Pritzhagen village church

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The village church Pritzhagen is the Protestant church of Pritzhagen , a district of the municipality Oberbarnim in the district of Märkisch-Oderland in Brandenburg .

The village, first mentioned in a document in 1300, is located in the Märkische Schweiz Nature Park . The single-aisled rectangular hall church probably dates from the 14th / 15th centuries. Century and is made of field stones that are completely plastered. The late Gothic church got its present appearance mainly with the retracted square west tower from 1742, through its renovation in the upper part in 1841 and through major renovations in 1906/07. A wooden altarpiece with side acanthus cheeks goes back to the years 1730/40. The building is a listed building . The grave of the long-time Pritzhagen landlady Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz on the south wall of the church is also under monument protection .

The church in 2012

Historical classification

Affiliation, community and location of the church building

As Charles IV's land register shows, there was already a parish in Pritzhagen by 1375 at the latest. According to the land register, the pastor owned two hooves at that time . By 1540 at the latest, the church was under the patronage of the Cistercian Sisters - Friedland Monastery and, as Filia Reichenbergs, belonged to the church district (Sedes) Friedland . In contrast to the neighboring town of Bollersdorf , which was acquired by the Friedland monastery in 1486, the village of Pritzhagen did not come to the "Herrschaft Friedland" until 1704, which followed the monastery which was secularized in 1540/46 . The designation from 1715 named the Friedland landowner and margrave Albrecht Friedrich von Brandenburg-Sonnenburg as the church patron , the church was still a Filia Reichenberg.

Surrounding field stone wall to the village green

use

In the 21st century, the church is part of the parish of Liberec in the "parish Costanosellari " (range Reichenberg- Ihlow -Pritzhagen- Ringenwalde ) in the church district Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO). In addition to regular church services, concerts are held in the church as part of the Märkische Schweiz music summer . This included the Feldstein and Music concert on April 22, 2012 with a musical commentary reading from the correspondence between Frederick the Great and his favorite sister Wilhelmine , the opening concert for the opening of the Oberbarnimer Feldstein route with the Pritzhagener Feldstein Church as a prominent part of the route. The church building and the surrounding cemetery are on the village green . This area was comprehensively renovated in 2004 with the village pond and the surrounding field stone walls as well as the field stone enclosures of the farmsteads in the center of the village; In 2007 the village received the award as a "Nature Park Community in the Märkische Schweiz Nature Park".

Architecture and building history

Rudolf Schmidt described the building in 1928 as an ancient solid stone church with a length of 17 meters, width of 9 meters and height of 4.60 meters. In 2001 Matthias Friske specified a length of 4 meters and a width of 5.2 meters for the tower and a length of 12.7 meters and a width of 9 meters for the ship. It is not possible to make reliable statements about the time it was created. The only thing that is certain is that the church was not built until the late Gothic period (in Germany around 1350 to 1520/30).

Current appearance and bells

Despite the smooth plastering, the original, irregular field stone building can still be clearly seen on the outside facade of the nave . The single-nave rectangular building has two windows on the south and long sides and one rectangular window on the north . Its only portal is in the square, recessed west tower . The baroque tower has sound holes on all sides and, like the nave of a steep gable roof covered.

A medieval bell was probably melted down during World War II . A bronze bell produced in the bell foundry in Apolda in 1914 only hung in the tower for three years and had to be delivered in 1917 as a metal donation from the German people during the First World War . Today's three steel bells date from the 1950s.

Renovations and tower construction in 1742

The first data on the building history are available from the church book beginning in 1700 . After that, a major building repair was carried out in 1710 for 103  thalers , 9 groschen and 6 pfennigs. In 1735 the church roof was completely covered over. According to the church book, a new church tower was built in 1742, the old tower structure was completely removed. The new building was carried out by master carpenter Christoph Seyferth from Wriezen , who used twelve oaks for it. In addition, the church gable was massively expanded and the entire church was plastered by a master mason. Of lime 71 tonnes were consumed. The community took care of the procurement and transport of field stones and sand. The Friedland bailiff or Arrendator Jeckel - the former lord of Friedland Carl Albrecht von Brandenburg-Sonnenburg had his goods administered as Arrende villages - delivered 9,300 bricks and 1,700 roof tiles. The button , weather vane and star were made from copper by a Reichenberg master blacksmith for 15 thalers and 21 groschen and weighed 31 3/4 pounds together. The spar bar weighed 86 1/2 pounds. Apart from manual and clamping services, the total expenditure was 375 thalers, 12 groschen and 7 pfennigs. In 1757 and 1828 the church roof was re-covered.

Further modifications and repairs

South side with the listed grave site Itzenplitz

Most likely in 1841 the top tower tower was replaced. Writings in the time capsule that crashed with the button in 1840 describe the old tower as a wooden structure. Renewed alterations in 1906/1907 largely returned the church building to its current state. In 1986 the weather vane crashed, whereupon the spar and the ball were taken down and replaced. After the stone walls around the church and cemetery had already been worked up, the church was comprehensively renovated in 2010 with funds from the European Union , the Evangelical Church and the Office of Märkische Schweiz . The roof structures of the tower and ship, the sound hatches , the plaster and the facade painting were overhauled. On September 19, 2010, the church was inaugurated again.

Itzenplitz grave

While the - as Theodor Fontane called them - " Itzenplitze " are mostly buried in the hereditary funeral of the von Lestwitz-Itzenplitz family in Kunersdorf, the listed grave of Charlotte Countess von Itzenplitz is located directly on the southern outer wall of the church. The grave site consists of a grave cross with a figure of Christ integrated into the church wall , a grave stone lying flat in front of it and is framed by a metal grille. In addition to the life data, the tombstone shows some of the functions of the Pritzhagen landlady from 1883 to 1909 and contains the four-line funeral motto "I fought a good fight [...]" after a word from Paul to Timothy ( 2 Tim 4, 7-8 ).

Interior and inventory

Design and equipment

The ceiling inside the church is designed as a wooden shallow barrel with a retracted transverse beam. The gallery is one-sided and facing west. As noted in the church book, in 1714 a Berlin painter received 31 thalers to make in front of the pulpit and altar in the church . According to the parish priest, the masonry and plastered altarpiece , which is open with segmental arches on all sides, was probably built in the first half of the 18th century and the wooden altarpiece with side acanthus cheeks around 1730/40.

“In the main field, the altarpiece shows a carved crucifix , each surrounded by a twisted column. The side of the altarpiece has acanthus cheeks. The crucifix is ​​fully plastic and is located in a frame. An angel's head is attached to the lower part of the frame. At the ends of the cross bar there are also (two) angel heads. Biblical sayings are painted on the frame fund to the left and right of the crucifix. The altarpiece is crowned by a very rich acanthus carving with a painted " Eye of God " in the middle and two cartouches (left and right). On the north wall of the chancel are the wooden pulpit and the parish stalls, both from the first half of the 18th century. The parapets of the pulpit staircase and the polygonal pulpit cage, which is supported by a column, are painted with biblical sayings. A biblical saying ( Ezek. 3:17 ) is also painted on the inside of the wooden sound cover . "

- Evangelical parishes in the parish of Haselberg: Historical information on the village church of Pritzhagen.

The eight-sided wooden baptism on the left of the altar dates from the same period . The interior renovation in 2010 was accompanied by a restorer . During the work, wall paintings , which probably date from the 18th century, were partially exposed and restored .

inventory

An inventory from 1715 listed: a finely gilded silver chalice with a paten , "recently acquired and the margrave given most of it as a gift"; a pewter chalice with a paten, a pewter communion bottle, three large pewter candlesticks on the altar, a small pewter candlestick and a pewter baptismal font. One of the goblets was a gift from Friedland Abbey. The baptismal font with the inscription Haec Patina A. W. 1702 the 22nd Xbris a. FFVRT is still available (as of 2012), as well as a pewter candlestick, the pewter goblet and the measuring wine bottle , the screw cap of which is no longer there. A harmonium that existed at the time was lost at the end of the Second World War.

literature

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Reinhard E. Fischer : The place names of the states of Brandenburg and Berlin. Volume 13 of the Brandenburg Historical Studies on behalf of the Brandenburg Historical Commission. be.bra Wissenschaft, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-937233-30-X , ISSN  1860-2436 , pp. 134, 197f.
  2. ↑ List of monuments of the state of Brandenburg: Landkreis Märkisch-Oderland (PDF) Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum
  3. ^ Rudolf Schmidt, pp. 211, 223.
  4. ↑ Gustav Abb : The Cistercian nunnery in Old Friedland . In: Germania Sacra. First department: The dioceses of the Church Province of Magdeburg . First volume: The Diocese of Brandenburg . First part. Edited by Gustav Abb and Gottfried Wentz . Verlag Walter de Gruyter & Co., Berlin 1929. Photomechanical reprint 1963. pp. 351, 357.
  5. ↑ Rudolf Schmidt, p. 214.
  6. ^ Rudolf Schmidt, p. 224.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h Evangelical parishes in the parish of Haselberg: Historical information on the village church Pritzhagen . ( Memento of the original from December 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pfarrsprengel-haselberg.ekbo.de
  8. ^ Office Märkische Schweiz. Music summer. Field stone and music .
  9. ↑ Oberbarnimer Feldsteinroute.
  10. ↑ Information board for the Oberbarnimer Feldstein route on the history of Pritzhagen in front of the village church, set up in 2012.
  11. ↑ a b c Rudolf Schmidt, p. 225.
  12. ^ Matthias Friske, p. 252.
  13. ↑ Information board Pritzhagen Church of the Oberbarnimer Feldsteinroute from 2012 in front of the church.
  14. ^ Theodor Fontane: Closing words. In: Walks through the Mark Brandenburg in 8 volumes. Volume 4 Spreeland . Gotthard Erler , Rudolf Mingau (eds.), Aufbau-Verlag , Berlin 1997 ISBN 3-7466-5704-0 , p. 443 ( the final word in the text log ).
  15. ↑ Information board Pritzhagen Church of the Oberbarnimer Feldsteinroute from 2012 in front of the church.
  16. ^ Rudolf Schmidt, pp. 222, 224.

Coordinates: 52 ° 35 '  N , 14 ° 6'  E