Schmetzdorf village church

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Schmetzdorf village church from the northeast

The evangelical village church Schmetzdorf is a listed church building in Schmetzdorf , a district of the municipality Milower Land in the Havelland district in the west of Brandenburg .

Architecture and building history

The Schmetzdorf church was built in the 13th century as a late Romanesque brick building with a retracted west tower, nave , a semicircular and barely retracted apse and a rectangular choir. The year of construction is estimated at around 1223. The exterior of the church is structured by corner pilasters. On the tower, nave and choir there are console friezes with a tooth cut , on the apse there is angled frieze and on the consoles there is a tooth cut.

The church has tall, narrow windows on the nave. At the apse there are two pillars that were added later. On the west tower there is a stepped round arch portal and ogival sound openings. The tail cap with lantern dates from the Baroque period .

On the western front there is a walled-up double window with a round overhanging arch . The tower hall and nave have a flat wooden beam ceiling and the choir has a groin vault . On the inside wall of the choir there is a sacrament niche with a notched, Gothic door. Between 1962 and 1964 the village church was extensively renovated, with the windows being restored to their Romanesque shape.

The Schmetzdorf parish is part of the Milow parish , which also includes the Bützer, Böhne, Vieritz and Zollchow parishes. She belongs to the parish of Nauen-Rathenow in the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

  • West entrance portal

  • Tower dome

  • Bricked up southern entrance portal

  • Church building from the south

Furnishing

The church has a late Gothic altar from 1520. The crucifixion group (Mary, Johannes, Magdalena, the centurion and three wailing women) is carved on the altar block . The crucifix is younger than the altar. The pulpit is from around 1600 and is on a modern stone plinth. Between the corner pillars there are arched fields with paintings of Christ and the Evangelists .

The sandstone baptism has an octagonal chalice shape and dates from the late Gothic period. On the west gallery there are nine parapet paintings with Christ, the apostles and the saints. On the eastern wall of the nave, the church has two Gothic altar wings with remains of paint from around 1500. The ten apostles and male and female saints are depicted on them in two rows. On the outside there are tempera paintings of the Annunciation , St. Gregory's Mass and the Torture of Erasmus.

There are six individual figures on the southern wall of the choir, these apparently also come from the altar wing. A wooden figure of God the Father from a coronation of Mary comes from around the same time . In the church there are also the grave slabs for pastor Teodoricus de Sobsdorf from 1299 with uncial script .

The organ of the village church Schmetzdorf was built in 1848 by August Ferdinand Wäldner . The instrument with a classical prospect has ten stops on a manual and pedal. The church bell dates from 1564 and was made by A. Moldenhauer from Brandenburg an der Havel .

Commemoration

Schmetzdorf Monument to the Fallen

On the square in front of the church there is a memorial in honor of the Schmetzdorf residents who died in the First World War . This is provided with a plate with engraved names. Until a few years ago, the memorial had a bronze eagle as an attachment, but it was stolen. The monument itself is made of sandstone, the inscriptions on the sandstone plinth are in need of renovation and are hardly legible. The inscription on the front reads:


Heroes who fell for the fatherland in the World War 1914-18 The grateful community of
Schmetzdorf

There is also an inscription on the back of the base:

Wherever you slumber according to God's advice,
future harvest of bloody seeds. Never forgotten in
Germany. Rest in peace in God's hands.
There at home with Jesus.

The names of the fallen, the rank , the date of death and the respective unit are listed on the plate .

literature

  • Georg Dehio: Handbook of the German art monuments - Brandenburg . 2nd Edition. 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , pp. 1020 .

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Schmetzdorf  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Database of the Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and the State Archaeological Museum , accessed on November 9, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b c Georg Dehio : Handbook of German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, reviewed by Barbara Rimpel. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 , p. 1020.
  3. ↑ Michael Wünsche: The Hallesche organ builder family Wäldner. Life and work. Vol. 1: Text part . Master's thesis, Halle 2006, p. 86, accessed on February 5, 2019 (PDF).
  4. ↑ Impressions from Schmetzdorf , accessed on November 9, 2017
  5. ↑ Schmetzdorf war memorials in the online project Gefallendenkmäler , accessed on November 9, 2017

Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 48.2 "  N , 12 ° 10 ′ 25.2"  E