Waßmannsdorf village church
The Protestant village church Waßmannsdorf is a stone church from the middle of the 13th century in Waßmannsdorf , a district of the community Schönefeld in the district of Dahme-Spreewald in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish district Neukölln of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The village road leading from the north-west Coming in an arc to the east leads through the town. The church stands in the historic center of the village on a plot of land that is enclosed by a wall of reddish bricks .
history
There are different details about the history of its origins. The Dehio manual assumes that construction began around the middle of the 13th century. Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr assume a beginning around 1300. This is due in particular to the structure and masonry of the lower parts and the proportions of the windows. Presumably it was a simple church with a rectangular floor plan and three pressed, pointed lancet windows on the east side and three pointed, narrow windows on the south side and two similar ones on the north side.
There are also different views on the creation of the gable on the east side. The Dehio manual assumes an establishment at the beginning of the 16th century. Engeser and Stehr refer to the large-format bricks with press folds and place their construction in the second half of the 14th century.
In the 18th century, the parish had the windows enlarged in Baroque style and designed with a basket arch. Two of the original windows on the east side were added and the middle one enlarged. In 1926 she built the west tower , had the west gable rebuilt and provided with battlements. At the same time, the battlements on the east gable were renewed. On the south side, a vestibule was added in front of the original priest gate. In 1970 a renovation and installation of a gas heating took place; 2002 and 2003 renovation of the roof and the ceiling. A previously installed glazing of the winter church below the west gallery was removed again.
Building description
The core of the sacred building was made of field stones , which were largely carefully hewn and mostly built in layers. The choir is straight and has not moved in. After the renovation, on the eastern wall is a beehive-shaped window with a plastered bottle . To the left and right of this, the added outlines of two ogival openings can be seen. It is conceivable that the existing window also had this shape. However, no traces can be seen in the masonry above. Here the craftsmen worked with uncut, small stones that they did not layer in layers. They flow into the gable decorated with pinnacles , which was built from mixed masonry . There are three white-plastered, staggered panels that were framed in reddish brick. In the lower part of the middle panel is a small, rectangular window.
The north and south walls of the nave are largely symmetrical. There are three basket arch-shaped windows. The remains of a walled-up window from the construction period can be seen on the western window of the south wall. On the north side there is a rectangular vestibule above the original priest gate. It can be entered from the north through a pressed segment arched portal. Its walls as well as the corners of the vestibule were built from reddish brick. Major repair work in the masonry can be seen below the window to the west. Presumably a community portal was added here. At the transition to the eaves , the craftsmen used small, unhewn stones. The ship carries a gable roof , which with beaver tail is covered.
The west tower has a rectangular floor plan and is drawn in opposite the nave. The lower storey was built from field stones, which, however, were only slightly carved and no longer layered. The same applies to the western wall and the gable of the nave decorated with pinnacles. The tower can be entered from the west through a large, segment-arched portal with a cladding of field stones. On the north and south sides there is an arched window. The two floors above are plastered and have a small, high-rectangular window on each of the three accessible sides on each floor. On the bell floor there are two sound arcades on each side. It ends with a transverse gable roof , which has a tower ball with a weather vane on the north and south sides . Engeser and Stehr give in their investigations a length of the ship of 19.70 meters with a width of 10.20 meters. The tower has the floor plan dimensions 6 m × 3.90 m.
Furnishing
The wooden pulpit altar dates from the beginning of the 18th century. It is built in the form of an aedicula with twisted vine leaves and a blown gable. The sides are decorated with acanthus and putti . The predella shows Jesus' Last Supper , while the parapets of the pulpit are decorated with images of the crucifixion of Christ and the evangelists . The eight-sided, wooden fifth dates from the beginning of the 18th century and was renovated in the 1970s.
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
- Dorfkirche Waßmannsdorf , website of Theo Engeser and Konstanze Stehr, accessed on September 1, 2017.
- Evangelical Church Community Waßmannsdorf , website of the Evangelical Church District Neukölln, accessed on September 1, 2017.
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 ′ 15.6 ″ N , 13 ° 28 ′ 20.4 ″ E