Salzbrunn village church (Beelitz)
The Protestant village church in Salzbrunn is a hall church from 1784/1785 in the district of Salzbrunn in the town of Beelitz in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . The associated parish belongs to the Wittbrietzen parish in the parish of Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The sacred building was erected between 1784 and 1785. The builders were settlers from the Palatinate , who were brought to the region by Frederick the Great in 1748 and who received approval from the Prussian royal house to build a church. Pastoral care was taken over by Inspector Wenzelmann from Potsdam since 1752 . Due to a lack of financial means, only a prayer house was initially to be built, which led to resistance from the colonists. They agreed to contribute their own financial resources and other personal contributions. The start of construction was delayed again due to the Seven Years' War . After one year of construction, however, the building was on June 22, 1785 a ceremony dedicated to be. Wenzelmann was picked up for this - as on all other occasions - with a carriage from Potsdam. He received 12 bushels of grain a year for his services . However, the residents of Salzbrunn did not feel that they were being adequately looked after. They felt that the payment was too high and therefore stopped making payments for the time being. After a formal complaint on August 10, 1754, the situation escalated and the accrued debt of 24 bushels was settled. However, they informed the inspector that they would only deliver the grain to Beelitz and not to Potsdam.
In 1763 the preacher Beauvis from Lehnin took over the care of the community. He was also picked up by a cart and complained in April 1770 about an uncomfortable transport. Nevertheless, the tradition of the "driving service" was retained until after the end of the Second World War .
On the occasion of a church visit on October 8, 1876, the church administration found that the roof had to be repaired and the cornices and parapets on the church tower replaced. In the following years, the work was mainly carried out by the master carpenter Kaiser from Buchholz. Smaller repair work, such as on the cemetery fence, was done by the parish itself. In 1895 the plaster on the church tower was renewed; repaired the roof a year later. Two thirds of the costs were paid by the state and one third by the municipality. In 1897 the structure received leaded glass windows , which Karl Busch from Berlin-Charlottenburg manufactured and installed for 491.25 marks . On April 13, 1908, a 1000 Mark expensive Grüneberg organ was put into operation. In the same year craftsmen repaired the church stalls, which were then decorated with floral elements by the Berlin painter Albert Lensch . In addition, the building was given a new floor made of hexagonal bricks .
On June 14, 1911, lightning struck the church and destroyed Lensch's work. They could not be restored until June 1914. In 1930 the plaster was renewed and painted. During the Second World War , the parish had to hand over a bell as part of a metal donation by the German people ; it was only replaced and consecrated in 1956 . In 1958 the interior got a new painting. In the same year the community erected a memorial stone for those who fell in the world wars in the south-western area of the cemetery. Further repair work in the following years was mainly financed by donations, including from former residents who had moved to West Berlin during the time of the division of Germany . In 2003 a comprehensive renovation took place for around 100,000 euros. A year later, the interior of the building was renovated for a further 40,000 euros.
architecture
The comparatively small church is provided with a plaster that was painted with light yellow paint. There are four high, arched windows on the south side of the nave and five on the north side. Access is via a central arched portal on the south side with a wooden door painted green. Above it is indicated with the number 1785 - in gold letters on a black background - the year of the consecration of the church . In the east wall of the nave there is a niche that takes up the shape of the window. A profiled cornice separates it from the east gable, in which a rectangular window can be seen. On the west wall of the nave, two mighty buttresses support the comparatively massive, adjoining church tower . It has an arched sound arcade on each side , to which an axially symmetrically arranged and plastered circle adjoins. The building is covered with a simple gable roof consisting of reddish beaver tail . These bricks were also used on the hipped roof of the church tower, which ends with a button, a weather vane and a cross.
Furnishing
The interior is provided with a flat plaster ceiling. The massive substructure for the west tower is also striking here. Experts describe the equipment from the construction period as simple. The pulpit is said to have been made in the late 18th century and originally came from the Lehnin monastery . This would suggest that the parish was cared for by Lehnin until 1831 and later by Treuenbrietzen . A wooden plaque by the Berlin artist Goksch commemorates the fallen from the First World War. It is complemented by a memorial for those who died in the wars, which is located in the cemetery.
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 .
- Salzbrunn municipality (ed.): Marianne Kaiser: 250 years of Salzbrunn-Birkhorst. Contributions to history , Elbe-Druckerei Wittenberg, 1st edition, 1998
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Thomas Lähns: The coronation of Salzbrunn . In: Potsdam Latest News , November 17, 2003, accessed May 8, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 11 ′ 5.3 " N , 12 ° 55 ′ 33.7" E