Pitschen village church
The Protestant village church Pitschen is a hall church from the 15th century in Pitschen-Pickel , a district of the community Heideblick in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in Brandenburg .
history
In the 15th century the parish built a sacred building from field stones . A west tower was probably already planned - as investigations on the masonry showed - but this was not initially implemented. In a fire on August 22, 1675, the structure was severely damaged and then rebuilt. At this time, a patronage box was also built , which was added to the south-eastern wall of the nave from bricks . In the years 1735 and 1736 the parish built the roof tower. This was damaged in World War II and rebuilt in a simpler version in 1950. In 1972 the southern wall of the nave was plastered , which was renewed in 1983. In 1979 the district of Luckau put the building under monument protection. Between 1993 and 1995 the parish renovated the interior.
architecture
On the plastered south wall of the nave there are two large windows in the western part as well as a smaller, non-axially symmetrically arranged, segment-arch-shaped window below. Two more windows were built into the box, which can be entered through a wooden gate on its east side via a small staircase. The other walls, including the gable , are unplastered. The field stones are not hewn and layered over the entire structure. The frames of the windows were partly made of brick and decorated with fags in some places . On the choir wall , below the three symmetrically arranged windows, there is a priest's gate through which the pastor could also enter the church from the outside. In the gable, a boarded ox eye can be seen in the middle , the upper border of which was reworked from brick. Another touch up work was done on the center window. The north wall of the nave consists largely of field stones. There are four large and two small windows incorporated. The smaller, lower-lying windows were probably created after the gallery was installed so that more light could enter the building. In the middle of the wall there could have been a small, ogival window, but it was closed with red brick.
The main entrance to the church - a beehive-shaped portal on the west side of the tower - is framed with red bricks and decorated with a plastered wall. In this area, as in the gable of the tower, a noticeable number of large field stones were used.
This is followed by the boarded roof tower, which was originally designed with a tower hood and a lantern . After the damage in the Second World War, a simpler, octagonal wooden design followed in 1950, which was replaced by copper cladding in 1972. On the upper floor of the tower , three bells hang behind the rectangular sound openings. The oldest was made in 1680 by Johann Heintze from Berlin from bronze after a Christian von Stutterheim foundation , the other two examples were cast from steel in 1952 and 1953. The tower ends with a tower ball and a weather vane .
Furnishing
The pulpit altar dates from the 17th and 18th centuries. In 1684, under the patronage of Margaretha von Stutterheim , an essay in the form of an aedicule was created , which was supplemented by a polygonal pulpit in 1725 and 1726 . The predella shows Jesus' last supper , while the basket is decorated with the images of Salvator mundi and the evangelists arranged in pairs . The Fünte dates from around 1800 and has the shape of a fluted column stump.
The horseshoe gallery was built in 1706. On the western part there is a Schuke organ from 1905, which was installed in a baroque prospect from 1734. The confessional as well as the altar stalls are decorated with works by the Luckau painter Christian Zimmermann . The remains of a tombstone for Hans von Stauchwitz , who died in 1598, have been preserved in the reveal of the door behind the altar . In the north wall there is a walled-in children's tombstone from 1630. The interior is flat-roofed.
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Pitschen-Pickel Church , website of the Langengrassau parish office, accessed on July 16, 2016.
- Pitschen-Pickel , website of the Heidesee community, accessed on July 15, 2016.
Coordinates: 51 ° 52 '25.7 " N , 13 ° 35' 22.9" E