Niedergörsdorf village church
The village church Niedergörsdorf is located in the municipality Niedergörsdorf in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg . The church is a listed building. and is located in the middle of the village west of the village street on a small hill. The church in Niedergörsdorf has always been the mother church, and the sovereign has the right of patronage.
History and description of the building
The church was probably built around 1200. Only the western part of this Romanesque building has been preserved. It is a hall building made of field stone with a length of 29.5 meters. At the end of the 15th century a new roof was built, the wooden barrel ceiling of which is still preserved. A special event was the murder of the last Catholic pastor Michael Gröbitz in 1538. In 1540, M. Valentin Große became a Protestant pastor.
In the second half of the 17th century the church was substantially rebuilt and renewed. The eastern part of the church was rebuilt, the church has received a three-sided end. The east end has arched windows and half-height buttresses . The wood of the eastern roof structure was dendrochronologically dated to 1678. In 1709 the windows were enlarged and a flat ceiling was installed instead of a possible earlier barrel vault . In 1714 the church got a wooden roof tower, which was damaged by lightning in 1852 and dismantled. The current tower was rebuilt in 1854. It is a tower that was built from field stones in the lower part and from bricks in the upper part. It has a square floor plan and an octagonal pointed helmet . In 1892 part of the western roof structure was replaced, in 1896 the interior of the church was renovated.
Furnishing
The furnishings are mainly from the period of renovation around 1678, such as the altarpiece with winding columns and coats of arms in the cartilage . Today there is a modern crucifix in the main field. An altarpiece with the resurrection of Jesus comes from the second half of the 19th century. The baptismal font and the pulpit also date from the period of renovation around 1678. The pulpit with a round basket is located on the north wall. The organ was built in 1764 by Hübler from Düben. In 1904 A. Schuke from Potsdam renovated the organ. There is a tombstone for Pastor Wolfgang Scheffler on the north wall. On the west side there is a plaque commemorating those who died in the First World War . The bell was cast in Apolda in 1885 .
See also
literature
- Monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow-Fläming district, part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community, Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, Worms am Rhein 2000, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 350–351
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , page 770
- 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
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Coordinates: 51 ° 58 ′ 43.2 " N , 12 ° 58 ′ 59.8" E