Motzen village church

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Motzen village church

The Protestant village church Motzen is a baroque hall church from the years 1754 and 1755 in Motzen , a district of the municipality Mittenwalde in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

location

The Karl-Marx-Straße leads as a central connecting axis in a north-south direction through the town. From here, Kirchstrasse branches off to the east. There the church stands on a piece of land that is fenced in with a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones .

history

The place was first mentioned in documents in 1346. Its inhabitants built the first wooden church on a foundation made of field stones in 1395. So far nothing is known about their appearance and fate. In the years 1754 to 1755, craftsmen built a new building under the church patronage of Friedrich II . Around 1800 she received two bells from the Karl Thiele foundry in Berlin . In 1810, lightning struck the church tower . The parish then commissioned craftsmen to build a new tower dome based on designs by the Berlin architect Carl Gotthard Langhans . In 1880 a rectory was added. In 1890, lightning struck the building again, which required renovation work both inside and outside. In 1910, the Neuruppin organ builder Albert Hollenbach built an organ . In 1930 the municipality had the building carried out extensive renovation. The tower was also newly covered with copper . This was damaged in World War II and only poorly repaired. During this time, the community had to hand over the bells as part of a metal donation from the German people . Around 1955 she received the larger of the two back from a bell cemetery . In 1988 the structure had to be renovated again. This time the work dragged on until 1992. Three years later, the community celebrated the first church building in Motzen, which took place 600 years ago. In 2001 the organ was renovated; In 2005 the 250th anniversary celebration was held for the existing church.

Building description

The building was built from field stones and bricks , which were then plastered . In the semicircular apse to the east is a large, pressed-segment arched window. There is a surrounding cornice at the transition to the roof .

This is followed by the nave to the west . It has a rectangular plan. The north and south sides of the nave are constructed identically. In the western and eastern part, two high and also pressed segment-arch-shaped windows are installed. They extend over almost the entire height of the facade. Wide bottles are arranged above it . The middle area of ​​the building is structured with pilaster strips . In the middle there is a gate, above it another, smaller window, which, however, takes up the shape of the larger openings. The gable roof is hipped to the east ; there is a bat dormer on the north and south sides .

The square west tower is strongly drawn in opposite the ship. It can be entered from the west through a large gate. On each side of the bell storey there is a segmented arcade of sound , which is embedded in a recessed and rectangular panel . Above it is a curved hood that ends with a tower ball and weather vane .

Furnishing

The parish has set up a sacristy in the apse . The pulpit was built in the middle of the east wall. Underneath is a wooden panel that was painted in a plait style . The inside of the structure is flat covered. On special occasions, the parish brings a Venetian Bible into the church from the neighboring house of the guest . The work from 1483 is considered to be one of the oldest printed Bibles in the Mark Brandenburg.

A Hollenbach organ from 1901 with a manual and ten stops stands on the horseshoe gallery . The instrument was restored by Christian Scheffler in 2001 .

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Motzen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Chronicle of Motzen Church , website of the Motzen parish, accessed on January 26, 2019.

Coordinates: 52 ° 12 ′ 12.3 "  N , 13 ° 34 ′ 56.5"  E