Schwanebeck village church (Panketal)
| Schwanebeck village church | |
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 View from the south |
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| Construction year: | in the 13th century |
| Client: | Schwanebeck parish |
| Floor space: | 25 × 11 m |
| Location: | 52 ° 37 '30 " N , 13 ° 32' 36.51" O |
| Address: | Dorfstrasse 8 Schwanebeck (Panketal) Brandenburg , Germany |
| Purpose: | Protestant church service |
| Local community: | Evangelical parish Lindenberg-Schwanebeck |
| Website: | www.dorfkirche-schwanebeck.de/index.htm |
The Schwanebeck village church is a late Romanesque field stone building from the 13th century in the Schwanebeck district of the Panketal community near Berlin . It is a listed building . The parish belongs to the church district of Berlin North-East of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The original hall church made of hewn field stones with a straight beamed ceiling and flat roof was built in the 13th century as the center of the village on the Anger . Around 1350 the church building received a first half-timbered church tower on the western gable side on a field stone base . The next extensions in the 15th century included the installation of vaults in the church, which raised the roof with a pointed gable . On the east side, the parish added a retracted square choir room . In 1480 the village church received a carved winged altar .
In the beginning of the 17th century, the church registers indicate the installation of side galleries . In the 19th century, when the population in Schwanebeck soared, a double gallery was built on the east side , which for the first time also housed an organ . During this work, the church building also received larger windows. It was not until 1889 that the earlier wooden church tower was replaced by a massive stone structure.
At the end of the Second World War , two of the three bronze bells had to be delivered as a metal donation from the German people for war purposes. During the fighting in 1944/1945, the Wehrmacht destroyed the spire and the organ was also destroyed.
After the war, in the late 1940s, the spire was repaired and the church roof was re-covered with slate . The organ of the Jehmlich brothers from Dresden was installed on the ground floor in the nave after repairs.
As in many Protestant churches, the interior of the church was simplified in the 1960s, in particular the interior walls were painted over with white paint.
A building report commissioned shortly after the fall of the Wall emphasized the urgent need for action to drain the masonry.
In 2001, a church support association was founded , which successfully endeavored to maintain or renovate and restore the church. It was also urgent to renovate the outer masonry of the church tower , which was achieved by 2007. The required sum of almost 58,000 euros came from unspecified funding from the state of Brandenburg, and the Förderverein contributed 10,000 euros from donations raised. The interior of the church was reconstructed at the same time. In addition , the following measures could be implemented in small annual steps with the parish's own funds, with the help of the responsible municipality of Panketal , the state of Brandenburg and with personal activities: Installation of ventilated windows to reduce humidity, replacement of window sills and window glass, greening of the outside area , Repairs to the tower clock , the sound hatches, the stairs and the renewal of the white interior paint.
Building description, equipment and more
The west tower consists of exposed bricks on a field stone base. It is closed with a gable roof arranged transversely to the building axis , on which a large tower cross rises. Bells and a functioning electrically driven church tower clock are also available.
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The two naves have had a Gothic vault since the extensions were built . Four square ribbed vaults rest on angular, slightly rounded, unadorned columns . The church interior receives daylight through three windows on each side. The retracted square choir contains the altar area, which is illuminated through two pointed arched windows. Next to the chancel there is a late Gothic sacrament niche. On the north side of the choir there is a priest gate that dates from the first construction period. After renovations, the south portal in the nave and the originally larger windows can still be seen in the masonry.
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The winged altar was probably put together from two other altars. His essay consists of a central part with the representation of Mary with the baby Jesus , flanked by the saints Katharina and Margarete . The wings represent four saints. In addition to the central plaster relief with the crucifixion scene, which was added around 1550, the predella contains two female busts. On the back of the altar are the sculpted evangelists Mark with a lion and Luke with a bull.
After an appraisal by the Brandenburg Monument Office, the altar was partially professionally refurbished on site by a specialist wood workshop in 2011/2012. The colors have been renewed according to the historical condition. The restorers discovered three sayings in Hebrew on its back. It is therefore believed that the church was also used by Jews in earlier centuries . The cost of the altar renovation was around 35,000 euros, which came from various sources. On September 9, 2012 the new old altar was consecrated again.
Also worth mentioning is an epitaph that is difficult to decipher. In any case, the names "Johannes Henrici ... 50 years" and "Anna Helb ..." can be found on it.
The repaired Jehmlich organ could only barely be kept ready to play. Therefore, the parish council has bought a used organ from a church in Berlin-Weißensee that had to be abandoned. The instrument was placed on the east side of the church, and the organ was consecrated in 2014. The previous organ from Schwanebeck, on the other hand, was sold to Wegendorf and was re-inaugurated there on July 10, 2016 after repairs under the expert guidance of an organ builder .
A total of eight church windows were renovated in 2004/2005 to make them suitable for historical monuments.
For several years, the Friends' Association has been organizing concerts in the church, which are also increasingly attended by non-Schwanebeckers. The parish also has a trumpet choir .
In addition, the association made a model of the church on a scale of 1: 100, which was exhibited for the first time on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the town.
On the south side next to the cemetery there is a war memorial and on the north side there is the tomb of one of the first local chronicles , the cantor and village school teacher Gottlieb Tuchnitz and his wife.
partnership
The Schwanebeck parish had first contacts with the Evangelical Lutheran parish of the Marienkirche in Wallenbrück in Westphalia in the 1950s , because the western churches had been invited to such meetings. However, that did not last. In the 1980s, a new partnership emerged from this early contact, initially through the trombone choirs in both parishes. Little by little, further administrative contacts and even personal relationships developed. Both church councils sealed the partnership in the 1990s with an 'ordinary' contract.
literature
- Dirk Jacob, Peter Knüverer: Make one out of two - the Schwanebeck Altarpiece . In: In dialogue with robber knights and beautiful Madonnas. The Mark Brandenburg in the late Middle Ages. Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2011, pp. 206-213.
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Homepage of the Friends of the Village Church Schwanebeck
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - District Barnim . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09175391, December 31, 2018, p. 39 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 263 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
- ↑ Press review: Bucher Bote , September 2007 access.
- ^ Press review: Märkischer Sonntag , April 20, 2008 , renovation .
- ^ Press review: Ministerial visit to Märkische Oderzeitung , October 12, 2006.
- ^ A b Olav Schröder: Village church with riddles. In: Märkische Oderzeitung. June 29, 2014, accessed July 15, 2019 .
- ↑ Panketal OT Schwanebeck - The Evangelical Church Community Schwanebeck and the Förderverein Dorfkirche Schwanebeck eV invite you: Make one out of two - the Schwanebeck Altar. on info-barnim.de ( memento of November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on November 4, 2012.
- ↑ Annual report 2012 .
- ↑ Irina Voigt: Festive organ consecration. In: Märkische Oderzeitung . July 11, 2016, accessed July 15, 2019 . .
- ↑ Church partnership Wallenbrueck and Schwanebeck ( Memento from April 1, 2013 in the Internet Archive )