Mixdorf village church
The Protestant village church Mixdorf is a hall church from the years 1719/1720 in Mixdorf , a municipality in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Dorfstraße leads to the historic town center from the west. It crosses the main street there and runs as Neue Straße in an easterly direction out of town. The church stands southwest of this intersection on a slightly elevated plot that is not fenced .
history
The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) states that the sacred building was built in 1719/1720. It replaced a previous building from the late 16th and early 17th centuries that had become dilapidated. In 1965 a restoration took place; the facade was renewed between 1994 and 1996.
Building description
The building was essentially made of bricks , which were then plastered . The choir has not moved in and has a three-sided east end . The corners are decorated with a square plaster . In the middle in the east is a large arched window, the face of which is emphasized again by a plaster.
On the north side of the nave there are four more windows of the same type. In the middle there is an aperture of the same size . The south side is built almost identically. However, in the middle there is a rectangular gate with the year "1719" above it. The ship carries a simple gable roof , which in the choir area hipped is.
The west tower connects to the north . It takes up the full width of the nave on the lower floor . The corners are also decorated with a square plaster. At the northwest corner is an unusually massive, triangular buttress . Access to the church is through a central portal on the west side. The tower spire extends in the gable above . On each of the three accessible sides there are two small, arched sound arcades . Above a pyramid roof follows a wooden lantern , which ends with a tower ball , weather vane and star. The flag bears the letters "BS" for Ballei and Sonnenburg, a subdivision of the Order of St. John based in Sonnenburg. Behind it is the year 1606.
Furnishing
The pulpit altar consists of a column structure, in the predella of which the Lord's Supper is depicted. The Dehio manual suggests that it was created by JG Blasich in 1725. The horseshoe gallery dates from the construction period. Below is a winter church since 1979 ; Above is an organ that Wilhelm Sauer created in 1918. It has four registers and a manual . The pedal was revised in 2012 by an organ builder. In the tower hall reminds a epitaph in marble at the 1743 deceased JFC Bugisch. There are also two more inscription tombstones to remember Jacobus Sandow, who died in 1694, as well as his wife S., née Ribbeck (died 1688) and the couple's two granddaughters, who died in 1691 and 1693. They originally stood outside on the south side of the nave. The building has a flat beamed ceiling inside. In the tower hang three bells from the years 1588, 1596 and the middle of the 16th century, cast by Bastian Praeger.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mixdorf | Evangelical Church Mixdorf , website of the Association of German Organ Builders, accessed on September 29, 2019.
- ↑ Mixdorf Church , Seenland Oder-Spree website, accessed on September 29, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 42.9 " N , 14 ° 24 ′ 21.8" E