Prensdorf village church
The Protestant village church Prensdorf is a sacred building in Prensdorf , a district of the municipality of Dahmetal in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
history
The stone church in Prensdorf was built in the 14th or 15th century, while the church indicates an origin in 1150 in an information document. Prensdorf itself was first mentioned in a document in 1346. Dating back to 1562 Church documents have been handed down, the common management with Zagelsdorf ( Dahme / Mark suggest): There was located the parish , while the school and the sexton were located in Prensdorf. In 1607 the parish erected the altar . During the Thirty Years' War , both the church and the other buildings in the village remained largely unscathed, but some courtyards were desolate . In 1699, craftsmen renovated the tower by replacing the previously wooden tower with a storey made of field stones. Presumably at this time the Gothic windows were enlarged in Baroque style and the nave was given its plaster . A year later, a fifth decorated with putti was added to the interior of the church . In 1827 the tower received a bell. In the years 1886 to 1909, the church was renovated again, which also included a repair of the organ in 1894. On July 18, 1900, the parish carried out another consecration of bells . In the course of a metal donation by the German people , however, she had to give up two bells in Dahme / Mark during the First World War . The organ pipes came to Jüterbog . In 1929 the roof was renovated. In 1960 the building received a new organ, and in 2002 the remaining bell was given an electric drive. In 2012 the parish covered the roof again and in 2013 carried out a fight against the common rodent beetle . The church can be visited as an open church from May to October since 2015 .
architecture
The sacred building was built from field stones on a rectangular floor plan. On the north and south sides there are three segment-arched windows, two of which are in the nave and a third at some distance at the height of the choir . The side walls, like the windowless east wall, are plastered gray. The corners of the building, as well as the bezels of the windows, are emphasized by a reddish paint. In the east gable, which is also plastered, a cross painted in white can be seen. Between the side walls of the nave, a frieze creates the transition to the darkly covered gable roof . The lower third of the transversely rectangular and drawn-in west tower was built from uncut and unevenly layered field stones. This is followed by a brightly plastered floor into which a small, beehive-shaped sound arcade has been incorporated on three sides . In the tower gable, two more, much smaller openings can be seen on the north and south sides. The tower is equipped with a hipped roof that is covered with a reddish beaver tail . It ends with a weather vane .
Furnishing
The wooden altar from 1697 shows the Lord's Supper in its predella and the crucifixion of Christ in the main field . The carved cheeks are decorated with twisted vine-leaf columns and rich cartilage , which is supported on the outer sides by two angels with a palm branch each. On the left the inscription “This is my body”, on the right “This is my blood” from the institution report of the Lord's Supper can be read. A golden ray glory is placed above the main field. The wooden pulpit stands on a marbled essay. Its cassettes are decorated with white-red-bluish, baroque tendrils. This formal language was also adopted in the church pews and on the gallery . The sandstone baptismal font dates from around 1700 and is also decorated with putti . The impression of the baroque interior is described in a church guide as "coherent".
See also
literature
- Parish office for Prensdorf Protestant parish Rosenthal (ed.): Welcome to the church in Prensdorf. Flyer, without date
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dehio Handbook 2012
- ↑ Information brochure: History of Prensdorf and its church , display in the church, September 2016
- ↑ Dorfkirche Prensdorf , website of the Dahme / Mark Office, accessed on June 16, 2016.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 53 '53.7 " N , 13 ° 27' 57.9" E