Werder village church (Rehfelde)
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The Werder village church is the Protestant church in the Werder district of the Rehfelde community in the Märkisch-Oderland district in Brandenburg .
Affiliation, community and current use
Rehfelde was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1247. It is believed that the Cistercian monks of the Zinna Monastery began building the stone church as early as 1234 . This suggests a dendrochronological examination of a window lintel . The district of Werder came to Rehfelde in 2003 with a municipal reform . The church belongs to the Evangelical Church of Herzfelde-Rehfelde in the church district Oderland-Spree of the Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Oberlausitz (EKBO).
history
The monks initially only built a square choir with a semicircular apse . In 1499 the nave was added with a gable roof . In the middle of the 15th century, the high west tower with its tent roof was finally built. Since there was initially no sacristy , the clergyman entered the church at this time on the south side via a specially built priest door , as can be found in many village churches on the Barnim. A man's gate can be seen to the west of it. Like the Frauenpforte on the north side, they were walled up in the middle of the 16th century with blocks of granite and other rock fragments.
When the ceiling of the church threatened to collapse in 1968, the congregation locked the church. Extensive restoration work was not carried out until 1982. Experts found that the design of the apse from 1886/1888 was infested with woodworms and could no longer be saved. In the years 2000 to 2002, the field stone wall that surrounds the church was restored. In 2007 cleaning work on the east side of the tower led to the discovery of a sailing ship carved there .
architecture
The nave with apse is 23 meters long and 11 meters wide, of which the choir area is 8 × 10 meters. The walls are around 1.4 meters thick, on the west side 2.3 meters thick. It was built in the Romanesque style from field stones that were evenly carved up to a height of 1.2 meters. Above, one continued to work with stones hewn on one side, which were arranged less regularly. The church has eight windows that were opened upwards with a round arch in 1720 . The reveal was made with red brick .
An arched opening can be seen on the east side of the apse, which was closed with masonry bricks. The two smaller windows on the north and south sides were also closed. Below the ridge there is a cross on the east gable.
The 24 meter high tower has a few special features: On the one hand, a smooth sandstone was used on its edges . On the other hand, incised marks with a previously unknown meaning can be seen on some stones. On the south side there are drawings of a sundial and Jesus' tools of torture , on the north side there is a head with a fool's cap . The sound arcades consist of two pointed arched openings on each side. Two walled-up windows can be seen above the priest's gate. One of them was a pointed arch window and therefore probably dates from the Gothic period , the second is designed in the shape of a beehive . An oak board from around 1234 could be removed from this.
Interior and inventory
The simple baptismal font dates from 1553 and was made from Rüdersdorfer limestone . He is 90 cm high; its bowl has a diameter of 59 cm. Inside there is a baptismal font made of brass with the inscription "A man - a faith - a baptism." There is also a 39 cm high pair of brass candlesticks from the 16th century, they have a round base with three animal claws. An oil painting with the title “Sinking Peter” from the 19th century has also been preserved. The altar is kept simple and made of bricks, which are covered by a wooden panel. On the west gallery is located organ with eight registers to 1858. In the tower are two of the former three bells from the 16th century. They have a diameter of 1.13 and 0.74 meters respectively. On the larger bell you can see the inscription "o rex glorie christie veni cvm pace, ave Maria gracia" (Oh, King Christ, come with peace, hail Mary). She wears three Mary lilies , which for the Cistercians stand for innocence, purity and beauty of the Mother of God . Another bell from 1609 was damaged in the First World War . It was re-poured, but shattered when the first commemorative chimes for the dead of the First World War.
Others
A Cistercian lily made of boxwood is reproduced in the churchyard .
literature
- Matthias Friske : The medieval churches on the Barnim. History - architecture - equipment. Series: Churches in rural areas , Vol. 1, Lukas Verlag, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-931836-67-3 .
- Georg Dehio (edited by Gerhard Vinken and others): Handbook of German Art Monuments - Brandenburg. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich / Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-422-03123-4 .
- Rehfelde parish: The church in Rehfelde , Flyer, 2011
Web links
- Church Rehfelde , website of the Protestant parish Herzfelde-Rehfelde, accessed on May 29, 2014.
Coordinates: 52 ° 31 ′ 14.9 " N , 13 ° 56 ′ 34.8" E