Rietzneuendorf village church
The Protestant village church Rietzneuendorf is a half-timbered church from 1704 in Rietzneuendorf , a district of the municipality Rietzneuendorf-Staakow in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Schloßstraße leads in a west-east direction as a central connecting axis to the historic village green . There the church stands on a property that is not fenced in .
history
At the beginning of the 18th century, the place was under the influence of those of Stutterheim . Adam Ernst von Stutterheim had the half-timbered church built in 1704. It was supplemented by a patronage box in 1707 . From 1802 to 1804, craftsmen extended the structure to the west. In the same year, craftsmen erected the free-standing west tower . In 1896 the western gable had to be renovated . In 1993 the parish restored the building.
Building description
The structure was essentially made of half-timbered structures on a base made of field stones . Remains of a stone wall can be seen in particular on the western wall of the nave. However, neither the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) nor the Dehio manual comment on whether the sacred building was possibly built on the foundation of a previous building made of field stones. It is also conceivable that it is a matter of repair work that was necessary when the ship was extended to the west. The polygonal choir has not moved in. At the end of the choir is a high, rectangular gate, above it a round arched window. Its shape is taken up on the remaining choir pages; there, however, increased in height.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the north side there is initially another arched window in the eastern area. This is followed by the patronage box to the west. It can be entered through a door from the east. On the north side are two rectangular windows; the west wall is windowless. To the west, the building is supplemented by another arched window. To the west below is a small, rectangular window, and above to the right a narrow one. On the south side of the nave there are three arched windows in the east. A small gate and another arched window adjoin them on the left. Here, too, a small, lowered window and a significantly smaller, high-rectangular window to the left of it make the conclusion. The west wall is closed. In the lower third, a masonry can be seen, which consists of unhewn and not layered field stones. The ship carries a simple gable roof , the eastward hipped is. The patronage box is optically integrated into the building structure by means of a towing roof .
At a certain distance from the building, the square west tower follows in the west . It is boarded up and can be entered from the south through a small gate. The extension is otherwise windowless. In the upper area of the bell floor, there are two small, high-rectangular sound arcades on each of the three visible sides . The tower has a diagonally positioned and hipped roof that ends with a tower ball , weather vane and cross.
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar dates from the beginning of the 18th century. Its original version was reconstructed by experts in 1993. It consists of a three-zone aedicula with a depiction of Jesus' Last Supper in the predella . Above it rise columns decorated with vine leaves, which are widened with side-mounted cheeks decorated with acanthus . The three-sided pulpit is decorated with twisted columns and can be entered through a pulpit door, which is decorated with a figurative representation of the crucifixion of Christ .
The church also features an oval portrait of Adam Ernst von Stutterheim from 1704, which is heavily painted over. The west gallery , which was built between 1802 and 1804, has also been heavily redesigned . The building has a beamed ceiling inside. The Fünte dates from the 19th century and was brought to Rietzneuendorf from a devastated church.
The baptismal angel is a specialty , it was created in the first quarter of the 18th century. The work is attributed to the workshop of the sculptor Tobias Mathias Beyermann . The Dehio manual justifies this, among other things, with stylistic peculiarities, including the "ribbon-like upper edge and the pointed feathers of the wings". It is conceivable that it is an early work by the sculptor. The 1.56 m tall figure was taken over in the 1990s. The Dehio manual criticizes the fact that this work was "improperly and very strikingly" and therefore makes it difficult to classify the work precisely. It lay in the church attic for many years and was hung northwest of the altar in the 1990s.
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
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Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 33.5 " N , 13 ° 39 ′ 44.2" E