Schwanebeck village church (Bad Belzig)

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Schwanebeck village church (Bad Belzig)
Roof tower
View from the north

The Protestant village church Schwanebeck is a medieval stone church in the Schwanebeck district of Bad Belzig in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the parish Lütte-Ragösen in the parish of Mittelmark-Brandenburg of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .

History and architecture

The rectangular Feldsteinkirche is surrounded by the spacious village cemetery on the former Anger . According to the experts for medieval churches in the Mark Brandenburg, Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, the original building dates back to the 14th century. Exact regulations about the year of construction and the building history are not yet available, however, and it also remains unclear how much of the building structure of the basic church has been preserved. Original windows that would facilitate accurate dating have not been preserved. The medieval building has only one entrance with the west portal and instead of a tower was given a roof turret made of half-timbered and bricks. Renovations took place in 1727/1731 and 1871. The apse , which was added in 1871, is made of bricks.

According to Engeser / Stehr, the church was probably destroyed by acts of war before 1530, as church visitors in 1530 did not record an (intact) church. The restored building probably did n't get away with it in the Thirty Years' War either - the church in neighboring Baitz was completely destroyed by Swedish troops in 1636. The entire region was hard hit by the atrocities of war. In 1640, eight years before the end of the war, only one Kossät lived in Schwanebeck . In 1661 there were again 6 Hüfner and 5 Kossäts.

Furnishing

The main piece of equipment is a wooden altarpiece from around 1700. It shows the Lord's Supper in the central panel, flanked by twisted columns; the same workshop was also active in Alt Bork , Jeserig (Gem. Niederwerbig), Niederwerbig and Preussnitz . Presumably at the same time, the wooden pulpit with corner pillars on the polygonal basket, which shows the images of Christ and the evangelists in the panels (one of which is covered). The ornament of the polygonal sound cover is related to the crowning of the altar. A wooden crucifix dates from the 15th century, the cross has been renewed. The interior of the church contains other treasures, such as "carved figures of female saints, some with billowing folds of the soft style around 1430, some with wrinkled ones from the last phase of the Gothic" a hundred years later. A medieval bell is also preserved. On the outside wall of the church there is a baroque sandstone grave for the pastor Christian Thronicke (* 1671, † 1722) with an inscription on the life of "weyland deserving and well-deserved Mr. M. Christian Thronicke, loyal pastor and pastor here in Schwanebeck and Baitz".

literature

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Schwanebeck  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Theo Engeser, Konstanze Stehr: Schwanebeck village church on the website of the Free University of Berlin
  2. ^ Jan Feustel , Between Watermills and Swamp Forests , A travel and adventure guide to the Baruther Urstromtal , Hendrik Bäßler Verlag, Berlin 1999 ISBN 3-930388-11-1 , page 161f.

Coordinates: 52 ° 10 ′ 33.1 ″  N , 12 ° 37 ′ 37.6 ″  E