Pillgram village church
The Protestant village church Pillgram is a stone church in Pillgram , a district of the municipality Jacobsdorf in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Kirchstraße runs from the southwest in a northeast direction through the village. In the historic center of the village, the church stands north of this connection on a plot of land that is not fenced . A Way of St. James leads past the church .
history
There are different statements about the origins of the church. The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) states that the building was built between the second half of the 13th century and the first half of the 14th century. The office Odervorland, in turn, states that the church was built “around the last third of the 14th century”. The church refers to a historical presentation to a document of the Carthusians from the year 1400. There are four for the pastor hooves country listed - therefore it must have been at that time a church. She also explains that a church was listed as a parish church in a document from the Lebus diocese in 1405 . In 1539 the Reformation came to Brandenburg. Visitations have been handed down from the years 1573 and 1803 . In 1600 the Pillgram became a branch church of St. Nicolai Andreas in Biegen . During the Thirty Years' War there was severe damage to the place, which also seriously affected the church. In 1666 only eight Hufen were inhabited, six were still desolate . Pillgram then came into the ownership of the Biegen office in the period from 1670 to 1714 . However, the place recovered only slowly from the effects of the war; It was not until 1729 that the parish acquired a bell.
Around 1745 the building was completely rebuilt. Using the existing granite masonry, craftsmen built a new sacred building , which was then plastered . The windows were changed, a pointed arched step portal was walled up on the south wall and the church tower was boarded up. In the 18th century the parish bought a pewter baptismal bowl. The population rose sharply due to the mining of lignite and the connection to the railroad. In 1878 the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer built an organ on the west gallery . After the end of the First World War , craftsmen erected a memorial for the fallen next to the entrance to the church. During the Second World War , grenades hit the tower head and the organ on April 16, 1945. The repair could only be carried out in 1946.
The number of residents in Pillgram rose sharply as a result of resettlers. The parish then built an extension on the north side of the building between 1955 and 1960. In addition, the church furnishings were largely replaced. The pulpit from 1745 was removed and the east windows replaced. The arrangement of the organ was changed. In addition, craftsmen shortened the church tower by around one meter. They put a cross in place of the weather vane and the damaged tower ball . The church tower was clad from EKOTAL plastisol , a PVC- coated steel; the roofing was done with cement double Romans . After the fall of the Wall , this work was removed and a wooden paneling was attached. In addition, the church received a new plaster and a white paint. After minor repairs to the bell suspension in 1994, the structure was repainted in 2014.
Building description
The structure was essentially built from field stones , which were then plastered . The choir is straight and has not moved in. At the end of the choir are three pressed-segment arched windows. Above this is a small, high-rectangular window in the gable . On the north side there is an extension with a rectangular floor plan, which was extended again to the west by a porch. There's a door there too. On the north side are two rectangular, modern windows, which are supplemented by a raised, pressed-segment arched door on the east side.
The extension is connected to the gable roof of the nave via a towing roof . It also has a rectangular floor plan and two large arched windows on the north side. To the west is a lower, much smaller window so that light can penetrate below the gallery . The south side is comparatively simple. Here are three large arched windows.
The main access is via a small extension to the west of the building. There is a pressed-segment arch-shaped gate. There are no other openings; the west wall and the gable are closed. Above it rises the church tower , which was shortened earlier. This created a two-part structure that tapers towards the top. The tower is boarded up; on each side of the bell storey there is a rectangular sound arcade . The tower ends with a pyramid roof and a cross.
Furnishing
The church furnishings were almost completely replaced in the 1950s. The simple altar is bricked; on it stands a brass cross , which shows the symbols of the four evangelists at the four ends and the Christ monogram in the middle . The pulpit is to the left of it and is also bricked. To the right of the altar is the stone Fünte from 1959. Behind the altar there are three glass windows that the painter Gerhard Olbrich created in 1959. They were made in the Lehmann glass workshop in Berlin and show motifs from the Bible . The church community interprets in the left picture a reference to the inquiry of the Baptist from the Gospel according to Matthew 11,1 LUT , in the middle picture a reference to the Ascension of Christ from the gospel according to Luke 24,1 LUT and in the right picture a reference to the Lord's Supper of Jesus 14, 15 LUT . The vestibule in the tower is kept comparatively simple. The visitor enters the area below the gallery via a pressed segment arched door.
A Sauer organ from 1878 stands on the west gallery. It was partially destroyed in World War II; changed their disposition in 1954. It was restored at a later point in time, also by the Sauer company. The instrument has a manual , eight registers and a pedal .
In the tower hangs a bell from 1729. It has a diameter of 70 cm and was cast by Johann Friedrich Thiele in Berlin. The inscription reads: VOR WERCK / PILGRAM / ANNO 1729 / Soli deo Gloria (God alone be glory). At the entrance to the southwest of the building there is a memorial commemorating those who died in the world wars.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information board : Pillgram Church , installed on the building, May 2019.
- ↑ Pillgramer Church History I , website of the Evangelical Church Community Biegen - Jacobsdorf and Evangelical Jakobus Church Community Arensdorf - Sieversdorf, accessed on May 19, 2019.
- ↑ Interior views of the Pillgramer Church Website of the Evangelical Church Community Biegen - Jacobsdorf and Evangelical Jakobus Church Community Arensdorf - Sieversdorf, accessed on May 19, 2019.
Coordinates: 52 ° 19 '46.3 " N , 14 ° 23' 40.1" E