Stüdenitz village church
The Stüdenitz village church is located in the Stüdenitz district of the Stüdenitz-Schönermark municipality in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district in Brandenburg .
Building
The current church was built in place of an early Gothic stone church from the 13th century after it had become too small and a lightning strike destroyed the tower. An imposing brick building in the neo-Gothic style was built from 1856 to 1858 . The church tower is almost 55 m high. A bronze bell from 1474 still comes from the previous building; the two steel bells were cast in 1921 and hung in the church tower. The tower clock also dates from the same year.
The interior is designed in a neo-Gothic style. The artificial stone pulpit , created around 1860, is decorated with figures of the apostles and evangelists (replicas based on models by Christian Daniel Rauch ). At the foot is the figure of a knight. A wooden putto with a shell-shaped baptismal bowl dates from the 18th century.
The organ was built in 1856 by the Berlin organ builder Carl August Buchholz . In 1960 the church was restored.
The building is registered under number 09171204 in the list of architectural and ground monuments in the Ostprignitz-Ruppin district.
Affiliation
Since 1581, Stüdenitz and its daughter church in Schönermark formed a parish that existed until 1974. Since then, the parish has belonged to the Breddin district . The Sprengel belonged to the Havelberg - Wilsnack parish from 1878 to 1999 . Since this was no longer up-to-date from a local political point of view, a change was made to the Kyritz-Wusterhausen parish in 1999. In 2016 the entire parish merged with the Prignitz parish . The patronage was the Havelberg Treasury Office until 1945.
The number of community members was 353 in 2003, which corresponds to a share of almost 47% of the total population of the area.
Pastor
Up to 1974 the list of pastors had 17 names. The initiator of the new church building in 1856, Karl Wilhelm Penzler , and the last pastor of Stüdenitz, Eva Hoffmann-Aleith , who made a name for herself as a writer, are particularly noteworthy. She died at the age of 91 in 2002 and was buried in the Stüdenitz cemetery. A plaque in her honor is attached to the rectory, which was rebuilt after the fire of 1866.
Her predecessor Pastor Karl Wilhelm Penzler, during whose term of office the new building of the mother church in Stüdenitz fell, was given an honorary grave right next to the church due to his special services to the new church. Today a memorial plaque in the form of a cross on the church tower commemorates this pastor.
Web links
- Information on the church district website
- Information on the website of the Neustadt (Dosse) office
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brandenburg State Office for the Preservation of Monuments and the State Archaeological Museum (ed.): List of monuments of the State of Brandenburg - Ostprignitz-Ruppin district . D) Monuments of other genres, ID number 09170705, December 31, 2018, p. 40 ( bldam-brandenburg.de [PDF; 346 kB ; accessed on May 13, 2019]).
Coordinates: 52 ° 53 ′ 21.2 " N , 12 ° 16 ′ 49.8" E