Medewitz village church

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The Medewitz village church from the north-west

The village church of Medewitz is the only existing church building in the village of Medewitz in the municipality of Wiesenburg / Mark and is a monument . It belongs to the Evangelical Church Community Wiesenburg of the Evangelical Church District Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

history

The Medewitz Church was built in 1713 in the Baroque style. The building owner was the church patron Hans Friedrich Brandt von Lindau. The church was built in place of a previous building. The previous building came from the 14th century and was a field stone church typical of the area . It was destroyed in the Thirty Years War . Most of the wooden fittings in the church date from the time it was built.

Building

Inscription stone above the entrance to the church

The small hall church is a simple plastered building . Several windows are designed to be segmented . The entrance is in the northwest corner in a newer extension with rectangular windows . These are edged with bottles . An inscription stone has been incorporated above the entrance. Above the west gable of the nave there is a tower-like roof turret that carries the belfry . This is built in half-timbered construction and has sound openings in all four directions. A tower ball and weather vane sit on a tail cap . In the west gable there is another clear opening, an ox-eye . The roof of the church is hipped to the east and covered with red beaver tails . The extension for access has a pent roof .

Furnishing

A pulpit altar has a polygonal basket between pillars and side passages. The pillars support the sound cover with a blown gable . As ornament there are acanthus . There is a picture of the Last Supper under the basket of the pulpit altar . The parish chair has a tendril ornament . The font is made of sandstone and is octagonal. In this there is a donor's inscription . The segmented arched windows are filled with simple lead glazing . There is a single old, partially weathered tombstone on the western outer wall in the churchyard .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Georg Dehio : Handbook of German Art Monuments . Berlin / GDR Potsdam. German art publisher . Munich, Berlin 1983. pp. 289 f.
  2. ↑ Churches . Published on ev-kirchengemeinde-wiesenburg.de. Accessed June 21, 2018.

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Coordinates: 52 ° 3 ′ 28.1 ″  N , 12 ° 22 ′ 55.6 ″  E