Neschholz village church
The Protestant village church Neschholz is a Romanesque stone church in the Neschholz district of Bad Belzig in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish of Mörz in the parish of Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
History and architecture
The little late Romanesque hall building good ashlar fieldstone consists of the ship with a relatively strong retracted apse and a new baroque truss - roof tower with tail cap and octagonal lantern . A vestibule from 1907/1909 complements the rectangular church in the west. The apse is covered by a half-cone roof with beaver tail tiles , while the nave is closed with a gable roof .
Construction began in the first half of the 13th century. Changes to the arched windows and the priest's portal suggest that renovations were made in the second half of the 16th century. The gable of the nave wall is made of bricks and is plastered. Probably in 1867 the wall crowns were raised with bricks. In the same year the arched windows of the apse, which were still largely original, received frames made of the same stone. A thorough restoration took place between 1907 and 1909. The roof tower was renovated and the vestibule was added.
It can no longer be determined whether the masonry of the west gable continued in a previous roof tower. Today's brick half-timbered tower cuts off the uppermost part of the west gable and probably dates from the 18th century. Both tower elements, tail hood and lantern, have tail roofs with plain tiles. The weather vane above the final sphere contains the engraving from 1908. The vestibule, which has been added on the western side of the tower, has a substructure made of two layers of field stone and above it a brickwork. Its gables are half-timbered, and a monopitch roof with a bat dormer window connects to the west gable below the ridge turret.
Interior painting
"You see the state room of a princely palace rather than the interior of a village church in Fläming," wrote Hillert Ibbeken about the lavish interior painting that was carried out at the beginning of the 20th century during the restoration and imitates baroque forms. Viola Pfeifer was also “surprised and delighted” by the splendor and color scheme: “The color matching of white, gray and blue is accentuated by sparing red effects and sparkling, small, gold-plated stripes and tips. In addition to narrow stripes of color that delimit and divide the educational parts of the furniture everywhere, there are ribbons with imaginative ornaments. Most attractive, however, are the flower and leaf shapes that fill the compartments of the parapets. Even the cassette-like dome (rounding the apse) is filled with diverse branches. In short, a feast for the eyes. ”A green-yellow garland of flowers and leaves accompanied by a long banner swings through the pointed arched fields of the spacious gallery . Ceiling fields in the flat ceiling accommodate the ornaments and the supporting beams alternate with rich shapes. The inner apse arch is rounded.
Furnishing
The furniture contains the usual church components. The wooden altarpiece from the 17th century shows a columnar architecture with sawn cheeks and was later changed. Later heavily renovated canvas pictures with a representation of Christ in Gethsemane (as in St. Briccius in Bad Belzig ) and the lamentation are arranged in the main field and the predella , in the top a crucifixion painting . The wooden pulpit also dates from the 17th century and is provided with corner pillars on the polygonal basket, the adjacent parish chair was changed in the 19th century. The baptismal frame dates from the 19th century. The organ is a work by Alexander Schuke from 1908 with seven stops on a manual and pedal .
literature
- Reinhard E. Fischer: Brandenburg name book. Part 2. The place names of the Belzig district. Böhlau Verlag 1970.
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 731.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Website of the responsible parish in Mörz
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Neschholz village church
Individual evidence
- ^ Theo Engeser, Konstanze Stehr: Ev. Neschholz village church. userpage.fu-berlin.de The article is based entirely on information from Engeser / Stehr; the information from Viola Pfeifer (1997) is also taken from here.
- ↑ Hillert Ibbeken: The medieval field and quarry stone churches of Fläming. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 1999, ISBN 3-8305-0039-4 , p. 119.
- ^ Viola Pfeifer: Feldsteinkirchen in Fläming. An art history guide. Druckhaus Berlin-Mitte, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-930541-18-1 . Quoted from Engeser / Stehr.
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved February 6, 2020 .
Coordinates: 52 ° 9 ′ 4.8 ″ N , 12 ° 41 ′ 42 ″ E