Plessow village church
The Protestant village church in Plessow is a neo-Gothic stone church from the years 1866 to 1870 in Tudor style in Plessow , 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 Plessower Hauptstraße leads from the southwest in a northeast direction through the village. The church stands in the northern part of the district and there to the west of the main road in a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of field stones with a border made of red brick . The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) describes the wall as "unusually lavishly designed" and refers to the design with a frieze made of quatrefoil and the goal posts made of masonry bricks.
history
The place was probably an independent parish , which was assigned a branch church in Zolchow . Nevertheless, Plessow was assigned to Starjesar to the west in the 13th century . However, this fell into disuse , whereupon the Brandenburg Bishop Heidenreich of Brandenburg decided to subordinate Plessow as a branch church to Plötzin . The place was probably owned by the von Rochow auf Golzow family since 1290 . From the years 1375 and 1541 the existence of a parish hoof is handed down, so there must have been a church and a pastor in the place. From the year 1541 the existence of a garden, a meadow as well as a desolate Kossatenstelle is further proven, which belonged to the church. The church patronage at this time lay with Gut Plessow; In terms of canon law, Plessow belonged to the Sedes Brandenburg around 1450 , from 1806 to the superintendent of Brandenburg-Dom and in 1924 to the superintendent of Lehnin. All that is known of the medieval predecessor buildings is that there was a Baroque hall church at the end of the 16th century . On the initiative of the patron saint Hans von Rochow , a new sacred building was built between 1866 and 1870 , in which the remains of a previous building were possibly used. In 1947 and 1948 the graves of the von Rochows were redesigned. They were previously buried beneath the altar area and were in tin coffins to the cemetery reburied . From 1964 to 1965, the renovated church the floor, the wall panels and the slate roofing. Experts restored the church furnishings and repainted the interior. The patronage box in the eastern part of the building was demolished, the church stalls were redesigned and a new choir screen was installed. The pulpit was removed from its base and placed on the floor. From 2003 to 2004 the parish renovated the barrel vault, among other things, largely in-house .
Building description
The craftsmen mainly used field stones that were not layered, but were hewn in such a way that little mortar and stone fragments were required for the spaces between them. For the contour-giving elements, they used yellowish brick that was produced in the region. In addition, there were profiled elements made of reddish brick, which, for example, highlight the bezels of the windows. The choir is polygonal and strongly drawn in opposite the nave . On each of the three sides of the choir there is a large window with a profiled wall that closes triangularly at the top. At the transition to the eaves is a circumferential, downwardly open frieze with tenons, above it a likewise circumferential haunch . The choir roof is covered with black slate.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. It was also built from hewn fieldstones, yellowish and reddish bricks. In order to be able to make a statement about the extent to which the walls of a previous building were included, further investigations would be necessary. The east side is closed; at the corners are pilaster strips made of yellowish brick, which merge into the stepped gable as profiled pinnacles . There, yellowish brick was also used, with which nine ogival panels were designed. On the north side there are three pressed-segment-arched windows, two of which were arranged in the eastern area. In between is an epitaph . Only two windows of the same type were installed on the south side. In the center is a pressed-segment arched community gate. Above it is a lightly painted cartouche with a verse from the Gospel according to Luke : "But Jesus said: Yes, blessed are those who hear and keep the word of God" ( Lk 11:28 EU ). Inside, a plaque informs about the construction of the tower and the building of the church. Another epitaph stands between the gate and the window to the east. At the transition to the simple gable roof is also a surrounding frieze. The west side is closed again; there, too, the builders installed a gable decorated with panels with pilaster strips and pinnacles.
The west tower has a square floor plan. Its substructure is stabilized with a double stepped buttress , which merges into pinnacles. The buttresses to the west are separated from the nave by a few centimeters, giving the impression of a free-standing tower. On the west side of the ground floor there is a large, segment-arched portal made of red sandstone, above it the coat of arms of the von Rochow family, followed by a round window and a gable, which is also decorated with a reddish frieze. On the north and south side there is initially an arched window on the lower floor , and above it two small, coupled arched windows. They were made of artificial stone and painted red. Above a surrounding cornice, which takes up the height of the nave, the craftsmen from then on used yellow bricks. From this they built an octagonal tower with an arched window on the north and south sides. Above this is another, slightly drawn-in floor, each with a tower clock corresponding to the cardinal points and a segment-shaped opening on the remaining sides. The bell floor, which has also been drawn in, concludes. Eight pointed arch- shaped sound arcades are installed there. Above this floor is an octagonal pointed helmet with a tower ball and weather vane .
Furnishing
There is a wooden crucifix and two altar candlesticks on the cafeteria . These were made from iron in the art casting process in the 19th century and are decorated with neo-Gothic tracery and vine leaves. The pulpit consists of a polygonal pulpit with neo-Gothic tracery attached to the parapet . She has been standing on the ground since 1965. The church also has a wooden fifth with neo-Gothic decor. The building has a wooden barrel vault inside.
The church stalls were probably built around 1870 and were reduced in 1965. There are also a few more chairs and a table with drawers from the late 19th century in the choir area. In the west of the building, craftsmen built a gallery with a polygonal protruding parapet. On it stands an organ that Gottlieb Scholtze built in 1760. The instrument has a five-part brochure in the Rococo style , nine registers , a manual and a pedal . The organ was repaired in 2000 by Ulrich Fahlberg from Eberswalde .
An epitaph commemorates Hans XIV von Rochow (1596–1660), who had a manor house built in Plessow. It was made of sandstone and painted gray and shows the colonel as a full-figure relief in armor. Eight coats of arms are affixed to the pilasters , with the alliance coat of arms of those of Rochow and those of Brösicke at the top . A marble plaque commemorates those who died in the First World War . It hangs together with a wooden memorial plaque for Rochus von Rochow, who died in 1943, in the crypt hall.
There are two bronze bells in the tower . The smaller one with a diameter of 70 cm was cast in 1475. It is decorated with small reliefs showing Christophorus and a crucifix. The larger bell with a diameter of 89 cm was made in the 15th century. A bell from 1777 is lost.
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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Description from Monument Topography Potsdam-Mittelmark, Vol. 14.1, 2009, p. 445 ff., Accessed on the BLDAM website on July 16, 2018.
- ↑ Information board for the church in Plessow , attached to the enclosure wall, July 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 23 '12.1 " N , 12 ° 52' 35.9" E