Welsickendorf village church
The Protestant village church Welsickendorf is a Gothic stone church in Welsickendorf , a district of the municipality of Niederer Fläming 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
The federal highway 101 leads in a north-south direction through the place. In the historic center of the village, the village street crosses in a west-east direction. The church stands southwest of this intersection on a slightly elevated plot of land with a church cemetery , which is enclosed with a wall made of reddish brick .
history
There are different details about the construction date. The municipality of Niederer Fläming states on its website that the building was built in the 14th century. The Dehio manual suggests that the church could have been built in the second half of the 13th century or in the early 14th century. During the Thirty Years War the church and school burned down in 1637 and were rebuilt. In 1692 the altarpiece , which was still in existence in the 21st century, was brought into the church. Craftsmen also hung new bells in the church tower . On a date as yet unknown, craftsmen demolished the apse and built the straight choir . In the 18th century, the nave and choir were given a hollow vault, which was decorated with tendril paintings. Presumably in 1858 the choir east wall was renewed in brick and the windows were enlarged in the shape of a round arch. The church tower was also rebuilt. However, the work was only successful for a short time, as the tower had to be dismantled and renewed again in 1910. In 1955 the tower received a new belfry. In 1967 the parish had part of the choir cut off in order to set up a winter church . But as early as 1972/1973 the entire choir was separated, the pulpit dismantled and the altarpiece restored. In 1986 the church tower was given a new roofing, which was completely renovated in 1991/1992. Workers found a figure of the risen Christ , which was placed back on the altar after renovations in 2002 . In 2004, the parish decided to reopen the previously separated choir and to put the altarpiece back in its historical position.
Building description
The building was essentially made of field stones that were hewn and layered comparatively in layers. However, individual parts of the building were also built from bricks, some of which are plastered . The choir has a rectangular floor plan and is slightly indented. The east wall was probably built from masonry in 1858. In the middle is a segment arched gate; the wall is partially plastered. For the north and south walls, the craftsmen used field stones that were cut in a cuboid shape. In the upper third there are two profiled arched windows on both sides, the walls of which were built with reddish brick. On the north side, between the two windows, on the south side towards the west, the remains of the original (?) Windows have been preserved. On the south side, in the western area, there is a priest's gate covered with field stones .
The nave also has a rectangular floor plan. At the transition between the nave and the choir, there is a double-stepped buttress on the north side , above it a small pinnacle on each side . On the north and south sides of the nave there are three large arched windows, also framed with bricks. On the south side, slightly off-center below the middle window, the remains of a community gate that has also been closed can be seen. To the west of this is another added portal, the upper walls of which cut the window to the west. This opening is also clogged with uncut field stones with few layers of layers.
On the otherwise closed west wall is a large, rectangular portal with attached pinnacles in the middle. Craftsmen built a triple profiled wall with a gate. While the west wall was made from comparatively layered field stones, they used significantly smaller, unhewn stones in the gable above . The square church tower rises above . It was made of wooden framework , the compartment of which was filled with reddish brick. Above that is an octagonal tower with a rectangular sound arcade in each direction. The tower ends with a curved hood, an open lantern and a tower ball with a weather vane .
Furnishing
The altar retable dates from 1692 and shows in its sequence in the predella the Lord's Supper , in the altar sheet the crucifixion of Christ and in the altar extract in a round picture the entombment . The structure is decorated with twisted tendril columns attached to the side on head consoles. On the side there are cartouches that show coats of arms and are adorned with acanthus . Of the pulpit , also created in 1692, only the polygonal pulpit has been preserved. It is decorated with winding corner pillars and shows the evangelists in the balustrade . His style is described in a leaflet from the parish as Saxon - Weissenfels Baroque . The pulpit, baptism and altarpiece come from the Finsterwald cabinet maker Abraham Jäger . A church leader from the church district of Zossen-Fläming points out that this is Jäger's first work in which the resurrection scene that originally existed in the classic sequence was replaced by the burial. All three pictures were created by the Lübben painter Michael Scharbe .
Other church furnishings include a wooden fifth with a twisted foot and an octagonal brass baptismal bowl with fruit pendants, which were made in the 17th century. A brass chandelier dates from the 19th century. On the west and south walls of the ship there is a gallery , also from the 19th century. The pastorate and choir stalls date from the 18th century. The nave has had a hollow vault since the 18th century, which in turn is decorated with a strongly renewed tendril painting.
The organ dates from the 18th century and was renovated in 1957, but later - as a leaflet from the parish describes - "(by strangers?) Willfully destroyed". The parish has tried since 2007 to make the instrument playable again. Two bells from 1957 hang in the tower. The parish had to give up the original bells as part of a metal donation by the German people and was lost. The larger of the two bells has the chime b and bears as an inscription a quote from the scriptural prophet Jeremiah “Oh land, land, country, hear the word of the Lord” ( Jer 1,1 EU ), while the smaller one with the chime d the psalm “LORD "God, you are our refuge for and for" ( Ps 90 EU ).
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 .
- Evangelisches Pfarramt Borgisdorf (Ed.): Dorfkirche Welsickendorf , Flyer, without date, p. 2.
- 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
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Welsickendorf Church , website of the Niederer Fläming community, accessed on October 3, 2019.
Coordinates: 51 ° 54 '12.8 " N , 13 ° 8' 22.4" E