Vehlow village church
The Protestant village church Vehlow is a stone church from Gothic times in the district Vehlow von Gumtow in the Prignitz district in Brandenburg . It belongs to the Kolrep parish in the Prignitz parish of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia and can be visited after registration.
History and architecture
The village church Vehlow is a rustic field stone building from the 15th century with divisions made of brick, which, however, largely dispenses with Gothic stylistic devices due to its archaic character. The rectangular tower of the building alone shows rows of flat-arched, staggered panels in the brick masonry gables. The rectangular, flat-roofed nave of the same width as the tower is illuminated by pointed arched windows, two of which on the south side and the middle one on the east side have been preserved in their original form. There are also coupled sound openings in round arches on the tower . The other openings were changed in the 18th or 19th century. The east gable was redesigned in 1978. On the gable roof of the tower was a roof turret with a graceful closed lantern and curved hood from the years 1683–1687 until 1978 .
Furnishing
The interior is furnished with a late Gothic altarpiece and, moreover, with a pulpit and galleries from around 1670. The altar from around 1520 shows in the shrine Mary with child between St. George and a bishop; In the wings there are two rows with four saints each. The first change of the altar shows painted scenes of the passion; female saints are depicted on the outside. The burial of Christ is depicted in a niche in the predella . The essay from 1680 is decorated with the three crosses of Golgotha .
The polygonal pulpit from 1680 shows paintings of Moses , Christ and the four evangelists in arcades . Mannerist paintings can be seen in the fields of the gallery parapet . On the patron's box , scenes from the life of Christ are depicted in 13 pictures, the west gallery shows the Ten Commandments and on the confessional there is an allegorical representation of the priesthood .
The organ is a work by Friedrich Hermann Lütkemüller from 1877 with seven stops on a manual and pedal .
A tombstone shows a full-length representation of Hans Joachim von Blumenthal († 1686) in rich contemporary costume. In front of the church there used to be a stone sarcophagus with the names Hans von Blumenthal (before 1640–1701) and Friederike Dorothea von Düringshofen with coat of arms and some Bible verses; it was restored in 2009 and taken on permanent loan to the von Finckenstein family memorial in Alt Madlitz .
literature
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments. Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-422-03054-9 , p. 1073.
- Wolfgang Gericke, Heinrich-Volker Schleiff, Winfried Wendland: Brandenburg village churches. 4th edition. Evangelische Verlagsanstalt, Berlin 1985, pp. 155–156.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Information on the pages of the support group for old churches in Brandenburg. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
- ^ Website of the Prignitz church district with information about the church. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Information about the organ on orgbase.nl. Retrieved November 28, 2018 .
Coordinates: 53 ° 0 ′ 43.6 ″ N , 12 ° 19 ′ 17.2 ″ E