Desert grove village church
The Protestant village church Wüstenhain is a field stone church in Wüstenhain , a municipality part of the Laasow district of the city of Vetschau / Spreewald in the Oberspreewald-Lausitz district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Lower Lausitz the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The district road 6623 leads from the north-west into the village and from there in a south-south-east direction. In the center, Wüstenhainer Hauptstraße continues to branch off in a north-easterly direction. At the end of the street, the church stands north of a turning hammer on a plot of land with a historic church cemetery , which is surrounded by residential buildings.
history
On the church cemetery are two grave stones of Kaseler manor family of Zabelitz. They commemorate Siegmund von Zabelitz, who died in 1593, and Christoph von Zabelitz, who died in 1626. At that time, there must have already been a previous building. The place and thus presumably also the church were destroyed in the Thirty Years War . In 1663 Wolf Magnus von Stutterheim acquired the manor. It is said from 1679 that he had the church tower rebuilt. From 1725 to 1945 the place and thus also the church patronage was owned by the von Heynitz family . The church was renovated under her leadership. In 1898 the last burial took place in the cemetery.
On the night of June 29, 1860 there was an arson in a neighboring farm. The fire spread to the church, which burned down to the surrounding walls. Only the fifth , two pewter candlesticks from 1690 and two paten goblets could be saved. So far, there are few documents about the appearance of this previous building. A land map from 1841 showed its outline. It is known that there was a wooden bell tower on the west side and a patronage box on the south side .
Ludwig von Heynitz campaigned for a rebuilding, which was completed in September 1863. The church consecration took place on February 10, 1864 in the presence of the Berlin general superintendent Carl Büchel. In 1908 the church was renovated by Ernst von Heynitz and received new plaster , new interior painting and a new altar. In 1946 the church patronage was canceled by instructions from the provincial administration of the Mark Brandenburg and transferred to the parish. It was parish in 1968 to Ogrosen . In the early 1960s the community had the organ renovated; thereafter the financial means were lacking and the building fell into disrepair. Nevertheless, a small winter church was built in the entrance area in 1968 .
After the fall of the Wall , Pastor Dieter Chlopik advocated a renovation in 2000. In a first step, the roof, the roof structure and the facade were renewed. In 2007 the parish began a renovation that was provisionally completed in 2010. In addition to the structure, the outdoor facilities were also restored. On May 25, 2014, the parish celebrated the 150th anniversary of the reconstruction.
Building description
The structure was essentially made of mixed masonry, ie unhewn and not layered field stones and masonry stones . Large plaster residues can be seen. The choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth closing . At the north-east and south-east corner there is a large, pressed segment-arched window; on the north and south sides there is a gate, while the east end has no windows.
This is followed by the nave. It has a rectangular plan. On the north side there are three more, pressed-segment arched windows, which were evenly distributed over the nave. On the south side there are also three windows, of which the middle one is raised and significantly smaller. Below is another gate. On the south side, the plastered bottles are largely preserved. They are emphasized again by a colored keystone .
The west facade is plastered flat. In the middle is a round arched gate, above it a large rose window . The gable is decorated with a frieze that opens downwards . Above rises a gable tower with two arched openings, in each of which a bell hangs, which is closed by a transverse gable roof with a weather vane.
Furnishing
The church furnishings come mainly from the construction period; only the altar was replaced in 1906. The fifth, two pewter candlesticks and two paten goblets come from the previous building. To the south of the west gate, a plaque commemorates Pastor Dieter Chlopik, who died in 2019 and who worked in the community from 1991 to 2004.
A memorial to the west of the building commemorates those who died in the world wars.
literature
- Georg Dehio (arr. Gerhard Vinken et al.): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Parish Wüstenhain / Heimatverein Wüstenhain: The history of the Wüstenhain village church. P. 3, notice at the church, April 2020.
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Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 5.5 ″ N , 14 ° 7 ′ 26.3 ″ E