Werbig village church (Niederer Fläming)

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Werbig village church (2011)

The Protestant village church Werbig is a late Romanesque field stone church in Werbig , a district of the municipality 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 102 runs from the north-west in an easterly direction past the town to the south. From here, the 715 road branches off to the west and, in turn, the poplar avenue to the south. A few meters south of this intersection, the church stands east of the road on a piece of land that is fenced in with a wall of field stones .

history

The building was built in the first half of the 13th century. The parish had the original church furnishings replaced in the 1960s except for a baptism angel . A baroque church tower from truss had to be removed in the 1968th In 2005 the Förderverein Kirchturm Werbig e. V., who campaigned for the reconstruction. When checking the statics of the tower, experts found numerous exhibits, including plaster remnants from old consecration crosses or book closures from old hymn books. From fragments of clay marbles and slate tablets , experts were able to prove that lessons were held in the church at an earlier time. The oldest finds were coins from the 15th and 16th centuries. In 2011 the restored tower was inaugurated.

Building description

Werbig village church in 2010

The church was essentially built from field stones , most of which were carefully carved and mostly layered. The apse and choir have moved in. On the north wall of the nave is a pointed arch-shaped priest's gate, the wall of which was made from brick . The west wall is closed except for two small, pressed-segment arched windows. Above it is a small arched window. The upper tower floor consists of half-timbering. There are four trapezoidal sound arcades on each side . A slender, octagonal tower spire rises above it, which ends with a hood, weather vane and cross.

Furnishing

The original church furnishings were from the beginning of the 18th century and were removed in the 1960s. A new altar and pulpit were made from field stones . The ship has a wicker board ceiling with a painting by Robert Sandfort from 1913; the choir has a domed cross vault. Two epitaphs recall the pastors Christian Craco and Christian Adolph Craco, who died in 1733 and 1749 respectively. A bell from the 15th century hangs in the tower. It bears the inscription O rex gloriae Christe veni cum pace (“O King of glory, Christ, come to us in peace”).

The 1.43 m high baptismal angel from 1714 is a specialty . The Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum (BLDAM) describes it as “ high quality”. Earlier it hung in front of the choir area in the middle of the altar. The work is characterized by the BLDAM as “a rather male angel type” due to its muscular body and the “bitter facial expression”. He wears a patterned robe that is carried by a bronzed sash. In his right hand he held a small bottle with a tap, from which water could flow into the baptismal font during the baptism. According to the BLDAM, this version is rather unusual in Brandenburg and refers to churches in Saxony-Anhalt , e.g. B. in Wormsdorf , Schwanefelde or Ivenrode . In 1969 the work was restored, the painting preserved and retouched. Since then, the baptismal angel has been hanging on the northern archway. In 2011 it was again preserved.

In the gallery there is an organ that Rudolf Albert Turley built in 1864. The instrument has one manual , six registers and was rebuilt in 1954 by Alexander Schuke Potsdam Orgelbau .

On a property wall near the church there are two memorial plaques commemorating those who died in the world wars.

See also

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, Berlin 2019, p. 180.

Web links

Commons : Dorfkirche Werbig  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The excavation team sifted through the church floor in Werbig. Article from the Märkische Allgemeine from February 20, 2009, published on the website of the Förderkreis Alte Kirchen Berlin-Brandenburg, accessed on February 8, 2020.
  2. ↑ Friedrich Rudolf Bergau: inventory of the building and art monuments in the province of Brandenburg, Volume 2: Volume 2, places J-Z . BoD - Books on Demand, January 1, 1885, ISBN 978-3-88372-031-9 , pp. 773–.

Coordinates: 51 ° 55 ′ 45.1 ″  N , 13 ° 11 ′ 32.1 ″  E