Menz village church
The village church in Menz (Gem. Stechlin ) in the Oberhavel district ( Brandenburg ) is a late medieval church building and a registered monument. The associated church belongs to the parish of Upper Havel country of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
Building structure and description
The original church building was a rectangular building with a square west tower. The cross-shaped eastern parts with a rectangular apse originate from an expansion to the east around 1900 . The original church building was built from field stones and bricks. The eastward expansion is made of split and brick. The basement of the tower was provided with a ridge vault (probably from the 16th / 17th century). The ship is vaulted with a flat wooden barrel. The eastern parts are flat-roofed, the apse again arched ridge. The furnishings originate from the renovation phase around 1900. Only one chalice from 1665 has survived among older pieces of equipment.
Building history
According to a lost building inscription, the building is said to have been completed in 1585. According to a lost inscription inside, the church is said to have been badly damaged in the Thirty Years War and restored in 1665. The tower was not raised until 1772 and got a pyramid roof. Probably at the same time the church windows were changed to form a basket arch. In 1862 the tower was repaired and a new top was put on. After the art monuments of the Ruppin district, the church was expanded to include the eastern parts in 1890/1. The ship's wooden barrel is also said to date from this conversion phase. In contrast, the Dehio ascribes the eastward expansion and the wooden barrel of the ship to a renovation phase in 1910.
literature
- Georg Dehio (editor Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of the German Art Monuments Brandenburg. 1207 pp., Deutscher Kunstverlag 2000 ISBN 3-422-03054-9
- Paul Eichholz, Willy Spatz and Friedrich Solger: The art monuments of the Ruppin district. The art monuments of the province of Brandenburg. 424 pp., Berlin 1911.
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Coordinates: 53 ° 6 ′ 8 ″ N , 13 ° 2 ′ 43 ″ E