Vehlen village church
The village church Vehlen is a Protestant church in the district Vehlen in the municipality of Bensdorf in the west of the state of Brandenburg . The hall church , as since the late 1990s monument to the deported belongs Rectory Wusterwitz the church district Elbe-Fläming the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The Vehlener village church in the mountain road was around the year 1850 of red bricks a beating Unterthiner brick in the style of Gothic Revival built. Due to the forms used, building experts assign the church building to Friedrich August Stüler 's surroundings.
At the beginning of the 21st century, the exterior of the church was extensively restored, the work had been transferred to the Masche-Bau company from the Schaumburger Land by the church management.
Building
The church is clearly divided into three structures: steeple , nave and choir with a polygonal apse . The nave has three high, single stepped pointed arch windows to the north and south , which are covered with simple lead glazing . Between the windows there are pilasters as vertical structural elements . To the west and east, stepped gables form the ends of the ship. The corners of the individual steps are extended vertically with tower-like battlements . The apse has five pointed arched windows with simple leaded glazing with a colored border, only a cross is shown in the middle window . The sacristy with the preacher's portal is located in the corners between the nave and the choir.
The church tower with a square floor plan is four-story with ogival windows and ox eyes . A church tower clock with a dial on the south side is inserted between the third and fourth floors . The portal leads into the vestibule in the church tower area. It has a pointed arch and is simply stepped and contains a double-leaf door that is stepped in the upper corners, with the lower of the two steps being rounded. A cross worked into the plaster is emblazoned above the door in the panel. The ogival sound openings of the tower on the two upper floors are incorporated into larger ogival screens . The two upper floors have pilaster strips as vertical elements . The corner pilasters are extended vertically over the eaves of the tower with turret-like battlements . There is an imitation stone parapet between the battlements . A frieze runs horizontally around the church building a little below the eaves of the church roof. Other friezes designed in this way visually separate the upper floors of the tower. The octagonal pointed spire is centrally located with tower ball and tower cross completed. The roofs are primarily covered with red beaver tails , the lower rows of the ship's roof with pantiles .
Interior
The interior of the church is kept simple. The altar in the polygonal apse is unadorned. This area is raised by three steps and set off from the main nave by means of a pointed triumphal arch . The pulpit is on the north east wall of the ship, opposite it, on the south side are the patronage stalls. In front of it is an octagonal simple baptismal font. The ceiling is designed as a wooden coffered ceiling . There is an organ on a west gallery .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Monument List Potsdam-Mittelmark ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 21 kB). As of 2013.
- ^ Wusterwitz parish office . Accessed February 12, 2016.
- ↑ Dietmar Möschner (edited): Churches in the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming. Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming (Ed.), Burg 2003, p. 11, ISBN 3-9809011-0-6 .
- ↑ Masche-Bau, references: enter "Vehlen" in the search field. , accessed February 16, 2016.
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Coordinates: 52 ° 25 ′ 50.41 " N , 12 ° 19 ′ 26.22" E