Siethen village church
The Protestant village church Siethen is a field stone church from the late 13th century in Siethen , a district of Ludwigsfelde in the Teltow-Fläming district in Brandenburg . The parish belongs to the parish of Ahrensdorf in the parish of Zossen-Fläming of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia .
history
The exact construction date of the church is not known. The Dehio-Handbuch indicates the late 13th century, while Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr consider the beginning of the 14th century to be likely. The parish refers in a notice at the church to a first documentary mention in the year 1375. During this time the rectangular sacred building with a length of 18.31 meters × 9.40 meters was probably built . Experts believe that there were originally three windows on the south side of the nave . The number of windows on the north side could not be determined exactly. However, there was probably a priest's gate there. The east side was provided with a group of three windows that was classic for the time as a symbol of the Trinity . Hewn and comparatively carefully layered field stones were used as building material . The retracted west tower with a square floor plan was built promptly in a second construction phase .
In the 15th or 16th century, the parish had the tower raised by around one meter above the eaves of the nave. The stones used are significantly less trimmed and more unevenly layered. The gables of the nave were then made from this material . A little later, builders replaced a wooden tower spire with a top made of brick and had bells hung there in 1553. Since then, the parish has been administered with the community of Gröben through a common church patronage . The construction of a crypt in 1666 is also known. In 1724 the church tower received its clock.
In 1851 the interior of the church was completed, in which mainly the Gothic windows were changed. At the beginning of the 19th century, bricklayers plastered the upper part of the tower, while carpenters erected a pointed helmet on it. In 1882 Carl Eduard Gesell built an organ into the church. The apse and the sacristy on the north side of the building were built in 1914/1915. At the same time, experts restored the altar and redesigned the interior of the church by replacing the pulpit , a fifth and the pews. Likewise, a found painting of the walls instead. During a restoration between 1990 and 1993, experts uncovered two tombs. In the years 2009/2010 there was the (provisional) last renovation of the church, for which donations were also available. In 2011 the church tower clock was replaced, which has been powered electrically since then.
architecture
The building has undergone several modifications in its more than seven hundred year history, but its basic substance is Romanesque . After the last major renovation in 1851, the building presents on its southern church wall with three round arched windows, the shape with a slightly beveled, bright plastered jambs is emphasized. In a smaller version, this design is also included in the two windows in the apse. On the northern wall of the church there is another window in the western area, arranged axially symmetrically to the south wall. This is followed by a gate with a round window above it. The sacristy has two small, rectangular windows. The corners of the tower, as well as the corners of the western nave, were built from large-format, painted bricks. With their light paintwork, they emphasize the corners of the building. A small, also arched window was let into the southern wall of the tower. A corresponding counterpart is missing on the north wall. The brick portal on the west side of the tower is decorated with a gable and a wheeled window above it . Experts believe that only this portal has been preserved in its original form. In the slightly recessed upper part of the tower there are several smaller, rectangular openings and a tower clock on three sides. This is followed by two arched sound arcades on each side of the tower. The eight-fold kinked spire is covered with black slate, it ends with a tower ball and a cross. The nave, the sacristy and the apse are covered with a red beaver tail .
Furnishing
The elaborately altarpiece in Renaissance style could be dated by experts in the year 1616th It is a foundation of the families von Stüsseln and von der Gröben . It was initially removed in 1851 on the instructions of Johanna von Scharnhorst . She was of the opinion that in its massive form it did not fit into a Protestant church. However, Gottfried von Badewitz made sure that the altarpiece was restored in 1914/1915 and placed again in the newly created apse and thus moved a little deeper into the church. In its Reformation arrangement, it consists of a two-storey aedicula , which shows the Lord's Supper in the predella and the crucifixion of Jesus in the main field . The portraits of the four evangelists are placed between two pillars . The essay shows the resurrection and the final gable shows the ascension .
The pulpit , probably from 1914, takes on the Renaissance style of the altarpiece. You can see a figure of Christ with the inscription Lord, where should we go? You have words of eternal life from the Gospel according to John 6,68 EU . To the left of it is Paul of Tarsus with a sword and a quote from the letter of Paul to the Ephesians 6,17 EU and take the sword of the spirit, which is the word of God depicted. On the opposite side, Moses is shown. The two horns symbolize wisdom in the iconography . Below is the saying from the Book of Moses 4:12: So go now, I want to be with your mouth and teach you what to say .
A wooden, almost life-size baptismal angel was created in the first half of the 18th century. He was at the baptism originally provided with a silver baptismal bowl and lowered on a rope. During the renovation work in 1914/1915, it was installed above the pulpit and restored in 1992. The heraldic shields also go back to Johanna von Scharnhorst and her sister-in-law Agnes von Schlabrendorff . It is said to be a sample of the nobility that Wichmann Heinrich von Schlabrendorff commissioned. The grave of the former owner of the village who died in 1663 is in the church. In the tower hall there are still two plaster reliefs, which were rediscovered in 1999 during clean-up work. These are casts of a baptismal font by the Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen , which depict Jesus and Caritas. The apse is painted with ornaments from the period of construction. The interior of the nave has a flat roof.
The organ comes from the Potsdam organ builder Carl Eduard Gesell , who installed the instrument in the church in 1882. It was a donation from Hedwig Badewitz , the wife of the church patron Hermann Badenitz, and cost 1,500 Reichsmarks at the time of installation . It has six registers , a pedal and three couplings and is described by the parish in 2013 as in need of major renovation.
The parish had to hand over the bells from the 16th century as a metal donation from the German people during the First World War ; they were melted down. In 1920, Gottfried von Badewitz therefore had new bells cast that bear his name. The largest bell, Hermann , weighs 721 kg and bears the inscription Death is swallowed up in victory . There is also a bell in the sister church in Gröben, which is named after his wife Hedwig. The medium-sized bell, Gottfried , bears the inscription I know who I believe in and weighs 418 kg. The counterpart is the Johanna bell , also named after his wife. The smallest bell weighs 335 kg and bears the inscription Blessed are those who do not see and yet believe . Her name is Werner , the counterpart bears the name of his sister Irmgard.
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 .
- Information leaflet Dorfkirche Siethen, as of August 2013 and
notice on the west portal of the church in April 2016. - 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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Parish parish website
- Siethen village church , website Medieval village churches in Teltow (south of Berlin and Brandenburg) by Engeser and Stehr, accessed on May 20, 2016.
- Homepage of the Friends of the Siethen Village Church
Individual evidence
- ↑ Great joy at the Siethener Dorfkirche sponsorship association about generous donations , In: Märkische Allgemeine , December 21, 2009; accessed on May 30, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 17 ′ 2.5 " N , 13 ° 12 ′ 36" E