Village church pieces
The Protestant village church Stücken is a neo-Gothic stone church in Stücken , a district of the municipality Michendorf in the Potsdam-Mittelmark district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of means Mark Brandenburg in the Sprengel Potsdam the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The Stückener Dorfstraße runs through the village and runs through the municipality in a south-easterly direction when coming from the north. The building stands east of this street on a site that is enclosed with a wall made of reddish brick .
history
The exact construction date is not known, but there is a reference in the land book of Charles IV from 1375: There a pastor was mentioned who owned two Hufen land. The Dehio manual assumes that there was a previous building as early as the 13th century. A walled up portal on the south wall of the nave provides further clues . The field stones still used there are carefully carved and experts have been able to date them to around 1400. Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr go one step further and, based on the building structure, assume that construction will begin in the first half of the 13th century. At that time a nave with a length of 12.10 to 12.65 m and a width of 8.85 m should have been built. The choir should have moved in. It remains to be seen whether there was an apse . At the time of the Reformation , in 1540, a pastor Gürgen was mentioned as the first Lutheran clergyman.
In 1848 a fire broke out in the village, in which the sacred building was largely destroyed. Documents that could provide information about the previous building are not yet known. In 1860 the parish erected a new building on its foundations, which was extended to the west by around three meters. The church equipment was replaced; an organ was installed in 1868 . The church patronage at that time was that of von Thümen , from 1878 into the family of the Barone von Brucken. One of the daughters, Elisabeth von Brucken , married the captain in the Royal Grenadier Regiment , Count Friedrich Wilhelm von Lüttichau . He fell in the First World War . In his memory, an epitaph hangs on the east side of the building . In 1926 the building received two new bells. The parish used their consecration to inaugurate the organ, which is now over 50 years old.
During the Second World War , the church was severely damaged by several shell impacts in April 1945. Nevertheless, the parish made a change in the years 1952 to 1956. It was based on the churches in the Berlin suburbs and meant that the previously baroque furnishings were almost completely removed. Craftsmen dismantled the pulpit and the galleries on the side walls and dismantled the chandeliers. After the fall of the Wall , sufficient financial resources were available to extensively renovate the building.
Building description
The structure was built mainly from field stones . These are uncut in the straight and not drawn-in choir, not layered and comparatively small. On the east wall of the choir is a pointed arch-shaped lead glass window , the reveal of which was framed with yellowish-red brick. It was made by the Berlin artist Katharina Peschel in 1953 and shows Mary with the baby Jesus . The east gable was built from mostly narrow field stones, some of which were layered. Below the window is an epitaph for Friedrich Wilhelm Graf von Lüttichau. It bears the inscription: “Den Heldentod / für König u. Fatherland / died in the World War on November 10, 1914 / my dearly beloved husband / Friedrich Wilhelm / Count of Lüttichau / captain in the Royal Grenadier Regiment / Elisabeth Countess of Lüttichau / born. von Brucken called Fock . / Loyalty is first and last in / Heaven and on earth. ”The shape of the window is taken up by an additional, albeit larger window on the north and south side of the choir. On the southern wall, the stones are very unevenly layered in the lower area, larger and sometimes in layers above. The north wall consists of larger stones, which were only built in layers in the upper area and only partially there. To the east of the north choir window is a small, pressed segment arched gate, the reveal of which is framed in reddish brick.
This is followed by the nave. Four pointed arch windows dominate the north and south sides, each grouped into two coupled pairs. The reveal was also made of reddish brick. The surrounding field stones are partly very carefully carved and layered. To the west is another, single window. On the south side, the remains of a closed gate can be seen in a westerly direction. A repair area can be seen on the north side, in which a gate may have been installed previously.
The west tower takes up the full width of the nave. It was built on the lower floor from hewn field stones, some of which were built in very layers by the craftsmen. On the west side is an ogival portal with a crest made of reddish brick; a small, raised window on the north and south sides. The lines run on the floor above; some of the stones are hardly hewn here. In the gable is a narrow, high rectangular window with a clock tower above it. The bell storey is comparatively lavishly designed and consists of the square and strongly drawn-in tower helmet with two sound arcades each , which were built into an ogival opening. It ends with an eight-fold helmet with a tower ball and cross. This results in a structure that is 24.40 meters long and 8.85 meters wide in the west and 8.15 meters in the east.
Furnishing
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The pulpit was made of stone, as was the octagonal fifth . Additional features include four round oak lights and an organ that Carl Ludwig Gesell built in 1868. It has nine registers , which are divided between two manuals and a pedal .
literature
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Information board of the Evangelical Village Church , placed in front of the building, September 2017
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Stücken (ev. Village church) , website Medieval village churches in Teltow (south of Berlin and Brandenburg) by Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on September 14, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 14 ′ 41 " N , 13 ° 4 ′ 51.3" E