building. During this reconstruction, new gables and a new roof structure were built. The windows were enlarged “ baroque ”. At the same time the pulpit , baptism and gallery were built into the church. The western part of the church has essentially been preserved from these building measures. It is known from 1669 that grain was stored in the attic and that pigeons were kept.

From 1724 to 1726, at the request of the then landowner Lippold Heinrich von Klitzing, the eastern part of the church was rebuilt. A construction seam is visible on the left side of the south portal. The half-timbered tower was built at the same time . The tower has a brick infill, a curved dome and an open lantern . With this conversion, the length of the ship was doubled and the eastern end was given a straight wall. A patronage box was added to the east of the north side , and a crypt is located below the box . The exterior of the church was plastered. A beam ceiling was installed inside. In 1801 a gallery was built inside on the south side.

No other major changes took place in the 19th century. In 1864 the shingle roofing of the tower was replaced by slate and in 1881 the roofs were repaired. Another renovation took place from 1967 to 1970. The pulpit altar , the south pore and the baptism were also removed, these have since been lost. At that time, new items of equipment were placed in the church. Due to structural damage, the church was closed in 1986, and in 1996 the church tower was struck by lightning. The church was renovated from 1997, and this renovation continued beyond 2000.

Building description

View from the west

The building was essentially made of field stones that were hewn and layered comparatively in layers. The choir is straight and has not moved in. On the east wall are two small arched windows that were installed in the 17th century. Their shape is emphasized by plastered bezels . Repair work can be seen above, some of which were reddish brick.

The nave has a rectangular floor plan. A patronage box is installed on the northeast side, which can be entered from the east via an arched portal. On the northwest side is a small and tall rectangular window. In the remaining area of the long wall there are two arched windows in the western area. They are complemented by a deep window in between, with which light falls under the gallery . The remainder of a blocked window can be seen above it. On the south side there are a total of three arched windows in the east. In the center is a rectangular gate that replaces a previously built, round or ogival gate. There is another window in the western area, also in the tower area. In between the rest of a clogged window can also be seen; underneath a smaller, rectangular window. At the transition to the roof is a circumferential haunch . The ship carries a simple gable roof , the eastward hipped is.

The church tower connects to the west. It can be entered through a simple and rectangular gate, which is located in the southwest area of the west wall. While the lower storey was built from field stones, the building material changes afterwards. The west wall was made of bricks, the other walls from half-timbered , whereby the compartment was again made with brick. Above the helmet there is a small sound arcade on each side . Above it is a curved hood with a lantern, which ends with a tower ball and weather vane .

Furnishing

Inside is an organ from 1904 that replaced an instrument from 1801. The organ builder was Barnim Grüneberg from Stettin , the building number is 491 according to an inscription. The organ is no longer functional. There is a grave monument in the church for the district director of Jüterbog and Dahme Caspar Friedrich von Sutterheim (1659 to 1701) and his wife Margarete von Schweinitz. The grave monument was made of sandstone and shows an inscription field, a coat of arms and fruit hangings. The bell was cast in 1884 by Eduard Kobitzsch from Torgau. It is made of bronze and shows Jesus Christ in a relief .

literature

Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Marie-Luise Buchinger, Marcus Cante: Monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow-Fläming district, part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community. Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 333-335
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