Selchow village church
The evangelical village church Selchow is a stone church from the first half of the 13th century in Selchow , a district of the community Schönefeld in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . It is looked after by the Evangelical Church Community of Selchow, Rotberg, Waßmannsdorf and Kiekebusch, which is part of the Evangelical Church District of Neukölln .
location
The sacred building stands on the historic village green in the center of the village on a small hill. To the west, Alte Selchower Straße leads past the building in a north-south direction. The area is fenced in with a wall made of uncut and not layered field stones .
history
The building was built in the first half of the 13th century in the late Romanesque style . Engeser and Stehr suspect that the nave was built first - possibly as an extension to a wooden choir . They justify this on the one hand with a different construction of the window openings on the choir and nave, but also with a construction seam between the two components on the south side of the building. It would also fit that the tower was built at a later date. The choir could therefore only have been built in the second half of the 13th century - as was the church tower: it probably only reached the height of the eaves of the ship at first. It is conceivable that craftsmen did not add to it until the 15th century. By 1700, that made church windows bigger part and a Patronatsloge a tomb grow on the south side of the choir. She also acquired an altar and a fifth from a sculptor from Potsdam . In the years 1880 and 1972 to 1973 renovation work was carried out, which was provisionally concluded with a new church consecration on September 3, 1973. During the repair work on the floor, workers found two vaults in a crypt in front of the altar, but these were covered again without further investigation. After the fall of the Wall, the parish renovated the building in the years 1999 to 2000 for around 351,000 DM. The original double grout was replaced, which since this measure is only visible on the south side of the patronage box under a white layer of paint.
Building description
The choir has moved in and has a rectangular floor plan with a length of about 9.60 meters and a width of about 8.22 meters. It was built from layered and hewn field stones. The remains of a segmental arched group of three windows can be seen on the east wall . Of the original three openings, only a pressed, segment-arched window has survived, the reveal of which was framed with reddish brick. The same applies to the two raised windows on the north side. They too were probably enlarged in the baroque style around 1700 . In between the rest of a clogged, further segment-arch-shaped window can be seen. On the south side of the choir is a patronage box with two windows and - to the west - a small gate that allowed access. The wall was also built from field stones, but they were not hewn and layered. The gaps are partially filled with granite splinters or bricks and bricked irregularly. The traces of the extension of the patronage box continue in the gable . There is a small, rectangular window in the middle and a cross made of bricks.
The nave was also built from reading stones, which were carefully carved and layered in the lower area. It is around 9.1 meters long and around 11.05 meters wide and thus - unusually in its design - wider than it is long. The lines run a little in the upper third, which is probably due to the baroque enlargement of the windows. Of these, there are two raised, large and pressed segment arch-shaped openings on the north side, to which two smaller ones are grouped, which are arranged in the western area. The south side is constructed identically. The reveal of the windows was also made here with reddish brick. Another, clogged and arched window can be seen to the west. The nave is covered with a plain gable roof made of beaver tail , stepped towards the east , which is supplemented by a towing roof of the patronage box.
The transverse rectangular west tower takes up the width of the nave and thus appears comparatively powerful. It is approximately 6.3 meters wide. The lower area up to the height of the eaves of the nave was built from carefully hewn and evenly layered field stones. A small, pointed arch-shaped and double stepped gate on the west side serves as access and is likely to date from the construction period. The storey above is - with the exception of a few corner stones - built from uncut and non-layered field stones, between which stone fragments and, occasionally, wall stones were incorporated. They stand out especially at the corners of the building and thereby emphasize its shape. In the bell storey there are two coupled arched sound arcades on the north and south sides and two paired, also coupled and pointed arched arcades on the west and east side . Like the windows, they were built with reddish brick. The north-eastern one is blocked with brick. Above it rises a transverse gable roof, which rests on a brick gable .
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar is two-story and was built by the sculptor Detlev Maschmann from Potsdam in 1710. According to an invoice from the time, the parish paid 100 thalers for the work. It consists of twisted double columns that frame the polygonal pulpit . It is decorated with a picture of Ecce homo and the evangelists . A crown-shaped sound cover is above a blown gable . Maschmann essentially chose white as well as yellow and gold tones as colors. The altar extract shows the resurrection of Jesus , with angels and soldiers in the foreground. At the same time, Maschmann also created a polygonal fifth , which was placed to the left of the altar. Both were professionally restored in 1987 and 1988. To the right of the altar is an angel figure, which the Halle ceramist Gertraud Möhwald created in 1974. The crucifix on the south wall below the patron's box is much older and could be dated to the end of the 15th century. The cross is decorated with crabs, the ends with relief discs showing the evangelist symbols. The west gallery dates from the 17th century. There is a Schuke - organ from 1951, which acquired the parish 1985th There is a connection to the glass patronage box on the upper floor of the choir. It can be entered through a door on the south side and is decorated with pilasters , cornices and coats of arms of those of Bardeleben and those of Thümen . The inside of the building is provided with a flat beamed ceiling.
At the south-western entrance there is a memorial for those who fell in the world wars.
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Dorfkirche Selchow , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on May 21, 2017.
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Selchow village church
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 30 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 21 ″ E