Schenkenhorst village church (Stahnsdorf)
The Protestant village church Schenkenhorst is a stone church from the end of the 13th century in Schenkenhorst , a district of the Stahnsdorf community in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Teltow-Zehlendorf the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Coming from the southwest, Nudower Dorfstrasse leads into the village. There it runs as a village street and finally leaves the district as Sputendorfer Landstraße in an easterly direction . The building stands north of Dorfstrasse on a slightly elevated plot of land that is fenced in with unevenly layered and uncut field stones .
history
The sacred building was built as a rectangular church at the end of the 13th century. Engeser and Stehr suspect that the building originally had three windows on the south side, plus a pointed west portal and a priest gate . Presumably in the 16th century, craftsmen extended the structure by around four meters to the east. The eastern wall received two windows. At a previously unknown point in time, the windows were enlarged in Baroque style . In 1793, the added church building to the west tower . Its half-timbering was renewed in 1911 and 1912. At the same time, the church was given a new interior , which included a painting by the Berlin church painter Erich Kistenmacher . During the First World War , the parish had to hand over the bells cast in 1825 and 1856 as part of a metal donation by the German people . After 1941 the parish had an extension on the northern side demolished in order to rebuild it on a larger scale. In 1960 the church tower received two new bells; In 1981 it was renovated.
Building description
The church was essentially built from field stones that were hewn and largely layered. The choir is straight and has not moved in. There are two beehive-shaped windows on the east wall. In the gable above is a small, rectangular window.
On the south side of the nave there are a total of five beehive-shaped windows, the fins of which are emphasized by plaster . Between the first and second windows from the west, the remains of a clogged, ogival window can be seen. It was clogged with poorly hewn fieldstones that were not layered. The remains of another window can be seen between the third and fourth window. Below to the left are the arch stones of a south portal that has also been added, which lead into the third window. On the north side in the western area there are two large windows and the rectangular extension to the choir. There is a large garage door in the west wall of the annex, and two rectangular windows on the north side. The nave is provided with a gable roof that merges into a towing roof at the extension .
The west tower takes up the full width of the nave in the lower area. It can be entered from the west via an ogival arched portal made of carefully hewn curb stones. In the western gable, which was also made of field stones, the lines run first, only to find a transition to the tower top with layered, albeit smaller stones. This was built from half-timbering with a compartment made of black wood; the spaces in between are brightly plastered. In the two-storey tower there is a rectangular opening or sound arcade on each side and on each floor . Above it is a pyramid roof that ends with a cross. Engeser and Stehr state the total length of the structure as 21.40 meters with a width of 7.55 meters.
Furnishing
The altar , the pulpit and the prospectus of the organ came in 1913 in the church. The painting also dates from this time. In the building there is an epitaph in relief , which reminds of the knight Jakob Grote who died in 1567 . The building has a barrel vault with beams.
In front of the south wall of the nave is an urn grave memorial that commemorates the members of the Treplin family who died in 1800, 1808 and 1820 .
To the north of the property is a memorial to those who died in World War II; south in front of the site is a memorial grouped out of boulders for the fallen from the First and Second World Wars.
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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Schenkenhorst village church , website by Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on September 17, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 20 ′ 26.5 " N , 13 ° 11 ′ 47.6" E