Pretschen village church

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Pretschen village church

The village church Pretschen is the Evangelical Church of the municipality Märkische Heide belonging village Pretschen .

Architecture and history

The church was built in 1893 as a rectangular brick building in the neo-Romanesque style . The bricks were made in an estate's own brickworks south of Pretschen. To the west of the nave, a high church tower was built on a square floor plan. The construction was managed by the Pretschen contractor and carpenter Friedrich Wilhelm Gründel. One third of the construction costs were borne by the community and two thirds by the church patroness. The new building replaced a half-timbered church built in 1585.

The church belongs to the Evangelical Hope Church Community Groß Leuthen and the surrounding area in the Lower Lusatia parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

Furnishing

While the organ dates from 1845 and was originally installed in the church that previously stood in Pretschen, the pulpit , baptismal font and patron s box are from the time the church was built today. There are also several pictures from the previous building. The panel painting of the Resurrection of Christ in the Mannerist style was installed above the basket of the pulpit as early as the end of the 16th century. The depiction of kneeling donors, probably the von Holzendorf family, on a rectangular panel on the stately box on the north side of the choir dates back to the second half of the 16th century. Originally, the picture probably belonged as a lower part of an epitaph . The von Holzendorf family had the previous church built. A simple wooden cross adorns the altar. Stained glass windows behind the altar show depictions of the four evangelists .

Noteworthy is the epitaph in the church for Otto Friedrich von Blumenthal, who died in 1683, whose octagonal picture over a marble tablet shows him in armor . A wooden wall epitaph is dedicated to Ludwig von Blumental, who died in 1704. A bust of the deceased stands in a shell niche. On the sides there are putti depicting life and death . An oval wooden death shield with the coat of arms of the von Blumental family presumably dates from the end of the 17th century .

The organ of the village church was built in 1845 by the organ builder Johann Christoph Schröther the Elder. J. (Sonnewalde) built. The slider chest instrument has five manual registers (C – d 3 , principal 8 ′, covered 8 ′, octave 4 ′, flute 4 ′, octave 2 ′) and a pedal register (C – d 1 , violon 8 ′). The actions are mechanical.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the church district .
  2. ↑ More information about the organ ( Memento from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

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

Coordinates: 52 ° 5 '25.3 "  N , 13 ° 59' 29.5"  E