Meinsdorf village church
The Protestant village church of Meinsdorf is a neo-Gothic hall church in Meinsdorf , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the Teltow-Fläming district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz . According to a church guide of the parish district, it is the largest church in the little country of Bärwalde .
location
The highway 731 leads from the west in an easterly direction into the place. There she crosses the village street , which runs in a north-south direction. The church stands northeast of this intersection on a property with a church cemetery that is fenced in with a wall .
history
The building was built in 1853 and 1854 based on a design by the master mason Herold from Jüterbog , who first built the nave and the apse . In 1870 a west tower was added in the same architectural style. The sacred building was restored between 1965 and 1968 and 1977.
Building description
Herold mainly used reddish bricks for the construction and thus erected the building on a circumferential base made of uncut and non-layered field stones . The polygonal apse is drawn in opposite the nave and has no windows.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. There is a sacristy on the north side and four pointed arched windows of the same size on the south side. At the transition to the roof there is a surrounding frieze that opens downwards . The gables are decorated with pinnacles .
The square west tower extends over three floors and can be entered from the west through a large, ogival portal. On the north and east sides there is a small ox-eye each on the ground floor , while two narrow ogival windows are arranged on the middle floor. The bell storey rises above it, each with two pointed arched sound arcades and a frieze that opens downwards. The eight-fold kinked spire closes with a tower ball and cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings, consisting of an altar , pulpit and horseshoe gallery, date from the construction period. A fifth is dated to 1611. Additional features include an eight-sided goblet with fittings and the von Einsiedel family's coat of arms . In the southern pointed arched windows are three oval coats of arms of the von Leipzig family from the 17th century. These are probably stained glass from the patronage box of the previous building. Two of the three coat of arms disks show the coat of arms of the von Leipzig family as well as the inscriptions: "GURGEN ERNST VON LEIPZIGK" and "CRISTOF JOCHEM VON LEIPZIGK". The middle pane is smaller and simpler. It shows a coat of arms and the name "MARIA VON FRESEN" as well as the year 1650.
The organ from 1854 comes from Moritz Baumgarten , who, for example, also built an instrument in the Schönborn village church . The building has a flat roof inside, the apse arch is ogival.
To the south of the building, a memorial commemorates those who died in the world wars. Two sandstone epitaphs from the 18th century still stand in the cemetery .
See also
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
Individual evidence
- ^ Hiltrud and Carsten Preuß: The manor houses and manors in the Teltow-Fläming district , Lukas Verlag für Kunst- und Geistesgeschichte, 1st edition, November 29, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86732-100-6 , p. 244
Coordinates: 51 ° 50 ′ 53.5 " N , 13 ° 16 ′ 9.1" E