Wachow village church
The Protestant village church Wachow is a late Gothic hall church in Wachow , a district of the city of Nauen in the Havelland district in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Nauen Rathenow- the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .
location
The road 91 leads from the south in an S-shape through the village. In the lower leg, the street Im Winkel branches off to the southwest. To the north of this intersection, the church stands on a plot of land that is not fenced .
history
There are different details about the building history. The architecture office Redlich states that the building is essentially Romanesque . The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) , however, refers to a late Gothic building in its monument database .
According to a plaque on the building, the nave was built in the 13th century. It is certain that the west tower was built between 1820 and 1822 according to a design by Johann Carl Ludwig Schmid and revised by Karl Friedrich Schinkel . During the First World War , the parish had to give up the bells as part of a metal donation from the German people , and in 1921 they bought three new steel bells.
The church was restored from 1982 to 1984. In 1993 the steeple was renewed; In 1998 the organ was repaired.
Building description
The building was essentially made of uncut and not layered field stones and bricks . The choir has not moved in and has a five-eighth closing . At the end of the choir is a round arched window in the middle, the facings of which are plastered . On the side there are two mighty buttresses made of brick. On the north and south sides of the choir there is a large round arched window that extends almost the entire height.
The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the north side there are three large arched windows. The western part is exclusively bricked, the middle and eastern part of the nave consists of mixed masonry. There are also three large arched windows on the south side. Between the middle and east window is a large, quadruple stepped arched portal. There is an ogival gate, above a fish bladder with a four-snout. It is conceivable that in a first phase of construction the choir and the eastern part up to the first yoke were built and then the nave was extended to the west. The nave and choir have a simple gable roof that is sloped to the east . Inside the church is flat covered.
The approximately 36 m high west tower has a square floor plan and is slightly drawn in opposite the ship. It was built exclusively from brick and can be entered from the west through a four-step pointed arch portal. The side surfaces were structured with pilaster strips , at the transition to the other floors there is a toothed frieze that opens downwards . This structural element can also be found on the north and south sides. In between is a large, round ox eye , which is also set in four-way stepped brick. Above the essay merges into an octagon. They are also structured with pilaster strips and a frieze. On each of the four sides facing the compass direction there is an ogival opening with two coupled sound arcades ; above a tower clock. Above is an octagonal spire that ends with a weather vane .
Furnishing
The baroque pulpit altar was built around 1730 and shows the Lord's Supper in the predella . Above is the polygonal pulpit , which was decorated with oval leaf cartouches and stands between columns decorated with acanthus . Above it is a sound cover with volute bows and putti .
Late medieval wall paintings from the beginning of the 16th century were uncovered on the north and east walls. They show pictorial scenes of the Passion with a landscape background.
On the western gallery is an organ that Johann Simon Buchholz created in 1822. The instrument with a neo-Gothic prospect has a manual .
Three chill cast bells from 1921 hang in the tower. The largest weighs around 1900 kg and has a diameter of 172 cm. It bears the inscription: "Land trick and deceit / rough me once smashed / what the hand of love succeeded / I announce today with a bright sound". The middle bell weighs around 1100 kg, has a diameter of 138 and the inscription "In iron times consecrated to the Lord". They are supplemented by a third bell, which has a diameter of 112 cm and weighs around 500 kg. It bears the inscription: "Thanks and honor be given to the dead / for loyalty until death". All three still bear the inscription "Wachow, in the 3rd year of peace, 1921".
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 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ History and characteristics of Wachow , website of the support association Drei Kleinode e. V., accessed on June 7, 2020
- ↑ a b Information board for the Wachow village church, set up south of the structure, May 2020
Coordinates: 52 ° 32 ′ 0.1 ″ N , 12 ° 45 ′ 21.1 ″ E