Steinhöfel village church
The Protestant village church Steinhöfel is a field stone church from the 13th century in Steinhöfel , a municipality in the Oder-Spree district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The street of friendship leads from the north in a southerly direction towards the Steinhöfel Castle . At the historic village green, Demnitzer Straße branches off in a westerly direction and surrounds an elliptical property. There the church stands on a plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of unhewn and non-layered field stones . An avenue laid out by David Gilly connects the two buildings.
history
In the second half of the 13th century, the rectangular choir was built as an independent structure. In the 14th century the nave was extended to the west and in the 15th century the west tower was added. The sacred building was also destroyed in the Thirty Years' War and rebuilt under the direction of Adolf von Wulffen and Elisabeth von der Marwitz. They donated a fifth and had a grave vault built for the family on the south side. At the beginning of the 18th century, craftsmen built an extension on the south side on behalf of Balthasar Dietloff von Wulffen and his wife Eva Louise von Beerfelde. It consisted of an entrance hall with a chapel and a patronage box above . They had the openings reshaped by craftsmen in a “ baroque ” manner and around 1720 acquired new, baroque church furnishings , including a pulpit altar . Around 1775 the tower was given a curved tent roof with a lantern . The weather vane shows the year of completion, 1778, the initials v. B. stand for the patroness Louise Wilhelmine von Blumenthal, who directed the fortunes of the church from 1775 to 1790. She sold the estate to her son-in-law von Massow . The family built a burial place for their relatives on the north side, but otherwise did not intervene in the structure of the church. Around 1880, Adelheid von Massow, the granddaughter of the court marshal, had the burial place enclosed by a stone wall. She was married to Gustav Otto August Edwin von Kuylenstjerna for the second time. From then on, access was through a specially built portal showing the coats of arms of the von Massow and the von Kuylenstjerna family. In 1931 the von Massow sold the estate to the farmer Peine, who had a new cemetery built on the northern edge of the park. No funerals have taken place in the churchyard since 1957. A support association was founded in 2008 and has been trying to preserve the building ever since. In the first construction phase, the church tower was renovated in 2012, followed by the church nave with its annexes, the baptistery and the patron's box by the end of 2013. In 2014, experts discovered previously unrecognized murals in the patronage's box that still need to be researched. In the baptistery, the burial place of von Wulffen could still be uncovered. With the help of grants and donations, experts restored the baptismal table and the front of the patronage box. In 2017, the building received heated seating. An epitaph is currently being restored (as of August 2018).
Building description
The rectangular choir was made from field stones, which were then plastered. The location and the care of the hewn stones can therefore only be examined in a few places without further investigation. On the east wall, for example, the stones in the bottom four layers are comparatively well carved and layered. Above it are two arched windows and an oval panel in the middle , the shape of which is emphasized again by a plastered fascia . It is conceivable that a three-window group was installed here at an earlier time . In the gable there is a small, arched opening, below the roof ridge there is a stone-built cross. On the north and south sides of the choir wall there is another arched window.
The north side of the nave is kept comparatively simple. There are two high arched windows with tracery . The mighty patronage box stands out on the south side. It extends over the choir and the southern long wall and has two storeys . The southern facade is divided into three fields with profiled pilaster strips . On the south side in the eastern area there is a pressed-segment arch-shaped gate. On the lower floor, facing west, there are two similar panels above a wide base. On the upper floor in the west there is a high arched window and two further rectangular windows in the other fields. Another, albeit smaller, arched window is on the upper floor on the west side. On the east side in the lower area there is a pressed-segment arched window and above it a rectangular window. On the remaining long wall is another arched window with tracery. The ship was built from field stones interspersed with broken bricks.
In the west is the mighty and rectangular church tower. Its west facade is also profiled with pilaster strips, in the center a pointed arched portal stepped twice with a pear stick. Above that is a circular window and, in turn, a rectangular window above. The craftsmen built profiled, pointed arch- shaped sound arcades on the bell floor . Above is a surrounding cornice , each with a tower clock in the middle. Above the curved hood rises a boarded, wooden lantern, which ends with a pyramid roof , tower ball and weather vane.
Furnishing
The altarpiece from around 1720/1725 consists of two Corinthian columns that are decorated with acanthus . Since 1880 there have been two under life-size baroque angel figures on the side of the altar. Originally there were two wooden sculptures that symbolized Caritas and Fides. While Caritas still exists, Fides was lost between 1937 and 1949. The altarpiece from 1909 shows the resurrection of Jesus Christ and is by Ernst Christian Pfannschmidt . The putti in the gable hold the alliance coat of arms of Balthasar Dietloff von Wulffen and his wife Eva Louise von Beerfelde against a cloud background . The four evangelists with their attributes are depicted on the altar plinth, which is decorated with grisaille painting , and on the cafeteria, and other landscape scenes are shown in the cartouches . The carved pulpit was originally part of the altar, but was moved to the freestanding pulpit on the north choir wall around 1880 . It is decorated on the base with a painting that depicts the Lord's Supper . The desk itself is held by a putti's head. The wooden fifth is goblet-shaped and hexagonal. It is a donation from Adolf von Wulffen and Elisabeth von der Marwitz from 1671. As an ornament, it bears the family coat of arms and winged putti heads. This includes a brass baptismal font, which was probably made as early as the 16th century. It is decorated in the center with the double-headed eagle and a surrounding scene showing a deer hunt.
The church also includes a carved figure depicting Maria lactans . The work from the 18th century is referred to as "rough" in the Dehio manual . Two pewter altar candlesticks come from a Berlin workshop from the beginning of the 18th century. They are 54.5 cm high and with the engraving "LWvBlumenthal, geb. v. Polenz ”, a foundation of the patroness Loiuse Wilhelmine von Blumenthal from March 6, 1776. The candlesticks were restored in 2005, as was a cast-iron crucifix that was made around 1830 in the KPE .
The patronage box opens to the nave through glazed sliding windows. Towards the choir, the parapets are illustrated with scenes from the Old and New Testaments in grisaille painting: the sacrifice of Isaac , the repentant Simon Peter , Jacob wrestling with the angel and Salome , the daughter of Herodias , with the head of John the Baptist . Two river landscapes are depicted on the box door; on the reverse the crucifixion of Christ .
On the choir walls there are four tombstones belonging to the von Wulffen family from the 16th and 17th centuries. On the north wall of the choir, an epitaph commemorates Adolf von Wulffen, who died in 1663. To the south of it stands a grave slab that commemorates Sophie von Barfuß (née Wulffen), who died in 1652. Next to it is a children's grave stone for the first daughter of Caspar von Wulffen and Elisabeth von Hohendorff , Elisabeth. She died, like her other daughter Anna, in 1575. A wooden epitaph commemorates Balthasar Dietloff von Wulffen, who died in 1726. A plaque commemorates Carl Valentin Ferdinand von Massow, who died in the Battle of Leipzig on August 31, 1813, as well as three other men who died in the Wars of Liberation .
The inside of the structure is flat covered.
North of the north wall of the choir is a family burial place of the von Massow family.
organ
On the horseshoe gallery in the west is an organ that Johann Gottlob Teschner built in 1871 . The prospectus dates from the 19th century; the instrument was restored by the Sauer company in 2006 and 2007 .
Bells
There are three bells hanging in the tower. Two date from the 13th and 14th centuries respectively, while the third was cast in Lauchhammer in 2000 . It is a foundation of Gertrud Mantei and bears the inscription " Soli Deo Gloria ". Next to it is a tower clock from the beginning of the 18th century, which has been replaced by an electric clockwork.
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 .
Web links
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Support group Dorfkirche Steinhöfel , accessed on August 19, 2018.
Individual evidence
- ↑ [1] Uta-Renate Rückert: The church building , published on the website of the support group Dorfkirche Steinhöfel, accessed on August 19, 2018.
- ↑ The village church of Steinhöfel (Oder-Spree) , website of the support group for old churches Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on August 19, 2018.
- ↑ [2] Uta-Renate Rückert: Die Kirche , published on the website of the support group Dorfkirche Steinhöfel, accessed on August 19, 2018.
Coordinates: 52 ° 24 ′ 1.9 ″ N , 14 ° 9 ′ 55.2 ″ E