Plötzin village church

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Plötzin village church

The Protestant village church Plötzin is a Romanesque stone church from the 13th century in Plötzin , a district of the city of Werder (Havel) in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

location

The old village road leads from the southwest towards the historic village green . It is spanned by the Friedhofswinkel street running south . The church stands on the green on a slightly elevated plot of land that is fenced in with a wall . This consists in the south of uncut and not layered layered field stones , while other stones were used.

history

So far, not much is known about the building history. The Dehio manual is accordingly cautious and speaks of a building at the beginning of the 13th century. Engeser and Stehr suspect, among other things, due to the masonry design and the building structure, an emergence around 1200. The parish church was probably built as a complete complex with a nave , the retracted choir and an apse during this time . From 1287 to 1959, the branch churches in Plessow and since 1959 those in Göhlsdorf were assigned to it. The church patronage changed in 1196 from the margrave to the bishop of Brandenburg and from there in 1216 to the cathedral chapter . From the years 1375, 1450 and 1541 three parish hooves have come down to us. There was also a desert hoof in Starjesar, as well as meadows and a church hoof with a house. In 1459 Plötzin belonged to the Sedes Brandenburg; before 1573 a visit was carried out. During this time, Fabian Darin was the first Protestant pastor to take over pastoral care until 1561. In 1726 the church patronage went to the Prussian civil servant Friedrich von Görne . Under his direction, the building was significantly rebuilt. In 1733 and 1734, the carpenter pupil and the bricklayer Medler from Plaue tore down the apse and enlarged the choir to the width of the ship. They were supported by the blacksmith Guttler and the carpenter Hildebrandt. The north side was 19.55 m long, the south side 20.15 m. This year, let parish also previously made truss built west tower replaced. Then a new pulpit altar came into the church. In 1756 the interior was repainted, for which the painters Buchholtz and Bock received a total of 130 thalers . The renovation work was completed with the installation of a gallery with an organ in 1761. The equipment was completed a year later with a baptismal font and in 1767 with a new liturgical device . In 1776, gardeners planted numerous mulberry trees in the churchyard ; Craftsmen repaired the enclosure. In 1806 the responsibility changed and Plötzin came to the superintendent of Brandenburg-Dom and in 1924 to the superintendent of Lehnin. The church patronage went to Oberamtmann Bennecke zu Aken in 1817 and to the widow Tiebe or their heirs in 1831. In the period around 1880/1890 roofers clad the west tower with slate; the work was repaired between 1955 and 1965. In 1910 the patronage was with Major von der Hagen, who financed a repair and the renewed neo-baroque painting of the church. This was eliminated around 1960.

Building description

View from the west

Field stone was mainly used in the construction, which was hardly hewn and layered around the lower area. The choir is straight and has not moved in; the east wall windowless. In the upper area, small and unhewn stones and broken bricks were used in some cases. On the north and south sides of the choir there is a large arched window with plastered windows . Presumably, when the building was expanded, the east wall of the formerly retracted choir was left standing and the north and south walls were pulled up to the line of the nave.

This is followed by the nave. On its north wall are two more windows of the same type, of which the one to the west is set a little higher. The stones in this area are much more carefully hewn and layered. The south side is similar. In the middle between the choir and nave is a round arched gate. At the window to the west, the remains of a clogged, arch-shaped community gate can be seen. The right arch cuts the window sill of the large window. The ship carries a simple gable roof , the eastward hipped is.

On the western side of the facade, on the northern side, there is an arched window as the only opening. The field stones in this area are comparatively well carved and layered. Above the opening the stones are only slightly carved and partly mixed with broken bricks. It is therefore conceivable that this part was collapsed and rebuilt at an earlier time. Engeser and Stehr suspect that the church was increased by around one meter. Above it rises the slate gable with a small rectangular window built into the center. The square west tower extends above it. In the lower area there is a tower clock, above it an arched sound arcade . This is followed by a curved tower hood with a tower ball and weather vane . This area is separated from the ship by a massive wall, in the basement of which there are two medieval rooms. These were originally opened to the ship through an arch. The northern room was temporarily used as a sacristy and received the aforementioned arched window on the west side.

Furnishing

View into the nave

The baroque pulpit altar is kept in white-brownish tones and was created in 1733 by the carpenter Hildebrandt with the collaboration of a sculptor from Treuenbrietzen who was not named . It stands in the middle between two columns with Corinthian capitals and is decorated with acanthus ; in each of the cheeks is a medallion showing a female figure with a cross or a chalice as an allegory for the Passion . The polygonal pulpit , which was probably made in the late 17th century, was designed in the same color . Floral elements are painted in its fields. The color version was simplified in 1960. Above it is a sound cover , which is crowned with ornamental attachments. Behind the lid is a broken gable with a ray eye. In the northern area of ​​the choir there are priests' chairs, complemented by four stylistically different carved figures on consoles. Two of them are likely to come from a Gothic carved altar. Two presumably show Simon Peter and Paul of Tarsus , a Catherine of Alexandria and Agnes of Rome with a lamb and a crown. The figures could have been created in a workshop in Brandenburg / Havel in the middle of the 15th century. In this area of ​​the church there are bustards of dogs in front of the altar . In the southern choir area there is a neo-Gothic fifth from around 1900 with a baptismal font from the 16th or 17th century. It is bordered with Latin inscriptions and decorated with a sun wheel motif in the center. On a console in the east of the south wall is a bust showing Martin Luther . It was made of plaster in the 19th century.

In the church there is a painting from the end of the 17th century or from the early 18th century showing Jesus Christ as a doctor of souls. An almost identical painting is in the Heilig-Geist-Kirche in Werder. It shows Jesus in a red robe behind a pharmacy table. He is holding a scale in his left hand. In one bowl the human sins are depicted, in the other he adds crossroot with his right hand to compensate . On the table are vessels in which the heavenly “medicines” patience, hope, love, constancy, help, peace and faith are contained. A vessel is inscribed with two verses from the Gospel according to Matthew . There it says: “Come to me all who are troublesome and burdened” 11.28 EU as well as “The strong don't need a doctor, but the sick” 9.12 EU . Grace is contained in another vessel. The church historian Georg Stuhlfauth proved that this pictorial theme was used around 20 times in the 17th and 18th centuries. He was able to prove paintings with this motif in the Mark Brandenburg as well as in Austria and Switzerland .

An epitaph commemorates Pastor Andreas Franke, who died in 1660. Other memorial plaques remember those who died in the wars of 1813, 1866 and the Franco-German War . According to an invoice from 1734, the church stalls were probably made by the carpenter Hildebrandt in 1733 and 1734. This includes a patronage stalls on the north side of the altar area and a pastor's stalls on the south side. Two brass chandeliers were probably made around 1910.

The other church furnishings include a horseshoe gallery , which is bulged in the middle to the east. It was created in 1766 and shows the coat of arms and the inscription of the Prussian official Friedrich von Görne in one of the parapet fields, and paintings with flower hangings in two other fields. The organ with a three-part prospectus in the Rococo style was in 1761 by Gottlieb Scholtze built and later by Friedrich Emanuel Marx rebuilt. In one of the parapets, reference is made to the founder: “To honor Jesus and to awaken prayer, this organ was built by Snr. Reverence the royal. Council of war Lord von Görne Aō 1761 ”. It has eleven registers , a manual and a pedal .

In the tower there is a small bronze bell that was probably cast in the 14th century. It bears various reliefs, including the crucifixion group and the flagellation of Christ. She jumped in 1949. It is complemented by a larger bronze bell, which was manufactured in 1928 by the Schilling and Sons company. It bears inscriptions that commemorate those who died in the First World War .

The interior of the building is flat covered; the corners are decorated with haunches .

In the tower there is a bronze bell from the 14th century and another bell from Schilling and Sons from 1928.

To the west of the building there is a memorial that commemorates those who died in the First and Second World Wars . The ensemble is supplemented by a cemetery chapel in the southeast from around 1900. It is a brick building with a pointed arch portal.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ornamentik , website by Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on July 6, 2018.

Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 49.2 "  N , 12 ° 49 ′ 47.7"  E