Pessin village church

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Church of Pessin, 2014

The Pessin village church is the listed Protestant church of Pessin in the Brandenburg district of Havelland . The church belongs to the parish of Nauen Rathenow- the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

history

The village church of Pessin was once Filia von Retzow , first mentioned in 1269, and with pastor Boldewin from Retzow in 1372. The village church of Pessin has been an independent parish with a parish office since the 16th century . From 1808 the village church of Pessin was the mother church of the Möthlow branch church until 1943 and of the Paulinenaue branch church since 1929 .
Until 2016, the evangelical parishes of Pessin and Paulinenaue formed the evangelical parish of Pessin with the official seat of the parish in Paulinenaue, today both former parishes are local parishes of the evangelical parish of Havelländisches Luch. The rectory continues to have its official seat in Paulinenaue. Until 1963 Pessin was the official seat of the parish office of the parish priest, but the parish property with the dilapidated rectory was sold; the pastor moved into the new rectory in Paulinenaue. In the 21st century the church had also become dilapidated: the brick floor was broken in some places, the real dry rot had attacked the galleries and the ceiling threatened to collapse in several places. In 2010 a support association was founded which has been committed to the renovation of the church since then. The renovation of the building shell and the interior was completed after four years. Then sanitary facilities and a tea kitchen were installed and the winter church was energetically renovated. 2016 a visitor center opened the now available as cyclists Church Pessin designated sacred building .

Building description

The village church, which is considered to be the oldest church in Westhavelland, was essentially built in the second half of the 15th century, but parts of the church are considered to be considerably older. It combines several architectural styles; so the older western part of the nave, made of field stone, can be assigned to the late Gothic field stone building. The transverse tower and the eastern nave from 1739 are made of brick and are assigned to the brick Gothic.

View into the winter church below the south pore and the coat of arms paintings on the parapet

A three-aisled widened nave was added to the east side of the older western part of the nave , which gives the impression of being the remains of an older stone church , which forms the main part of today's church. The older field stone church apparently took up the width of the tower, but was originally built separately from the tower, but there are clear traces of the earlier roof shape of the field stone church on the tower.

Wooden arbors were added to the narrower, older western part in 1739, a rare structural detail that gives the impression of two vestibules. The side aisles of the nave built in 1739, each occupied by a gallery, form the extension of the wooden arbors at the same depth. The parapets of the galleries with arched arcades are adorned with the coats of arms of the former Pessin rulers, the continuous pillars of the galleries bear the once smoothly plastered ceiling, which is now provided with ceiling tiles.

The high windows, like the balustrades of the galleries, are closed with arches. The outer window shape of the nave, kept in simple baroque style , is in clear contrast to the openings in the tower, which have clear Gothic arches . A heated winter church was set up below the southern gallery, and the south nave below the gallery to the central nave was closed by means of removable windows.

The tower was built on a field stone base , the remainder of an old field stone building from the 13th century, as a transverse tower with a height of 28 meters. Its outer shell consists of beautiful, clean brickwork with bricks in the format 29 cm × 14 cm × 8 cm in the late Gothic style; Field stones were also used inside the tower. The two lower floors have a cross vault . In the southeast corner inside the tower, a narrow stone spiral staircase leads about half the height of the tower. The outer surfaces of the tower are decorated at the level of the basement on the west side by a rectangular, horizontal-format plastered panel and the north and south sides next to the tower door by a plastered circular panel. Corner pilaster strips , which develop flush from the basement and rise up to the beginning of the gable, serve as further decoration . Individual diamond and zigzag patterns made of sintered stones from the 15th century decorate the upper half of the tower. A very steep gable roof, which once carried a roof turret, the lower structure of which has been in the roof structure since 1913, forms the end of the tower and its roofing from 1488. The sound openings in the gable are coupled and have stab arches in contrast to the other tower openings clear Gothic arches .

Furnishing

altar

Moses and the apostles John and Matthew

The stately pulpit altar on the south side inside the church is the work of master Witte from Brandenburg an der Havel and, according to the inscription, was created around 1700. The altar is connected to the eastern gallery, which is lower than the north and south pores. The apostle figures of Peter on the left and Paul on the right adorn the pulpit just above the altar in openwork ornaments . Above it, in the middle, we find Moses surrounded on his left by the apostle John and on his right by the apostle Matthew . Above the figures of the apostles is the pulpit , the sound cover of which is decorated with two angel figures and the star of Bethlehem. In addition to gold vine leaves that surround the winding columns between the altar and the pulpit, there are ornaments in gold in the form of fern leaves above the sound cover and on the outside , which form the top or sides of the altar.

The left in a northerly direction next to the pulpit altar and the patronage chair , which is very similar in design, leads to the assumption that it is also a work of the master Witte.

organ

Ratzmann organ

To 1957 was in the village church a Lütkemüller - organ built in 1847. She had a manual and pedal , twelve registers , in the brochure seven arches with 35 pipes and a free-standing gaming table . A door and a pipe stand have been preserved from the organ . The organ loft was empty and since the organ was provisionally by a standing beside the altar three-registriges Sauer - positive replaced.

On July 4th, 2016, the relocation and restoration of the organ built by Georg Franz Ratzmann from Ohrdruf for the village church of Hötzelsroda near Eisenach began in Pessin. The move and the subsequent restoration of the organ (expected completion: September 2018) was carried out by the Eberswalder Orgelbauwerkstatt GbR. Like the former Lütkemüller organ, the organ has a manual and pedal, but 14 instead of the original twelve registers. It has two mixtures and a calcant train and a free-standing console and thus almost corresponds to the original instrument. After the restoration, 32 metal pipes can be found in the brochure .

Bells

There were once three bells in the tower. Besides the two in 1867 in Berlin cast bells, one of which was financed by donations, there is a much older bell probably dating from around 1300. This was 91 centimeters in diameter, the largest of the three and was one of the most imposing in the market . The special thing about it was the writing in mirror writing due to the manufacturing process. The inscription read - read backwards and after dissolving the abbreviations (in German):

"O King, in your honor, I am Holy Mary, come in peace - pray for us".

Below that, the artist added - again to be read in reverse - the beginning of the words instituting the Lord's Supper in italic minuscules (in German):

After the Lord Jesus has fed, He gives bread.

In addition, there are the small, neatly drawn depictions of a fish and a hand holding the cup. It was considered lost for a long time, but hung in the tower the entire time. In 2019 it was brought to the Netherlands for restoration and then hung again in the tower. Two of the three bells had to be given in as part of a metal donation by the German people and were lost. In 2020, the new bell peal is to be installed, including a bell that was manufactured in the Lauchhammer art foundry in 2016. In 2020, the sponsoring association is looking for a third bell that could ensure harmonious interaction.

Coat of arms drawings

Coat of arms of those von Bredow

The interior of the church has crest paintings on the parapets of the North and Südemporen with arcades conclusion on the oldest coat of arms dates according to the inscription of 1755. are to be found next to the coat of arms of Pessiner dominions those of garlic and their wives as the emblem of the Pauline of Bardeleben ( 1811–1884 - namesake of the community Paulinenaue ), Marie von Platen , Caroline von der Hagen , Gertrud von Zieten (1835–1920), Luise von Winterfeld , Katharina von Plessen as well as the coat of arms of those of Klitzing . All coats of arms were renewed around 1900. Since 2013, the ceiling has been adorned with the family coat of arms of the von Bredow family in the middle, surrounded by the same angels in every corner of the ceiling, this and the angels were previously removed during renovation work in the 1950s. The Förderverein Dorfkirche Pessin eV, which is committed to the renovation of the church, aimed to restore the ceiling with coat of arms and angels as part of the upcoming interior renovation and was able to successfully implement this project in 2013.

  • Coat of arms of Pauline von Bardeleben

  • Coat of arms of Marie von Platen

  • Coat of arms of Caroline von der Hagen

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche (Pessin)  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg: District Havelland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schößler: Regest of the documents and records in the cathedral monastery archive Brandenburg. Part 1: 948-1487. Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-8305-0189-7 .
  3. ↑ Pastor of the Pessin Church of the Friends of the Pessin Village Church eV PDF
  4. ↑ a b Homepage of the Ev. Havelländisches Luch parish read on September 5, 2018.
  5. ↑ German Foundation for Monument Protection: Obj1795 village church Pessin read on January 7 of 2010.
  6. ^ A b Heinrich Jerchel: The art monuments of the province of Brandenburg: Part 1 Westhavelland, Brandenburg, Provincial Association Berlin. Issue 2, 1913, p. 119.
  7. ^ Structural inventory of the Protestant churches in the parish of Nauen-Rathenow, Dipl.-Ing. A. Seemann, March 2007 to March 2008.
  8. ^ A b c Heinrich Jerchel: The art monuments of the province of Brandenburg. Part 1: Westhavelland, Brandenburg, Berlin Provincial Association. Issue 2, 1913, p. 120.
  9. ^ Förderverein Dorfkirche Pessin eV read on September 16, 2018
  10. ↑ Astrid Wiebe: Little by little to the old glory. In: Märkische Allgemeine. January 9, 2018.
  11. ^ Official Journal of the royal government in Potsdam and the city of Berlin, year 1867, page 400 (Item 44 - November 1, 1867).
  12. ^ Förderverein Dorfkirche Pessin eV read on January 2, 2014
  13. ^ A b Förderverein Dorfkirche Pessin eV read on January 2, 2014

Coordinates: 52 ° 38 ′ 30 "  N , 12 ° 39 ′ 55.2"  E