Warsaw village church
The village church of Warchau is a medieval stone church in the district of Warchau belonging to the municipality of Rosenau . The hall church is designated as a monument and belongs to the Wusterwitz rectory of the Evangelical Church District Elbe-Fläming of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany .
history
The beginning of the construction of the Romanesque village church in Warsaw can probably be dated to the 12th century, whereby it was built in two phases. The oldest parts are a semicircular apse , the choir and the eastern area of the nave with the triumphal arch . The ship was added later. In terms of its external dimensions, the church roughly corresponds to the village church in neighboring Gollwitz . As a result, the church was subject to several structural changes. The original west portal was added and a Gothic portal was incorporated on the north side of the nave for the village community . The church windows were also rebuilt and enlarged several times. A pulpit was donated in 1720 by the von Schildt patronage family . In 1727 a lattice tower was added to the ship . When the church tower was struck by lightning in 1893, the tower clock and church organ were destroyed. In October 1921 the church was extensively renovated. The tower was newly plastered and the roofs were repaired. A loan of 5000 Reichsmarks was taken out to finance the construction work . The von Britzke family , the owners of the former manor , gave another 1,000 Reichsmarks . A large part of the church's treasure was stolen in a burglary in 1974 and has not been found since then. Extensive restoration work began again in 1998. For these, wood protection measures and static safety measures were carried out and cracks in the structure were closed. Roofs and the apse were repaired.
Building
The nave, choir and apse are made of field stones. Originally there were four small arched windows on both the north and south sides of the ship . The arched windows on the north side are walled in with bricks . The westernmost was blocked with field stones. On the south side only one of the probably original arched windows still exists, the westernmost. The other three were redesigned to form rectangular windows on the outside and basket arches on the inside of the church . The rectangular windows are bordered with plastered bezels . A round arched original west portal was added with field stones and instead of it a stepped portal made of bricks was incorporated on the north side . The portal has an ogival shape. It is noticeable that the single-leaf door is round-arched and only takes up about half the area of the portal. The remaining area is filled with partially plastered masonry. It is unclear whether the arched door in the pointed arched portal is the original door of the west portal. A construction seam can be clearly seen in the eastern area of the north and south outer walls of the ship .
The choir has two window openings on both sides. An arched window can only be found on the north side. The other three, like the windows of the ship, were changed to rectangular windows on the outside and arched windows on the inside. In the northwest there is a colored lead glazing , which shows Christ . The semicircular apse adjoins the choir. This has three arched window openings.
The church tower was added to the nave in the form of a gable rider. It is designed in half-timbered houses. This is exposed to the north, east and south, while it was plastered to the west. There are sound openings for the bells in all four directions. There is no tower clock. A tower ball and a weather vane form the top of the tower .
The roofs of the church are covered with red beaver tails . The nave and choir each have a gable roof , while that of the apse is half a conical roof . The tower has a tent roof . The tent roof and the western half of the gable roof of the nave are newly covered.
Interior
Wooden beam ceilings in the nave and choir are simply designed. In the round arched triumphal arch there is a wooden pulpit. The carved polygonal basket of the pulpit is carried by a figure of Moses . There is a monogram of the founder Heinrich von Schildt and his wife Juliane Rosimunde, née von Britzke, at the entrance to the pulpit. The west gallery was built in 1727 and changed in the 19th century. There is a small defective harmonium on the gallery . Remains of old wall paintings can be seen in various places on the walls . These were partially expanded in the 19th century.
The altarpiece dates from around 1900 and shows a large crucifix in the center. On the north wall of the ship is a wooden epitaph for Maria von Britzke, who died in 1716, wife of the landowner Matthias von Schild. The epitaph is a painting that shows the deceased, her husband kneeling and a child together in front of a crucifixion scene.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Wusterwitz parish office . Accessed July 13, 2015.
- ↑ Monument List Potsdam-Mittelmark ( Memento of the original from January 6, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 21 kB). Accessed December 24, 2013.
- ^ Warsaw (Protestant village church) . Accessed August 12, 2015.
Coordinates: 52 ° 21 ′ 37.55 " N , 12 ° 20 ′ 44.27" E