Schlenzer village church
The Protestant village church Schlenzer is a stone church from the second half of the 13th century in Schlenzer , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg .
history
The builders first built the nave with a recessed, rectangular choir from field stones . In the 15th century the sacred building was expanded to include the west tower , which in turn was supplemented by an attachment in 1753. In the second half of the 19th century was parish of the choir of the southern wall brick attach a porch. In the 1950s, there was some considerable damage to the structure. The church was exposed and the floor was lowered in order to better drain off water. At the beginning of the 21st century, craftsmen renovated, among other things, the saddle roof of the nave and the tower. Prior to the work, a restorer uncovered medieval paintings and a baroque ceiling frieze .
architecture
The walls of the early Gothic choir were built from hewn and comparatively carefully layered field stones. The nave, on the other hand, rests on a base made of uncut field stones, which are adjoined by a few layers of layered and hewn stones up to the height of the windows. The lines run above it; some of the stones were no longer processed. On the south wall of the church there are two baroque, enlarged, segment-arch- shaped windows, the reveal of which is framed with red brick. To the east there is a higher, much smaller and pointed arch-shaped window. The vestibule at the choir was built from reddish bricks, to which a window is attached. The eastern choir wall is dominated by a lanceolate group of three windows, which is likely to date from the time the church was built. On the north wall of the choir there are two pointed arched windows, which are followed by three segmental arched windows on the nave. The western one is set significantly larger and deeper. In between, the remains of a pointed arch-shaped priest gate can be seen, which is covered with field stones. It probably served as access to the structure until the tower was built.
The retracted and rectangular west tower was also built from field stones on a base. The stones are only slightly carved and partially plastered . Remedial work can be seen here and there that were made with reddish bricks. There is a small circular window on the south wall on the ground floor . As with comparable structures, access is not via the west side, but is located on the north side of the structure. There is a double-winged wooden door with an attached pointed arch, which is framed in reddish brick. In the pointed arch is a verse from the Gospel of John : “I am the door; if anyone enters through me, he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture ”(10.9 EU ). On the upper floor of the tower there are two coupled , late Gothic, pointed arch- shaped sound arcades on all four of the second floors , the reveals of which are framed in reddish brick. Behind it hang two bells from the 15th century, one of which is dated to 1483. A pyramid roof covered with beaver tail is attached to the upper floor of the tower , on which a slate- clad top with a tower clock, tower ball and weather vane was placed. In the tower ball there are reports from the years 1929, 1954, 1978 and 2011.
Furnishing
The altarpiece is from the beginning of the 18th century and shows the Lord's Supper in its main picture, decorated with columns and acanthus . It stands on an altar block, about two-thirds of which is covered with medieval plaster with colored incisions. J. Angermann created the pulpit altar from wood in 1726. It consists of a polygonal basket decorated with images of Jesus Christ and the Evangelists . The basket is based on an acanthus tree that stands on three lion paws. A crown-shaped sound cover is mounted above the basket . The fifth dates from the 19th century. The building has a pointed triumphal arch , an organ by Friedrich August Moschütz from 1866 (should be renovated by 2021), two galleries and is flat-roofed inside. There is a baroque ornament ceiling below the wooden ceiling. It should be exposed in the course of further restoration work on the area above the altar.
See also
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 .
- Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019
Web links
Individual proof
- ↑ Uwe Klemens: The Moschütz organ should be playable again . Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung, May 23, 2020, accessed on May 26, 2020.
Coordinates: 51 ° 57 ′ 43.2 " N , 13 ° 14 ′ 54.6" E