Village church masses
The Protestant village church in Massen is a late Romanesque field stone church in Massen , a district of the community of Massen-Niederlausitz in the Elbe-Elster district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Massen in the Finsterwalde region in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and can be viewed upon registration.
History and architecture
The village church in Massen is a stately, once basilical block stone building from the middle of the 13th century with an almost square, nave-wide choir, semicircular apse and mighty west transverse tower. As a basilica , it is unusual (comparable to the Lindena village church ) and unique in the region in terms of the care taken in its execution.
In the first half of the 16th century the central nave was vaulted with cell vaults; probably around the same time the nave arcades were walled up and the side aisles removed except for the three east bays of the south aisle. The earlier sacristy adjoining it to the east with a ridge vault probably dates from the 18th century and was later used as a boiler room. The church was renovated in the 18th century (according to the inscription above the south entrance in 1705).
The west tower is designed as a three-part transverse tower in the width of the basilical nave. The upper floor, which is drawn in to the width of the nave, was probably continued in the 13th century in brick masonry with a pilaster-like frame. In the late Gothic period, sound openings and the low attachment under the hipped roof were added. A double-tiered ogival west portal opens up the church. On the south side of the choir there is also an ogival priest door , which was added in the 19th century, within the former sacristy. Most of the windows have been changed to the Baroque style, only a small round-arched window in the south aisle and partly round-arched, partly pointed-arched windows in the choir and apse remained. The original upper cladding windows are still clearly visible; their soffits are designed in a lively alternation of light field and dark iron stones.
Inside, the nave was once structured with ogival arcades , now reduced to niches, above square pillars; the single-grooved fighters are still partially recognizable outside in the wall. The broad-pointed triumphal arch and the semi- domed vault date from the Romanesque period . The aisles were once flat covered; Cell vaults have been inserted in the central nave and choir, as well as in the preserved east bays of the southern aisle. The rooms of the formerly tripartite tower were once opened to each other by large pointed arches. The tower hall is now closed by a wooden ceiling from the 19th century.
Furnishing
On the large block altar from the 13th century is an elaborate retable , which was made in 1701 by the cabinet maker Abraham Jäger and colored in 1706 by an unknown painter. In the main field it shows a painting of the crucifixion framed by plastic foliage cheeks, in the predella an oval painting of the Last Supper and in the extract a cartouche with the entombment. Angels and a free figure of the risen One are arranged above the blasted gable . The side passages were probably changed in the 20th century.
The late Renaissance pulpit, dated 1629, shows in the painted panels: on the polygonal basket Christ and the evangelists between small corner pillars, on the door Peter and Paul and on the staircase two scenes of St. James. The baptismal angel was also made by Abraham Jäger in 1705 and decorated with a crown and shell. It received its visual version around 1910 and was restored in 1996/97. The parish chairs from the beginning of the 18th century and a parish chair from 1624 should be mentioned. One patronage chair comes from the second half of the 17th century, another chair is dated 1621.
A three-sided gallery dated to 1701, which has two storeys in the north and west, has been enlarged several times. The gallery in the south shows coarse, expressive, partially painted over parapet paintings from the beginning of the 18th century: The creation of man and the fall of man , announced by twelve named prophets, are followed by the birth of Christ and the Last Judgment . The frame of the wooden parts was supplemented and renewed at the beginning of the 20th century. The organ is a work by Johann Christoph Schröther the Younger from 1821, was expanded by Nikolaus Schrickel in 1881 and restored from 2014.
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , pp. 649–650.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the parish masses
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Dorfkirche Massen
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 19, 2020 .
- ↑ Werner Ziems: Baptism angel in Niederlausitz . In: Annegret Gehrmann, Dirk Schumann (ed.): Village churches in Niederlausitz . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011. pp. 341–358, here p. 348
- ↑ In 1705 Abraham Jäger received 18 shock old groschen "before the baptismal angel", see Werner Ziems: Taufengel in Niederlausitz . In: Annegret Gehrmann, Dirk Schumann (ed.): Village churches in Niederlausitz . Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011. pp. 341–358, here pp. 347f.
- ↑ Information about the organ on the website of the Orgelklang Foundation. Retrieved February 15, 2018 .
Coordinates: 51 ° 38 ′ 36.2 " N , 13 ° 44 ′ 1.2" E