Sperenberg village church
The Protestant village church Sperenberg is a hall church in Sperenberg , a district of the municipality Am Mellensee in the district of Teltow-Fläming in Brandenburg .
history
Although gypsum was mined in the region as early as the 16th century , it was only through industrialization in Germany that the number of inhabitants in Sperenberg grew, and with it the desire for an own sacred building . In 1752 and 1753, the state master builder Georg Friedrich Berger built a church on the foundation of a previous medieval building. Frederick the Great provided the financial means . The church consecration took place on September 30, 1753. On the night of July 6th to 7th, 1760, lightning struck the tower next to the helmet bar under the button. A tower window, the clock and a bell were damaged. This shattered in 1782 and was re-cast in 1797. 1846 changed church the shape of the west tower and let the floor engage easily. At a later date, it separated the apse , creating space for a sacristy . During excavations in 1932, experts found several graves within the church. During the Second World War in April 1945 a shell struck the church tower and destroyed the clockwork and the southern corner of the tower. Since the damage could not be repaired immediately, water penetrated the framework, which caused a number of beam heads to rot and could only be replaced years later. In 1966 and 1967, the interior was restored after a sponge infestation. The upper floor of the former two-storey horseshoe gallery was expanded, the roof structure was renewed and the coffered ceiling was clad with plasterboard from Sperenberg. The nave received a new floor and an air heating system. In addition, the tower clock received an electric drive. The partition wall to the apse was removed without replacement and the work was completed on September 24, 1967 with a service. In 1969 the parish received the Sauer organ planned for 1958 . From 2001 to 2009 she renovated the building.
architecture
The hall church was built with a rectangular floor plan, a recessed, semicircular apse and a likewise recessed west tower . On the north and south sides of the nave , Berger had two pairs and a central, high and segment-arch-shaped window installed. They extend practically over the entire height of the church wall and divide the facade into a strictly geometric shape. The middle window is slightly shorter towards the bottom and leaves space for a portal on each long side of the nave. These central axes are emphasized by flat portal projections . In the apse there are two large windows of identical construction. All openings are emphasized again with slightly recessed bezels . On the lower floor of the tower , the viewer will find a panel in place of the window with a small rectangular window above it at the height of the gable of the nave. Above a cornice there is - except for the eastern side - an arched sound arcade , behind which the bells from 1547 hang. On all four sides of the tower there is a tower clock with gold numerals on a black face, which is followed by a kinked tower helmet with a tower ball and cross, covered with black slate . The main entrance to the building is through an arched portal on the west side of the tower. An arched window is let into it. The hipped roof of the nave and the conical roof of the apse are covered with a red beaver tail .
Furnishing
The candlesticks on the stone altar are a donation from a Hamburg shipowner from 1612 as thanks for the good economic relations with the place. Only the halo with the initials of Frederick the Great has survived from the pulpit altar.
The cross with a crucifix hanging on the east wall by Hermann Lorisch from Kleinmachnow was created by the Sperenberg sculptor Egon Liebold . The fifth and the wooden pulpit are from the time the church was built. In the entrance area there is a wooden baptismal table by the sculptor Wilhelm Groß. The organ with a white front comes from the organ builder Wilhelm Sauer .
From 1959 to 1966 the well-known Potsdam youth and student pastor Uwe Dittmer worked here .
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 .
- Parish Council of the Evangelical Parish Sperenberg (Ed.): Small commemorative publication for the 250th anniversary of the solemn inauguration of the Church in Sperenberg in 1753 , Parish Council of the Evangelical Parish Sperenberg, Sperenberg, 2003
- 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
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interesting facts about local history ( Memento from July 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), website of Heimatstube Sperenberg, accessed on June 30, 2016.
- ↑ Information brochure: The first house of God on the church hill , display in the church, June 2016.
- ↑ Sperenberg , website of the Baruther Urstromtal Förderverein, accessed on June 30, 2016.
- ^ Bulletin : The Lightning Strike of 1760 , on display in the church, June 2016.
- ↑ Leaflet : After the Second World War , on display in the church, June 2016.
- ↑ Information document: File 330 - Description for visitors to the Sperenberg Church 1985: Our Church in Sperenberg , display in the church, June 2016.
- ↑ The Sperenberg church is open almost every day and Pastor Andreas Hemmerling also fulfills spontaneously expressed requests , article in the Märkische Allgemeine from August 27, 2009, published on the website Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on July 1, 2016.
Coordinates: 52 ° 8 '27.2 " N , 13 ° 21' 57.1" E