Schenkenberg village church
The Protestant village church Schenkenberg is a neo-baroque hall church in Schenkenberg , a municipality in the Uckermark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish district Uckermark the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Schenkenberger Straße , coming from the northeast, leads to the historic village center. There it branches off to the southeast. The church stands north of this street on an area that rises to the north with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall of reddish bricks . It stands in an axis to the former manor house, which was located west of the church.
history
The original building was built in 1685 and was a branch church of Baumgarten . On September 11, 1898, a fire broke out on the neighboring estate for reasons that have not yet been clarified. Due to the strong wind, the fire spread to the adjacent farm buildings and finally to the church. In April 1900, work began on the reconstruction in the neo-baroque style. They were carried out quickly so that the topping-out ceremony took place at Pentecost on June 6, 1900 . The new church consecration could be celebrated on November 7, 1900. Originally the Empress Auguste Viktoria was supposed to take part, but she was prevented from attending. She gave the Church a Bible with a psalm dedicated to "Those who called to the Lord in their need, and he helped them out of their fears" ( Ex 107.13 EU ). During the First World War the parish had to give one of the two bells as a metal donation from the German people ; she got lost. In 1937, the church patron and landowner Nordahl gave the parish three lead glass windows that were used in the choir . They show scenes from the Bible. The structure, including the organ , was damaged in World War II . In the 1960s, craftsmen established an electrical connection. After a successful repair, the organ sounded for the first time on June 7, 1953. In 1983 the Baumgarten parish dissolved and Schenkenberg came to Carmzow . After a reorganization, the parish belongs to the parish of Schönfeld. In 1999 the parish had a room separated below the tower, which from then on is used by the parish for child and senior work. From 2000 to April 8, 2001, the church tower was renovated.
Building description
The choir is three-sided and not drafted. The walls are provided with a bright and smooth plaster , while the corners protrude through a square plaster . In each of the three fields there is a narrow, segment-arched window with a wedge stone . The shape of the window is color-matched to the square plaster window surrounds emphasized again. At the transition to the slate- covered roof is a circumferential cove .
The nave has a rectangular floor plan and is comparatively simple. On the north and south walls there are three tall rectangular windows that take up the shape of the choir windows. Under the middle window is a suggested or former gate, also with accentuated Faschen and Keilstein. Without more detailed investigations, no statement can be made about the function of the diaphragms . However, it is possible and conceivable that the original additions to the building from the 17th century could have been involved. The western corners of the building are also provided with ashlar plaster. There is also a surrounding haunch at the transition to the eaves . The ship has a hipped mansard roof that is covered with slate.
On the west wall of the building is a segment arched gate. Above that is a cornice that optically continues the circumferential cove of the long sides of the ship. The tower tower rises above . On its western side there are two small arched windows arranged in pairs. Above is the boarded-up tower with a sound arcade on each side, and above each a tower clock. The structure ends above a pointed pyramid roof with a tower ball , weather vane and star.
Furnishing
The original church furnishings were lost in the fire in 1898 and come from the period after 1900, including a west gallery . On it stands an organ that Barnim Grüneberg created in 1900. The building has a flat roof inside; at the transition to the ceiling is another haunch.
To the south of the nave, a boulder with an inscription reminds of the Nordahl family. To the south of the fence on the village green, a stele commemorates those who died in the First World War.
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Schenkenberg Church , website of the Brüssow Office, accessed on September 2, 2018.
Coordinates: 53 ° 21 ′ 50.8 ″ N , 13 ° 56 ′ 51 ″ E