Petzow village church
The village church of Petzow is a neo-Romanesque former sacred building , which was built in 1841 and 1842 according to a design by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . The building is in Petzow , a district of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The congregation belonged to the Evangelical Christophorus Parish of Groß Kreutz of the Evangelical Church District Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
location
The building stands in an exposed location north of Fercher Straße on a hill on the Grelleberg . From there, a line of sight leads across Zelterstrasse in an easterly direction to Petzow Castle . From the church tower , the Glindower See in the north, the Havel in the north and the landscape park with the Haussee and Schwielowsee in the southeast can be seen. There is no enclosure .
history
Schinkel drafted the plans for the building in 1838, but the foundation stone was not laid until October 4, 1840 at the behest of Friedrich Wilhelm IV . Before that, there were discussions about the location of the sacred building , which was originally to be built near the previous building that was still in existence at the time. This was diagonally opposite the mansion at about the point where the 21st century the ruins of Erbbegräbnisstätte those of Kaehne is. The church tower of the previous building had already been dismantled when structural engineers found out during excavation work for the new foundation that a load-bearing ground was only to be expected at a depth of nine to twelve meters. In coordination with Friedrich Wilhelm IV. The supervisory building councilor Redtel looked for an alternative location. At the same time, the landowner Kaehne provided the Potsdam government with evidence that the church had to offer space for at least 200 believers. This had suggested a more economical construction, while the king insisted on a consistent implementation of the Schinkel design. Finally, the building manager Emil Prüfer was able to erect the structure in 1841 and 1842. Here, when purging Maurer, the hand-molded bricks , the natural unevenness of the building material balance. The joints were then colored. The consecration took place on Sunday, October 31, 1842, at 11 a.m. Schinkel, who was seriously ill, could no longer witness her and died on October 9, 1841.
After the end of the Second World War , the structure was badly damaged by vandalism . The comparatively remote location on the Grelleberg promoted decay, as did a lightning strike in the tower in 1956. In 1983, the city council decided on a renovation at the initiative of the residential district committee . Under the direction of the voluntary site manager Hanicke , craftsmen began to renovate the viewing platform. The building was restored between 1984 and 1994. During this time it was de- dedicated in 1988 and leased to the district administration for 99 years. On October 30, 1994, 152 years after its inauguration, it was opened to the public again. Since then it has served the district as a venue for concerts, exhibitions and as a registry office.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from hand-painted bricks that were produced in the region. The base consists of hard-burned, greenish bricks all around. They come from Kaehneschen brickworks in Glindow and Petzow. Above the base there is a cornice made of reddish bricks that run around the entire building and were burned in Rathenow . The large wall surfaces were built from yellowish bricks. This play of colors was also used in the drawn-in, semicircular and windowless apse . Below the eaves is a circumferential band of segment-shaped panels , which is set off from the rest of the building by a further cornice made of reddish bricks.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan and is simply structured: in addition to the already mentioned base with cornice, there are three equally large arched windows on the north and south sides, the reveal of which is framed with reddish brick. The windows are connected horizontally with each other at the height of the window sill and the fighter by further reddish bricks.
The west tower is connected to the rest of the building by an arch hall that is open on two sides. It has moved in and has a square floor plan. The connecting line of the window sills on the nave can be found again as a design element on the tower and separates the lower and middle floors . Above this is a clock face on each side, followed by the upper floor of the tower, which consists of two identically designed elements in the Italian style. A cornice separates two round arch-shaped panels that enclose a sound arcade . Above that is a viewing platform to which an octagonal helmet is attached. It ends with a tower ball and a cross. Theodor Fontane praised the view from the platform with the words: “The whole is a landscape on a grand scale, not of relative beauty, but absolute”.
Furnishing
Altar, pulpit and fifth
The simple and wooden altar with a cast iron crucifix stands in the apse niche on a raised pedestal. He goes, like the round, on a fluted column standing pulpit and octagonal Fuente from oak back to a draft Schinkel. The classically designed interior is described in the Dehio manual as "of great effect" with a "delicately graded polychroming ". This includes a flat wooden beam ceiling with pine cones hanging down, as well as an imitation marble of colored incrustations , which were decorated by cornices and tendril friezes. The interior walls of the nave are kept in pastel tones that create a three-part division of the wall surfaces. In the lower area, the base is kept in an earth-colored tone. Above that there is an area with a yellowish paint, which was arranged between the windows. It was framed in greenish, old pink rectangles. This design was also made on the east wall of the nave. The apse niche, which is painted with bluish cassettes in the lower area, stands out clearly from this. The upper area is divided by radially arranged, yellowish lines. The round triumphal arch is decorated with floral elements.
organ
There is an organ on the western gallery . It was built in 2011 by the Mitteldeutsche Orgelbau A. Voigt, among other things, from donations and has two manuals and 12 registers . The disposition is as follows:
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- Coupling : II / I, I / P, II / P
Bell jar
The bell was made in the bell foundry in Apolda in 1878 . It bears a surrounding frieze and the hymn "Glory to God in the highest" ( Lk 2.14 EU ). This reminds of the story of the birth of Jesus from the Gospel according to Luke . Angels praise God after receiving the message from the Messiah child .
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Pia Kühn-von Kaehne: Church to Petzow. District Office Potsdam-Mittelmark, 1997, ISBN 978-3-00-002375-0 .
- Pia Kühn-von Kaehne on behalf of the district office Potsdam-Mittelmark (ed.): The Petzower village church. Flyer, p. 4, July 1995.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board : On the history of the village church in Petzow , notice in the nave, May 2017.
- ↑ Information leaflet: Explanations of the Werder City Council from June 4, 1986, notice on the upper floor of the tower, May 2017.
- ↑ Petzow has again a "Queen" , article in the Märkische Allgemeine from June 14, 2011, published on the website of the support group Old Church Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on May 1, 2017.
- ↑ Wanderings through the Mark Brandenburg , Chapter 251
- ↑ Mitteldeutscher Orgelbau website , accessed on May 1, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 44.1 ″ N , 12 ° 56 ′ 31.4 ″ E