Reichenwalde village church
The Protestant village church Reichenwalde is a field stone church from the end of the 13th century in Reichenwalde , a municipality in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The associated Protestant parish Reichenwalde belongs to the Oderland-Spree parish of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The exact construction date of the church is not known. The parish specifies the construction period from the end of the 13th century to the beginning of the 14th century. It is said that on June 5, 1372, the Neuzelle Monastery gave the parish church in Beeskow permission to celebrate an early mass every day in the parish church in Richwalde . Thus, a sacred building must already have existed at this point in time .
Experts suspect that the structure was significantly damaged in the Thirty Years War . In the second half of the 18th century, master builders carried out some renovations at the instigation of the royal government in Potsdam . They added a baroque storey to the west tower , which they made in half-timbered houses . Behind it they hung two small bells from the 16th century. On the south side of the nave they added a vestibule, which was provided with a pointed arch portal. They also extended the nave to the east. The previously late Gothic window openings, which were comparatively small for the time, were closed and large, baroque openings were added to the building. The parish was able to win Barnim Grüneberg to build an organ in June 1864 , which was previously in the castle church in Stettin . It is said from 1867 that one of the bells was cast; the same happened in 1889. It was consecrated again at Easter 1890 and bore the inscription Glory to God on high . In 1908 the parish planned an extensive renovation, which could not be realized for financial reasons. So it remained with the repair work required to maintain the structure. In 1929 the parish bought a second bell from Franz Schilling from the bell foundry in Apolda . The first bell had to be turned off in the course of the hostilities in World War II . Between 1966 and 1968 the parish expanded the horseshoe galleries and erected a new altar and a new fifth . Painters renewed the paint on the church, while carpenters renewed the window frames. The church stalls were removed in favor of individual chairs. In 1987 the church was renovated and the original painting on the ceiling, the wall surfaces and the parapet was restored. In 2012 the parish found that almost all the beam heads in the ceiling of the nave had to be replaced. Likewise, the framework is so badly damaged by house sponges that the church tower threatens to collapse. A development association estimates the cost of repairs to be around 430,000 euros.
architecture
The sacred building was built from field stones with a rectangular floor plan. The outer walls are provided with a large area of light-colored plaster , from which only isolated, little-hewn field stones can be seen. No statement can therefore be made on the stratification and quality without further investigations. The corners of the building are made of unevenly large, poorly hewn field stones, which emphasize the outlines of the structure. On the north wall of the nave there are a total of three beehive-shaped, large windows, of which the furthest west is a little smaller. This is due to the fact that the structure stands on a small hill that slopes to the east. At the choir , only a few field stones can be seen between the otherwise plastered wall. There two large, also beehive-shaped windows were arranged parallel to the center. There are also three of these windows on the south wall of the nave. There is also a small, rectangular porch between the western and central window. The rectangular gate of the extension is adorned with a multi-stepped reveal made of red brick. The hipped roof of the nave is covered with red beaver tail tiles. There is a bat dormer on each of the north, east and south sides .
The tower is of late Gothic origin and was built by its builder with a square floor plan. It is built from very coarse, barely hewn field stones, which were filled with wall fragments. It can be entered on its west side through a triple stepped portal, which is closed with a wooden gate painted in a light gray tone. In the half-timbered tower behind the wooden sound arcades hangs the bell from 1929 with the inscription: Easter 1929 / Peace be with you / I am the resurrection and the life . The framework is filled with reddish bricks . The tower has a hipped roof that ends with a ball and a weather vane that shows the year 1797.
Furnishing
The altar and the fifth were made in the 1960s. The pulpit decorated with floral elements and the eastern gallery date from the end of the 18th century. The latter is decorated with reddish-white cassettes. The altar cross entered the church in 1987. It originally came from Reddern , a district of the Altdöbern community in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district . The church there was demolished in the course of the lignite mining .
The Grüneberg organ has a three-part prospectus with two large flat fields that enclose a wide central field. Below is the gaming table. It was badly damaged at the end of the Second World War: Some organ pipes were torn out so that the organ could no longer be played. In 1970 the parish began repairs and installed an electric blower on the occasion. The work was successfully completed in 1974.
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 .
- Reichenwalde parish: Evangelical Church Reichenwalde , flyer, no date, display in the church in May 2016.
Web links
- Website of the parish on the website of the church district Oderland-Spree
- Reichenwalde church renovation support group , accessed on May 1, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sponsorship group for church renovation Reichenwalde: Fundraising campaign to save the church in the Reichenwalde community , flyer, no date, display in the church in May 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 15 '52.2 " N , 13 ° 59' 50.8" E