Paplitz village church (Baruth / Mark)
The Protestant village church Paplitz is a field stone church in Paplitz , a district of the city of Baruth / Mark in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg .
history
There are different statements about the time of construction. The parish of Baruth / Mark assumes that the building was probably built in the 13th or 14th century. The art historians in the Dehio handbook, however, assume that the church was only built in the 14th or 15th century. You justify this assumption with the remains of a group of three windows in the east wall of the nave . Agreement among the experts is that the are sacred in the Thirty Years' War destroyed and 1660-1670 from the church was rebuilt. A restoration took place between 1979 and 1982.
architecture
The building was made of field stones in the style of a hall church and was built over several times in its several hundred years of history. In addition to the field stones, bricks and a field stone mixture were increasingly used. At a later date, a two-storey , late Gothic extension with a pointed arched step portal was built on the southern wall of the church . The annex was extended to the west in the 19th century and remodeled in baroque style. Two - on the northern wall three - powerful, triple-stepped buttresses give the structure the necessary stability. In between there are two beehive-shaped windows. The shape is taken from the east wall, albeit enlarged. In the gable , a walled, elongated opening is visible - the remains of the three window group. The western side of the ship is extremely simple: Here is a small, rectangular gate that can be reached via three steps. The viewer can see a walled-up gate on the north wall.
The church tower stands apart from the structure. It was also built mostly from field stones and is boarded up in the upper area.
Furnishing
The altarpiece shows the Lord's Supper in its predella and the crucifixion of Christ in the main picture in an oval painting . A wide frame decorated with gold-colored acanthus surrounds the overall picture, which is framed by Moses and an evangelist . Above the main picture there is a cloud glory held by putti . The wooden pulpit shows the pictures of the four evangelists. A late medieval sacrament niche has been incorporated into the east wall. The former horseshoe gallery was shortened and glazed when it was converted into a western gallery. A wooden cross commemorates Pastor Hanusius , who did not want to reveal the hiding place of the villagers who had fled during the Thirty Years' War and was therefore tortured with the Swedish drink. The interior of the nave is clad with a wooden barrel vault . The parish describes the equipment in a church guide as "uniformly designed in rural baroque".
War cemetery
In the area bordered with field stones there are several grave sites in the north and east. In the northern area, these are the graves of German soldiers who fell in Paplitz and the surrounding area between the end of April and the beginning of May 1945. The number of people buried is not known. In the eastern area there is a granite slab with a quote from the first Federal President of the Federal Republic of Germany , Theodor Heuss : You who are still alive, / ensure that peace remains, / peace between people, / peace between peoples.
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- 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
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Church Paplitz , website of the parish of Baruth / Mark, accessed on June 18, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Paplitz Church ( Memento of the original from June 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of the parish of Baruth, accessed on June 1, 2016.
- ^ Paplitz , website of the Friends of the Baruther Urstromtal Nature Park, accessed on June 18, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 3 '7.4 " N , 13 ° 28' 7.8" E