Niederjesar village church
The evangelical village church Niederjesar is a neo-Romanesque hall church from 1859 in Niederjesar , a district of the municipality Fichtenhöhe in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in the state of Brandenburg . The associated church belongs to the parish Mallnow-Podelzig of the Evangelical Church district Oder-Spree country . The design of the sacred building goes back to Friedrich August Stüler .
location
The district of Niederjesar extends elliptically in a west-east direction and is accessed in the same direction through Ernst-Thälmann-Straße . In about the middle of the street, Gartenstraße branches off to the north. The building stands northwest of this intersection on a small hill and is enclosed by a wall made of uncut field stones .
history
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The place is probably of Slavic origin and came into the possession of the monks of the Carthusian monastery in Frankfurt (Oder) from 1405 to 1538 . It is therefore likely that they built a church in the village. It is also known that after the Thirty Years' War a pastor Schumann preached to two women in the church . From this it can be concluded on the one hand that there was a church, but also that the place had fallen into desolation . With the inclusion of this previous building, Friedrich August Stüler built a neo-Romanesque renovation in the middle of the 19th century . He added a choir and the 36 meter high west tower . This was blown up by German soldiers of the Wehrmacht during World War II to make it difficult for the advancing Red Army troops to orientate themselves. The nave was badly damaged and only consisted of the surrounding wall, the remains of the tower and the choir vault. The roof was missing; as it was not repaired, the structure fell into disrepair in the following decades. However, the parish managed to build a small church hall into the ruins. After the fall of the Wall , security measures and reconstruction under the direction of the Berlin architect Heinz Hoffmann were started with the help of a development association in the mid-1990s . Among other things, the building received a glazed attic . The architect deliberately refrained from using masonry bricks of the same color for the repair work so that the damage would remain visible after the repair. The building has been used as a communal and church center since 2002.
Building description
The choir was built from reddish brick on a field stone base. It has moved in and has a five-eighth ending , which is emphasized by pilaster strips . Stüler originally envisaged a raised arched window on each side, the reveal of which is emphasized. The east window is no longer in its original condition: repair work on the now rectangular window can be seen here. In addition to a circumferential cove , the individual fields are decorated by a circumferential, downwardly open frieze - arched in the original state, rectangular in the repaired one. The windows in the choir were designed by church artist Tobias Kammerer , who in the central, rectangular choir window with the color violet made a reference to the Passion .
The southern wall of the nave consists of unevenly layered and uncut field stones, which are stabilized by a buttress . The southern wall of the nave is divided into four fields by reddish brick. To the east is an arched, double-stepped opening into which an arched window is set in the lower area. Above it are two coupled, much smaller windows that support a circular window above. In the second segment there is the gate and a rose window , followed by two further fields with two coupled nuns' head windows each . This shape can also be found on the north side. There are three such constructions as well as - analogous to the south side - a converted window to the west.
The western wall of the nave is also made of field stones. This was originally followed by the square and drawn-in west tower. It had an arched window on the north and south sides, parts of which have been preserved. Craftsmen supplement the missing tower with a rectangular extension with a gate on the west side. The upper floor of the tower can still be seen in a historical illustration. It consisted of two coupled sound arcades , a tower clock above and a kinked pointed helmet .
Furnishing
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The original equipment is no longer available. After the repair, the building was modernized. Rooms for group work were created on the newly designed gallery . A partition wall was put in underneath so that the building can also be used economically for events of different sizes. In 2013 the parish was able to purchase an organ from Karlsruhe , which was no longer needed there after the merger of two parishes. The 5.29 meter high instrument was created in 1973 by master organ builder Peter Vier and built by Mike Zuber.
To the southeast of the building is a free-standing bell tower. The cast steel bell inside was financed from the proceeds from the sale of the destroyed bronze bell. A memorial for those who died in the world wars stands at the fence to the east.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Niederjesar , website of the Seelow-Land office, accessed on June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Niederjesar Church information board , set up on the building, June 2017.
- ↑ The village church of Niederjesar (Märkisch Oderland district) , website of the Old Churches Berlin-Brandenburg support group, accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Niederjesar's new choir windows are here , article by Ines Rath in the Märkische Oderzeitung, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ An organ for Niederjesar's Church , article in the Märkische Oderzeitung, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on June 13, 2017.
- ↑ Interview with the pastor and video recordings from the Niederjesar church from 3:53 am in a broadcast by the RBB-Landschleicher, accessed on June 13, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 26 ′ 50.8 ″ N , 14 ° 25 ′ 46.6 ″ E