Marzahne village church
The village church Marzahne is a Gothic hall church and is located in the center of Marzahne , a current district of the city of Havelsee . It has no name.
Building
Building history
In 1186 Marzahne was first mentioned in a document as Marzane . In a document, the bishop of the Brandenburg diocese confirmed that the cathedral chapter owned extensive land, including the Marzahnes chapel belonging to the Burgward Pritzerbe . The chapel was a branch church of Hohenferchesar . In 1215 the knight Daniel von Mukede donated six Hufen land in the village of Marzahne to the Brandenburg cathedral chapter "to maintain an eternal light" in the cathedral church. Immediately afterwards a church was built in Marzahne in 1217 instead of the existing chapel. However, Marzahne remained a branch of Hohenferchesar. The choir of the village church dates from the time the church was built in the 13th century . The rock nave and the late Gothic brick church tower were probably added in the 15th century. After the village church burned down in 1607, the area of the medieval choir was raised by an ornate wooden beam cornice and brought with the nave under a common and uniform roof. In the church there is a rococo pulpit. In the 18th century the windows of the nave were structurally changed. They have been enlarged like a basket. In 1831 a hipped roof was added to the church tower , which was provided with a ridge turret. In 1953, a community room was added to the south side of the nave and choir. The roof turret had to be removed in 1996 due to the risk of collapse and is now in the courtyard of the church. The lead glazing in the chancel and behind the pulpit altar was made according to designs by Hans Joachim Burgert.
Building dimensions
The Marzahn village church consists of an 8.60 meter wide and 7.00 meter long nave, a slightly retracted rectangular choir with the dimensions 9.15 meters long and 7.65 meters wide and the west tower 4.25 meters long and 9.20 meters wide, which makes it step forward across the width of the ship. As can already be seen from the outside, the choir, the nave and the tower come from different construction phases. On the south side of the choir, a community room was added in the 20th century, which also serves as a sacristy .
Exterior fittings
The nave and the choir were mainly built from field stones, while the tower was mainly made of bricks, with individual field stones being built in. The eastern corners of the nave protruding over the width of the choir were also made of bricks. The field stones from which the choir was built are laid out in layers and roughly cuboid, whereas the nave was bricked rather irregularly and contains a lot of broken bricks. The southern extension is largely under plaster, but was probably built entirely with bricks. The bricks used to build the tower are 28 × 14 × 8.5 to 9 centimeters in size. The west tower seems to have been plastered once. The gable of the choir, which was raised after the fire in 1607, was plastered so that the masonry is not visible. Compared to the original gable, it is drawn inwards a little and set off. On the original east gable of the nave, which was higher than that of the choir, you can see an irregular masonry made of field stones. Visible on the north side, the eaves of the choir was brought level with the nave through a wide wooden cornice with a ship's keel decoration. Under the eaves of the nave you can see a narrow strip of plaster that also runs around the tower. On the nave and choir you can still see the remains of stone-faced plaster with so-called double grouting.
The ogival west portal shows a profiled garment made of pear ribs. In the extension from the 1950s there is a rectangular door. The passage from the community room to the choir may have been the original priest portal before the construction. The extension has four windows to the south, three segmented arched windows with shutters and a round window. Two more segmented arched windows are located in the east wall of the choir, whereby the bottom 40 centimeters have been added. Two slotted windows are placed above this. On the north side there are two rectangular windows of different sizes in the masonry of the choir, the smaller eastern one being almost square, while the western one is built into a vertical rectangle. Next to the larger window you can still see the brick walls of an older, walled-up window. The arch of this one has not been preserved. In the nave, two arched windows were incorporated on the north side . Faschen can be found around these like around the northern rectangular windows in the choir . In the side walls of the tower there are narrow pointed arch windows on the first floor, which were blocked in the upper part. Two panels about ten centimeters deep were incorporated below the windows . Next to the west portal there are also two panels on the right and left. Furthermore, there are three large round panels on the west side between the portal and the bell storey. In the bell storey there are two coupled sound openings in the form of segmental arches under a large pointed arch in the west and east wall and one such coupled sound opening on the north and south side of the tower. Since 1996, after the roof turret had to be removed, there has been an attachment with a tower ball and wind vane on the tower roof . On the east wall of the tower you can still see the beginning of an originally higher and steeper nave roof. Today it has a horizontal hipped roof. Since the renovation after the fire in 1607, the nave and the choir have been under a uniform gable roof . The extension built later has a monopitch roof , which ends in the roof of the ship and the choir. A chimney was built on the pent roof on the eastern gable.
Interior
The church has a pulpit altar inside. The pulpit was built in 1772 by the Brandenburg cathedral cabinet maker Binterim and the cathedral carpenter Herzer in the Rococo style. Other noticeable features are a wooden beam ceiling, a choir and a horseshoe-shaped west, south and north gallery. On the west gallery is an organ from 1831. A silver-gold-plated chalice from 1699 represents the church's greatest treasure.
Church grounds
The church is located in the center of Marzahnes on Marzahner Straße. The area around the church is still used as a cemetery today. The roof turret with an open lantern and pointed helmet , which was removed from the hipped roof of the church in 1996, is stored on the property in front of the west portal .
gallery
Marzahnes village church from the southeast
Marzahnes village church from the north-west
The church tower and the west portal
Lead glazing in the north side windows of the choir
The organ
Pulpit altar
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ernst Fidicin: The territories of the Mark Brandenburg. Volume III, J. Guttentag, Berlin 1860, p. 15
- ↑ History of the spa and capital of Brandenburg from the earliest to the most recent times , MW Heffter, Verlag von Ferdinand Riegel, Potsdam 1840, p. 169
- ↑ Ernst Fidicin: The territories of the Mark Brandenburg. Volume III, J. Guttentag, Berlin 1860, p. 36.
- ↑ Information on Marzahne; Church ( Memento of the original from October 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Accessed October 16, 2013.
- ↑ a b c d Marzahne (Protestant village church) . Accessed October 23, 2013
- ↑ Marzahne. Building history. Archived from the original on October 30, 2014 ; accessed on February 11, 2016 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 30 '45.66 " N , 12 ° 32' 5.84" E