Pechüle village church

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Pechüle village church

The village church Pechüle is a listed church building in Pechüle , a municipality part of Treuenbrietzen in the Brandenburg district of Potsdam-Mittelmark in Germany .

An elongated panel from 1380 is significant in terms of art history. The community belongs to the Evangelical Church District of Zossen-Fläming.

History and architecture

Building history

Construction work probably began in the first third of the 13th century. There are four stages of construction in the structure, the first being the apse , choir and the eastern wall of the nave . In the next phase the ship with the west wall and then in the third phase the substructure of the tower , which reached just above the eaves of the ship. A clear change in the masonry can be seen in the tower. The upper part of the irregular masonry is part of the fourth construction phase. The tower was added from the 14th century and built up in two phases, the upper parts and the bell storey added in the 15th century.

Building description

Pechüle village church, view from the northeast

Surrounded by a cemetery building is approximately in the middle of the town, the Romanesque nave dates from the 13th century and is the oldest brick building of Flämings , the tower is from the 15th century. The nave is 12.90 meters long and 10.35 meters wide, the retracted choir is 8.25 meters long and 8.5 meters wide . The apse is 6.60 meters long and the vault is 3.30 meters high. The foundations were made of field stone , the walls are made of brick, those of the tower are made of field stone . The walls of the original ship were built up in two construction phases, this can be seen from a construction seam in the eastern part and bricks of different sizes. The nave, the choir and the apse are not plastered. The north portal , covered with bricks, is cut in the arch area of ​​the middle window, the arch shape is no longer visible. The south portal is stepped once and has a pointed arch. The arched priest's gate is also stepped once. The twice stepped tower portal with brick walls is round-arched. The guide opening for the locking bar can still be seen on the inside. Almost all the windows in the choir and nave have been changed over the centuries. The south side of the nave is divided by three windows, of which the east and west have segmental arches and the middle window is originally round arched. The north wall is also divided by three windows, all of which have been modified. Remnants of the original arches can still be seen above these windows . The windows in the south wall of the choir were changed by segmental arches , as in the nave the outlines of the old windows can still be seen here. The triumphal arch and the apse arch are round arches, on the triumphal arch there are small combat plates. In the center of the triumphal arch is a vaulted pillar. The connecting arch between the tower and the ship is also rounded. The two-aisled church with three bays was vaulted around 1500 over central pillars without transoms and simple wall brackets. The six-cap vault in the choir may still be from the construction period. Octagonal glazed bricks lie on the floor. In 1960, wall paintings from the late Gothic period were uncovered on the choir wall in the north during renovation work . Christopherus is shown with an archery Centaur at his feet.

tower

The transverse west tower from the 15th century is made of field stone, it was added later instead of a gable tower and is as wide as the nave. The stones in the lower part are moderately square, those above are irregular with partially inserted bricks. In the lower part of the tower is stone-visible, plastered with double joint incisions, but this is crumbling away. The north wall is divided by a slit window with a field stone cladding, the west side also by a slit window. Two bells, cast in the Middle Ages, hang on the bell floor. The eight-sided roof turret was probably put on in 1799, it is crowned with a cross.

Furnishing

The furnishings are extremely rich for a village church, they were originally made for the monastery church in Zinna .

  • The pulpit with a crown-like sound cover stands on the south side in front of the triumphal arch. It was built around 1690 and is lavishly painted. The four evangelists and the risen Christ are depicted in the five fields. The foot and the sound cover are adorned with acanthus tendrils.
  • The 16th century baptism is an octagonal goblet made of stone.
  • The stalls in the choir were built around 1600.
  • The tendril fillings of the parish chair from the beginning of the 18th century are sawn out. He is on the south wall in the back of the ship.
  • The cafeteria of the altar is made of bricks and dates from the construction time of the choir, the altar plate is grooved.
  • The best-known piece of equipment is the wide rectangular panel, it is also called the Bohemian panel . It was around 1380 - a church leader is the time to 1360/1370 to - on wood with a gold background in tempera painting. 16 scenes from the Passion are shown in two rows of pictures . The work is reminiscent of the Bohemian illumination from the time of the Parler . The altar is the former high altar of the monastery in Zinna. It is one of the oldest Bohemian works of art in the march.
  • A Gothic crucifix hangs over the altar.
  • The Gothic carved altar from around 1470 stands on the south wall of the choir. In the field are Saints John with the attribute chalice, Barbara with the tower, Katharina with the attribute sword and a saint without attributes, who can no longer be identified, who is probably Dorothea or Margaretha. The left wing contains George with the dragon, an abbot and a bishop. St. Mauritius in the right wing can be recognized by his black skin color, he is accompanied by Peter and Paul.
  • The organ is a work by Eifert & Müller from 1912 with 19 stops on two manuals and a pedal .
  • Six carved figures stand in the choir on consoles. The Ursula has two arrows as an attribute, the Dorothea a basket. Another female figure may be Barbara, whose goblet has not been preserved. Two bishops and one other carved figures cannot be identified.
  • The small niche in the apse is probably the original sacramental niche.
  • The sandstone sacrament niche in the east wall of the choir dates from the end of the 15th century.
  • The niche on the south side of the apse is probably a sideboard.
  • The church drawer from the Middle Ages was made from just one trunk.

literature

  • Margarete Luise Goecke-Seischab: The most beautiful churches in Germany: 1000 churches and church treasures from the North Sea to Lake Constance. Anaconda Verlag, Cologne 2013, ISBN 978-3-7306-0013-9 .
  • 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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction
  2. ^ Church district ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ Building history
  4. ↑ Märkische Oderzeitung. 26./27. August 2006, p. 11.
  5. ↑ Dimensions and history
  6. ↑ Portals
  7. ↑ Changed portals ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  8. ↑ Changed Windows ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ^ Windows and arches
  10. ↑ Tower
  11. ↑ Tower building ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Zinna fittings
  13. ↑ panel
  14. ^ High altar of the Zinna monastery
  15. ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved March 26, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Other equipment

Coordinates: 52 ° 4 ′ 29.2 ″  N , 12 ° 57 ′ 9.6 ″  E