Wahlsdorf village church

The Protestant village church Wahlsdorf is a late Romanesque field stone church in Wahlsdorf , a district of the town of Dahme / Mark in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the state of Brandenburg . The church belongs to the parish of Zossen Fläming the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz .

location

Landstrasse 70 leads from the north into the historic town center and out of it as Landstrasse 711 in an easterly direction. The church stands southwest of this intersection on a property that is not fenced . To the west there is a residential development.

history

The building was built in the first half of the 13th century. In 1887/1888 a neo-Gothic church tower was added.

Building description

West portal

The church was essentially made of field stones that were carefully hewn and layered in layers. The semicircular apse is drawn in and has a pointed arch-shaped window on the east side, the fascia of which was made from reddish bricks . At the transition to the roof is a five-tiered frieze , which was also made from bricks.

The choir is straight and has also moved in. On the north and south sides there are two ogival windows, the fins of which are also emphasized by bricks. On the south side, to the west of this, is a priest's gate covered with field stones . At the transition to the gable roof is a stepped frieze, also stepped five times.

The nave has a rectangular floor plan. On the north and south sides there are three high, pointed arch-shaped lancet windows , also with accentuated bezels and a frieze at the transition to the gable roof of the ship. On the south side, between the central and west-facing window, there is also a clogged community gate. The remainder of a walled up arched window can be seen to the east.

The church tower is a few centimeters wider than the nave and has a transverse rectangular floor plan. It was built on the lower floor from field stones, above from bricks. On the north and south side there is a raised ox - eye . To the west, the tower was extended a few more centimeters to the west in the area of the tower floor. There is a large, ogival portal with an ox eye above it. Above is a transverse gable roof and a gable decorated with pinnacles on both sides . In the middle storey, already made of bricks, there is initially a narrow, ogival window on the north side, and two more windows above it. This area is structured at the corners with pilaster strips . Above a cornice there is a profiled sound arcade on each of the four sides . Above another cornice is a bent spire with a tower clock in the gable. The tower ends with a tower ball and cross.

Furnishing

View into the nave

The church furnishings are neo-Gothic . An epitaph commemorates G. Punack, who died in 1707. The organ was built by Ferdinand Dinse in 1888 and renovated in 2003.

A memorial to the east of the apse commemorates those who fell in World War II . It consists of a boulder that was placed on a base made of masonry stones. The names of the fallen are written on a plaque with a kneeling soldier. An eagle sits above. In front of the memorial there is another boulder with the inscription: "IN MEMORY / TO THE VICTIMS / OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR".

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 .
Evangelical Church District Zossen-Fläming Synodal Committee for Public Relations (Ed.): Between Heaven and Earth - God's Houses in the Church District Zossen-Fläming , Laserline GmbH, Berlin, p. 180, 2019