Werder village church (Jüterbog)
The Werder village church is a church in Werder , part of Jüterbog .
history
Werder had been the mother church since around 1192 . The church was built at the end of the 12th century. Four medieval construction phases can be identified on the church. The original church had a rectangular choir and an apse . The latter was probably integrated into the retracted choir in the course of a reconstruction in 1393. Dendrochronological investigations showed that the wood for the roof of the nave was felled in 1408. In the second construction phase, among other things, the tower was built. In a later construction phase, the late Gothic extension of the choir was added. In the 15th century the tower was supplemented by a storey made of reddish brick , the bell is located here. At the same time, a small brick extension was probably built on the north side of the choir. In the Dehio manual, experts suspect that it could have been a bierhouse or ossuary . In the period from 1589 to 1981 Neuhof was added as a Filia . In the 19th century, the enlarged parish , the southern window. The church was restored in 1955/1956, 1966/1967 and 1997. In 1981 the parish was given up and the parish had been looked after by the Zinna Monastery since 1954 .
architecture
The church is a hall building made of field stone . While the stones in the choir were layered and hewn comparatively in layers, the lines in the nave run in the upper area. The transverse rectangular west tower takes up the width of the nave and was again built from layered field stones; the bell storey made of brick. There are several panels as well as sound arcades , which are consistently pointed arch. On the southern side of the nave are three segment-arched windows, which presumably replaced the originally much smaller, Gothic windows. The reveal of the windows was made with reddish brick. The south window in the choir was designed in the same way. Is one on the east side in unison Three window group , wherein the central window of reddish molded blocks prepared with a triple ramped jamb. On the north side of the nave there are significantly smaller, arched windows that date from the time the church was built. The building can be entered through an arched portal. The roof, a rafter roof from the Middle Ages, is well preserved.
Furnishing
The altar has a field stone substructure from the Middle Ages with a wooden cover plate. The baroque altarpiece was removed in 1966 and is considered lost in the 21st century. The altar cross dates from 1952. The font probably dates from the 13th century. The cup-shaped Fuente has the form of a cuppa and is decorated with a hanging lilies Fries. The upper part is made of sandstone , the base is made of lawn iron stone . The wooden pulpit , which dates from the 18th century, consists of a polygonal basket decorated with fruit hangings and a baluster base . On the pulpit there are pictures of the evangelists and the Christ child triumphant over death. There are tendril bars at the entrance. The pulpit was restored in 1966.
In the church there is a 13th or 14th century dugout chest made of oak . The lid is made of ash wood. It is covered with iron fittings in the form of ribbons and wavy tendrils. There is a side drawer inside.
Inside there is a beamed ceiling, on the west side of the church there is a wooden gallery with an organ from the 19th century and a prospectus from 1785. The stalls date from around 1867. In the center window of the choir there is a fragment of Christ from the Middle Ages. The stained glass from the beginning of the 16th century is done in grisaille . The bronze bell was made in the second half of the 13th century. On top of the bell is the inscription REX GLORIA XPE VENI CUM PACE (M) (“O King of Glory Christ come with peace”).
See also
literature
- Marie-Luise Buchinger and Marcus Cante, monuments in Brandenburg, Teltow Fläming district, part 1: City of Jüterbog with Zinna monastery and Niedergörsdorf community, Wernersche Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-88462-154-8 , pages 381–383
- Georg Dehio : Handbook of the German art monuments . Founded by the Day for Monument Preservation 1900, continued by Ernst Gall , revised by the Dehio Association and the Association of State Monument Preservationists in the Federal Republic of Germany, represented by: Brandenburg State Office for Monument Preservation and State Archaeological Museum. Brandenburg: edited by Gerhard Vinken and others, 2000, Deutscher Kunstverlag Munich Berlin, ISBN 3-422-03054-9
- 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
- Entry in the monument database of the State of Brandenburg
- Romanesque routes in Berlin and Brandenburg - Werder village church near Jüterbog
Coordinates: 52 ° 0 ′ 36.6 ″ N , 13 ° 7 ′ 35 ″ E