Schlalach village church
The Protestant village church Schlalach is a late Gothic stone church in Schlalach , a district of the municipality Mühlenfließ in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the church circle center Mark Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
Landstrasse 581 leads from the north in a south-easterly direction towards the historic village green . It branches out as a middle street and encloses it in an elliptical shape. The church stands in the middle of this on a plot of land that is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and not layered field stones .
history
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The Hoher Fläming Nature Park Center indicates on an information board near the church that there was supposed to have been a previous building in 1215, which was built with the help of the Cistercians . The early days of building history have not yet been researched in more detail. The Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) only states in its monument database that it is a late Gothic building. Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr go further and assume that the nave could probably be dated to the second half of the 14th century or the first half of the 15th century due to the masonry design. The builders used material that probably came from a previous building. This probably resulted in two portals and three windows on the south side and probably one or two windows on the north side.
The church tower with a bell from 1482 was probably built around 1500 . It may come from a previous building. After the Reformation , the monstrance was sold and the tower received a spire with a roof turret from the proceeds .
In 1862 there was a major change in the building fabric. The windows were changed in a neo-Gothic style, and new entrances and sound arcades were built into the tower. In 1931 the altar was renovated. When a grenade was fired on during World War II in April 1945, the roof turret was damaged and then removed. In 1972 a storm damaged parts of the roof, which was repaired until 1974.
Building description
The building was essentially made of fieldstones that were rarely hewn and not layered. Lawn iron stones were also used as decorative elements ; Stability bring buttresses of brick . The choir is straight and has not moved in. There are two massive buttresses at each corner. On the east side there are three clogged windows, the two outer ones of which have been designed in the form of a pressed segment arch and provided with wide bezels . The middle window is blocked; Small-sized, unhewn stones were used in the gable . There is a small and tall rectangular window there.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan with a length of around 18.50 m and a width of 10.30 m. Mostly lawn iron stones were used at the corners. On the north wall are three large, ogival windows, the walls of which were framed with brick. On the south side there are five windows, of which the second window from the east was made a little shorter. Below is a high rectangular priest gate ; also above the community gate to the west.
The church tower is drawn in opposite the ship and is only 7.70 m wide and about 6.65 to 6.90 m long. Its corners were mostly made of brick. Access is via a gate from the west. Above is a small, ogival window slightly off-center to the east. From this, slightly above, off-center to the west, there are two small screens, above - as on the otherwise windowless north side - each a pointed arch- shaped sound arcade . On the west side there is a small ogival panel on the ground floor . On the west side of the bell floor there is also an ogival arcade of sound. The tower has a diagonal gable roof, in the gable of which a tower clock and smaller panels have been incorporated. There is a weather vane above the roof and a cross on the north side.
Furnishing
The carved altar was created in the third half of the 15th century and could be a former side altar from Lutherstadt Wittenberg . In the altar sheet it shows the Annunciation in the style of the Master of Flémalle . The twelve apostles are depicted in two rows in the wings . The outside shows the Adoration of the Magi , while flower paintings become visible when the winged altar is closed. Above are four putti with a cross, which were added in 1931. The altar is a donation of the von Oppen family, who held the church patronage in the 15th century . The execution is described in the Dehio manual as "high quality". A baroque pulpit stands on the north side of the long wall . The fifth dates from around 1300; therein a forged insert from more recent times.
The horseshoe gallery is dated 1695; their parapets are painted. In the west it was built on two floors. It says a Schuke - organ from 1926. Schuke used in his Opus 111 material from a previous instrument Gottfried Wilhelm Baer had built to 1850. The instrument has nine registers and a manual . Other church furnishings include a Gothic fifth made of sandstone with tracery panels from the end of the 15th century. In the north side of the east wall is a sacrament niche ; a picture of Martin Luther hangs on the south side . The inside of the building has a wooden barrel ceiling that was painted in 1715 with a cloudy sky with Christ's monogram and a halo and angels.
There are numerous epitaphs on the south wall of the ship, but their inscriptions are barely legible. One commemorates Blandina Maria Freytag, wife of the papermaker Gregor, who died in 1738. In a grave fenced in with a fence stands a cast-iron cross, which commemorates Pastor Reinhold Klee, who died in 1884. A bronze bell from 1482 hangs in the tower .
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
- Schlalach (Protestant village church) , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on May 24, 2020.
Individual evidence
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 ′ 41.5 ″ N , 12 ° 50 ′ 42.6 ″ E